2 Thessalonians 2:1
But we ask you, brothers, concerning the advent of our Lord Jesus Christ and of our gathering to him,
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Genesis 49:10The scepter from Judah and the leader from his thigh will not be taken away, until he who will be sent arrives, and he will be the expectation of Gentiles.
Matthew 25:32And all the nations shall be gathered together before him. And he shall separate them from one another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
Romans 12:1And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind.
1 Thessalonians 2:19For what is our hope, and our joy, and our crown of glory? Is it not you, before our Lord Jesus Christ at his return?
1 Thessalonians 4:14For if we believe that Jesus has died and risen again, so also will God bring back with Jesus those who sleep in him.
Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 2:1
The apostle is very careful to hinder the spreading of an error into which some among them had fallen concerning the coming of Christ, as being very near, ver. 1-3 . Then he proceeds to confute the error he cautioned them against, by telling them of two great events that were antecedent to the coming of Christ—a general apostasy, and the revelation of antichrist, concerning whom the apostle tells them many remarkable things, about his name, his character, his rise, his fall, his reign, and the sin and ruin of his… Read the whole commentary →