Tag: 2 Thessalonians
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The Departure Before the Darkness – 2 Thessalonians 2:3
2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Paul opens with a warning, but he quickly anchors it in order. There is a sequence. Something happens first. The…
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Background to 1 & 2 Thessalonians
Along with Galatians, First Thessalonians is one of the earliest of Paul’s letters, written roughly twenty years after the Resurrection of Jesus. It was addressed to believers in Thessalonica, a prominent city of about two hundred thousand people in Paul’s day, known today as Thessaloniki. After his remarkable deliverance from prison in Philippi (Acts 16),…