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THE APOSTLE PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS

THE APOSTLE PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS. BE . . .READY ALSO: FOR THE SON OF MAN COMETH AT AN HOUR WHEN YE THINK NOT. ARE YOU READY?. THE ONLY EXPLANATION FOR SUCH AN IRRATIONAL RESPONSE IS THAT PEOPLE WILL HAVE BEEN DECEIVED BY FALSE PROPHETS. JESUS WARNED,

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THE APOSTLE PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS

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  1. THE APOSTLE PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS

  2. BE . . .READY ALSO: FOR THE SON OF MAN COMETH AT AN HOUR WHEN YE THINK NOT. ARE YOU READY?

  3. THE ONLY EXPLANATION FOR SUCH AN IRRATIONAL RESPONSE IS THAT PEOPLE WILL HAVE BEEN DECEIVED BY FALSE PROPHETS. JESUS WARNED, “MANY WILL COME IN MY NAME, SAYING,’I AM THE CHRIST,’ AND SHALL DECEIVE MANY. ” (MATT. 24:45) “FOR THERE SHALL ARISE FALSE CHRISTS, AND FALSE PROPHETS, AND SHALL SHOW GREAT SIGNS AND WONDERS; INSOMUCH THAT, IF IT WERE POSSSIBLE, THEY SHALL DECEIVE THE VERY ELECT. ” (MATT. 24:24) • THEY WILL DECEIVE THE WORLD INTO BELIEVING THAT PEACE AND PROSPERITY ARE, “RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER,” DESPITE THE WARNING SIGNS THAT THE DAY OF THE LORD IS FAST APPROACHING. • AS A RESULT OF THEIR DECEPTION, LIFE WILL GO ON WITH SOME SEMBLANCE OF NORMALCY, JUST AS IT DID IN THE DAYS OF NOAH.

  4. “FOR THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN WILL BE JUST LIKE THE DAYS OF NOAH. FOR AS IN THOSE DAYS BEFORE THE FLOOD THEY WERE EATING AND DRINKING, MARRYING AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL THE DAY THAT NOAH ENTERED THE ARK, AND THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND UNTIL THE FLOOD CAME AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY; SO WILL THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE.“ (MATT. 24:37-39) • “AND WITH ALL DECEIVABLENESS OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IN THEM THAT PERISH; BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED NOT THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH, THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED. AND FOR THIS CAUSE GOD SHALL SEND THEM STRONG DELUSION, THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE A LIE: THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE DAMNED WHO BELIEVED NOT THE TRUTH, BUT HAD PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.“ • (2 THESS. 2:10--12)

  5. THE DESTRUCTIVENESS OF THE DAY OF THE LORD. “THEN DESTRUCTION WILL COME UPON THEM SUDDENLY LIKE LABOR PAINS UPON A WOMAN WITH CHILD.” (5:3b) • BY USING THE TERM THEM (REFERENCE TO UNBELIEVERS), PAUL REASSURED THE THESSALONIANS THEY WILL NOT FACE DESTRUCTION. (THEY WILL HAVE BEEN RAPTURED). • JUST AS LABOR PAINS COMING UPON A WOMAN WITH CHILD WARN HER THAT THE BIRTH OF HER CHILD IS IMMINENT, ARE THE WARNING SIGNS THAT THE DAY OF THE LORD IS IMMINENT. BUT, UNBELIEVERS WILL FAIL TO HEED THEM. “AND THEY WILL NOT ESCAPE.” (5:3c)

  6. “I LOOKED WHEN HE BROKE THE SIXTH SEAL, AND THERE WAS A GREAT EARTHQUAKE; AND THE SUN BECAME BLACK AS SACKCLOTH MADE OF HAIR, AND THE WHOLE MOON BECAME LIKE BLOOD; AND THE STARS OF THE SKY FELL TO THE EARTH, AS A FIG TREE CASTS ITS UNRIPE FIGS WHEN SHAKEN BY A GREAT WIND. THE SKY WAS SPLIT APART LIKE A SCROLL WHEN IT IS ROLLED UP, AND EVERY MOUNTAIN AND ISLAND WERE MOVED OUT OF THEIR PLACES. THEN THE KINGS OF THE EARTH AND THE GREAT MEN AND THE COMMANDERS AND THE RICH AND THE STRONG AND EVERY SLAVE AND FREE MAN HID THEMSELVES IN THE CAVES AND AMONG ROCKS, ‘FALL ON US AND HIDE US FROM THE PRESENCE OF HIM WHO SITS ON THE THRONE, AND FROM THE WRATH OF THE LAMB; FOR THE GREAT DAY OF THEIR WRATH HAS COME, AND WHO IS ABLE TO STAND?” (REV. 6:12-17)

