and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
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We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds, so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure. This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer. Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you, and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
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and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
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and to you which are troubled rest with vs when the lorde Iesus shall shewe him silfe from heven with his myghty angels
in flammynge fyre rendrynge vengeaunce vnto them that knowe not God and to them that obeye not vnto the gospell of oure Lorde Iesus Christ
which shalbe punysshed with everlastynge damnacion from the presence of the lorde and from the glory of his power
when he shall come to be glorified in his sainctes and to be made marvelous in all them that beleve: because oure testimonye that we had vnto you was beleved even the same daye that we preached it.
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And to you which are troubled, rest with vs, when the Lord Iesus shall shewe himselfe from heauen with his mightie Angels,
In flaming fire, rendring vengeance vnto them, that doe not know God, and which obey not vnto the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ,
Which shall be punished with euerlasting perdition, from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power,
When he shall come to be glorified in his Saints, and to be made marueilous in all them that beleeue ( because our testimonie toward you was beleeued) in that day.
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- Matthew 25:41 (vv8–9) Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his…
- 2 Peter 3:7 (vv8–9) But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and…
- Hebrews 10:27 (v8) but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
- Revelation 14:13 (v7) I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they…
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- Matthew 25:46 (vv8–9) These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
- Revelation 14:10-11 (v9) he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and…
- Matthew 16:27 (vv7, 9) For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
- Revelation 21:8 (vv8–9) But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in…
- Psalms 79:6 (v8) Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;
- 2 Thessalonians 2:8 (v9) Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;
- Hebrews 10:30 (v8) For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me;” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
- 2 Peter 3:10-12 (v8) But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be…
- Isaiah 2:21 (v9) to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his…
- John 17:10 (v10) All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.
- Romans 2:7-8 (v8) to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life; but to those who are self-seeking,…
- Romans 6:16 (v8) Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to…
- 1 Corinthians 3:13 (v10) each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of…
- Galatians 4:8 (v8) However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
- Ephesians 1:18 (v10) having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his…
- 2 Timothy 4:8 (v10) From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to…
- Hebrews 2:3 (v8) how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those…
- Jude 1:14-15 (v7) About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute…
- Revelation 20:14-15 (v8) Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. If anyone was not found written in the book…
- Zephaniah 1:6 (v8) those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
- Philippians 3:19 (v9) whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
- Hebrews 12:29 (v8) for our God is a consuming fire.
- Revelation 20:10 (v8) The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be…
- Isaiah 49:3 (v10) He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
- Matthew 7:23 (v9) Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
- Revelation 6:16-17 (v8) They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the…
- Revelation 22:16 (v7) I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and…
- Matthew 25:31 (vv7, 10) “But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
- Titus 2:13 (vv7, 9) looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
- Genesis 3:24 (v8) So he drove out the man; and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the…
- Exodus 5:2 (v8) Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel…
- Numbers 23:23 (v10) Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What…
- Deuteronomy 4:11 (v8) You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
- Deuteronomy 4:30 (v8) When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his…
- Deuteronomy 5:5 (v8) (I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you Yahweh’s word; for you were afraid because of the fire, and didn’t go up onto the…
- Deuteronomy 32:35 (v8) Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”
- Deuteronomy 32:41-42 (v8) if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me.…
- Psalms 2:9-12 (v8) You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.” Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be…
- Psalms 18:44 (v8) As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
- Psalms 21:8-9 (v8) Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you. You will make them as a fiery furnace in the…
- Psalms 50:2-6 (v8) Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out. Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very…
- Psalms 94:1 (v8) Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
- Isaiah 2:10 (v9) Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty.
- Isaiah 2:19 (v9) Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his…
- Isaiah 27:11 (v8) When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding.…
- Isaiah 61:2 (v8) to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
- Isaiah 66:24 (v9) “They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their…
- Daniel 7:10 (v8) A fiery stream issued and came out from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before…
- Luke 13:27 (v9) He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’
- John 3:19 (v8) This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
- Acts 6:7 (v8) The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to…
- Romans 1:28 (v8) Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
- 1 Thessalonians 4:5 (v8) not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,
- 1 Peter 2:9 (v10) But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of…
- Revelation 6:10 (v8) They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the…
- Revelation 20:14 (v9) Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
- Genesis 3:8 (v9) They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of…
- Genesis 4:16 (v9) Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
- 1 Samuel 2:12 (v8) Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.
- Psalms 9:10 (v8) Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
- Psalms 89:7 (v10) a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?
- Isaiah 1:19 (v8) If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;
- Isaiah 33:14 (v9) The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live…
- Isaiah 57:2 (v7) He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
- Isaiah 63:4-6 (v8) For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come. I looked, and there was no one to help; and I wondered that…
- Jeremiah 9:6 (v8) Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
- Daniel 12:2 (v9) Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
- Matthew 13:39-43 (v7) The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. As therefore the darnel weeds are…
- Matthew 22:13 (v9) Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the…
- Luke 17:30 (v7) It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
- John 8:19 (v8) They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my…
- Romans 1:5 (v8) through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;
- Romans 8:17 (v7) and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
- Romans 10:16 (v8) But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”
- Romans 15:18 (v8) For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
- Romans 16:26 (v8)
- 1 Corinthians 1:6 (v10) even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
- 1 Corinthians 15:34 (v8) Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
- 2 Corinthians 4:17 (v7) For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
- 2 Corinthians 10:5 (v8) throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to…
- Galatians 3:1 (v8) Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
- 2 Thessalonians 2:13 (v10) But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation…
- Hebrews 5:9 (v8) Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
- Hebrews 11:8 (v8) By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing…
- 1 Peter 1:2 (v8) according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his…
- 1 Peter 3:6 (v8) So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
- Revelation 1:7 (v7) Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn…
- Revelation 7:11-12 (v10) All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before his throne,…
- Revelation 21:4 (v7) He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The…
- Revelation 20:11 (vv7, 9) I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
- Psalms 51:11 (v9) Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.
- Psalms 68:35 (v10) You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God!
- Isaiah 43:21 (v10) the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.
- Isaiah 44:23 (v10) Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of…
- Isaiah 60:21 (v10) Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be…
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain On vv7–10 7 When the Lord shall be manifested. Here we…
7 When the Lord shall be manifested. Here we have a confirmation of the foregoing statement. For as it is one of the articles of our faith, that Christ will come from heaven, and will not come in vain, faith ought to seek the end of his coming. Now this is — that he may come as a Redeemer to his own people; nay more, that he may judge the whole world. The description which follows has a view to this — that the pious may understand that God is so much the more concerned as to their afflictions in proportion to the dreadfulness of the judgment that awaits his enemies. For the chief occasion of grief and distress is this — that we think that God is but lightly affected with our calamities. We see into what complaints David from time to time breaks forth, while he is consumed by the pride and insolence of his enemies. Hence he has brought forward all this for the consolation of believers, while he represents the tribunal of Christ as full of horror, that they may not be disheartened by their present oppressed condition, while they see themselves proudly and disdainfully trampled upon by the wicked.
What is to be the nature of that fire, and of what materials, I leave to the disputations of persons of foolish curiosity. I am contented with holding what Paul had it in view to teach — that Christ will be a most strict avenger of the injuries which the wicked inflict upon us. The metaphor, however, of flame and fire, is abundantly common in Scripture, when the anger of God is treated of.
