Who is Paul discussing in 2 Thessalonians 2?

ewq1938 · 2026-08-11T15:28:36-0500

Earburner said:
Again, you "cherry pick" people's posts.
By taking sentences out context of what is posted, it's easy for you to take "pot shots" at only what you choose to respond to, thus leaving the audience in the dark about the whole of what was written in support of the person's post that you are replying to.

I don't take anything out of context nor misrepresent it.

Earburner said:
"Wrong, there is no secret rapture."
>Will everyone literally see Jesus from heaven during your rapture of the church?

I don't know who will see it or not but it isn't done secretly.

Earburner said:
"The thousand years is literal not symbolic. The Greek word used is a specific number that cannot be one day less or more."
> The context of 2 Peter 3:8 doesn't at all reveal that a thousand years "is a specific number".

That's false. A thousand years is compared to a day, both literal periods of time.

Earburner said:
It is you that promotes church-ianity which are beliefs the bible does not teach.
> It is not I who pushes the prophetic 70th week (7 years) of Daniel out of context and into the far future, and then fabricate a false narrative to explain it.

The trib is 42 months not 7 years, Rev 13. It is a future period of time not a false Preterist fulfilled time period.

radikal21 · 2026-08-11T15:42:44-0500

ewq1938 said:
It is a future period of time not a false Preterist fulfilled time period.

Yebut future from Daniel's viewpoint, or even John. 42 months fit perfectly well if you read Josephus.

covenantee · 2026-08-11T16:22:40-0500

radikal21 said:
Ye but the passage certainly sounds like a specific *man* being restrained right now (at the time he was writing). And from a preteristic understanding of the term *last days* it would have to have been fulfilled before the destruction of the temple.

No.

Same as this man:

2 Timothy 3:17
That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

Expressed singularly but realized plurally.

Where in my post do you see "last days"?

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