Weekly Sermons

Clarifying the Days                 2 Thess. 2:1-12

The Key Events Described in 2 Thessalonians 2:

1.         The Day they were living in – the church age           V. 1-3a

Correct teaching equips believers for what they are going to face; False teaching __________________ people’s faith.

2.         The _____________________ of the Antichrist and the 7-year Tribulation                                                                        V. 3-4

Daniel 9:24-27    Rev. 6:1-2     Dan. 12:11       Rev. 13:5         Rev. 12:14

“We do not need another committee. We have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of all people, and to lift us out of the economic morass into which we are sinking. Send us such a man and be he god or devil, we will recognize him.”

 -Paul-Henri Spaak, first president of the UN General Assembly, first president of the European Parliament.

3.         The Second Coming of Jesus Christ at the ____________ of the Tribulation                                                            V. 8

Revelation 19:11-21  

4.         The __________________l of the One PRESENTLY restraining lawlessness BEFORE Antichrist emerges in the Tribulation         V. 5-7

Ephesians 2:1-3          Matthew 5:13-16                    Psalm 2

“The reason we scientists all jumped on the Origin of Species was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores.”                                                                 -Julian Huxley, in a TV interview before his death in 1975

 

The Key Difference Between the Church Age and the Coming Tribulation: whatever (or Whoever) is restraining lawlessness will no longer be ___________________________ lawlessness.