2 Thessalonians 2:9
When the lawless person comes, there will be great activity on the part of Satan, in the form of all kinds of deceptive miracles, signs, and marvels, as well as of wicked attempts to delude –
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Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 24:24for false Christs and false prophets will arise, and will display great signs and marvels, so that, were it possible, even God’s people would be led astray.
Luke 11:25but, on coming there, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order.
John 8:41You are doing what your own father does.” “We are not bastards,” they said, “we have one Father – God himself.”
Acts 8:9There was staying in the city a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic there and mystifying the Samaritan people, giving himself out to be some great being.
Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 2:2-13
Cautions against False Alarm. ( a. d. 52.) 1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means— From these words it appears that some among the Thessalonians had mistaken the apostle's meaning, in what he had written in his former epistle about the coming of Christ, by… Read the whole commentary →