7. 2nd Thessalonians Mistranslated

08/28/202402/02/2026 ~ gloriyahway

Talking about the timeline, whether we’re in the 7 year countdown or are just about to be, how can we be ready for God’s harvests of our spirits/souls?

7.1 See the Glory of God, Beyond the Veil

If you believe that the entire body of Christ will have to witness the abomination of desolation before saints are rescued – then the following is for you:

Many people have been led astray, especially those who believe, as I used to, that the body of Christ must witness the abomination of desolation before the coming of our Loving Lord and Savior to gather us to Himself in the clouds, our blessed hope.

This is a short but difficult post to grasp. Click to skip to:

8. Dividing God’s Land

https://alephtav.blog/2024/08/25/8-false-peace/

I don’t know how Bible teachers can teach that Jesus Christ is coming to gather His church before the man of lawlessness is revealed (which turns out to be true) when 2 Thess. 2:1, the most prominent passage on the issue, is almost always mistranslated to say the opposite!

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Please carefully read 2 Thessalonians 2: 1-3. Here are two versions, which are similar to most bad translations:

2 Thess. 2: 1-4 ^_NASB,^₁ Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, ^₂that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit, or a message, or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. ^₃No one is to deceive you in any way! For it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, ^₄who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.

2 Thess. 2: 1-4 ^_NIV, ^₁ Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to Him, ^₂we ask you, brothers and sisters,not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. ^₃Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. ^₄He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

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As you can see above, these wrong translations says the rapture won’t happen until the rebellion occurs and the antichrist is revealed. That’s not true! But let us focus on the antichrist being revealed first. (We’ll tackle the rebellion issue later, what it must mean, as there’s always been rebellion in the Church.)

Not only do the above wrong translations say that the rapture of the true church won’t be until the man of lawlessness is revealed, it also implies that the man-of-lawlessness won’t actually be considered as ‘revealed,’ until he sets himself up in God’s Temple! That would cut deeply into Daniel’s 70th Week!

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I hope all teachers/pastors/and believers who got the pre-tribulation rapture right were using the King James Version, which scored a bullseye on 2 T 2:1! But, if that were the case, I don’t see how there wouldn’t have been a single person, since I became a serious believer, to show me the clear KJV verse that underlies their blessed hope, but maybe someone eventually would have.

When I was a newbie in Christ, bringing up this verse in study group, got me a response that looked something like this! But, I don’t want anybody to be overly put off by this early experience of mine. Since then I’ve found many Christians on the web who can gracefully handle this topic.

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What I came to realize is that church members often don’t know why they believe what they believe about the rapture. They don’t know about the mistranslation. They seem to be just going by ‘wishful thinking gone viral’ and they got the existence of a pre-tribulation rapture ‘rightish’ by accident! God bless them. But that’s not a firm foundation and their fear and anger is destructive toward those who really want to understand. Those are the same people who ignore the huge, uncountable number of saints harvested at the sixth seal and won’t watch for the soon coming of our Lord, even as the signs converge upon us and Jesus, who is the Door, is rapidly approaching!

Proof

The rest of this post is to show why the correct translation is correct. I hope it will help a brother or sister. This is a gift: I don’t get anything in return from other believers, but Jesus Christ gave me His approval. I did this for my own learning and now I’m seeking for rewards from Jesus Christ. A thorough proof regarding the mistranslation with links, not to just videos but also to documents. . . .

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mistranslation of the Greek preposition ‘huper‘

Summary of the Greek word ‘huper:’ the correct translations are: by, on account of, on behalf of, for, or for the sake of. They’re the normal, ordinary, common uses. In contrast, translating ‘huper’ as: concerning, about, with regard to, with respect to, or regarding, is sadly wrong.

The mistranslation of ‘huper’ can make it appear that day of the Lord is the same thing as the harvest/rapture. Go back to the passage at in the yellow box above, and look at it again, it’s insidiously subtle.

