The lawless one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will destroy him with the... brightness of His coming.
2 THESSALONIANS 2:8
Despite all evidences to the contrary, God is in charge of the
world's affairs, and the days of rebellious kingdoms on earth are
numbered. Our God reigns! The "power and the glory" spoken of in the
final words of the Lord's Prayer are talking about kingdom power and
glory. The other type of power and glory, that which is measured by
earthly standards alone and rejected by Jesus in His temptation in the
wilderness, is doomed to dissolution and decay.
Ezekiel the prophet, speaking centuries ago of the impermanence of
anything not founded on kingdom values, said, "Doom has gone out. The
rod [of wickedness] has blossomed; arrogance has bloomed" (Ezk 7:10).
Note the telltale steps: doom appears, sin blossoms, and pride has
budded. And the fruit of all this? Dissolution and decay.
When speaking of a prominent figure who will arise in the last days
and challenge the authority of God's kingdom, Moffat refers to him in
his translation as "the Lawless One, the doomed One" (2 Th 2:3). Those
who break the laws of God's kingdom, which are written into the very
nature of things, are doomed. Perhaps not today, nor tomorrow, but
inevitably, anything that is against God's kingdom is destined to
destruction. It carries within itself the seeds of its own dissolution
and decay.
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