2 verses 1stylonians,

2 verses 1 through 12.

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ

and our assembling to meet him, we beg you, brethren, not to be quickly shaken in mind

or excited either by spirit or by word or by letter purporting to be from us to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

Let no one deceive you in any way, for that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed the son of

tradition who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called God or of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God

proclaiming himself to be God.

Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you this?

And do you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time?

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now

restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And then the lawless one

will be revealed and the Lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of his mouth and destroy him by his appearing and his coming.

The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and

wonders and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish because they refuse to love

the truth and so be saved.

Therefore God sins upon them a strong delusion

to make them believe what is false

so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure and unrighteousness.

The longer you meditate on the writings of the Apostle Paul, the more deeply you become convinced that all genuine and deep spiritual subjective experience

depends upon genuine deep objective biblical knowledge.

I mean things like faith and love and peace and joy these precious inward subjective experiences

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