Chapter 2

2 Thessalonians: Chapters -1- -2- -3-

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2:1 We implore you now, brothers and sisters, for the sake of the presence of our Lord, Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto Him as assemblies of believers, 2 that you would not be hastily disturbed in mind nor alarmed, neither through spirit nor through word, nor through letter pretending to be from us, as if that particular day (b) of the Lord is present. 3 No one should deceive you in any way, because it shall not have come before the departure first © and the man of iniquity shall have been unveiled, the son of ruin and loss (d) 4 the one opposing and lifting himself above every “called” god or object of worship so as to sit down himself into the temple of God [the Church], demonstrating by “proof” that he is “God.” (e)

5 Do you not remember that I said these things to you when I was with you? 6 And now you know that which is restrained until it is loosed in its season. • 7 For the mystery of iniquity is energeoing, but only until now, as what has been restrained comes out of the midst (f). • 8 And then iniquity will be unveiled which the Lord Jesus will eliminate with the breath of His mouth and will render inoperative by His presence made visible and known (g). 9 That other [mystery] is present according to the energeia of Satan inside of every fake power and signs and wonders 10 and inside of every deceit of injustice unto those perishing, for they have not welcomed the love of the truth in exchange for the purpose of their being saved. 11 And through this, God will permit them a wandering energeia, into their believing what is false 12 so that all should be judged who have not believed the truth but have been well-pleased with injustice.

13 We, then, are committed to giving thanks to God always concerning you, brothers and sisters, beloved by the Lord, • that God has chosen you from the beginning into salvation inside your being made devoted out from Spirit and faith out from truth (h). 14 To this also He called you, through our gospel, into possessing the glory of our Lord, Jesus Christ. 15 So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and be strong in the traditions you were taught, whether through word or through letter from us.

16 Now our Lord Himself, Jesus Christ, and God our Father, the One having loved us and having given us age-unfolding encouragement and good hope inside of grace, 17 may He encourage your hearts, and may He strengthen you in every good work and word.

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Gospel Comments	Notes
• Definition: Lawlessness does not refer to the law of sin and death, but to the law of the Spirit of Life inside of Jesus (See Romans 8:2 & 2 Corinthians 3:7). Lawlessness, iniquity, is refusing to live inside of Jesus as your only life; it is using your sinful actions to place a barrier between yourself and God. Iniquity is trying to fix yourself. Yet the greater iniquity, standing in the very place of God, in His temple, is that awful action of trying to fix your brother or sister. • Covenant: When your eyes are opened to your iniquity, that “fixing” self or others – God’s temple – is reprehensible to God, then know that you are lost. You see, you must be lost before you will turn to see Jesus, the Salvation of God. If you see His presence made visible, if you see Christ as all (1 John 3:2), then you see what He does. Jesus Himself surrounds your wicked deeds and renders them inoperative (propitiation – see 1 John 2:2), and by Spirit Word breathed into you, He eliminates ALL that is not of Him. Or we could say it this way. – Christ is all FIRST, before anything not-Christ could ever vanish away.	b. As believers, we know that every day is the day of the Lord. The day of Salvation is always today. c. Alluding to the fall into Roman darkness and the imposition of Nicene theology. The Church departed from knowing Jesus present here and now, from knowing that Jesus walks this earth as His body. d. Comparing back to Judas Iscariot, but forward to Constantine, who turned the cross into a weapon hacking at human flesh, and Jerome, who brought into even the text of our Bibles the horrific accusation that the devil spoke “the truth” in the garden, that God knows evil. e. Clearly, to our hindsight, this is referencing Constantine as the image of the tiny and far away Nicene “super-Christ.” This image of the “above-you” Jesus has continued into today. This image is coupled, then, with the Christian worship of the consciousness of sins, the exaltation of self disguised as “Christian repentance.” f. The term “mystery of iniquity” contains the meaning of iniquity, to seek to manipulate and control other people in complete disregard of God, but it reaches out to include all human political systems of every kind seeking to “rule over” other people for self-gain. g. The Greek words of the second half of verse 7 do not make sense to anyone. Every translator then alters the wording into something that makes sense to them. I have done the same, referencing the release of Michael and his angels to remove all demonic influcence from the Church (see Revelation 12). h. Jesus alone removes anything that is not of God. This verse is not meant to be taken in the negative, but rather as the essence of our Salvation ( see Exodus 14:13-14, the Gospel forshadowed).

Gospel Comments

Notes

• Definition: Lawlessness does not refer to the law of sin and death, but to the law of the Spirit of Life inside of Jesus (See Romans 8:2 & 2 Corinthians 3:7). Lawlessness, iniquity, is refusing to live inside of Jesus as your only life; it is using your sinful actions to place a barrier between yourself and God. Iniquity is trying to fix yourself. Yet the greater iniquity, standing in the very place of God, in His temple, is that awful action of trying to fix your brother or sister.

• Covenant: When your eyes are opened to your iniquity, that “fixing” self or others – God’s temple – is reprehensible to God, then know that you are lost. You see, you must be lost before you will turn to see Jesus, the Salvation of God. If you see His presence made visible, if you see Christ as all (1 John 3:2), then you see what He does. Jesus Himself surrounds your wicked deeds and renders them inoperative (propitiation – see 1 John 2:2), and by Spirit Word breathed into you, He eliminates ALL that is not of Him. Or we could say it this way. – Christ is all FIRST, before anything not-Christ could ever vanish away.

b. As believers, we know that every day is the day of the Lord. The day of Salvation is always today.

c. Alluding to the fall into Roman darkness and the imposition of Nicene theology. The Church departed from knowing Jesus present here and now, from knowing that Jesus walks
this earth as His body.

d. Comparing back to Judas Iscariot, but forward to Constantine, who turned the cross into a weapon hacking at human flesh, and Jerome, who brought into even the text of our Bibles the horrific accusation that the devil spoke “the truth” in the garden, that God knows evil.

e. Clearly, to our hindsight, this is referencing Constantine as the image of the tiny and far away Nicene “super-Christ.” This image of the “above-you” Jesus has continued into today. This image is coupled, then, with the Christian worship of the consciousness of sins, the exaltation of self disguised as “Christian repentance.”

f. The term “mystery of iniquity” contains the meaning of iniquity, to seek to manipulate and control other people in complete disregard of God, but it reaches out to include all human political systems of every kind seeking to “rule over” other people for self-gain.

g. The Greek words of the second half of verse 7 do not make sense to anyone. Every translator then alters the wording into something that makes sense to them. I have done the same, referencing the release of Michael and his angels to remove all demonic influcence from the Church (see Revelation 12).
h. Jesus alone removes anything that is not of God. This verse is not meant to be taken in the negative, but rather as the essence of our Salvation ( see Exodus 14:13-14, the Gospel forshadowed).