"Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the Congregation of the Thessalonians"-2, poetry

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022.

Introduction

Paul tries in his second letter to the Christians living in Thessalonica to realign the thinking of some who believe that "the presence of [the] Lord Jesus Christ and [their] being gathered together to him" is imminent. He explains: that "[presence] will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness gets revealed, the son of destruction."-Second Thessalonians 2:1-3. He urges brothers and sisters to "stand firm and maintain [their] hold on the traditions that [they] were taught" (2 Thess. 2:15), and exhorts them "to withdraw from [any Christian] who is walking disorderly" (2 Thess. 3:6).

The author

Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).