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saying: “Micah of Moresheth prophesied in 32 I will run the course of Your
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the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke commandments,
to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus says For You shall enlarge my heart.
the LORD of hosts:
Proverbs 27:17
“Zion shall be plowed like a field, 17 As iron sharpens iron,
Jerusalem shall become heaps of So a man sharpens the countenance of
ruins, his friend.
And the mountain of the temple
Like the bare hills of the forest.” ’
19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah
ever put him to death? Did he not fear the
27:17 iron sharpens iron. The benefits of
LORD and seek the LORD’s favor? And the LORD intellectual and theological discussion
relented concerning the doom which He had encourage joy through a keener mind and the
pronounced against them. But we are doing improvement of good character which the
great evil against ourselves.” face will reveal.
20 Now there was also a man who prophesied
in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of
Shemaiah of Kirjath Jearim, who prophesied 2 Thessalonians 2:1–17
against this city and against this land accord-
ing to all the words of Jeremiah. And when Now, brethren, concerning the coming of
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Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men 2 our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering
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and all the princes, heard his words, the king together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon
sought to put him to death; but when Urijah shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or
heard it, he was afraid and fled, and went to by word or by letter, as if from us, as though
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Egypt. Then Jehoiakim the king sent men to the day of Christ had come. Let no one
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Egypt: Elnathan the son of Achbor, and other deceive you by any means; for that Day will
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men who went with him to Egypt. And they not come unless the falling away comes first,
brought Urijah from Egypt and brought him and the man of sin is revealed, the son of
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to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the perdition, who opposes and exalts himself
sword and cast his dead body into the graves
of the common people.
24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son
of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that they 2:7 the mystery of lawlessness. This is the
should not give him into the hand of the people spirit of lawlessness already prevalent in soci-
to put him to death. ety (1 John 3:4; 5:17), but still a mystery in that
it is not fully revealed as it will be in the one
Psalm 119:25–32
who so blatantly opposes God that he blas-
DALETH phemously assumes the place of God on earth
D
My soul clings to the dust; spirit of such a man is already in operation
25 which God has reserved for Jesus Christ. The
Revive me according to Your word.
26 (1 John 2:18; 4:3), but the man who fully
I have declared my ways, and You embodies that spirit has not come. taken out
answered me; of the way. This refers not to spatial removal
Teach me Your statutes. (therefore it could not be the Rapture of the
27 Make me understand the way of Your church) but rather “a stepping aside.”The idea
precepts; is “out of the way,”not gone.This restraint will
So shall I meditate on Your wonderful be in place until the Antichrist is revealed, at
works. the midpoint of the Tribulation,leaving him 42
28 My soul melts from heaviness; months to reign (Dan. 7:25; Rev. 13:5).
Strengthen me according to Your
word. 2:9,10 the lawless one. He will do mighty acts
29 Remove from me the way of lying, pointing to himself as supernaturally empow-
And grant me Your law graciously. ered. His whole operation will be deceptive,
30 I have chosen the way of truth; luring the world to worship him and be
Your judgments I have laid before me. damned.The career of the coming lawless one
31 I cling to Your testimonies; is more fully described in Revelation 13:1–18.
O LORD, do not put me to shame!

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