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Pamphlet #5148 KC2Thes3-1
NEVER
EVER forget the clear and precise statement Paul gave us in 2nd Thessalonians,
chapter 2, verse 3.
It is a statement so simple that
it can be understood by even the most basic reader.
He said "let
no man deceive you by any means, for that day [the day of Christ's return]
shall NOT come until there is a great apostasy when the man of sin,
the son of perdition is revealed."
How can anyone read that sentence
and still think Christ can return at any moment when that man of sin has
not been revealed?
Would you like to know a MYSTERY,
something which is unknown to most people because they have never read
the scriptures with understanding or without the preconceived traditions
of men distorting their comprehension?
That man of sin, that son of perdition
Paul said will be revealed, will be REVEALED to the world AS JESUS
CHRIST, not some bad dude who goes around killing people!
Therefore, the mystery is that the
FIRST Jesus who appears will actually be Satan, the false-christ, the imposter,
the false messiah, BUT the whole world with the exception of those who
have the seal of God [His Word] in their foreheads (Rev. 9:4) will believe
that he is the real Jesus Christ and will worship him as God!
THAT IS the GREAT APOSTASY!
Do you now see why the any-moment
Rapture Theory is such a dangerous doctrine?
It sets people up for the fall,
even the great falling away, doesn't it?
In today's study we will examine
some of the reasons why people will be so convinced he is Jesus Christ!
Let's get started.
2 Thes.
2:5
Remember ye
not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
Paul now reminds the Thessalonians
that he told them before, when he was with them, that there would be a
great falling away, a great apostasy, before Jesus Christ returned and
that the Wicked one would be revealed, "Who opposeth and exalteth himself
above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God
sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God (2 Thes. 2:4)."
We know that the apostle Paul was
an Hebrew scholar (Acts 22:3) and that he "reasoned with them [the Thessalonians]
out of the scriptures" as it is written in Acts 17:2.
Therefore he would have been very
familiar with the words of Daniel, whose prophecies concerning the false-christ
parallel those of John in the Book of Revelation and Paul here in 2 Thes.
2.
Daniel
7:25
And he shall
speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints
of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be
given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
The blaspheme that this "little
horn", the spurious messiah, the son of perdition, will speak against God
is just as Paul said in 2 Thes. 2:4.
He will sit in the temple and blasphemously
claim that he is God himself, i.e. that he is the Messiah returned, when
in fact he is Satan, the "instead-of-Christ".
The "times and decrees" that he
will think to change is to convince people that Jesus Christ has returned
(before it is time), i.e. that it is the time of the 7th Trump when in
fact it is only the 6th.
That will be easy for him considering
that most people are expecting Christ to return at any moment, thanks to
the "vision" of the Rapture Theory.
Couple that with Satan's supernatural
abilities to perform great signs and wonders in the sight of men, and just
like that, in one day's time, Christians all over the world will begin
to worship the "dragon", the "religious beast", the "vile person", the
"devil", "antichrist", "the son of perdition", as if he were Jesus Christ.
Again, that is the "Great Falling
Away" from the true Christ which Paul speaks of when the son of perdition
is revealed!
So we now know from irrefutable
Biblical documentation that the son of perdition is coming FIRST, before
the real Jesus Christ returns and we gather back to Him.
To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits;
to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, you accomplish both.
1 Corinthians
10:11 Now all these things happened unto them {the
ancient Israelites} for
ensamples, and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends
of the world are come.
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