When do we rest?

Jun 11, 2025, 11:28 AM

2 Thessalonians 1:7-10
King James Version
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

Paul's not describing an early escape & secret meeting in the clouds 7 years before a 2nd coming in the above verses. He is describing the 2nd coming, and that's when we find our rest. Our rest finally comes when He is revealed from heaven, NOT in a secret rendezvous in the clouds only seen by the church.

And He & His angels start destroying the wicked after this revealing from heaven. So if you try forcing these verses to mean that happens before the tribulation, then you just created a scenario where the man of sin going to "rule the world for 7 years" while Christ is here in person with angels destroying the beast's people. Yet NO dispensationalist teaches that.

No early escape of any kind is coming but sadly, most modern Danites (dispensationalists) exhibit the seared conscience that is a trademark of doctrines of devils (1 Timothy 4), so no matter what Scriptures you show them they just lie & say it says the opposite.

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When do we rest?

When we trust in God.

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