Survey of the book of 2 Thessalonians

Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Second Thessalonians is a letter that Paul writes again to the same church, but in this time he was encouraged.

He got reports back about this church and had good reports. They were growing. They were maturing.

That gave him great encouragement. However, there was also some problems. It seems that some people had come into the church and were teaching that the

Lord's return already happened. There's much confusion here on the expectation of the

Lord's coming, or did it already happen? The issue that we end up seeing is that there were people that were actually not working because they were anticipating the

Lord's return. They were basically mooching off of others in the church. Others were working and they weren't because they were being spiritual and waiting for the

Lord's return. This confusion caused some problems that Paul had to address. He had to address the issue that if a man doesn't work, he should not eat.

Not only does he have to address the issues of the Lord's return and some doctrinal things here. We're going to see some of the end times explained in this book, but he also is going to teach us that we should be living every day as if the

Lord is going to return, and therefore we should be having a mindset of doing everything we can, but not just sitting back and waiting because we don't know when that would be.

Now he gives some thanksgivings for a church, but also some exhortations for them because they needed to be obedient every day.