2 Thessalonians 2: 9 says, " And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish ; because they received not the love of the Truth, that they might be saved.

Those who are advocates of Pauline authorship defend the differences that there are between elements in this letter and those commonly considered the genuine work of Paul ( e. g. 1 Thessalonians ).

The first letter to the Thessalonians was likely the first of Paul's letters, probably written by the end of AD 52, making it, so far as is now known, the first written book in the New Testament.

Paul devotes part of the letter to correcting these errors, and exhorts the Thessalonians to purity of life, reminding them that their sanctification is God's will for their lives.

The lack of consensus regarding a date and destination ... reflects a dilemma for this position: on the one hand, the date needs to be early enough for the letter to be have been accepted as Pauline ... the other hand, the date and destination need to be such that the author could be confident that no contemporary of 1 Thessalonians ... could have exposed 2 Thessalonians as a ...

) Once the text of this interpolated letter is removed and the two letters compared, Murphy-O ' Connor asserts that this objection is " drastically weakened ", and concludes, " The arguments against the authenticity of 2 Thessalonians are so weak that it is preferable to accept the traditional ascription of the letter to Paul.

Those who believe Paul was the author of Second Thessalonians also note how Paul drew attention to the authenticity of the letter by signing it himself: " I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand, which is how I write in every letter .".

A persistent theme is developing an interior life of continuous prayer, learning to " pray without ceasing " as St. Paul teaches in his first letter to the Thessalonians.

The First Epistle to the Thessalonians, usually referred to simply as First Thessalonians and often written 1 Thessalonians, is a book from the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

1 Thessalonians matches other accepted Pauline letters, both in style and in content, and its authorship is also affirmed by 2 Thessalonians.

These denominations vary from simply not accepting the Pope's claim to authority as legitimate and valid, to believing that the Pope is the Antichrist from 1 John 2: 18, the Man of Sin from 2 Thessalonians 2: 3-12, and the Beast out of the Earth from Revelation 13: 11-18.

The term foursquare refers to the four fundamental beliefs of Pentecostalism: Jesus saves according to John 3: 16, baptizes with the Holy Spirit according to Acts 2: 4, heals bodily according to James 5: 15, and is coming again to receive those who are saved according to 1 Thessalonians 4: 16 – 17.

The word parousia is found in the following verses: Matthew 24: 3, 27, 37, 39 ; 1 Corinthians 15: 23 ; 1 Thessalonians 2: 19 ; 3: 13 ; 4: 15 ; 5: 23 ; 2 Thessalonians 2: 1, 8, 9 ; James 5: 7, 8 ; 2 Peter 1: 16 ; 3: 4, 12 ; 1 John 2: 28.

In 3: 15, 16 a reference is made to one of Paul's epistles, which some have identified as 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-5: 11.

The Second Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians, often referred to as Second Thessalonians and written 2 Thessalonians, is a book from the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

It is traditionally attributed to Paul, because it begins, " Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ ;" ( 2 Thess.

The dating of the book is believed by many scholars to be written between 52-54 AD, shortly after the First Epistle to the Thessalonians was written.

: if we only possessed Second Thessalonians few scholars would doubt that Paul wrote it ; but when Second Thessalonians is put alongside First Thessalonians then doubts appear.

While Paul's authorship of Second Thessalonians has been questioned more often than his authorship of 1 Thess., there is more evidence from early Christian writers for his authorship of Second Thessalonians than that of First Thessalonians.

Admitting that there are stylistic problems between Second Thessalonians and First Thessalonians, he argues that part of the problem is due to the composite nature of First Thessalonians ( Murphy-O ' Connor is only one of many scholars who argue that the current text of Second Thessalonians is the product of merging two or more authentic letters of Paul.

From the inference of 2: 1-2, the Thessalonians were faced with a false teaching, saying that Christ had already returned.

Many were uniformly bound in a French taste and bear his motto Omnia explorate ; meliora retinete (" explore everything ; keep the best ") from I Thessalonians 5, 21.

Kelly states that Saint Paul is a witness to the fact that even while the New Testament was being written hard-and-fast outlines of the faith were emerging for the transmission of authoritative doctrine and gives examples from Galatians, 2 Thessalonians, Romans and 1 Corinthians ).

In the convocation of 1542, when the bishops undertook the work of a revised translation of the New Testament, the first and second epistles to the Thessalonians were assigned to Bell.

For example, in 1 Thessalonians 1: 6, the Thessalonians were under great stress due to persecution ; yet in the midst of it all, they continued to experience great joy.

Many Evangelical Christians believe that New Testament prophecies associated with the Jewish Temple, such as Matthew 24-25 and 2 Thessalonians 2: 1-12, were not completely fulfilled during the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 ( a belief of Full Preterism ) and that these prophecies refer to a future temple.

Futurist Christians consider the " Abomination of Desolation " prophecy of Daniel mentioned by Jesus in and as referring to an event in the end time future, when a 7 year peace treaty will be signed between Israel and a world ruler called " the man of lawlessness ", or the " Antichrist " affirmed by the writings of the Apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians.

There are many views among Christians regarding the timing of Christ's return ( including whether it will occur in one event or two ), and various views regarding the destination of the aerial gathering described in 1 Thessalonians 4.

In the earliest known Christian document, the First Epistle to the Thessalonians, Paul seems to envisage that he and the Christians he was writing to would see the resurrection of the dead within their own lifetimes: " For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

Schweitzer notes that St. Paul apparently believed in the immediacy of the " Second Coming of Jesus ": " Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord " ( 1 Thessalonians 4. 17 ).

