He says if you receive a letter as from us, don't give any heed to it. Why? Because the day of
Christ is not at hand. So what is this teaching us? This is teaching us here, this is showing us
that the pre-trib rapture, okay, didn't originate in the 1800s with John Nelson Darby.
Because apparently you have false teachers back then teaching that the day of Christ was
at hand. Or else why would he even be saying it, right? Why would he even mention, hey don't
worry about it, don't be soon shaken in mind, don't give any credence to any letter, any epistle that
you're going to receive as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Why? Because they were
probably receiving letters, they were receiving by word. You're like, I don't know, that's kind
of a stretch. Well, you know, you got to understand something is that the false doctrines
that are that are present today, this is not the first time that they've come up.
They've been around for thousands of years, okay. Let me give you an example of a false
doctrine out there that's, you know, popping up its head today, but it's been around
for a long time. Preterism. Now, preterism is true in the sense that some of these events
have taken place, but they're false in the sense where preterists will say,
well they've only taken place in times past and they're no longer, they don't have a future event,
they don't have a future fulfillment of that, okay. That's where they air. But here's the thing,
you know, preterism is not something new, it's been around for a long time. You have,
you know, 1 and 2 Timothy where Paul's writing to Timothy and he's talking about Hymenaeus and
Philetus who have taught that the resurrection had passed already and overthrew the faith of
some. So these guys were saying that the rapture had already taken place, the resurrection has
passed already, they were teaching preterism, okay. And so Paul was coming and refuting them
and saying that he gave them over to Satan, they were shipwrecked, you know, concerning the
faith and whatnot. And so, you know, a lot of these false doctrines that we see today,
they're the same methods and tactics and devices that Satan has used for thousands of years,
they're just simply repackaged, okay. And so, you know, they didn't call it the preacher
rapture back then, but it's the same concept because they were teaching that the day of
Christ was at hand, it was going to happen at any moment, it was imminent, okay, it could happen
at any moment. But thankfully, you know, 2 Thessalonians 2 exists, amen, where he's telling
them, hey, the gathering together, the second coming of Christ, don't worry if someone's
saying that it's going to happen at any moment, it's not going to happen at any moment,
there's some events that have to take place prior to that.