A Goodrick (10 May 2020)
"2 Thessalonians 2: 1-12, kjv"


 
"Now we beseech you brethren, by the 
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto Him" (the Rapture)

"That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, as that the Day of **CHRIST** is at hand".
(No any- time Rapture. Certain things must happen first. The Rapture is not here  just yet.)

"Let no man deceive you by any means. For that day"
 (of **CHRIST**, the Rapture) 
"shall not come, except there come a
1. falling away first"

(an agreement among apostates to abandon the Biblical Faith in the Triune God. A global movement to abandon Sound Doctrine and Scriptural  Faith.).
 "AND"
2. "that man of sin"
( The future antichrist, the Beast)
"be revealed, the son of perdition".
(destined for the Lake of Fire).

"Who opposeth"
(God, Israel and nuclear militarism)

"and exalteth himself above all that is called 'God', or that is worshipped.
So that he, as God, sitteth in the Temple of God (below the Temple Mount) "SHOWING himself that he IS  God."

( He sits upon the newly discovered Ark of the Covenant, in contempt, blasphemy amd blatant pride.)

"Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things "?
(A former event not recorded in Scripture).

"And now you know what with-holdeth, that he"  
(the future antichrist, the Beast)
"might  be revealed in his time."

( Now you know why we haven't had the Rapture just yet. Because we have  not had a formal signing of a declaration of Unity
among all who promote a global religion.

1. We have not had a legalized global apostasy just yet...a collective denial of Biblical Faith. Forsaking the belief in a spiritual messiah, the masses now desire a political messiah, granting bread for servitude.)
AND
2. We have not seen the blasphemy of the Beast sitting upon the Ark of the Covenant. Please see Jeremiah 3:16.

Both of those two events MUST take place before there can be a Rapture, as can be discerned from Chapter two of 2 Thessalonians. )

"For 
"the mystery of iniquity"
(The mystery of why God allows evil to run it's course)

"doth already work"
(Man is allowed to have free will until this era ends.
It is an unexplainable mystery. We will know in time.)

"Only He" (God), "Who now letteth" (now allows),
"will let" (will continue to allow)
until he (Satan) 
be taken out of the way."
(at Revelation/Apocalypse
20:10).
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Emphases and words in parentheses by this editor.

Day of the **Lord** =
Great Tribulation

Day of **Christ** = Rapture ; k j v