Think Wink.

I don’t think a person preached a sermon against the doctrines of grace so poorly. He just throws text after text at the people in a very persuasive manner but provides very little, if any, exegesis. This KJV Onlyist needs to go to seminary to at least understand what Calvinism teaches. I mean his opening salvo against Calvinists not being evangelistic just tells Spurgeon, Edwards, David Brainard, William Carrey, Andrew Fuller, Adoniram Judson, and many other Calvinists, including John Calvin himself, didn’t evangelize and yet all of these men were known for their evangelism–even though Calvin’s evangelistic fervor took too long to come to light. Seminary training is not wrong, I count it a blessing because it was through my seminary training that I have come to know and love Greek and Hebrew. Also, this guy needs to know the Calvinism proofs better! If you really want to see a bad attempt at refuting Calvinism, watch this video. I’m still not sure why I did, must be bored and upset after MU’s loss.

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Sermon Notes

Here is my attempt, and I do emphasize attempt, at translating Paul’s eschatological passage in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12. Let me tell you, I now believe more in the inspiration of the Holy Spirit because Paul must have lost his mind writing that! LOL. Any ways, it was tough but really pushed me in my translation abilities. I hope it helps. As always, for help on the Greek words click here for the Greek of the passage and a side-by-side comparison of the NET. Enjoy.

Greek Text
1 ἐρωτῶμεν δὲ ὑμᾶς ἀδελφοί ὑπὲρ τῆς παρουσίας τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ ἡμῶν ἐπισυναγωγῆς ἐπ’ αὐτόν 2 εἰς τὸ μὴ ταχέως σαλευθῆναι ὑμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ νοὸς μηδὲ θροεῖσθαι μήτε διὰ πνεύματος μήτε διὰ λόγου μήτε δι’ ἐπιστολῆς ὡς δι’ ἡμῶν ὡς ὅτι ἐνέστηκεν ἡ ἡμέρα τοῦ κυρίου 3 μή τις ὑμᾶς ἐξαπατήσῃ κατὰ μηδένα τρόπον ὅτι ἐὰν μὴ ἔλθῃ ἡ ἀποστασία πρῶτον καὶ ἀποκαλυφθῇ ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἀνομίας ὁ υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας 4 ὁ ἀντικείμενος καὶ ὑπεραιρόμενος ἐπὶ πάντα λεγόμενον θεὸν ἢ σέβασμα ὥστε αὐτὸν εἰς τὸν ναὸν τοῦ θεοῦ καθίσαι ἀποδεικνύντα ἑαυτὸν ὅτι ἔστιν θεός 5 οὐ μνημονεύετε ὅτι ἔτι ὢν πρὸς ὑμᾶς ταῦτα ἔλεγον ὑμῖν 6 καὶ νῦν τὸ κατέχον οἴδατε εἰς τὸ ἀποκαλυφθῆναι αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ ἑαυτοῦ καιρῷ 7 τὸ γὰρ μυστήριον ἤδη ἐνεργεῖται τῆς ἀνομίας μόνον ὁ κατέχων ἄρτι ἕως ἐκ μέσου γένηται 8 καὶ τότε ἀποκαλυφθήσεται ὁ ἄνομος ὃν ὁ κύριος Ἰησοῦς ἀνελεῖ τῷ πνεύματι τοῦ στόματος αὐτοῦ καὶ καταργήσει τῇ ἐπιφανείᾳ τῆς παρουσίας αὐτοῦ 9 οὗ ἐστιν ἡ παρουσία κατ’ ἐνέργειαν τοῦ Σατανᾶ ἐν πάσῃ δυνάμει καὶ σημείοις καὶ τέρασιν ψεύδους 10 καὶ ἐν πάσῃ ἀπάτῃ ἀδικίας τοῖς ἀπολλυμένοις ἀνθ’ ὧν τὴν ἀγάπην τῆς ἀληθείας οὐκ ἐδέξαντο εἰς τὸ σωθῆναι αὐτούς 11 καὶ διὰ τοῦτο πέμπει αὐτοῖς ὁ θεὸς ἐνέργειαν πλάνης εἰς τὸ πιστεῦσαι αὐτοὺς τῷ ψεύδει 12 ἵνα κριθῶσιν πάντες οἱ μὴ πιστεύσαντες τῇ ἀληθείᾳ ἀλλὰ εὐδοκήσαντες τῇ ἀδικίᾳ

My Translation
1 Brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together up to him, we ask you 2 to not be quickly shaken from your mind and not be disturbed through a spirit or message or letter like it is from us because the Day of the Lord has come. 3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, unless the apostasy came already and the man of lawlessness, the son of destruction, was revealed. 4 [He is] the one who opposes and exalts himself over everything said to be god or worshiped. For this reason he sits in the temple of God and proclaims himself to be God. 5 [Do] you not remember when I was with you this was spoken to you? 6 And so you know his restrainer, [he is] to be revealed in his own time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already working, only the restraining one [does so] now until out of your midst he might become. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord destroys by the breath of his mouth and will abolish by the appearing of his return. 9 [His] coming is in accordance with Satan’s work with all kinds of power and miracles and false wonders 10 and with all kinds of evil deceptions for those who are perishing, because love for the truth was not in them to be saved. 11 So because of this God sends to them a deluding influence that they will believe the deception 12 so that they will be condemned, everyone who did not believe the truth but delighted in wickedness. Read more

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