The Letters to the Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians.

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The vast majority of New Testament scholars hold 1 Thessalonians to be authentic, although a number of scholars in the mid-19th century contested its authenticity, most notably Clement Schrader and F. C.

The first page of the epistle in Minuscule 699 gives its title as προς θεσσαλονικεις, " To the Thessalonians.

Other scholars, such as Schmithals, Eckhart, Demke and Munro, have developed complicated theories involving redaction and interpolation in 1 and 2 Thessalonians.

In his concern, he sent his delegate, Timothy, to visit the Thessalonians and to return with a report.

Unlike all subsequent Pauline epistles, 1 Thessalonians does not focus on justification by faith or questions of Jewish-gentile relations, themes that are covered in all other letters.

He believed that “ the mystery of iniquity ” written about by Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2: 7 was already in action when “ every one chatters about his views .” To Jerome, the power restraining this mystery of iniquity was the Roman Empire, but as it fell this restraining force was removed.

In Justin's works, distinct references are found to Romans, 1 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians, and 2 Thessalonians, and possible ones to Philippians, Titus, and 1 Timothy.

His letter of October 26 named two of the men about whom Quiney had written to Shakespeare the day before.

Those whom I wish to address with this letter are for the most part unknown to me.

That the emperor sincerely sympathized with Alexei, and suspected Peter of harbouring murderous designs against his son, is plain from his confidential letter to George I of Great Britain, whom he consulted on this delicate affair.

Cuthbert, a disciple of Bede's, wrote a letter to a Cuthwin ( of whom nothing else is known ), describing Bede's last days and his death.

A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

Leo provided his legates, one of whom died en route, with a letter addressed to Flavian of Constantinople explaining Rome's position in the controversy.

In 1533 he was allowed to accompany Dom Martinho de Portugal to Rome on an embassy to Pope Clement VII, to whom Father Álvares delivered the letter Lebna Dengel had written to the Pope.

According to a letter Fahrenheit wrote to his friend Herman Boerhaave, his scale was built on the work of Ole Rømer, whom he had met earlier.

In the letter, Paul commands church brethren, " Do not forbid to speak in tongues " ( 1 Cor 14: 39 ), while warning them that " all things must be done properly and in an orderly manner " He further expresses his wishes that those to whom he wrote " all spoke with tongues " ( 1 Cor 14: 5 ) and claims himself to speak with tongues more than any in the church at Corinth (" I thank God I speak with tongues more than you all " 1 Cor 14: 18 ).

She was a widow whom Delany married in 1743, and was an accomplished letter writer.

Lovecraft was also influenced by authors such as Gertrude Barrows Bennett ( who, writing as Francis Stevens, impressed Lovecraft enough that he publicly praised her stories and eventually " emulated Bennett's earlier style and themes "), Oswald Spengler, Robert W. Chambers ( writer of The King in Yellow, of whom Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith: " Chambers is like Rupert Hughes and a few other fallen Titans — equipped with the right brains and education but wholly out of the habit of using them ").

The clergy of that city, many of whom were suffering imprisonment for the faith, sent him in 177 to Rome with a letter to Pope Eleuterus concerning the heresy Montanism, and that occasion bore emphatic testimony to his merits.

In the 18th century it is certain that the letters were often issued blank, i. e. without containing the name of the person against whom they were directed ; the recipient, or mandatary, filled in the name in order to make the letter effective.

After a heated argument in Bismarck's office Wilhelm, whom Bismarck had allowed to see a letter from Tsar Alexander III describing him as a " badly brought-up boy ", stormed out, after first ordering the rescinding of the Cabinet Order of 1851, which had forbidden Prussian Cabinet Ministers to report directly to the King of Prussia, requiring them instead to report via the Prime Minister.

Petrarch was a prolific letter writer and counted Boccaccio among his notable friends to whom he wrote often.

In the case of a certain Hugh whom the chapter of Chartres had elected bishop, he withheld his approbation because the bishop-elect did not possess sufficient knowledge, quum pateretur in litteratura defectum, as the Pope stated in a letter dated 8 January 1219.

Before the break off of dialogue, a letter written by a group of Colombian intellectuals ( among whom were Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez ) to the Simón Bolívar Guerrilla Coordinating Board was released denouncing the approach taken by the FARC-EP and the dire consequences that it was having for the country.

On September 10, Jarrah spent the last evening of his life writing a letter to Şengün, with whom he had made marriage plans.

However, from the 1570s onwards he is found associating with known Catholics, including Lord Thomas Paget, to whom he wrote a petitionary letter on behalf of an unnamed friend in 1573.

From Kanyakumari he visited Madurai, where he met the Raja of Ramnad, Bhaskara Sethupathi, to whom he had a letter of introduction.

But to whom is the letter addressed?

In a famous letter to Meriwether Lewis in 1803, Thomas Jefferson instructed the Lewis and Clark expedition to " carry with you some matter of the kine-pox ; inform those of them with whom you may be, of its efficacy as a preservative from the smallpox ; & encourage them in the use of it ..." Jefferson had developed an interest in protecting Native Americans from smallpox having been aware of epidemics along the Missouri River during the previous century.

He would never return to the New World, and In a letter to Richard Hakluyt he wrote that he must hand over the fate of the colonists and his family " to the merciful help of the Almighty, whom I most humbly beseech to helpe and comfort them ".

Boniface first sent the letter to Ecgberht, the archbishop of York, asking him to correct any inaccuracies and reinforce whatever was right ; and he requested Herefrith, a priest whom Æthelbald had listened to in the past, to read and explain it to the king in person.