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By the angels of his power, he means those in whom he will exercise his power; for he will bring the angels with him for the purpose of displaying the glory of his kingdom. Hence, too, they are elsewhere called the angels of his majesty
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv7, 8, 10 He confirmeth them also by the way, by this…
He confirmeth them also by the way, by this means, that the condition both of this present state and the state to come, is common to him with them.
A most glorious description of the second coming of Christ, to be set against all the miseries of the godly, and the triumphs of the wicked.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv7–10 7 And to you who are troubled rest with…
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
Ver. 7. Rest with us] As Noah’s ark, after much tossing, rested upon the mountains of Ararat; as the ark of the covenant, formerly transportative, was at length settled in Solomon’s temple. The word ανεσιν here used properly signifieth remission and relaxation from hard labour, Rev 14:13; "they rest from their labours." And as the sleep of a labouring man is sweet, so here.
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With his mighty angels] Oh, what a glorious day must that needs be, when so many glorious suns shall shine at once; the Lord Christ outshining them all, velut inter ignes luna minores! he will not leave one angel in heaven behind him, Mar 8:38.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv7–10 Having spoken of the recompence of the troublers, here…
Having spoken of the recompence of the troublers, here of the troubled: and in this we may observe a parallel, as in the former. The recompence to these is expressed by rest; in the Greek, dismission, or cessation from labour or trouble; as Heb 4:9; There remaineth a rest to the people of God, where the word is, keeping a sabbath, importing a rest from labour, as this text doth speak of a rest from trouble. And though the word rest is properly negative, yet under it the apostle comprehends all the felicity of the future state; elsewhere called a crown, a kingdom, an inheritance, glory, salvation, eternal life, yea, it contains in it the perfect satisfaction of the soul in the fruition of God, &c. And this is said to be given them by way of recompence, as tribulation is to their troublers; though there is no parity between their trembles and the rest, that is, their recompence, yet it is a proper recompence; and therefore the grace and mercy of God will be much manifested therein, though it is said to come from God’s righteousncss in the text. The righteousness of God dispenseth both these recompences; but yet the righteousness in both is not alike; ακριβοδικαιον, strict justice, dispenseth the one, and the punishment of the wicked riseth from the nature of their sin, and the merit of it; but it is only επιεικεια, equity, that dispenseth the other, and that not so much with respect to the nature of the saints’ duties or sufferings, as the promises and ordinance of God, and the merit of Christ for them. And this rest the apostle sets forth before them, under a twofold circumstance:
1. Rest with us. Us, the apostles and ministers of Christ, we and you shall rest together; as we have partaken of troubles together, so we shall of rest. And you shall enjoy the same felicity with the apostles themselves, in the same state of rest. And though now place doth separate us, yet we and you shall rest together, which will the more sweeten this rest to you and us.
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2. When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven; the other circumstance. This is the time of their entering into this rest. Christ’s coming is sometimes called his επιφανεια, appearing, 2Ti 4:8, or shining forth; sometimes, φανερωσις, his manifestation, 2Co 4:2; 1Jo 3:2; sometimes, αποκαλυψις, his revelation, as in the text. Now the heavens contain him, but he will come in person, and his glory shine forth: though before that their souls shall be at rest in heaven, and their bodies in the grave, yet not till then shall their persons be at rest. And as Christ himself is already entered into his rest, Heb 4:10, so he will come again to take his people into the same rest with him.
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William Burkitt 1703 · Public Domain On vv7, 9, 10 That is,"As God will certainly punish your persecutors, so…
That is,"As God will certainly punish your persecutors, so he will ere long give rest to you his sufferers, together with us who are companions with you in the same sufferings; you that are troubled shall have rest with us, his persecuted apostles: you shall have rest as well as we, and you shall have rest together with us."
Blessed be God that there is a day undoubtedly coming, when all the troubles of his people shall be ended indeed, and all his suffering saints shall be fully and finally rewarded for all their services and sufferings; and this distribution of rewards and punishments shall be in the presence of the whole world, at the great day, for the glory of divine justice. Then all those, who doubt or complain of God’s justice, shall awfully admire and adore it. To you that are troubled, rest with us.
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Where note, 1. That the present time is a time of trouble to the people of God: their time of rest hereafter.
2. That Almighty God alloweth his troubled saints a liberty to comfort themselves with the expectation and hope, that their troubles shall shortly end, and their everlasting rest begin.
3. That it addeth much to the excellency of that rest which the troubled saints expect, that it shall be enjoyed, not by a few of the most eminent sufferers, but by all of them: All you that are troubled shall rest with us.; with us apostles, with all the prophets and faithful servants of God.
Hail, happy day! when all the saints shall sing and rejoice together; when there shall be not one wicked person among them to damp their mirth, or to diminish their joy. How desirable is the communion of saints here! How happy do they esteem themselves when they can get together by themselves! But how joyful will the time and place be, when they get to heaven, where none shall interrupt their quiet, nothing shall disturb their rest! God will recompense tribulation to them that trouble you: and to you who are troubled, rest with us.
When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In these words we have an awful description of the day of judgment, and of the process of that solemn day.
Where observe, 1. The judge described, The Lord Jesus, he shall be revealed from heaven: since his ascension, the heavens have contained him, and concealed him also from our sight and senses; but he shall then visibly appear, and locally descend from the highest heavens into the region of the air. He shall come in the clouds, and every eye shall see him.
Observe, 2. His noble attendants; the mighty angels, every one stronger than an host of armed men. As the work Christ comes about is a great and mighty work, so he will have instruments strong and mighty, sufficient for that work; yet doth Christ make use of the angels, not for necessity, but for majesty, he can do his work without them.
Observe, 3. The manner of his coming: in flaming fire, by which the heavens and the earth shall be burnt up, and in which the damned shall be eternally tormented.
Observe, 4. The end of his coming: to take vengeance on the ignorant, and on the disobedient, on such as knew not God, and on them that do know, but obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
Learn hence, 1. That it greatly tends to the comfort and support of persecuted Christians, that Christ their righteous judge will come: He shall be revealed, and nobly attended; he shall come as an exalted king, accompanied with a glorious train of mighty angels.
Learn, 2. That the dread and terror of the day of judgment, will be matter of comfort to the godly, no ways terrifying. Those very flames which shall set the heavens and the earth in a blaze, and occasion dreadful consternation and fear to the wicked and impenitent world, shall be a comfortable sight to the godly, and the fore-thoughts of them may and should yield comfort to them under their present troubles.
Learn, 3. That ignorance, whether in pagans or in Christians, doth very much, but disobedience to the gospel doth very much more, expose persons, and lay them open to the vengeance of the great day: If Christ will render vengeance to them that know him not, much more to them that do know, but obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv7–10 And to you who are troubled, rest with us,....…
And to you who are troubled, rest with us,.... This is another branch of the justice of God, in rendering to them who are afflicted and persecuted for righteousness sake, "rest"; a relaxation or rest from persecutions, for a while at least; as the churches of Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had, from that persecution raised at the death of Stephen, Act 9:31 and as the Christians had at the destruction of Jerusalem; which though it was a day of vengeance to the unbelieving Jews, were times of refreshing to the saints, who were now delivered from their persecutors: or rather this designs a rest which remains for the saints after death in the grave, and at the coming of the Lord, and to all eternity; when they shall rest from all their toil and labour, and be freed from sin, and all disquietude by it, and from the temptations of Satan, and likewise from the persecutions of men; see Job 3:17. And this will be enjoyed in company with the apostles, and other believers; and as it is some alleviation to the sufferings and afflictions of saints now, that the same are accomplished in others, so it will enhance the heavenly glory, rest, and felicity, that they will be partners and sharers in it with the apostles of Christ Jesus, and have the same crown of glory they have; and indeed their company and conversation will be a part of their happiness.
