2 Thessalonicher 2:12

12 auf daß alle gerichtet werden, die der Wahrheit nicht geglaubt, sondern Wohlgefallen gefunden haben an der Ungerechtigkeit.

2 Thessalonicher 2:12 Meaning and Commentary

2 Thessalonians 2:12

That they all might be damned
Or judged, discerned and distinguished from true Christians and real believers, or rather that they might be condemned and punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and have their portion in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; where the devil, the false prophet, and the beast, whose followers they are, will be cast; and it is but a righteous thing with God to give them up to such delusion,

that they may be damned,
since they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved; and the following character of them justifies the divine procedure:

who believed not the truth;
neither the word of truth, the Gospel of salvation, nor Christ, who is truth itself; and therefore were righteously given up to believe a lie; and whose damnation is just, according to the declaration of Christ, he that believeth not shall be damned:

but had pleasure in unrighteousness;
in sin, as all unrighteousness is; in sinful ways and works, and in unrighteous doctrines; as the doctrines of merit, of works of supererogation, and of justification by works, being derogatory to the justice of God, and to the righteousness of Christ; and in the unrighteous persecution and bloodshed of the saints, the martyrs of Jesus; in which the followers of antichrist take as much delight and pleasure, as an intemperate man does in drinking wine or strong drink to excess; and therefore the whore of Babylon is said to be drunk with the blood of the saints; and it is but just she should have blood to drink, or be punished both with temporal and eternal destruction.

2 Thessalonicher 2:12 In-Context

10 und in allem Betrug der Ungerechtigkeit denen, die verloren gehen, darum daß sie die Liebe zur Wahrheit nicht annahmen, damit sie errettet würden.

11 Und deshalb sendet ihnen Gott eine wirksame Kraft des Irrwahns, daß sie der Lüge glauben,

12 auf daß alle gerichtet werden, die der Wahrheit nicht geglaubt, sondern Wohlgefallen gefunden haben an der Ungerechtigkeit.

13 Wir aber sind schuldig, Gott allezeit für euch zu danken, vom Herrn geliebte Brüder, daß Gott euch von Anfang erwählt hat zur Seligkeit in Heiligung des Geistes und im Glauben an die Wahrheit,

14 wozu er euch berufen hat durch unser Evangelium, zur Erlangung der Herrlichkeit unseres Herrn Jesus Christus.