with Elder Elico Manenji
✝️In this chapter, the Apostle.Pa exhorts the Thessalonians to stand fast in the faith, and not to be alarmed at the rumours they heard concerning the
sudden coming of Christ.
He says, before He comes, there be a great Apostasy from the true faith and a manifestation of the son of perdition, who would manifest himself as God. He will work deceptively among mankind and will deceive even some of the elect especially those who do not love the truth but have pleasure in unrighteousness.
He thanks God for their steadfastness and shows the great privileges to which they were called and prays that they may be comforted and established in every good word and work.
1️⃣2 Thessalonians 2:1-12: A great falling away and the Man of lawlessness.
⏹️The Apostle warns that the coming of Christ will happen only there is a great falling away first and the man of perdition, the Antichrist revealed first.
He will work miracles and wonders to deceive if it were possible the very elect. Jesus said, *"Take heed that you be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draws near: go you not therefore after them" (Luke 21:8).
⏭️This Antichrist, the man of sin and perdition, the man of lawlessness and the wicked one will influence an open worldwide rebellion against God. He will recognize no authority except his own and will put himself in the place of God as the sole controller of human society and religion.
The Apostle says, "Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils" (1 Timothy 4:1)
⏹️This man of sin works by the power of Satan to deceive and control the whole world except for the elect sake.
The prophet Daniel says, "...therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him"(Daniel 11:44-45).
⏭️ He will exalt himself above God and oppose Christ the true Head and Lord of the Church and seek to be worshipped by men.
The prophet Isaiah says, "How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations! For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also on the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit"(Isaiah 14:12-15).
⏭️But God will destroy the Antichrist with the spirit of his mouth and the brightness of his coming. The patriarch Job says, *"By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed"(Job 4:9).*
The prophet Isaiah says, "But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked" (Isaiah 11:4).
2️⃣2 Thessalonians 2:13-17: Exhortation to stand firm in the Lord being sanctified by the Spirit of God.
⏹️Whilst God will be victorious over the Beast, the man of sin and lawlessness, the son of perdition and all his followers, the transgressors of God's law, He will also save His people to eternal life, having been from the beginning chosen by God to salvation in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The Apostle says, "And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God" (Romans 8:27)
⏭️Mankind will be lost because they have pleasure in unrighteousness and believe not the sanctifying truth.
Jesus Christ said, "Sanctify them through your truth: your word is truth"(John 17:17).
⏭️No sanctification takes place in any person apart from the truth for sanctification and faith have their roots in election of grace.
The Apostle says, "Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace"(Romans 11:5).
⏹️Sanctification is of the Spirit and has its work of purging the soul of the believer by the sprinkling of the blood of Christ.
The Apostle Peter says, "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied"(1Peter 1:2).
⏭️ Sanctification is the recreation of the moral nature by the Holy Spirit so that those who are born of God will not commit sin.
The Psalmist says, "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me"(Psalm 51:10).
⏭️ Sanctification is the dedication of the cleansed sinner and renovated person to God in reverence worship that will lead to every good word and work until everlasting life.
The Psalmist says, "Give to the LORD the glory due to his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness"(Psalm 29:2).
🅰️Appeal
The love of God is the spring and fountain of all the good we have or hope for, it is our election, it is our vocation, it is our justification and sanctification and salvation which are all owing to the love of God in Christ Jesus.
The prophet Isaiah says, "Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away"(Isaiah 51:11).
Elico Manenji
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