When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven; then will the justice of God take place in both the above branches and instances of it, rendering tribulation to persecutors, and rest to the persecuted. Christ, ever since a cloud received him out of the sight of the apostles up to heaven, has been, as it were, hid, and has not been seen with corporeal eyes by men on earth ever since, but by a very few, as Stephen, and the Apostle Paul; he has only been seen by an eye of faith; at his second coming there will be a revelation of him, and every eye shall see him: and this revelation of him will be "from heaven": thither he was received at his ascension, and there he now is; and here he is received, and will be retained until the end of all things; and from hence the saints expect him, and from hence will he descend in person, and then he will be revealed, and appear to the view of everyone: and that
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with his mighty angels; which will add to the glory, majesty, and solemnity of that appearance: these are called his angels, because he is the Creator of them, and the object of their worship and adoration, and he is the Lord and head of them, and they are ministering spirits to him and his; and "mighty" angels, because they excel all other creatures in strength; a remarkable instance of the might and strength of angels is in Kg2 19:35. The words from the original text may be rendered, "with the angels of his power"; as they are by the Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, for they will be the ministers of the power of Christ in gathering the elect from the four winds, and all nations, before Christ; and in taking out of his kingdom all that offend, and do iniquity; and in severing the righteous from the wicked; and in casting the latter into the furnace of fire. The Syriac version reads the words, "with the power of his angels".
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv8–10 Taking vengeance - Does God barely permit this, or…
Taking vengeance - Does God barely permit this, or (as "the Lord" once "rained brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven," Gen. xix, 24) does a fiery stream go forth from him forever? Who know not God - (The root of all wickedness and misery) who remain in heathen ignorance. And who obey not - This refers chiefly to the Jews, who had heard the gospel.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv7–10 Verse 7. And to you who are troubled, rest…
Verse 7. And to you who are troubled, rest with us] And while they have tribulation, you shall have that eternal rest which remains for the people of God.
When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed] But this fulness of tribulation to them, and rest to you, shall not take place till the Lord Jesus come to judge the world.
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With his mighty angels] The coming of God to judge the world is scarcely ever spoken of in the sacred writings without mentioning the holy angels, who are to accompany him, and to form his court or retinue. See De 33:2; Mat 25:31; Mat 16:27; Mat 26:64; Mr 8:38.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v9 2Th 1:9-10. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction…
2Th 1:9-10. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction — Not the annihilation, but the perversion and utter ruin of all their powers of body and mind, so that those powers become instruments of torment and sources of misery to them in all possible ways. As there can be no end of their sins, (the same enmity against God continuing,) so neither of their punishment: sin and its punishment running parallel through eternity itself. They must of necessity therefore be cut off from all good, and all possibility of it. From the presence of the Lord — Wherein chiefly consists the salvation and felicity of the righteous. What unspeakable punishment is implied even in falling short of this, supposing that nothing more were implied in the punishment here spoken of! But this phrase, destruction from the presence, or face, of the Lord, as Bishop Hopkins justly observes, expresses not only that they shall be expelled from that joy and glory which reigns in the presence of God and of Christ, but that his presence shall appear active in the infliction of their punishment, so that they shall find his wrath issuing forth like lightning to appal and torment their spirits, while his power glorifies itself in their ruin and misery. When he shall come to be glorified in his saints — For his wonderful glory shall shine forth in them, and he will manifest the greatness of his power in rendering them glorious; and to be admired in all them that believe — With respect to the efforts of his almighty power and love for their complete salvation. Or, they shall be filled with wonder at what is done by Christ for and upon them, so far exceeding their most sanguine expectation. Because our testimony, &c. — As if he had said, I reckon you of this number because of the credit which you gave to our preaching.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv7–10 And to you who are troubled - That is,…
And to you who are troubled - That is, “it will be a righteous thing for God to give to you who are persecuted rest in the last day.” As it will be right and proper to punish the wicked, so it will he right to reward the good. It will not, however, be in precisely the same sense. The wicked will deserve all that they will suffer, but it cannot be said that the righteous will deserve the reward which they will receive. It will be right and proper, because:
(1) There is a fitness that they who are the friends of God should be treated as such, or it is proper that he should show himself to be their friend; and,
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(2) Because in this life this is not always clearly done. They are often less prospered, and less happy in their outward circumstances, than the wicked. There is, therefore, a propriety that in the future state God should manifest himself as their friend, and show to assembled worlds that he is not indifferent to character, or that wickedness does not deserve his smiles, and piety incur his frown. At the same time, however, it will be owing wholly to his grace that any are ever admitted to heaven.
Rest - The future happiness of believers is often represented under the image of rest. It is rest like that of the weary laborer after his day of toil; rest, like that of the soldier after the hardships of a long and perilous march; rest, like the calm repose of one who has been racked with pain; see the notes on Heb 4:9. The word “rest” here (ἄνεσις anesis) means a letting loose, a remission, a relaxation; and hence composure, quiet; 2Co 2:12; 2Co 7:5.
With us - That is, with Paul, Silas, and Timothy; 2Th 1:1. It would increase the comfort of the Thessalonians derived from the anticipation of the future world, to reflect that they would meet their religious teachers and friends there. It always augments the anticipated joy of heaven to reflect that we are to share its blessedness with them. There is no envy among those who anticipate heaven; there will be none there. They who desire heaven at all, desire that it may be shared in the highest degree by all who are dear to them.
When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven - Shall appear; shall come from heaven; see the notes, 1Th 4:6.
With his mighty angels - Margin, “angels of his power.” So the Greek. The sense is, that angels of exalted rank and glory will accompany him; see the 1Th 4:16 note; Mat 24:31; Mat 25:31 notes.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv9–10 Being confounded with the face of the Lord, whom…
Being confounded with the face of the Lord, whom they have rejected, and with the glory of his power and greatness, which will appear in irresistible splendour and majesty.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv7–10 rest--governed by "to recompense" (Th2 1:6). The Greek is…
rest--governed by "to recompense" (Th2 1:6). The Greek is literally, "relaxation"; loosening of the tension which had preceded; relaxing of the strings of endurance now so tightly drawn. The Greek word for "rest," Mat 11:28, is distinct, namely, cessation from labor. Also, Heb 4:9, "A keeping of sabbath."
with us--namely, Paul, Silas, and Timothy, the writers, who are troubled like yourselves.
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when--at the time when . . . ; not sooner, not later.
with his mighty angels--rather as the Greek, "with the angels of His might," or "power," that is, the angels who are the ministers by whom He makes His might to be recognized (Mat 13:41, Mat 13:52). It is not their might, but His might, which is the prominent thought.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv7–10 2. Vivid description of the infliction of justice at…
2. Vivid description of the infliction of justice at the parousia, 2Th_1:7-10.
7. And—It is rightful for God to repay to you who are troubled by persecutors, a rest, repose, a relaxation from an overstrain. The Greek word for rest is literally applied to the remission of a musical chord after it has been strained. Here it is applied to the repose of paradise after the overstrain, that is, the toils, the persecutions, the martyrdoms of Christian earthly life. It is the reposeful side of future blessedness, the active side of which is glory. Compare 2Co_2:13; 2Co_7:5; 2Co_8:13; and the analogous expression, Act_3:19.
