Introduction

This second letter to the Thessalonian Christians “was written soon after the first.”  Paul writes again about the return of Christ to encourage the believers in their suffering, and “to exhort them to do their duty.”

2 Thessalonians 1:1-2

v1-2: Paul uses “the same words as in the previous letter,” which shows that he “did not consider it a problem… to write the same things.”  It is good for us to hear the same truths found in Scripture over and over again.