10/24/2022 – Day 224 – 2 Thessalonians 1 – 3 // Day of the Lord
First I will share Halley’s Bible Handbook’s commentary – pg 629:
”Written probably around A.D. 52, only a few weeks, or months, after the First Epistle that Paul had spoken of the Lord’s Coming as being sudden and unexpected. In this he explains for it will not be till after the Apostasy.
The express purpose of the Epistle was to caution the Thessalonians that the Lord’s Coming was not immediately at hand, that it would not be till after the Apostasy.
What is the Apostasy? It is called the ‘falling away,’ in which a person called the ‘man of sin,’ in the temple of God professses himself to be God, and exalts himself against God (3,4). A False Church headed by an imposter…
First and last Paul looked for the Lord’s Coming as a glorious consummation, meanwhile anticipating the eventuality of , in death, ‘departing to be with Christ’ (Phillipians 1:23); it not being any great matter whether he was in the body. , or out of it at the time of the Coming. In his last written word (1) Timothy 4: 6, 8), at the time of his ‘departure,’ his mind was on the appearing of the Lord.”
Just a short excerpt from Matthew Henry’s Commentary, Chapter 2 , Verses 1 -3 that is really sublime:
”At the second coming of Christ, all the saints will be gathered together to him. It will be the completing of the happiness of the saints, and none but saints: all the Old Testament saints. There will then be a general meeting of all the saints, and none but saints; all the Old Testament saints, and all the New Testament saints. They shall be gathered together to Christ. He will be the center of their unity, to be with Him forever, and altogether happy in his presence in all of eternity.”
Soli Deo Gloria!