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With us—Your apostolic fellow-sufferers.
When… from heaven—Literal Greek, at the revelation (apocalypse) of the Lord Jesus from heaven. The picture is, of the person of Christ as revealing itself through the opening sky to human eyes. It is vividly given by John, Rev_1:7. Compare 1Co_1:7.
Mighty angels—Greek, angels of his power. The might belongs not to the angels, but to him. They are the offspring and instruments of his power. Their glorious procession, as his advance hosts, is a display of his power. Note on 1Th_4:16.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv7–10 7. rest with us] St Paul’s was a life…
7. rest with us] St Paul’s was a life full of harassment and fatigue, and the hope of rest was sweet to him (note the outburst of Gal_6:17). Men of an easy untroubled life miss the delight of the thought of Heaven.
But in his visions of future joy his children in Christ always shared. Comp. 2Co_4:14, “God will raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you;” again in 2Ti_4:8, “the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge (comp. 2Th_1:5 above), shall give me at that day—and not to me only, but also to all who love His appearing.”
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when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven] Lit., in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven. His advent is His people’s deliverance; it guarantees, and virtually contains in itself the relief for which they sigh.
Note, once again, the prevalence of the title Lord Jesus in these letters—the designation of the returning, triumphant Saviour. Compare notes on 1Th_2:15; 1Th_2:19.
Here and in 1Co_1:7 (so in 1Pe_1:7; 1Pe_1:13; 1Pe_4:13) Christ’s second coming is called His revelation; for it will exhibit Him in aspects of majesty unknown and inconceivable before. In like manner there will be a “revelation of the sons of God,” and “of the righteous judgement of God” upon the wicked (Rom_8:19; Rom_2:5); those events, along with this, certified beforehand, but in their form and nature beyond our present conception. The “coming” of Antichrist is also foretold as a “revelation” (ch. 2Th_2:3; 2Th_2:6; 2Th_2:8, see notes). So this revelation comes—
from heaven] comp. 1Th_1:10 (see note); 1Th_4:16; Php_3:20, “from whence we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ;” and the very definite promise of Act_1:11. It will be the unveiling of Christ in His glory (descending) from heaven; whereas His previous coming was in the form of a lowly man on earth.
with his mighty angels] Lit., with angels of His power: i.e. “attended by angels as signs and instruments of His power.” Comp. 1Th_4:16 (and note) for the office of the angels in Christ’s advent; and for their relation to Divine Power, Psa_103:20, “Ye angels, mighty in strength, that fulfil His word.” Their presence suits the majesty in which He comes as the Judge of mankind, “in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels” (Mar_8:38); and they are, perhaps, the agents of those changes in material nature by which it will be accompanied. Comp. Deu_33:2, Psa_68:17, for older theophanies.
New and severe features are added to the picture of the Advent in the next verse:
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv7–10 (7) Rest with us.—Why “with us”? It shows sympathy…
(7) Rest with us.—Why “with us”? It shows sympathy in their present trials, for it implies that the writers themselves had earned or were earning (see Act_18:12) that rest by the like trials. The word “rest” (or relaxation) is the opposite of the “strain” at which the persecution kept them. Such “rest” is not to be expected in its fulness till the judgment day.
From heaven.—St. Paul seems to delight in calling attention to the quarter from which “the Lord Jesus” (the human name, to show His sympathy with trouble) will appear. (See 1Th_1:10; 1Th_4:16.)
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With his mighty angels.—Literally, with the angels of His power—i.e., the angels to whom His power is intrusted and by whom it is administered. The angels do not attend merely for pomp, but to execute God’s purposes. (See Mat_13:41; Mat_13:49; Mat_24:31.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv7–10 And to you who are troubled afflictedrest. The word…
And to you who are troubled afflictedrest. The word "rest" here is a noun in the accusative, not a verb, as English readers might at the first glance suppose. It literally denotes relaxation, case. The meaning of the passage is that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense rest to you who are afflicted. The recompense of the persecutors those who afflict, is affliction; the recompense of the persecuted the afflicted, is rest. (comp. Mat_11:28, Mat_11:29) The rest or relaxation here mentioned is that which awaits believers, not in this world, but in the next, "where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest". (Job_3:17) "There remaineth a rest for the people of. (Heb_4:9) The happiness of heaven on its negative side, as freedom from earthly affliction and persecution, is here stated. It is rest to the weary, freedom to the enslaved, release from sorrow, suffering, and pain, relaxation from toil, ease from noise and turmoil, the quiet haven of peace after being tossed about in the tempestuous ocean. With us; that is, not with us believers in general, or with us the apostles, the champions of the faith, and still less with us Jews, the saints of israel; but with us, the writers of this Epistle, namely, Paul and Silas and Timothy. When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed; or, more literally, at the revelation or apocalypse of the Lord Jesus. The advent of Christ is generally expressed by another word, parousia, denoting "presence;" here the word is apocalypse, bringing before us in a more vivid manner the visible manifestation of Christ. The advent of Christ is the period when he who has hitherto been concealed will be manifested as the supreme Ruler and Judge of the world. From heaven; where now he is concealed from human view, seated at the right hand of God. With his mighty angels; not with his host of angels, but, as it is in the margin of our Bibles, "with the angels of his power serving his power and proclaiming his might. It is the uniform declaration of Scripture that Christ will come to judgment attended by his holy angels. (Mat_16:27 Mat_24:31 Jud_1:14) And these angels are "the angels of his power," sent forth to execute his commands. By their instrumentality the dead shall be called from their graves, and the wicked separated from among the just 1 Thessalonians. (Mat_13:49)
Vers. 7, 8.
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The manner of Christ"s second coming.
1. He shall come in person. Not merely in spirit or in power, but in a visible form; he shall be revealed from heaven; every eye shall see him.
2. He shall come in power. He shall be accompanied by the angels of his might, who shall execute his commands, call the dead from their graves, assemble together the elect, separate between the righteous and the wicked, and consign the wicked to the abodes of woe.
3. He shall come in glory. "In flaming fire in the Shechinah, the cloud of glory.
4. He shall come in justice; punishing the ungodly and rewarding his faithful servants.
Vers. 7-10.
The great day.
I THE JUDGMENT OF THE WICKED.
1. The revelation of the Judge. It is the Lord Jesus, who once was despised and rejected of men; he is ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead. He shall come as God once came down on Mount Sinai, in the like awful glory.
(1) With the angels. They shall gather the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire. The angels will be the ministers of his justice the blessed angels who are now the messengers of his love and grace. Now they rejoice over each sinner that repenteth; then they will cast the impenitent into the everlasting fire. We think of the angels as gentle, loving, holy, as our friends and guardians; they are so, so far as we are Christ"s. They desire to look into the mysteries of redemption; they announced the Saviour"s birth; they ministered to him in his temptation, his agony; they celebrated his resurrection and ascension. Now they are sent forth to minister for them that shall be heirs of salvation; they encamp round about those who fear the Lord, and deliver them. They help in carrying on his blessed work of love. But they are holy; they hate evil; they must turn away from those who have yielded themselves to the dominion of the evil one; they must execute at the last the awful judgment of God. Fearful thought, that the blessed angels, loving and holy as they are, must one day cast the hardened sinner into hell, as once they cast Satan out of heaven.
