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each):
Chap. 1 — before the rapture:
persecution (tribulation)
Chap. 2 — before the revelation:
Antichrist (man of sin)
Chap. 3 — how Christians
should live now

2. Note the focal point: “The day of the
Lord has not come yet!” Observe how it
relates to what goes before and to what
follows. Refer to the Bible text to con rm
this.
3. Where does Paul write speci cally
about persecutions and a ictions? Relate
this to the chart’s phrase “Don’t be
disturbed.”
4. Where does Paul write much about the
man of sin? Relate this to the manifestation
of the Lord of glory (chap. 1).


5. Note the outline at the bottom of the
chart that relates to the subject Lord’s return.
How are the points developed in the sections
of the epistle?
6. Note the di erent exhortations and
commands shown on the chart. What others
did you observe in your survey?
7. Compare the title given to this epistle
with that of 1 Thessalonians. How do the

two titles reveal two di erent instructional
purposes of the epistles?
XIII. PROMINENT SUBJECTS OF 2 THESSALONIANS
A. BEFORE THE RAPTURE: PERSECUTION
(1:3-12)
Paul’s second Thessalonian letter begins
on a bright note, commending the saints for
their perseverance and faith in severe trials


(1:4). Chapter 1 is background to the
problem speci cally mentioned in 2:2:
persecution before the rapture. Just how the
two are related is discussed below.


CHART 95: 2 THESSALONIANS: HE HAS NOT
COME YET

Recall the key prophetic passage of Paul’s
rst letter (4:13-18). Paul very clearly
foretold the sudden (though not necessarily
immediate) event of the rapture of the
saints. Then he wrote about the coming,
unannounced “day of the Lord,” which shall
bring destruction and travail (5:1-5).
Whether the Thessalonians interpreted these
two “comings” as happening at di erent
times, they did associate tribulation with the
day of the Lord. When a letter forged with