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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 1
At his Second Coming the Lord Jesus will take vengeance upon the ungodly.
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1 PAUL, and Silvanus, and
Timotheus, aunto the bchurch of the
Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the
achurches of God for your bpatience and
faith in all your cpersecutions and tribulations that ye
endure:
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5 Which is a manifest token of the
righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of
God, for which ye also asuffer:
6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
7 And to you who are troubled
arest with us, when the bLord Jesus
shall be crevealed from
heavena with his mighty
dangels,
8 In flaming afire taking
bvengeance on them that know not God, and that
cobey not the dgospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ:
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7a the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from
heaven This of course speaks of the Second Coming and may well be
much like unto such events as when the Lord appeared unto the saints in the
land Bountiful near the temple in the Book of Mormon. Yet at his Second
Coming he shall come in power and glory attended by angles as the host of
heaven. Yet as 2 Thes. 2:3 points out, this coming WILL NOT come except
and after there come a falling away first; that is that there will be a great
apostasy from the truth of the Gospel, and therefore must be also preceded by
a restoration of that gospel in preparation for that Second Coming. The early
saints were in part so looking forward to that day, and those who are worthy
will attend as the angels in attendance at the Lord's coming. But per their
mortal existence they needed to endure in the faith until the end of their
lives and understand that there would be those in apostasy which for their own
success in the Lord they needed to resist and remain faithful in and of
themselves.
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9 Who shall be apunished with
beverlasting cdestruction from the
presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10 When he shall come to be
aglorified in his bsaints, and to be
admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was
believed) in that day.
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11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that
our God would count you aworthy of this calling, and
fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith
with power:
12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may
be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the agrace
of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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