(2) In flaming fire. The Lord shall be revealed in flaming fire, in that glory which he had before the world was. His throne is fiery flame. (Dan_7:9) He himself is a consuming fire. The sight will be appalling to the lost, full of unutterable terror; "they shall say to the rocks, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us." "By thine agony and bloody sweat, by thy cross and passion, good Lord, deliver us.
2. The lost. Two classes are mentioned here.
(1) Those who know not God the heathen. They might have known him. Some of them did know him. They had not the Law, the outward Law, but it was written in their hearts; God spoke to them in the voice of conscience. They listened; they did by nature the things contained in the Law. Such men, we are sure, God in his great mercy will accept and save. But, alas! the fearful picture drawn by St. Paul in the first chapter of the Epistle to the Romans represents with only too much truth the general state of the heathen world in the apostolic times. Their blindness was criminal; it was the result of willful and habitual sin; their ignorance was without excuse.
(2) Those who obeyed not the gospel. All, whether Jews or Gentiles, who had heard the preaching of Christ. They had heard, as we have, all that the Lord Jesus had done and suffered for us; they had had the opportunity of hearing his holy precepts. "This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light." To know the gospel and not to obey it, to have the light around us and not to admit it into our hearts, not to walk as children of light this must bring the judgment of God upon the disobedient. The greater the light, the heavier the responsibility of those who sin against light and knowledge.
3. The punishment. The Lord Jesus will award vengeance. "Vengeance is mine; I will recompense, saith the Lord." Terrible thought, that vengeance must come from him, the most loving Saviour, who loved the souls of men with a love so burning, so intense in its Divine tenderness! But it must be so. The exceeding guilt of sin is manifest in this; it turns the chiefest of blessings into an increase of condemnation; the cross is utter death to the impenitent and the ungodly. And that vengeance takes effect in destruction. The destruction is eternal; then it is not annihilation. It is the destruction of all gladness, hope, all that makes life worth living; it is the exclusion from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. Only the pure in heart can see God. The lost souls cannot see his face. The exclusion is eternal; is it endless? It continues through the ages; will those ages of misery ever end in restoration? Can a soul, once so hardened in guilt that it must be shut out of the presence of God, ever repent in that exclusion? It sinned obstinately against light during its time of probation; can it recover itself now that the light is withdrawn? It is hardened through the deceitfulness of sin and the power of evil habits; can it break those chains of darkness now? These are dark, awful questions. We may ask, on the other hand, how can "God be all in all," if sin is to exist forever? how can it be that "in Christ shall all be made alive," while there is still a hell in the universe of God? The subject is beset with difficulties and perplexities; it excites bewildering, harrowing thoughts. We must leave it where Holy Scripture leaves it. We would gladly believe, if it were possible, that there is hope beyond the grave for those who die unblest; but such an expectation has no scriptural authority beyond a few slight and doubtful hints. Who would dare to trust to a hope so exceeding slender? No; if we shrink in terror from the thought of being one day shut out of God"s presence into the great outer darkness, let us try to live in that gracious presence now.
II THE GLORY OF THE RIGHTEOUS.
1. Its time: when he shall come. They suffer now; sometimes they are persecuted, their name is cast out as evil. But they have their consolation; they see indeed through a glass darkly, but yet they do see by faith the glory of the Lord; they are changed into the same image from glory to glory as by the Lord the Spirit. They have a glory now; but it is an inner spiritual glory derived from the indwelling of the blessed Spirit whom the world seeth not, neither knoweth. Now they are the sons of God; when he shall appear, they shall be like him, for they shall see him as he is.
2. Its nature: the unveiled presence of Christ. He shall be glorified in his saints. "I am glorified in them," he said, when about to leave them. When he comes again, that glory shall shine forth in all its radiant splendour. He shall be admired in all them that believe. The glory of his presence abiding in them shall arouse the wondering admiration of all. The lost spirits will wonder; they will be amazed at the strangeness of the salvation of the blessed. "This is he" (RAPC Wis 5:3, 5) "whom we sometimes had in derision how is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints?" The very angels will wonder at the exceeding glory of the Lord shining in his saints. For he will change the body of their humiliation, and make it like the body of his glory.
LESSONS.
1. We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; let us keep thatawful day in our thoughts.
2. Think on the fearful misery of eternal separation from God; live in hispresence now.
3. We hope to be like him in his glory; let us take up the cross. B.C.C.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On vv7–10 When the Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from…
2Th_1:7-10
When the Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven--This passage both consolatory and doctrinal--consolation designed for a persecuted Church--instruction for the world.
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Our subject: the general judgment. We will regard
I. Its certainty. May be argued from moral government.
1. Indicated by reason.
2. Attested by conscience.
3. Proved from Scripture.
II. Its solemnity. Mark the attendant events.
1. The descent of the appointed Judge.
2. The glorious throne He will occupy.
3. The vast concourse of attendants.
4. The time and manner of advent.
5. The resurrection of the sleeping dead.
6. The transformation of the busy living.
7. The destruction of the universe.
III. Its reality. Not fictitious or nominal, but sternly real.
1. Universal citation.
2. Impartial scrutiny.
3. Final separation.
4. Judicial sentence.
5. Eternal execution. (J. Odell.)
Joy and terror in the coming of the Lord
The Lord will come the second time. When, we cannot know. Angels do not know. But this does not detract from its certainty. To us individually His coming is virtually near. It is not long till we go hence, and time for us will be no more. Eternity begins; Christ, the Judge, deciding our state for happiness or misery. Therefore we need not put His coming far away in the future. We are graciously permitted to prepare for it, so that it may be to us an event of joy and not of terror.
I. To unbelievers the Lords coming will be an indescribable terror. They rejected Him come to deliver them from sin. Now they must behold Him as their righteous Judge to pronounce upon them the condemnation of their own choosing. This is their condemnation--that they believed not on Him. Mercies slighted will make justice self-approved. Not mercy, then, but the wrath of the Lamb will be upon them.
II. To believers His coming will bring inconceivable joy. They have accepted Him in His mission of redeeming love in His first advent. At His coming to judge the world He will receive His own to Himself. Such a relation to Him carries with it a desire for His appearing, when they shall appear with Him in glory. They rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.
III. Points for remarks.
1. Great is the mercy of God in extending to us present salvation through the mediation of Christ. Great is His mercy also in forewarning us of His coming again as the Judge.
2. Life appears short in view of the event of Christs coming and the eternity awaiting us. How important this life is, considered as a preparation.
3. Terrible as must be the coming of Christ to the wicked, to the Christian it is a joyous anticipation. It has always been so. Christ is the chiefest among ten thousand, and the One altogether lovely. To see Him face to face and dwell with Him forever is heaven to the soul. This state may well awaken a desire to see Him. (The Study.)
The coming of Christ with His angels
I. There is a time coming when Christ shall be fully revealed and come all His glory.
1. What is this revelation? The coming of Christ is set forth as an apocalypse and as an epiphany. The former is in the text, and in 1Pe_1:13, 1Co_1:7, and means an unveiling; the latter is in 2Ti_4:8, Tit_2:13, and means a forth-flashing. The former is used because--
(1) Many have never seen Him (Act_3:21). This does not hinder His spiritual virtue and influence although it does the enjoyment of His bodily presence! (1Pe_1:8).
(2) His earthly state was obscure, His Godhead peeping through the veil in a miracle or so.
(3) His spiritual glory is seen but in a glass darkly (1Co_13:12). Vision is reserved for heaven (Joh_17:24).