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2 Thess. 2: 3-4 contains the verses that mentions the ‘day of the Lord’ followed by the verse that uses the term ‘that day’ or ‘it,’ depending on the translation. When correctly translated, ‘that day’ or ‘it’ refers to the ‘day of the Lord,’ not to the rapture. So, it’s the day of the Lord that will not come until the antichrist is revealed!

Now we can read it twice with the correctly translated verse:

. . . an example with a (rare) correct translation of the Greek preposition ‘huper’ (the original KJV also got it right):

2 Thess. 2: 1-4 ^_BLB, ^₁ Now we implore you, brothers, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together unto Him, ^₂not to be easily disconcerted or alarmed by any spirit or message or letter seeming to be from us, alleging that the Day of the Lord has already come. ^₃Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed. ^₄He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

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2 Thess. 2: 1-4 ^_KJV, ^₁Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, ^₂That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. ^₃Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; ^₄Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

St. Paul and his brethren are correctly imploring the Church of Thessalonica to take comfort by the knowledge that the Day of the Lord (the Lord’s wrath) will not happen until after the event of ‘the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,’ which is our blessed hope. The actual concern of the people was that the Day of the Lords Wrath had already begun, that they were going to suffer God’s wrath.

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Here’s the excellent video by Lee W. Brainard that proved the ‘huper’ mistranslation to me. I verified every point with Koine Greek lexicons.

https://soothkeep.info/2-thess-21-3-powerful-proof-of-the-pretrib-rapture-translation/

I meticulously checked on every single reference that mentioned in the ‘soothkeep’ video above. Here they are:

Old English ‘departure’ passages

https://alephtav.blog/2-thessalonians-23-old-bibles/

The above shows the 2 Thess. 2: 1-3 verses in the following Bibles: WC Wycliff 1388, Tyndale 1522, Coverdale Bible 1535, Thomas Matthew’s Bible 1537, the Great Bible 1539, The Geneva Bible 1560 and the Bishop’s Bible 1568.

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My written ‘huper’ study notes:

https://alephtav.blog/sk-handwritten-notes/

Apostasy the other error . . .

2 Thess 2:3 contains a second potentially misunderstood word: ‘apostasy.’ In most pre-1611 Bibles it was translated as ‘departure.’

After 1611 AD, the ‘apostasia’ came to be understood as (spiritual) ‘falling away.’

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The Greek word ‘apostasia’ can mean both a spiritual departure and it can also mean a physical departure! The spiritually departed are the left behind and the mature church or bride will depart as she’s harvested by Jesus Christ!

It can be that the church splits as the bride separates herself from worldliness, the world and the worldly church:

2 Corinthians 11: 2-4, I (Paul) am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I’m afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

“you put up with it easily enough“

A different Jesus? church members putting up with a different Jesus! That’s like not bothering to discern if the person who’s just got in bed with you is your spouse! Do you think Jesus will lift up anyone who does that? This must be the other group, those who’ve divorced the true Jesus.

So, I’d been thinking about these things, when I discovered the below CJ Lovik video:

Although he doesn’t understand the huper mis translation, proven in this post, he’s a very serious Bible expositor who I give credit to for seemingly being the first person to understand God’s four final Great Jubilee Cycles (see post 4 ), and I’ve thanked Jesus Christ for him.

The way he understands the 1 T. 2-3 verses is: The revealing of the antichrist immediately follows the tipping point of splitting of the church including the rapture – and the Day of the Lord begins immediately after that. Somehow the Holy Spirit has shown him another way to get around the huge ‘huper’ mis translation stumbling block, and still find a way to differentiate between the Day Jesus Christ comes to gather His bride and the Day of the Lord Jesus Christ’s wrath!

I’m linking his long video, because at the end of it, he introduced his version of the idea of a double apostasy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EYZk3dSUg8&t=1174s NOTE: With kindness, I also disagree with him that the first day of Daniel’s 70th week, the rapture, the Time of Jacob’s Trouble and the Day of the Lord all necessarily start on the same day.

