Failure to Remember the Truth Leads to Confusion, Fear, and Deception Among Believers (v. 1-8)

• False teachings and an anxious church (v. 1, 2)
  • Matthew 24:4-8
• The rebellion and revealing of the man of lawlessness comes first (v. 3, 4)
  • Matthew 24:11-14
  • Daniel 11:36, 37
• Paul had previously taught about these things (v. 5-8)
  • I Thessalonians 4:16-18
  • Jude 3
  • A restrainer (v. 6)
  • The mystery of lawlessness (v. 7)
  • The True and Living God will end all deception at the unmistakable revelation of the Lord Jesus (v. 8)
    • Isaiah 11:4

Failure to Love the Truth Leads to Delusion, Judgment, and Condemnation for the Unrighteous (v. 9-12)

• Power, signs, and wonders from Satan to deceive (v. 9)
  • Matthew 24:24-27
• Refusal to love the truth excludes the perishing from salvation (v. 10)
• God’s sovereignty in judgment (v. 11, 12)
  • Delusion to believe what is false
    • Psalm 80:11-13
    • I Timothy 4:1, 2
  • Condemnation for false belief and pleasure in unrighteousness
    • 2 Corinthians 4:4

So What?

• Do I know and love the Truth of God’s Word enough that it guards me from deception and moral corruption?
• When He comes, the Lord will decisively defeat and condemn His enemies, so we can take hope in the future return of Christ and our being gathered together to Him!
  • Revelation 19:11-16
  • 2 Timothy 4:8