(4) His kingdom is not always clear to the world (Luk_17:20).
(5) His subjects are under a veil (Col_3:3; 1Jn_3:2; Rom_8:19).
2. That this time is coming is evident from--
(1) The promise of His coming. This ancient promise (Jud_1:14-15) was ever kept afoot in the Church. The scoffers took notice of it (2Pe_3:4). It has been revived by all the Lords messengers. Moses, David, Samuel, Joel, Zechariah, Malachi, and more clearly by Christ (Joh_14:3). Christ would not flatter us into a fools paradise.
(2) His remembrancers in the Church (1Co_11:26; 2Ti_4:1).
(3) Our inward pledge of it. At parting there is a giving of tokens. Christ has gone to make ready for the day of His espousals. To prevent suspicion He left His Spirit to stir up in us expectation of that day (Rom_8:23; Rev_22:17).
(4) Our constant experience of His love and care. There are frequent messages of love passing between us and Christ, in His word, prayer, sacraments, to show that He does not forget us.
(5) The interest of Christ which is concerned in it.
(a) Partly that the glory of His Person may be seen and fully discovered. His first coming was obscure, in the form of a servant, with a poor retinue, etc.; now He comes as the Lord of all in power and great glory.
(b) That He may possess what He has purchased (1Pe_1:18-19; Joh_14:3; Heb_3:13).
(c) That He may overthrow the wicked (Isa_45:23; Rom_14:10-11; Php_2:10).
(d) That He may require an account of things during His absence (Mat_25:1-46.).
II. When Christ comes He will bring His mighty angels with Him.
1. Those angels are mighty (Psa_103:20). One slaughtered many thousands of Sennacheribs army in a single night. Their greatness is mentioned to show the excellency of our Redeemer who is greater than all.
2. He will bring them--
(1) To show His glory and majesty. The most excellent creatures are at His command (1Pe_3:22; Eph_1:22; Heb_1:4-7).
(2) Because He has a service for them.
(a) To gather the elect (Mat_24:31). This shall complete their many services on His behalf and ours (Luk_2:18; Luk_2:14; 1Co_11:10; 1Ti_5:21; Luk_15:7; Luk_15:10; Heb_1:14; Psa_34:7; Luk_16:22).
(b) To execute His sentence on the wicked (Mat_13:41-42; Mat_13:49).
(c) To show that they are part of the army commanded by the Captain of our salvation. (Psa_68:17). (T. Manton, D. D.)
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7. And not only that, but it is a righteous thing that he give to you who are troubled rest. That rest would come when there would be no persecutors, no stripes, no stonings, no prisons. It shall be when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed. At the Lord's coming. Compare Matt. 24:30.
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The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary 1892 · Public Domain On v7 2Th_1:8. In flaming fire.—Lit. “in a fire of flame.”…
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES
2Th_1:8. In flaming fire.—Lit. “in a fire of flame.” “Fire is a symbol of divine anger and majesty in Scripture; and flame is fire in motion, leaping and blazing out” (Findlay). Taking vengeance on them that know not God.—St. Paul does not consider ignorance as a valid excuse where knowledge might be had, any more than a man would be looked on as innocent who should plead that, being a foreigner, he did not know that the law of any country which he visits forbids murder. “This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” (Joh_3:19).
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2Th_1:9. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction.—R.V. “who shall suffer punishment, even eternal destruction.” It has been repeatedly shown that only arbitrariness can limit the meaning of this terrible phrase. Our comfort must be that He with whom “it is a righteous thing to recompense affliction” will always be self-consistent. From the presence of the Lord. The fulness of joy is there, and they who, like Cain, go out from it carry the ache of an irreparable loss with them. The Hebraism in the phrase is brought out by the R.V. “from the face of the Lord.”
2Th_1:10. To be glorified in His saints.—Two meanings at least suit this phrase:
(1) It may be the apostle thought of the great ascription of praise rising from the vast assembly of saints, or
(2) it may be he is thinking of the saints as the trophies of the Redeemer’s love and power—the work that speaks the Master’s praise. And to be admired.—R.V. “marvelled at.” The same work describes the fawning sycophancy of men of the Balaam spirit, or it might describe the open-eyed and speechless wonder of an African chief in a State function.
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—2Th_1:7-10
The Day of Judgment.
The apostle sought to comfort the persecuted and suffering Church at Thessalonica by assuring them of a coming day of recompense, in which the divine righteousness would be satisfactorily cleared, His enemies punished, and His people rewarded. He now proceeds to depict the startling scenes of that promised day—“that day for which all other days were made”—and to indicate the twofold aspect of severity and mercy which will characterise the awards of the great Judge. In dealing with a subject of such overwhelming import, and which affords such scope for the play of the most powerful imagination, special care should be taken to keep within the limits of the revealed word. These verses suggest:—
I. That the day of judgment will be ushered in with awful splendour.—
1. The person of the Judge will be clothed with dazzling brightness. “The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven in flaming fire” (2Th_1:7-8). The career of Christ on earth was one of obscurity, humiliation, and suffering, relieved now and then with outbursts of divine glory; but when He comes the second time, He will appear in all the unveiled charms of His peerless majesty, clad with heavenly splendour and brilliant as a fiery flame. The revelation of Jehovah is often referred to in the Old Testament under the emblem of fire (Exo_13:21; Num_9:15; Deu_4:24; Isa_10:16-17, etc.). The glimpse caught by the seer of Patmos of the ineffable beauty and glory of the God-man bowed him with astonishment and awe (Rev_1:13-17). And who shall stand before the flashing splendours of the great and holy Judge! Heaven is too narrow for the full display of the divine majesty; it glances on every globe; it irradiates the universe.
2. The Judge will be attended by an angelic retinue.—“With His mighty angels” (2Th_1:7). The pomp and state of the earthly judge, the gaily decked chariot, the sounding trumpets, the accompanying officers of justice, are but a feeble representation of the pomp and state of the heavenly Judge, “who maketh the clouds His chariot, who walketh upon the wings of the wind,” and whose gorgeous train is composed of hosts of mighty angels, who attend to execute His will, to punish the wicked, and to assist at the final consummation (Mat_13:41-42). These angels of might are ministers of His power, and by their agency He will make His power felt. We have an illustration of the colossal mightiness of these angelic messengers in the apparent ease with which one angel in a few hours laid thousands of the Assyrians low (2Ki_19:35).
II. That the day of judgment will be a time of punishment to the disobedient.—
1. The objects of punishment. “Them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ” (2Th_1:8). Not that ample opportunity has not been given to all to acquire a knowledge of God. To punish for not knowing what we cannot know would be an injustice and a cruelty. God has given to all the double light of His works and word. He has also given the eyes of sense and reason, and the help of His Holy Spirit to guide all to the knowledge of Himself and of “the glorious gospel of the blessed God.” It is not the involuntary ignorance of the uninstructed that is meant, but the wilful ignorance of the determined adversary, who not only rejected the gospel himself, but barbarously persecuted those who received and obeyed it. Knowledge of God is of little value if it does not lead to obedience. Confused, indistinct, inoperative knowledge is no knowledge. To know and not to obey the gospel involves a heavier condemnation.
