Extract from The Man of Sin in Second Thessalonians – To read the full text, click “Download” below.
Even after Paul’s First Epistle to the Thessalonians was received and read by those Christians, their problems were not allayed completely. For their persecutions and tribulations continued. Indeed, over the next decades and centuries, such tribulations would sometimes recur.
At times, the Thessalonian Christians no doubt feared that any additional persecution would be unbearable. Consequently, some of them understandably yet erroneously began to believe and to hope that the specific persecution they were then enduring, would be the last — and that the Lord Jesus would come at any moment in Final Judgment of the wicked and thus spare those tested Christians from any further and worse tribulation.
