And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.
This Scripture is misused to say all the people of the earth, will be destroyed at the Lord's return.
It is taken out of context, which begins with a certain people only being spoken of on the earth:
Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you.
2 Thessalonians speaks exclusively of them that purposely bring trouble to the saints and church of God. It includes all false teachers and apostles, as well as all bodily persecutors of the saints.
It is not about neighborly and good-willed unbelievers, that do not wish to do harm nor trouble to anyone else, including Christians, as well as believers in other gods.
This Pharisaical spiteful judgment against all unbelievers, as worthy of flaming destruction on the earth, is false.
All unbelievers refusing to receive Jesus as both Lord and God, will one day be judged as not being written in the Lamb's book of life, but the desire to see all unbelievers wiped off the face of the earth, is not the prophecy nor Spirit of Christ.
And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?
But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.
Only those trouble-makers, both spiritual and physical, purposely gathered together at Armageddon to make war with the Lamb and His saints, will be destroyed by the brightness of His coming without mercy nor quarter.