New Testament Survey

CHAPTER TWELVE:

1. Paul.

2. To confirm that the Lord is coming back: To commend and exhort for the faith and correct false doctrine. Paul also answers false charges against his ministry.

3. To the church at Thessalonica.

4. Comfort should focus on the glorious hope of the return of Jesus Christ.

5. For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. (I Thessalonians 4:16-18)

6. To instruct believers waiting for the return of the Lord.

7. To the church at Thessalonica.

8. Since there will be a great falling away before the day of the Lord, it is important to teach and live by sound doctrine.

9. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, expect there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. (II Thessalonians 2:3)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN:

1. Paul.

2. Paul wrote this letter to a co-laborer named Timothy who was ministering as an interim pastor in the church at Ephesus. The book concerns some of the problems and needs which existed in this church.

3. Timothy.

4. We should live a life exemplary of the ministry to which we have been called.