jeffweeder
Well-Known Member
I was not acknowledging your point.Well, at least you acknowledge the point.
He was addressing every one of them in the church...v3
All of us to some degree have things we need to endure and persevere with.Paul is speaking of those troubling the church, not of those who don't care one way or the other about the church.
The GWT is Gods righteous judgment, All will be there to receive their eternal resting place good or bad.Against all those gathered to make war against Him and His saints.
True all judgment of God is final and never changes. He will make that judgment after this heaven and earth is burnt up and flees from His face. Which is after the thousand years of Christ's earthly reign expires.
Paul is saying this final eternal judgment takes place when the Lord comes to glorify us.
That is the second coming which is after the millennium.
5 This is a positive proof of the righteous judgment of God [a sign of His fair verdict], so that you will be considered worthy of His kingdom, for which indeed you are suffering. 6 For after all it is only just for God to repay with distress those who distress you, 7 and to give relief to you who are so distressed and to us as well when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in a flame of fire, 8 dealing out [full and complete] vengeance to those who do not [seek to] know God and to those who ignore and refuse to obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus [by choosing not to respond to Him]. 9 These people will pay the penalty and endure the punishment of everlasting destruction, banished from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, 10 when He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day