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Eric, we wrapped up chapter two, well, one and two, I believe, of second Thessalonians last week.

Now we find ourselves in chapter three, which is the final chapter, which means we're going to wrap up Paul's second letter to the Thessalonians last week. Now we find ourselves in chapter three, which is the final chapter,

which means we're going to wrap up Paul's second letter to the Thessalonians in this episode.

Indeed.

Two episodes for a whole book of the Bible.

That's pretty impressive, man.

We're going to move through it.

Well, you know, calling Epistles books is sometimes very generous with the language there.

It is after all...

Yeah, it is after all... A letter.

Yes, that is what Epistle means. It is a letter.

It is a letter. Now, some of these are very long letters.

Yep. Some of these are short letters. I don't know if any of them reached the status of books.

Yeah, I mean, you could maybe call the Gospels books, but as far as epistles go, yeah, they're letters. And they're, and they're, where we understand them is that because they have an addressee. You know, they have a particular location that they're written to with particular situations and circumstances going on. Before we dive into chapter three of second Thessalonians,

I do want to make note of the fact that we just celebrated giving Tuesday of 2021. And folks,

due to, I'm sure many of you who are listening to this, it was a raving success.

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