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2 THESSALONIANS – LESSON 10

I. PAUL INSTRUCTS THESSALONIANS CONCERNING THE COMING OF THE LORD AND THE REVEALING OF THE MAN OF SIN (2:1-12).

A. Paul beseeches brethren to not be shaken regarding the Lord’s coming (v.1-3).

    1. Lord’s coming involves Christians’ gathering unto Him (v. 1)

    2. Brethren not to be shaken in mind or troubled by (v.2)

        a. sprit

        b. word

        c. letter as from Paul and fellow workers

    3. Not to be shaken by belief that the day of the Lord is just as hand – or had already come (v.2).

    4. Certain events must precede Lord’s coming (v.3)

        a. a falling away

        b. revelation of the man of sin

 

B. The character, work and destruction of the man of sin (v. 3-12)

    1. He is the son of perdition (v.3).

    2. He opposes and exalts himself against God (v.4).

    3. He sits in the temple of God setting himself forth as God (v.4).

    4. Paul had warned them about the man of sin (v.5).

    5. The man of sin is presently restrained (v. 6-7).

       a. will be revealed in time

       b. the mystery of iniquity was already working.

       c. one is restraining or hindering his appearance.

   6. When revealed- the Lord shall destroy him by His coming (v.8).

   7. The man of sin’s coming is after the working of Satan (v.9-12).

       a. with all power, and signs and wonders (v.9)

       b. with all deceit and unrighteousness (v.10)

       c. with perishing effects (v. 10-12)

          (1). Those perishing received not the love of the truth (v.10).

          (2). God sends strong delusion to them (v.11-12).

               (a). so that they should believe a lie (v.11)

               (b). that they may be damned (v.12)

          (3). Those perishing had pleasure in unrighteousness (v.12).

QUESTIONS:

1. In this lesson, what two events connect with the coming of the Lord?

2. What had the potential of shaking the Christian’s faith?

3. Describe the three ways in which such a message could be communicated?

 

4. What two events must precede the coming of the Lord?

5. What two things against God does the man of sin do?

6. How do we know that no one could logically accuse Paul of teaching that the Lord’s coming was immediate when he wrote this epistle?

7. Who, in Paul’s day, was restraining the revealing of the man of sin?

8. Why is the man of sin described as the “son of perdition?”

9. The man of sin’s coming is after the working of _________________________.

10. Explain how he works:

11. Has the “man of sin” come?

12. What three characteristics describe those who will perish?

13. How could a loving God send a strong delusion so people would be judged and damned?