I'm happy Friday, everybody, you know, part of mature Bible reading is the willingness

to stop and to ponder the hardest realities that God reveals to us in His Word.

We don't skim over hard texts.

We press in with questions seeking understanding.

So this summer, we're addressing three sobering questions inspired by serious Bible readers

working through the first two chapters of 2 Thessalonians, namely, is it God present

or is he absent in his eternal judgment?

2 Thessalonians 1.9 seems to say that he's absent.

On Monday, we address that in the ABJ 1801.

Next, many of you have written a Skaskying Pastor John to identify this mysterious man of

lawlessness.

2 Thessalonians 2, who is he?

That's today.

And then we have a question about God sending strong delusions into the world.

Does he still do something like that today?

If so, what is what is that?

That's the third question on 2 Thessalonians 2 11 is on the table in one week next Friday

in APJ 1806.

So today, we approach this topic of the man of lawlessness.

Here's one representative email from many Pastor John.

My name is Jared and I live in San Jose, California.

I was reading through my Bible and recently came across the section about the man of lawlessness

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