Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—2 Thessalonians 2:1-3, 9-17
by: Victoria Shephard.
Those who do not love truth will be judged by God sending them a “strong delusion so that they may believe what is false” (v. 11, ESV). But Paul continued, “God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved” (v. 13, ESV). The NASB is more blunt: “God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation” (v. 13). Imagine! We believe because God has chosen us from the beginning—from before anything, including us, existed! We all deserve condemnation. How worthy is this God to choose any of us to be His!