What the great earthquake is to the Californian the great Tribulation is to the whole world. You will not escape it. Every person on the earth at the time of the great Tribulation will experience its tremors and its destruction.

But, by comparison, the terrors of the great Tribulation are stunning. There are people, even Christian people, who hear information like that and pass it off as if it weren’t meant to disturb their peace. And for a Christian it shouldn’t, for we’ll never know the horrors of it. But many of our friends will.

Now what does all of this about earthquakes and tsunamis and tidal waves and great Tribulation, what does all of this have to do with the Thessalonian letter we’re studying? Well, everything. As a matter of fact, everything. In fact, that particular subject is precisely the reason Paul wrote them two letters instead of one.

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

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