Greetings of Grace and Thanksgiving
2Th 1:3-4 LSB - [3] We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is [only] fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another increases [all the more], [4] so that we ourselves boast about you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure.
Brothers. Your faith is not one person's faith. Your perseverance and faith are those of brothers in the church of the Thessalonians.
God’s Righteous Judgment
2Th 1:5 LSB - [5] [This is] a plain indication of God's righteous judgment so that you will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which indeed you are suffering.
"Your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions" is a plain indication of God's righteous judgment because through these "you will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God".
2Th 1:6-8 LSB - [6] Since it is right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, [7] and [to give] rest to you who are afflicted and to us as well at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, [8] executing vengeance on those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
God will give rest to those who are afflicted.
2Th 1:11-12 LSB - [11] To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill all [your] good pleasure for goodness and the work of faith with power, [12] so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.
I have a calling. I have good pleasure for goodness and the work of faith. However it is our God who count me worthy of my calling and fulfil all my good pleasure for goodness and the work of faith with power. God enables me to have the name of our Lord Jesus be glorified in me.
The Man of Lawlessness
2Th 2:1-2 LSB - [1] Now we ask you, brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, [2] that you not be quickly shaken in your mind or be alarmed whether by a spirit or a word or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
Thessalonian brothers expected that the Lord was coming soon.
2Th 2:3-5 LSB - [3] Let no one in any way deceive you, for [it has not come] unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, [4] who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the sanctuary of God, exhibiting himself as being God. [5] Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?
2Th 2:13-14 LSB - [13] But we should always give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first fruits for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. [14] It was for this He called you through our gospel, that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Disobedient Brothers
2Th 3:6 LSB - [6] Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother who walks in an unruly manner and not according to the tradition which they received from us.
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