Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering
together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind or betroubled, neither by spirit nor
by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling
away first, and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition.
Now what's interesting is that all the modern Bible versions, they all change and corrupt
this passage, because this is such a powerful passage that just destroys the pre-tribulation
rapture.
Because what do those who believe in the pre-tribulation rapture say?
They say, oh, Jesus Christ can come back at any moment.
He might come back tonight.
He might come before the end of this service.
Well this passage completely destroys that and exposes it as a deception.
So what have the modern versions done?
Well they've changed this passage.
They pervert it.
Let me show you one example, and this is only one example.
But the ESV, it's a pretty popular Bible, I've changed the name on mine to the extremely
stupid version.
Okay, I don't know if you can read that.
But let me read for you out of the ESV what 2 Thessalonians 2 says.
It says this, now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered
together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either
by a spirit or by a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that
the day of the Lord has come.
So here in the ESV, the deception that God's warning us about is someone telling us that
the day of Christ has already happened, that the day of Christ has come.
Whereas in the King James Bible, he's warning us that the deception is that people will
come along telling us that the day of Christ is at hand, that it can come at any time,
at any moment.
And he says, don't be deceived because X, Y, and Z has to happen first.
And those things haven't happened yet, my friend.