2. The character of the punishment.—“Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power” (2Th_1:9). Awful words! Who can fully explain what they really involve? If destruction means annihilation, how can it be everlasting? Besides, the notion of the absolute extinction of anything God has made—the reduction to nothingness of either a reasonable soul or a material atom—has as little support from the teachings of revelation as of science. Again, it is urged that “everlasting” does not always in Scripture mean what lasts for ever, but sometimes what lasts only for a long period. But the utmost this argument could prove would be that the present possibly may be, not that it is, one of these peculiar cases. Were it the only fact in the case, there would still be the terrible uncertainty. “But then remember,” says Dr. Lillie, “that if it had really been intended to teach the eternity of future punishment, no stronger words, phrases, and images could have been found for the purpose than those actually employed.” Whatever the punishment may be in itself, is it not punishment enough to be for ever excluded “from the presence of the Lord,” driven, a moral wreck, “from the glory of His power”? Let the words of this ninth verse be seriously weighed in private meditation, and some sense of their awful signification cannot fail to be realised.
III. That the day of judgment will be a revelation of the glory and blessedness of the faithful.—
1. The glory of Christ is bound up and reflected in His Church. “When He shall come to be glorified in His saints and to be admired in all them that believe in that day” (2Th_1:10). The Church is the creation of Christ; for her He lived, suffered, died, and triumphed, and into her He poured the glory of His matchless character. “The glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them.” His Church, like a mirror, shall reflect to the gaze of an admiring universe the unutterable glory of the great Redeemer. “The beauty of the Lord our God shall be upon her, and His glory shall be seen upon her.” How great a change is this from the sins, the struggles, the failures, the disappointments, and sufferings of earth!
2. A life of faith leads to a life of glory.—“Because our testimony among you was believed” (2Th_1:10). Faith rests on testimony, and is vitally affected by the character of the testimony. Saving faith relies on the infallible testimony of the word of God concerning Christ. The faith exercised in the midst of discouragements and persecution is often tenacious and vigorous. The gospel is backed by evidence sufficient to convince every sane and reasonable mind. All may believe it who will; none will be excluded from glory but those who will not believe. In ancient Athens were two temples—a temple of Virtue and a temple of Honour—and none could enter the temple of Honour but by passing through the temple of Virtue. So none can enter the temple of Glory who does not first pass through the temple of Faith.
Lessons.—
1. The day of judgment, though future, is inevitable.
2. The proceedings of that day will be in harmony with the holiest principles of divine justice.
3. That day should be solemnly contemplated in its approach, in its attendant circumstances, and in its final decisions.
GERM NOTES ON THE VERSES
2Th_1:7-8. The Divine Judge—
I. Has appointed a day of retribution.
II. Will be revealed on that day in terrible majesty.
III. Will take vengeance on the disobedient.
2Th_1:9-10. Divine Retribution—
I. Will be in strict harmony with the principles of universal righteousness.
II. Means terrible punishment to the wicked.
III. Will bring unspeakable felicity to the good.
IV. Will be recognised as faultlessly just.
V. Will enhance the divine glory.
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Alexander MacLaren 1905 · Public Domain On v10 2 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
CHRIST GLORIFIED IN GLORIFIED MEN
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2Th 1:10.
The two Epistles to the Thessalonians, which are the Apostle’s earliest letters, both give very great prominence to the thought of the second coming of our Lord to judgment. In the immediate context we have that coming described, with circumstances of majesty and of terror. He ‘shall be revealed . . . with the angels of His power.’ ‘Flaming fire’ shall herald His coming; vengeance shall be in His hands, punishment shall follow His sentence; everlasting destruction shall be the issue of evil confronted with ‘the face of the Lord’--for so the words in the previous verse rendered ‘the presence of the Lord’ might more accurately be translated.
And all these facts and images are, as it were, piled up in one half of the Apostle’s sky, as in thunderous lurid masses; and on the other side there is the pure blue and the peaceful sunshine. For all this terror and destruction, and flashing fire, and punitive vengeance come to pass in the day when ‘He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be wondered at in all them that believe.’
There be the two halves--the aspect of that day to those to whom it is the revelation of a stranger, and the aspect of that day to those to whom it is the glorifying of Him who is their life.
I. The remarkable words which I have taken for my text suggest to us, first of all, some thoughts about that striking expression that Christ is glorified in the men who are glorified in Christ.
If you look on a couple of verses you will find that the Apostle returns to this thought, and expresses in the clearest fashion the reciprocal character of that ‘glorifying’ of which he has been speaking. ‘The name of our Lord Jesus Christ,’ says he, ‘may be glorified in you, and ye in Him.’
So, then, glorifying has a double meaning. There is a double process involved. It means either ‘to make glorious’ or ‘to manifest as being glorious.’ And men are glorified in the former sense in Christ, that Christ in them may, in the latter sense, be glorified. He makes them glorious by imparting to them of the lustrous light and flashing beauty of His own perfect character, in order that that light, received into their natures, and streaming out at last conspicuously manifest from their redeemed perfectness, may redound to the praise and the honour, before a whole universe, of Him who has thus endued their weakness with His own strength, and transmuted their corruptibility into His own immortality. We are glorified in Christ in some partial, and, alas! sinfully fragmentary, manner here; we shall be so perfectly in that day. And when we are thus glorified in Him, then--wondrous thought!--even we shall be able to manifest Him as glorious before some gazing eyes, which without us would have seen Him as less fair. Dim, and therefore great and blessed thoughts about what men may become are involved in such words. The highest end, the great purpose of the Gospel and of all God’s dealings with us in Christ Jesus is to make us like our Lord. As we have borne the image of the earthly we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. ‘We, beholding the glory, are changed into the glory.’
And that glorifying of men in Christ, which is the goal and highest end of Christ’s Cross and passion and of all God’s dealings, is accomplished only because Christ dwells in the men whom He glorifies. We read words applying to His relation to His Father which need but to be transferred to our relation to Him, in order to teach us high and blessed things about this glorifying. The Father dwelt in Christ, therefore Christ was glorified by the indwelling divinity, in the sense that His humanity was made partaker of the divine glory, and thereby He glorified the divinity that dwelt in Him, in the sense that He conspicuously displayed it before the world as worthy of all admiration and love.
And, in like manner, as is the Son with the Father, participant of mutual and reciprocal glorification, so is the Christian with Christ, glorified in Him and therefore glorifying Him.
What may be involved therein of perfect moral purity, of enlarged faculties and powers, of a bodily frame capable of manifesting all the finest issues of a perfect spirit, it is not for us to say. These things are great, being hidden; and are hidden because they are great. But whatever may be the lofty heights of Christlikeness to which we shall attain, all shall come from the indwelling Lord who fills us with His own Spirit.
And, then, according to the great teaching here, this glorified humanity, perfected and separated from all imperfection, and helped into all symmetrical unfolding of dormant possibilities, shall be the highest glory of Christ even in that day when He comes in His glory and sits upon the throne of His glory with His holy angels with Him. One would have thought that, if the Apostle wanted to speak of the glorifying of Jesus Christ, he would have pointed to the great white throne, His majestic divinity, the solemnities of His judicial office; but he passes by all these, and says, ‘Nay! the highest glory of the Christ lies here, in the men whom He has made to share His own nature.’
The artist is known by his work. You stand in front of some great picture, or you listen to some great symphony, or you read some great book, and you say, ‘This is the glory of Raphael, Beethoven, Shakespeare.’ Christ points to His saints, and He says, ‘Behold My handiwork! Ye are my witnesses. This is what I can do.’
