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The study of Paul’s Thessalonian letters is enjoying fresh interest today. These texts are considered by many to be amongst the earliest extant Christian documents. They are included in conversations about early Jewish and Christian apocalypticism. New insights are coming from examination of the religious, socio-cultural, and political contexts of Roman Thessalonica. And, looking back, these...

reframing their experience as a carefully considered plan of discipleship and kingdom representation such that through perseverance and faithfulness they would be refined in alignment with the kingdom. As noted beforehand, the heart of 2 Thessalonians involves further teaching from Paul regarding concerns about the “day of the Lord” (see 2:2–3). The rest of 2 Thessalonians 2 is largely devoted to outlining intervening occurrences that will precede that final day.
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