No, Paul is NOT saying [v.1] "don't get shook up REGARDING the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering-together [event] unto Him"
[that is to BLUR TOGETHER two entirely distinct items--and most ppl do this (which is incorrect) so don't feel bad, you're not alone! lol]
Verse 2 says that, and then goes on to talk HERE (in VERSE 2) about "what" they are not to "get shook up" about, and it's NOT what you just suggested it was ^ , but something completely DIFFERENT.
[… ^ the part you are LEAVING OUT COMPLETELY, which is part of WHY you are not grasping what is actually being said]
[that (what you are doing) is to BLUR TOGETHER two entirely distinct items--and most ppl do this (which is incorrect) so don't feel bad, you're not alone! lol]
I have no reason to separate out the rapture from the day of Christ the way you do. What is your justification for it? You need to give me some justification for having multiple parousia's, multiple returns of Christ before interpreting the passage the way you do.
You can invent different categories to reinterpret a passage, but then how do you justify your invention of categories? What you are doing is called eisegesis, reading an idea into a passage.
Let us look at a larger section of the passage in question.
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
II Thessalonians
Chapter 1
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in
that day.
11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Chapter 2
1 Now we beseech you, brethren,
by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That 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.
3 Let 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;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Notice 'that day' in chapter 1 verse 10. This is the day in which the church receives rest. It is the day when Jesus comes and executes judgment on them that believe not.
You should also consider that there were some people going around teaching that the resurrection of the dead had come already.
Define the "IT" of this sentence (correctly) and then you will begin to see clearly what Paul is actually conveying (which is NOT what you are suggesting he is conveying!)
The translation I am using says, 'that day.' If you capitalize 'it', it becomes another word, that department that handles computer stuff. Frequent caps makes reading slower.
[that (what you are doing) is to BLUR TOGETHER two entirely distinct items--and most ppl do this (which is incorrect) so don't feel bad, you're not alone! lol]
You are making distinctions and creating categories without Biblical justification to do so, and when doing so runs against both historical interpretation and the natural reading of the text.
Most ppl define what v.2 is talking about INCORRECTLY [he's not talking about the "event" of VERSE 1 in this VERSE 2!], thus missing what Paul is actually conveying.
It is easier to understand without wearing the pre-trib filter glasses.
THAT ^ is what happens at the
MIDDLE of the trib years (and consistent with 2Th2:
4... consistent with Rev13:
5-7 context... and consistent with Daniel 9:27
b [all of which are speaking of the MIDDLE of the trib];
but "the DOTL" will "ARRIVE" way back at the INITIAL "birth PANG [SINGULAR; 1Th5:2-3; Matt24:4/Mk13:5; SEAL #1; Dan9:27A[26]/2Th2:9a/8a[not 8b!] all speaking of the "START" of the 7-yrs!... THIS is when "the man of sin be revealed" NOT at the later [MID-trib] 2Th2:4/Matt24:15 [AoD] thing! (which is also the Dan9:27B MIDDLE part)
And where is the Biblical justification for rapturing the church before all this?
Btw, all the slashes, brackes, footnotes, and lack of spaces along with caps make your stuff unnecessarily slow to read. The excessive caps, italics, and bolding actually may be intended for emphasis, but have the opposite effect. A one-off bolded world helps. A whole paragraph with it just looks like typed chicken scratch.