Knowing Christianity

  How Then Should We Live?        Considering that the rapture could take place at any moment, how should we be living our lives and what should we be focusing on? I would argue that at minimum, there are three things we should be committed to doing: Watch For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. (1 Thessalonians 5:2). Remember, then, what you have received and heard; keep it, and repent. If you are not alert, I will come like a thief, and you have no idea at what hour I will come upon you (Revelation 3:3).      Knowing that the Lord could come back for us at any moment, literally, should serve as a tremendous motivator to us. Living with that kind of anticipation and expectancy helps us remain focused. “The only way to wait for the second coming is to watch that you do what you should do, so that when he comes is a matter of indifference. It is the attitude of a child, certain that God knows what he is about. Wh

  The Removal of the Restrainer Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him: We ask you, brothers and sisters… Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God. Don’t you remember that when I was still with you I used to tell you about this? And you know what currently restrains him, so that he will be revealed in his time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one now restraining will do so until he is out of the way, and then the lawless one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of his mouth and will bring him to nothing at the appearance of his coming (2 Thessalonians 2:1, 3-8).      This passage describes the revelation of the ma