Who is Paul discussing in 2 Thessalonians 2?

[Earburner]

The most compelling reason is because the temple of God is the human body and it’s not possible for The Antichrist to sit on that throne. Add to that the natural man is destroyed by the Lord coming into a believers life.

Absolute truth!
Every unsaved person is the potential temple of God in which God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit seek to dwell within. If they choose to not come to repentance and have faith in the Lord Jesus, before their mortal death, then the judgment of the 2nd death REMAINS upon them, which is total destruction for all eternity.
John 14:23; Rev. 3:20; John 14:26, 15:26

 

[Earburner]

That would change scripture because both are written in the singular. It's like reading Abought Christ's mother Mary and claiming it should be understood as multiple Mary's despite not being written in a plural form.

The little horn is not the little horns.
The man of sin is not the men of sin.

The context of both passages are of a single man doing various things not many men.

Changes like this is where false doctrines come from.

No, you are making a futuristic connection for a "little horn", when there is no future for that which has already been historically fulfilled.
Please study the historic fulfillment of that prophecy in 1&2 Maccabees

Changes from what? The man made doctrines of church-ianity??

 

[Earburner]

Absolute truth!
Every unsaved person is the potential temple of God in which God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit seek to dwell within. If they choose to not come to repentance and have faith in the Lord Jesus, before their mortal death, then the judgment of the 2nd death REMAINS upon them, which is total destruction for all eternity.
John 14:23; Rev. 3:20; John 14:26, 15:26

 

[Behold]

It used to be 7 years but CHrist said it would be shortened and we find in Rev that it is half the length now. The trib/great trib is a total of 42 months and there is no mid point mentioned in any scripture.

The entire Trib is 7 yrs.
The Great Trib, is the 42 months...= the 2nd Half.

 

[Earburner]

Love ya Earburner, we been posting for a long time, reformed preterist eschatology is on the frindge and that's being nice

Jesus Is The Lord

Yes we have been posting for a long time, and it's good to know you in the Lord brother.

However, in all that we talk about, we are only observers in the Lord of how He works His will through time. That is why I always quote and point to all of 1 Cor. ch. 2.
It reminds us to know that we who are Born again, have the Mind of Christ within us, giving us the ability to "compare spiritual things with spiritual", whereas the mind of "the natural man" can only hear "the wisdom of men".

Therefore, all prophecy from the Lord, has and will have, historic fulfillment.
We must always discern the difference of that which is generated from His mind as opposed to that which is produced from our own mind of human wisdom"

I can be nice too:
If there are those who believe that my understanding is "on the fringe", I would say that it is due to the many who are "falling away" from faith in the truth.

 

[ewq1938]

The entire Trib is 7 yrs.

It used to be but it ws shortened to half of that

The Great Trib, is the 42 months...= the 2nd Half.

The trib is also the same as the GT...exact time period. The gospels use them interchangeably.

 

[Davy]

The original timing of the "great tribulation" was the latter half of the Daniel 9:27 "one week" which that "one week" symbolizes seven years per the 70 weeks prophecy. That means 1260 days (2520 days / 2 = 1260).

That was the time length of the "great tribulation" before Lord Jesus shortened it per Matthew 24:22.

What He shortened it to is given in Revelation 9 about the time of the 'stinging' by the locusts, which involves being sealed with God's Seal. Only those WITHOUT God's Seal can be stung, and that only for "five months."

That stinging represents being deceived to the coming false-Messiah during the "great tribulation". Deception to a false Christ is the main weapon Satan is going to use for the "great tribulation", which is why it will be a time on earth that the likes of has never before been.

 

[Spiritual Israelite]

Yes you deny that (The Man Of Sin) will be a future literal human man, you symbolize this future literal man into no future existence, "sad"!

A Literal Human Man, Personal Pronouns "He" "His" "Him" "Himself"

2 Thessalonians 2:3-10KJV
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away 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 withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

So, we should be looking out for a literal human harlot woman, too, then, right?

Revelation 17:1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.” 3 So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.