“Paul's Second Letter to the Thessalonians -- No Second Chances - Part 4”

    * Today we finish a four part series on one aspect of the rapture of the church that is often either ignored or opposed, that those left behind when the Lord calls us to meet him in the heavens, those that have heard and rejected the gospel of the grace of God, will be lost forever with no second chance during the Tribulation.  Popular “evangelicalism” of the “pre-Trib” variety, often holds that those unbelievers will have a second chance to believe and be saved during those seven years.  Even popular movies promote this idea dramatically.  However, Paul explicitly denies any second chances in the second chapter of 2 Thessalonians.  He writes there that “God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a  lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”  They cannot believe during the Tribulation, he writes, because they have been blinded by God himself.  So there is no second chance for them at least.  Many consider this unfair, perhaps, but could not the same argument be made for anyone who dies having rejected Christ?  But clearly there is no second chances for them.  “And who is sufficient for these things?”  Amen.