  7. “THEN THE KINGS OF THE EARTH AND THE GREAT MEN AND THE COMMANDERS AND THE RICH AND THE STRONG AND EVERY SLAVE AND FREE MAN HID THEMSELVES IN THE CAVES AND AMONG ROCKS.” • ULTIMATELY, NO MATTER WHAT ETHNIC GROUP, CULTURE, LANGUAGE, RELIGION, OR POLITICAL GROUP; THERE ARE ONLY TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD: NIGHT PEOPLE/DAY PEOPLE. • BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS. • REDEEMED AND UNREDEEMED. • SAVED AND LOST. • CHILDREN OF GOD AND CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL. • THOSE IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THOSE IN THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESS. • THOSE WHO ARE GOING INTO ETERNAL LIFE AND THOSE WHO ARE GOING INTO ETERNAL HELL. • THOSE WHO WILL BE FOREVER WITH THE LORD AND THOSE WHO WILL BE FOREVER APART FROM GOD.

  8. “BUT YOU, BRETHREN, ARE NOT IN DARKNESS, THAT THE DAY WOULD OVERTAKE YOU LIKE A THIEF; FOR YOU ARE ALL SONS OF LIGHT AND SONS OF DAY. WE ARE NOT OF NIGHT NOR OF DARKNESS.” (5:4-5) • PAUL USED THE TERMS, “THEY,” AND “THEM,” TO REFER TO UNBELIEVERS WHO WILL NOT ESCAPE THE DAY OF THE LORD. • IN CONTRAST, HE USES THE PHRASE, “BUT YOU” AND, “BRETHREN,” IN REFERRING TO THE THESSALONIANS WHO WOULD NOT EXPERIENCE THE DAY OF THE LORD. • UNLIKE UNBELIEVERS, BELIEVERS “ARE NOT IN DARKNESS; BELIEVERS POSSESS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT NATURE. • BELIEVERS DO NOT BELONG TO THE NIGHT. • BELIEVERS ARE NOT PART OF SATAN’S EVIL KINGDOM.

  9. UNBELIEVERS ARE IN THE DARK NOT ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE IGNORANT OF THE TRUTH, BUT ALSO BECAUSE THEY LOVE WICKEDNESS. • GOD CAME INTO A SIN-DARKENED WORLD IN THE PERSON OF JESUS. “IN HIM WAS LIFE; AND THE LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN.” (JOHN 1:4) “THAT WAS THE TRUE LIGHT, WHICH LIGHTETH EVERY MAN THAT COMETH INTO THE WORLD.” (JOHN 1:9) • TRAGICALLY, MOST PEOPLE CHOOSE TO REMAIN IN DARKNESS. “THE LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS . . . THE DARKNESS DID NOT COMPREHEND IT.” (JOHN 1:5) “THE LIGHT HAS COME INTO THE WORLD, AND MEN LOVED THE DARKNESS RATHER THAN THE LIGHT, FOR THEIR DEEDS WERE EVIL. FOR EVERYONE WHO DOES EVIL HATES THE LIGHT, AND DOES NOT COME TO THE LIGHT FOR FEAR THAT HIS DEEDS WILL BE EXPOSED..” (JOHN 3:19-20)

  10. FIRST COMING • VIRGIN BIRTH • LIFE & MINISTRY • DEATH • RESURRECTION • ASCENSION • SECOND COMING • RAPTURE • RESURRECTION OF CHURCH SAINTS (1 THESS. 4:15-16) • TRANSLATION OF CHURCH • (1 COR. 15:52-55) • JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST • (2 COR. 5:10) • MARRIAGE WITH THE LAMB (REV. 19:1, 7-8) • TRIBULATION • ANTICHRIST (2 THESS. 2:6-8) • TREATY WITH JEWS • (JOHN 5:43) • WORLDWIDE PERSECUTION (REV. 11:7) • SALVATION OF MILLIONS • (REV. 7:9-17)

  11. SECOND COMING (CON’T) • REVELATION OF CHRIST • ARMAGEDDON • (REV. 16:16) • RESURRECTION OF OT SAINTS (REV. 20:6) • RESURRECTION OF TRIBULATION SAINTS (REV. 6:9-11) • JUDGMENT OF ISRAEL (MATT. 24:31) & GENTILES (REV. 19:11-21) • USHERING IN OF MILLENNIAL KINGDOM (MATT. 24:30; 25:31)

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