Bathesalonia II 2
1 Mme jaanong, ga tweng kaga go tla ga Morena wa rona Jesu Keresete gape, le go phuthega ga rona go mo kgatlhantsha? Tswee-tswee se tshikinngweng megopolo fela e le go fuduiwa, bakaulengwe ba ba rategang, ke puo e e reng letsatsi le la Morena le setse le bile le simologile. Fa lo utlwalela batho ba ba bonang diponatshegelo le melaetsa ya botlhokwa e e tswang kwa Modimong kaga sone se, kgotsa dikwalo tse di kaiwang di tswa kwano go nna, se ba dumeleng.
Now [I want to write to you] about the time when our Lord Jesus Christ will return and when [God] will gather us together to [where Jesus] is. My fellow believers, I urge you
that you think calmly [about any message] that [claims/says] that the Lord has [already] come again. Do not be shaken or alarmed/worried by any such message. [It does not matter] if [it is a message that someone claims God’s Spirit] revealed to him, or if [it is some other message that someone] has spoken, or whether [it is a message that someone claims] that I wrote in a letter.
3 Se gapegeng, se tsietsegeng le fa ba reng. Gonne letsatsi leo ga le kitla le tla fa e se dilo tse pedi di diragala: Sa ntlha go tlaa nna nako ya go tsuolola Modimo mo go golo, mme motsuolodi o tlaa tla, ebong morwa molete.
Do not allow anyone to deceive you in any way [with the result that you believe any such message]. 2 Thessalonians 2:3b-5 [The Lord] will not come [MTY] [immediately]. First, [many people] [PRS] will rebel [against God]. The result of their rebelling will be that [they will accept and obey] the man who will sin very greatly [against God].
4 O tlaa nyatsa modimo mongwe le mongwe o o teng, o tlaa gagolaka sengwe le sengwe sa tlotlo le kobamelo. O tlaa tsena mo tempeleng ya Modimo a nna fa fatshe jaaka Modimo, a re ene ka sebele ke Modimo.
He will be the [supreme] enemy [of God]. He will [proudly] exalt himself above everything that [people] consider to be some god and above everything that people worship. [As a result of wanting people to worship him], he will [even enter] God’s Temple and sit down [there to rule]. He will publicly proclaim that he himself is God! But [God] will [certainly] punish that man forever!
5 A ga lo gakologelwe gore ke lo boleletse se mo nakong e ke neng ke na le lona ka yone?
(I am sure that you remember that I kept telling you these things while I was still with you [there in Thessalonica]./Do you not remember that I continued telling you these things while I was still with you [there in Thessalonica]?) [RHQ]
6 Mme lo itse gore o kganetswe ke eng gore a bo a ise a tle; gonne o ka tla fela fa nako ya gagwe e setse e siame.
You also know that there is something (OR, someone) that is preventing this man [from being revealed] {[from revealing himself]}. This man is being (held back/restrained) [now] for him to be revealed {that he reveal himself} at the time that [God has planned] [MTY].
7 Tiro e monna yo wa tsogologelo le molete o tlaa e dirang, e setse e tswelela pele, mme ene ka sebele ga a na go tla go fitlhelela yo o mo kgane-tseng a mo sutela mo tseleng.
[Although Satan] is already secretly causing [people] to reject [God’s] laws, (the one/God) who is preventing [this man from revealing himself] now [will continue to prevent him from doing that] until he/[God] removes him.
8 Jalo yo o bosula yo, o tlaa bonala yo Morena Jesu a tlaa mo tshubang ka mowa wa molomo wa gagwe a bo a mo nyeletsa fa pele ga gagwe fa a boa.
It is then that [God will allow] this man, who rejects [God’s] laws [completely], to be revealed {to reveal himself}. Then the Lord Jesus will destroy him, by simply commanding it [MTY]. Jesus, by his own glorious arrival, will cause him to become [completely] powerless.
9 Monna yo wa boleo, o tlaa tla e le sedirisiwa sa ga Satane, a tletse nonofo ya ga Satane, mme o tlaa tsietsa mongwe le mongwe ka ditshupo tse di sa tlwaelesegang, mme o tlaa dira dikgakgamatso tse dikgolo.
But [before Jesus destroys him], Satan will make him very powerful. As a result, he [will do all kinds of supernatural] miracles and amazing things [DOU] that will seem as though [God has enabled him to do them].
10 O tlaa tsietsa gotlhelele ba ba mo tseleng ya bone go ya moleting gonne ba ganne Boammaaruri, ba ganne go bo dumela le go bo rata, le go bo letla go ba boloka,
And by doing wicked [things], he will completely deceive those who will [certainly] (perish/go to hell). [He will deceive them] because they will have refused to love the true [message]. So they will not be saved {God will not save them}. (questioned)
11 mme ka ntlha ya moo, Modimo o tlaa ba letla go dumela maaka ka dipelo tsa bone tsotlhe,
So, God, by his power, will enable this man to easily deceive people, so that they will believe what [this man] falsely [claims/says that he is].
12 mme botlhe ba tlaa atlholwa fela ka ntlha ya go dumela maaka, go gana Boammaaruri, le go natefelelwa ke dibe tsa bone.
The result will be that everyone will be [rightly] condemned {that [God] will [justly] condemn everyone} [to be punished] who did not believe the true [message], but who instead gladly chose [to be doing] what is wicked.
13 Mme re tshwanetse ka metlha yotlhe go leboga Modimo kaga lona, bakaulengwe ba rona ba ba ratwang ke Morena, gonne Modimo o sale o tlhopha kwa tshimologong go lo naya poloko, go lo ntlafatsa ka tiro ya Mowa O O Boitshepo le ka go ikanya Boammaaruri ga lona.
[Our] fellow believers, whom our Lord [Jesus] loves, we thank God very frequently for you. It is appropriate/right for us to do that, because God chose you (from the beginning [MTY] [of creation/before the world existed]) in order that he might save [you] as a result of [your] believing the true [message] and as a result of [God’s] Spirit setting you apart [for God].
14 Ka rona o lo boleletse Mafoko a a Molemo. Gape o lo bileditse go nna le seabe mo kgalalelong ya Morena wa rona Jesu Keresete ka rona.
[We thank God that] he chose you as a result of our [proclaiming] the message about Christ [to you], in order that you might (share in/have) some of the glory that our Lord Jesus Christ has.
15 Ka dilo tse tsotlhe di le mo mogopolong, bakaulengwe ba ba rategang, emang lo nitame lo bo lo ngaparele thata boammaaruri jo re lo bo rutileng mo dikwalong tsa rona le ka nako e re neng re na le lona ka yone.
So, [our fellow believers, continue to be firm concerning what you believe]; that is, continue believing the [true] teaching that we gave to you by our speaking to you and by our [writing] a letter [to you].
16 A Morena wa rona Jesu Keresete ka sebele le Modimo Rraa rona, o o re ratileng wa bo wa re neela kgomotso ya bosakhutleng le tsholofelo e e sa re tshwanelang, (aiōnios g166)
Our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God, our Father, loves us and encourages us and causes us to confidently expect [to receive] the eternal things that [he has promised to give to us] as a result of [Christ] acting kindly toward us in a way we did not deserve. (aiōnios g166)
17 a gomotse dipelo tsa lona ka kgomotso yotlhe, a lo thuse mo go sengwe le sengwe se lo se buang le se lo se dirang.
[We strongly pray that] God and Jesus together will encourage you! And we pray that they will cause you to continue doing and saying things that God considers to be good.
