Lesson Summary:

Paul corrects false teaching about the Day of the Lord and affirms the eternal security of the believers.

Focus Passage: II Thessalonians 2

Note: Link to Part II of this Lesson

Outline and Lesson Goal

Principles and Applications

I. The Son of Destruction Revealed (2:1-12)

Principle: God’s Plan for History Involves the Rise and Fall of Lawlessness.
Application: What challenges you about the expected arrival of the man of lawlessness? How do you feel about the certainty that some people will reject the Gospel and be condemned forever?
Scripture Reference

²⁵ He will speak out against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One, and he will intend to make alterations in times and in law; and they will be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.
²⁶ But the court will sit for judgment, and his dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever.
27 Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all
the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be
an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.’
Daniel 7:25-27 (NASB 1995)