Being indwelled by the Holy Spirit doesn’t mean Bible expositor don’t have to go through the long, intense, struggle of putting together the prophetic puzzle pieces that are contained in scripture and are also those that are revealed in other ways, such as in the last days Daniel 12:4. There’s trial and error involved on our part. That’s a big part of the glory of it! How else could we truly appreciate the value of it when we have a breakthrough? If we give it our all, when we come to the end of ourselves . . . that’s when we humble ourselves much more before God. It pleases God, in His perfect timing, to give us breakthroughs!

Proverbs 25:2, It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.

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27. A GOG Prophesy

08/07/202402/17/2026 ~ gloriyahway

Gog‘s a Title of the Antichrist.

Who the Gogs are goes way back to Japheth, after the flood.

The following seem to be the same Biblical character:

Beast, Antichrist, Little Horn, Lawless One, Son of Perdition and ‘Prince Who Is to Come.’

And possibly also the the Assyrian, from the Book of Daniel.

It was a bit amazed when I first learned that the Antichrist is one of the Gogs.

It means the world won’t necessarily have to wait until after the Gog-Magog War before expecting the Beast to be revealed! That’s because the Gog-Magog war may lead directly into Armageddon, since both wars are led by Gog the Antichrist.

He could already be known, to the people in the organizations who are preparing his way!

See 14. The Scarlett Beast, mark 14.3 for details

https://alephtav.blog/2024/08/20/14-beast/

27.0 Glory of God, Beyond the Veil

To review Gog passages in the Bible, see Joel Richardson’s well documented video:

It covers everything except for the Messianic prophesy of Numbers 24:7.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F199jXhmIMU.

So, let’s examine the Messianic Numbers 24:7 prophesy:

Balaam, a man who knew YHWH and was gifted with the spirit of prophesy, nevertheless corrupted his gift to make money. He mixed it with divination and was not concerned with truth. Around 1440 BC, when the Israelites were in the dessert, near the end of their traveling toward the promised land, Balak the King of Moab was concerned. He offered Balaam a high price by to prophesy bad things against Israel, essentially to put a curse on them.

But, God Almighty sent His spirit so strongly into Balaam so that he’d hear and not be able to resist telling the truth about the greatness of the future seed (King) of the Messianic Kingdom of Israel. 7 times God made the truth come out of Balaam’s mouth, including when he said:

27.1 Glory of God

I see him, but not here and now. I perceive him, but far in the distant future.

The distant future was the Messianic Era.

After Balaam the prophet made the 7 true prophesies, against his own will, he wanted to get even, so he conspired with Balak, the King of Moab, to lead the Israelites into terrible sin.

An urgent interjection about our modern day false prophet Joshua Mhlakela . . .

…moved to this side page due to its length:

https://alephtav.blog/joshua-m/

Balaam’s main messianic prophesy:

He makes water flow from his buckets, And his seed [is] in many waters; And his King [is] higher than Gog And his kingdom is exalted. A star will rise from Jacob; a scepter will emerge from Israel. It will crush the heads of Moab, cracking the skulls of the people of Sheth. Numbers 24:7 & 17 LSV

The verse that you just read, Numbers 24:7, is the Literal Standard Version, which is unique in that it draws upon both the Septuagint and the Masoretic texts of the Old Testament.

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In the Septuagint version of this verse, ‘Gog’ is the title of the final enemy of Israel.

But, most English Bibles on anyone’s bookshelf today say Agag! Why?

The Hebrew Bible was ‘revived’, long after the Hellenistic period ended. The Rabbinical Jews prepared a Tanach (Old Testament), in a Hebrew called the Masoretic text. It was probably completed in the 10th or 11th century, although it wasn’t published until 1524. They substituted ‘Agag’ for Gog.

Why?

