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CLOSING COMMENTS AT THESSALONICA (3 OF 3)

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 3:1-18
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Closing Comments at Thessalonica (3 of 3)
Series: Thessalonians
Donald Cantrell
2 Thessalonians 3: 1 - 18


I - The Believer and his Desirous Walk (1 - 7)

II - The Believer and his Laborious Work (8 - 13)

III - The Believer and his Harmonious Wellbeing (14 - 18)

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Theme: ''The final words of Paul to the Thessalonicans''

The second letter to the Thessalonicans was one clearing up prophetic confusion but it also was one that dealt with practicality in how we conduct ourselves after we realize Christ is coming back for the church.

This letter has numerous insights into the rapture, the coming ''Day of the Lord,'' the Antichrist, and rewards for the saved and retribution for the lost.

Paul had one more matter that he was going to deal with and that was the matter of ''walking and working'' until the Lord returns. The problem was that some in the church were merely ''watching and waiting'' and they were hindering the church by their inactivity and with too much idle time on their hands they were nothing more than busybodies.

We might be shocked at how many ''Rapture Predictions'' have gone wrong throughout the history of the church. We also might be shocked to know some of the famous people that have made ''Rapture Predictions.'' Let us take a few moments and look at ''Dooms Day Predictions Gone Wrong:''

- Charles Wesley, one of the founders of the Methodist church believed that the world was going to end in 1794. This view concurred with that of the Shakers who also predicted that year as the end. Despite his error, Charles' brother John also later made a prediction of the end times; John predicted that 1836 would be the year that the Great Beast would come to earth, marking the beginning of the end.

- Charles Taze Russell and the Jehovah's Witness religion has made a number of predictions about the end of the world. The first was 1914 - they based their prediction ...

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