2 Thessalonians 2:3 KJV
Let no man
deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a
falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
It seems to me that Paul
wrote 1 and 2 Thessalonians for such a time as this. The discerning Christian
senses the evil of the hour and cannot help but believe that the coming of the
Lord must be near. But we are also aware that there have been times of terrible
tribulation in the past. We feel a need to strengthen the saints for hardness
should Christ not return soon.
Signs of the times seem to be
advancing rapidly. One of them that is growing in popularity is the deception
that Christians will have to go through the Tribulation of the last day. More
and more young, zealous preachers are rejecting the hope of the coming of
Christ to rapture us away from that Tribulation and embracing the doctrine that
Christians will endure those days and that Christ will not rapture us until the
end of the Tribulation Period. Paul urged the believer not to let any man
deceive them into believing it. That means the doctrine of Christians going
through the Tribulation is a lie. The doctrines of:
· pre-wrath
· mid-Tribulation, or
· post-Tribulation
are not different slants on
the same truth. It is a deception. It is a lie. It most be warned against.
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