The Messianic theme of this passage was extremely touchy with them because they crucified God’s Son. In the New Testament, the Jews are the ones God holds responsible for crucifying His Son. His name: Yeshuah in Hebrew (Savior) Mashiach (anointed one) or Jesus (Savior) Christ (anointed one). God the Son is the Worthy One: the exact likeness of YHWH in the flesh, perfect and sinless.

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Unfortunately, almost all available Bibles, even the King James Bible, used the Masoretic text as the only source from which they’ve translated the Old Testament!

Hello Proofs!

The complete James Moffatt Bible got it right, it says ‘Gog.’ See verse 24:7 in the photo below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moffatt,_New_Translation

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Proofs continued . . .

Here’s the passage in the Koine Greek Septuagint: **It’s good to look at the verse, then scroll down a bit and see: Γωγ = gōg.**

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lxx/num/24/1/t_conc_141007.

This link contains the entire Numbers 24 chapter in Septuagint Old Greek. It’s for proof. Check out verse 7 look for the word Gog in Greek: Γὼγ

https://www.septuagint.bible/-/arithmoi-kephalaio-24

And here’s an English translation (by John William Wevers) directly from the Septuagint. It’s the entire Book of Numbers:

https://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/nets/edition/04-num-nets.pdf

Scroll way down to get to chapter 24.

I’ve been trying to find it in the the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q27) but the Numbers 24:7 verse seems to be missing from the fragment! (Hmm, I recently found out that chapter 9 of Daniel is also missing – hmmm, other highly sensitive Messianic passages!)

Gog is the Beast

The world will be awed by the rapid revival of the 7th head of the beast. It’ll be the Islamic State/Caliphate coming in great power. https://biblia.com/bible/nkjv/revelation/13/3-4

The world will be frightened by its threats, and seduced by its power, wealth, deceptions and influence.

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It will be greatly overbear upon the world, its preeminent power.

In St. John’s vision from the Lord, which he described in the Book of Revelation, the seven heads of the Beast in chronological order represent:

1. Egyptian,

2. Assyrian,

3. Babylonian,

4. Medo-Persian,

5. Greek,

6. Roman and

7. Islamic empires.

They were the great gentile empires of middle Earth and were also the main historical enemies of Hebrew Israel.

In St. John’s vision, the seventh head of the Beast suffered a fatal head wound.

That’s the Islamic Caliphate, which ceased to exist in 1924 after the Ottoman Caliphate was defeated in WW1. It was decapitated when its head (Caliph) was replaced by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a secular president.

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The decapitation of the Caliphate is the fatal head wound.

It was a seemingly fatal head wound in St. John’s vision. But, St. John also saw that the ‘seventh head’ will be revived (a caliph will arise again), and he will be called the ‘eighth head’ of the beast.

St. John wrote that the eighth head will replace the seventh head; It will be ‘of the (spirit of the) seven’ and will drive the whole Beast.

It will be the Beast, the ultimate Beast which will reign for 42 months of the 6,000 years that God Almighty allotted to mankind’s rebellion.

It may have its most severe impact on the ‘greater MENA (Middle East North Africa area), at least in the beginning, because the concept of ‘the world’ in the Bible is from the vantage point of Jerusalem. The territories/ethnicities of the end time Gog coalition of Ezekiel 38, are most of the nations directly surrounding Israel today.

But people of the whole world will succumb to the ‘Beast’ and worship him, or submit to him in other ways, such as bowing down to him or his image. The true living Almighty God will allow the satanically empowered Beast Empire to become the preeminent world power, for that short time, in order for it to fully express its evil intent against God and God’s people to its own utter condemnation. It’s also being used to try the Jews, bringing 1/3 of them to salvation.

When the cup of its wickedness reaches fullness, Jesus Christ will return to conquer and overthrow it, the entire Beast system and all the multitude of its followers. He’ll throw the Beast and his ‘false prophet’ into the ‘lake of fire,’ which was made for satan and his fallen angels: burning torment without end. The Beast’s followers will be degraded and killed, but they won’t be judged until after the Millennium, at the Great White Throne.

14. The Scarlet Beast