Take time to study that your faith may remain steady in pursuit of knowing Him.

1. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-2
Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ and our being gathered to Him, we
ask you, brothers, not to become easily
unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy,
report or letter supposed to have come
from us, saying that that the day of the
Lord has already come.
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2. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4
Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way,
for that day will not come until the
rebellion occurs and the man of
lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed
to destruction. He will oppose and will
exalt himself over everything that is called
God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself
up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to
be God.
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3. 2 Thessalonians 2:5-7
Don’t you remember that when I was with
you I used to tell you these things? And
now you know what is holding him back, so
that he may be revealed at the proper time.
For the secret power of lawlessness is
already at work; but the one who now
holds it back will continue to do so till he is
taken out of the way.
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4. 2 Thessalonians 2:8-10a
And then the lawless one will be revealed,
whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with
the breath of His mouth and destroy by the
splendor of His coming. The coming of the
lawless one will be in accordance with the
work of Satan displayed in all kinds of
counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders,
and in every sort of evil that deceives those
who are perishing.
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5. 2 Thessalonians 2:10b-12
They perish because they refused to love
the truth and so be saved. For this reason
God sends them a powerful delusion so
that they will believe the lie and so that all
will be condemned who have not believed
the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
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6. The PRETEXT and
the POST TEXT
make the CONTEXT
On basic rule of Bible study is evaluate the
UNCLEAR by the CLEAR.
At the end of the day we want to be HONEST
with the text, not HIJACK it.
How to study is not a ONE size fits all.

7. PRAY for God to teach.
READ and REREAD, preferably in different
translations
Make OBSERVATIONS of the text as you read
Ask what it mean to THEM, in their TIME
and PLACE

8. The meaning of words is
not shaped by how you
FEEL about them, but
what the author MEANT
by them.
Then you are ready to ask, how does it
APPLY?
Take time to STUDY that your faith may
remain STEADY in pursuit of knowing Him.

9. Please take a moment to fill out your
Communication Card
My Next Step Today is to:
( ) Do the home life help (in bulletin)
( ) Begin a Bible study (personal, group, or both)
( ) Read “The Last Days According to Jesus”
(Sproul) or “End Times Fiction” (Demar)
( ) Pick a text and practice: pray, read, observe,
how they understood, how apply
( ) Begin by simply reading the Bible more
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