ScottA
Well-Known Member
Again, I need to mark your errors in [RED].I understand your perspective, being from that of God's point of view, of how there is no sin above another. To THAT I agree, but that is not the perpective that God is speaking from in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3. He is speaking to the Day of the physical return of Christ from Heaven.
However, He specifically told us of what the situation shall be ON THE EARTH, and that which has to do WITH HIMSELF. By those two situations, it is preventing God the Father from sending Jesus to physically Redeem us unto Himself.
They are:
1. Christ shall not return, except there come a falling away (from faith) first...2 Thes. 2:1-3
2. [9] The Lord is not slack concerning his promise (of salvation),.....but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9.
When people fall away from having faith in God, it will be then that God's Longsuffering will have ENDED.
It will be then and only then, shall He send Jesus to return!
- You have added "physical" to the word of God. It's not there.
- You have also added "from faith." It too is not there.
- The rest is just your interpretation and conjecture, an extrapolation of the errors rationalized by human understanding.
2 Thessalonians 2:5-6
"Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time."1 Corinthians 15:23
"But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming."
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