John Piper on the Coming Apostasy (2 Thessalonians 2)

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  • @Mike65809
    @Mike65809 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The rapture cannot be imminent since Paul made it clear that before our gathering together unto him (the rapture) there apostasy must occur and the man of lawlessness be revealed. So how can it be imminent?

    • @JesusPeopleSF
      @JesusPeopleSF  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Because the apostasy happened: Roman Catholicism. Just ask the reformers who the man of lawlessness is.

    • @Mike65809
      @Mike65809 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JesusPeopleSF Yeah, I've heard of that. But the Pope does not seem to match the images of the Beast in Daniel.

    • @JesusPeopleSF
      @JesusPeopleSF  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Mike65809 Read the reformers themselves. The RC church used to be "the church," some of the cities with ancient churches were set up by the apostles. Yet they are apostate to this day.
      In addition the papacy considers itself the vicar of Christ but to this day the gospel of Jesus Christ is under their "anathema" per the Council of Trent.

    • @josephkuzara2609
      @josephkuzara2609 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Gods written word is intact but dispersed amongst our sources and will not be succumbed to corruption.but men can corrupt the pen of their copies from those intact sources
      I found in my long studies that in 2 thess 2:7 that is universal throughout all english copies that i have seen,is mistranslated in the english but thankfully attached in the greek to reveal the truth of what Paul was really revealing and reminding the thessalonian assembly. Because falsehoods were going around proclaiming that the parousia of Messiah Yeshua being the Day of The Lord as a Thief in the Night(1 thess 5:1-4) and the rapture of all believers together to meet Him in the sky following the 1st resurrection(1 Thess 4:13-18) had already taken place.
      So Paul jotted their memory of what events must occur before the return of the Lord being the Day of the Lord and our gathering to Him
      Until those 2 events occur, they are presently restraining the Day of the Lord and our resurrection/rapture which comprises of all believers together who have fallen asleep in Yeshua upon resurrection and WE who are still alive and We who are left (paul being inclusive of himself and the past church body as the same body of Yeshua as those in the future) on the earth unto His return as A Thief in the Night(Vial 6)
      Because of the mistranslation that none have corrected, it makes people believe that Paul is teaching that what is being restrained is the antichrist by an unknown entity that must be removed for him to be revealed.
      But Concerning the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah and our being gathered to him.
      Is who is being restrained , and by what(nueter) and by who(masculine) as that restrainer(s) are both events being the apostasy that must occur first and the final reveal of the antichrist specifically appointed by satan who gave him his power and throne.( As the nueter restraint as a whole)
      A.T. Robertson explains that an idiomatic use of the neuter singular may appear when an abstract expression is used to sum up a whole mass of ideas or expressions. (A Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research, Nashville: Broadman, 1934, p.409
      Then Paul shifts focus on the masculine restraint being the antichrist himself.
      Paul also revealed what event must occur first before the antichrist is willing to come out from where he is to then reveal himself.
      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 the Lord is at hand.
      3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that Day shall not come, except there come a apostasy FIRST, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
      So both events as the neuter restraint, is what is holding back the Day of the Lord and our gathering together(both resurrected saints and mortal saints who were still alive and were left on earth(matthew 24:36-44) amidst being shielded from Gods wrath) to Him.
      But when the apostasy takes place their is nothing refraining the antichrist to come forth. And when he does come out of the midst of where he is then there will be no more major events in history to restrain the return of Yeshua who will return like a thief in the night during the 6th vial to catch the unforgiven off guard at the battle of harmageddon.
      How 2 thess 2:1-8 should be understood is as such:
      1.Now we beseech you, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, 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 the Lord is at hand.
      3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that Day shall not come, except there come a apostasy first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
      4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called god, or that is worshipped; so that he as god sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
      5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
      6 And now ye know what restrains(neuter vs.3) that He(Messiah Yeshua) might be revealed in His time.
      For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he(the antichrist) who now restrains(masculine) will do so until out of the midst he comes into being.
      8 And then shall he be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness (Glory) of his coming.
      Paired with the very important revelation for all believers in YAHVH incarnate Messiah Yeshua as Redeemer and Savior Romans 8:1-11. The Spirit will continue to function as He always has toward all believers, living in them in order that they live in the realm of the Spirit, in order that they belong to Yeshua and in order that those who die in Yeshua, be resurrected as Yeshua was Resurrected, unto immortal spiritual life, receiving their spiritual body.
      Without the indwelling Spirit , one is not belonging to Yeshua relationally period.