Posted on November 19, 2007 by Jaqua (Jāy 'Quāy)
Kind of an appropriate start-off to a day like today:
2 Pray, too, that we will be saved from wicked and evil people, for not everyone believes in the Lord.
Verse 6 caught my attention, too:
6 And now, dear brothers and sisters, we give you this command with the authority of our Lord Jesus [...]
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Posted on November 18, 2007 by Jaqua (Jāy 'Quāy)
Paul’s focus turns from encouragement to warnings about end times. As we saw earlier, some had begun to stop working and sat around waiting for the end times. Paul wanted to set some things straight.
I remember when I was growing up and a preacher made an astounding announcement about the return of [...]
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Posted on November 17, 2007 by Jaqua (Jāy 'Quāy)
Some background from my study Bible:
Paul wrote 2 Thes less than a year after he had written 1Thes. … The good news was that the Thessalonians were continuing to grow in their faith, but the bad news was that false teachings about Christ’s return were spreading, leading many to quit their jobs [...]
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