Core Truth: While current events would seem to suggest that due to mankind’s age-long rebellion against Him and His rule over us, God has finally turned His back on His world and left man to his own fate. However, even a brief search of the Scriptures will indicate that such will never be the case and that in fact, we – the very people living in this present generation – may well be those who are even now starting to see the ominous signs of the arrival of one of the most dramatic events in all of human history – the Day of the Lord!
Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8
Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to Him, we ask you … not to become easily unsettled … by the teaching … asserting that the Day of the Lord has already come. Don’t let anyone deceive you … for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshipped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God. Don’t you remember … I used to tell you these things? And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of His mouth and destroy by the splendor of His coming. (NIV)