But the relation between Christ and His saints is far deeper and more intimate than simply the relation between the artist and his work, for all the flashing light of moral beauty, of intellectual perfectness which Christian men can hope to receive in the future is but the light of the Christ that dwells in them, ‘and of whose fulness all they have received.’ Like some poor vapour, in itself white and colourless, which lies in the eastern sky there, and as the sun rises is flushed up into a miracle of rosy beauty, because it has caught the light amongst its flaming threads and vaporous substance, so we, in ourselves pale, ghostly, colourless as the mountains when the Alpine snow passes off them, being recipient of an indwelling Christ, shall blush and flame in beauty. ‘Then shall the righteous blaze forth like the sun in my Father’s kingdom.’ Or, rather they are not suns shining by their own light, but moons reflecting the light of Christ, who is their light.
And perchance some eyes, incapable of beholding the sun, may be able to look undazzled upon the sunshine in the cloud, and some eyes that could not discern the glory of Christ as it shines in His face as the sun shineth in its strength, may not be too weak to behold and delight in the light as it is reflected from the face of His servants. At all events, He shall come to be glorified in the saints whom He has made glorious.
II. And now, notice again, out of these full and pregnant words the other thought, that this transformation of men is the great miracle and marvel of Christ’s power.
‘He shall come to be admired’--which word is employed in its old English signification, ‘to be wondered at’--’in all them that believe.’ So fair and lovely is He that He needs but to be recognised for what He is in order to be glorified. So great and stupendous are His operations in redeeming love that they need but to be beheld to be the object of wonder. ‘His name shall be called Wonderful,’ and wonderfully the energy of His redeeming and sanctifying grace shall then have wrought itself out to its legitimate end. There you get the crowning marvel of marvels, and the highest of miracles. He did wonderful works upon earth which we rightly call miraculous,--things to be wondered at--but the highest of all His wonders is the wonder that takes such material as you and me, and by such a process, and on such conditions, simply because we trust Him, evolves such marvellous forms of beauty and perfectness from us. ‘He is to be wondered at in all them that believe.’
Such results from such material! Chemists tell us that the black bit of coal in your grate and the diamond on your finger are varying forms of the one substance. What about a power that shall take all the black coals in the world and transmute them into flashing diamonds, prismatic with the reflected light that comes from His face, and made gems on His strong right hand? The universe will wonder at such results from such material.
And it will wonder, too, at the process by which they were accomplished, wondering at the depth of His pity revealed all the more pathetically now from the great white throne which casts such a light on the Cross of Calvary; wondering at the long, weary path which He who is now declared to be the Judge humbled Himself to travel in the quest of these poor sinful souls whom He has redeemed and glorified. The miracle of miracles is redeeming love; and the high-water mark of Christ’s wonders is touched in this fact, that out of men He makes saints; and out of saints He makes perfect likenesses of Himself.
III. And now a word about what is not expressed, but is necessarily implied in this verse, viz., the spectators of this glory.
The Apostle does not tell us what eyes they are before which Christ is thus to be glorified. He does not summon the spectators to look upon this wonderful exhibition of divine judgment and divine glory; but we may dwell for a moment on the thought that to whomsoever in the whole universe Christ at that great day shall be manifested, to them, whoever they be, will His glory, in His glorified saints, be a revelation beyond what they have known before. ‘Every eye shall see Him.’ And whatsoever eyes look upon Him, then on His throne, they shall behold the attendant courtiers and the assessors of His judgment, and see in them the manifestation of His own lustrous light.
We read that ‘unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places shall be made known’ in future days, ‘by the Church, the manifold wisdom of God.’ We hear that, after the burst of praise which comes from redeemed men standing around the throne, every creature in the earth and in the heavens, and in the sea and all that are therein were heard saying, ‘Blessing and honour and glory and power be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.’
We need not speculate, it is better not to enter into details, but this, at least, is clear, that that solemn winding up of the long, mysterious, sad, blood and tear-stained history of man upon the earth is to be an object of interest and a higher revelation of God to other creatures than those that dwell upon the earth; and we may well believe that for that moment, at all events, the centre of the universe, which draws the thoughts of all thinking, and the eyes of all seeing, creatures to it, shall be that valley of judgment wherein sits the Man Christ and judges men, and round Him the flashing reflectors of His glory in the person of His saints.
IV. And lastly, look at men’s path to this glorifying.
‘He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be wondered at in all them that believed ‘; as that word ought to be rendered. That is to say, they who on earth were His, consecrated and devoted to Him, and in some humble measure partaking even here of His reflected beauty and imparted righteousness--these are they in whom He shall be glorified. They who ‘believed’; poor, trembling, struggling, fainting souls, that here on earth, in the midst of many doubts and temptations, clasped His hand; and howsoever tremulously, yet truly put their trust in Him, these are they in whom He shall ‘be wondered at.’
The simple act of faith knits us to the Lord. If we trust Him He comes into our hearts here, and begins to purify us, and to make us like Himself; and, if that be so, and we keep hold of Him, we shall finally share in His glory.
What a hope, what an encouragement, what a stimulus and exhortation to humble and timorous souls there is in that great word, ‘In all them that believed’! Howsoever imperfect, still they shall be kept by the power of God unto that final salvation. And when He comes in His glory, not one shall be wanting that put their trust in Him.
It will take them all, each in his several way reflecting it, to set forth adequately the glory. As many diamonds round a central light, which from each facet give off a several ray and a definite colour; so all that circle round Christ and partaking of His glory, will each receive it, transmit it, and so manifest it in a different fashion. And it needs the innumerable company of the redeemed, each a several perfectness, to set forth all the fulness of the Christ that dwells in us.
So, dear brethren, beginning with simple faith in Him, partially receiving the beauty of His transforming spirit, seeking here on earth by assimilation to the Master in some humble measure to adorn the doctrine and to glorify the Christ, we may hope that each blackness will be changed into brightness, our limitations done away with, our weakness lifted into rejoicing strength; and that we shall be like Him, seeing Him as He is, and glorified in Him, shall glorify Him before the universe.
You and I will be there. Choose which of the two halves of that sky that I was speaking about in my introductory remarks will be your sky; whether He shall be revealed, and the light of His face be to you like a sword whose flashing edge means destruction, or whether the light of His face shall fall upon your heart because you love Him and trust Him, like the sunshine on the Alpine snow, lifting it to a more lustrous whiteness, and tingeing it with an ethereal hue of more than earthly beauty, which no other power but an indwelling Christ can give. He shall come with ‘everlasting destruction from the face’; and ‘He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be wondered at in all them that believed.’ Do you choose which of the two shall be your portion in that day.
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and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire ,
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On v7 (See Scofield "Heb 1:4").
angels
(See Scofield "Heb 1:4").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v9 They will be punished
They will be punished
Here "They" refers to the people who do not obey the gospel. This can be stated in active form. AT: "The Lord will punish them" (See: Active or Passive)
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when he comes on that day
Here "that day" is the day when Jesus will return to the world.
to be glorified by his people and to be marveled at by all those who believed
This can be stated in active form. AT: "when his people will glorify him and all those who believed will stand in awe of him" (See: Active or Passive)
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suffer
punish
eternity
lord
glory
power
glory
amazed
believe
testimony
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1:7 rest: Relief from suffering. • Elsewhere, Paul speaks of Christ’s “coming” (2:1; 1 Thes 2:19; 3:13; 4:15; 5:23); here, he speaks of the event as the “appearing” or “unveiling” of the Lord Jesus, who cannot currently be seen physically (cp. 1 Pet 1:7-8; 4:13).
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