{"id":25321,"date":"2026-02-06T14:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=25321"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:27:54","slug":"2-thess-29-who-alone-can-do-great-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/2-thess-29-who-alone-can-do-great-wonders\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Thess 2:9 &#8211;  Who alone can do great wonders?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">While this verse says God alone does great wonders, and Matthew 28:18 says all power belongs to Christ, verses like 2 Thess. 2:9 say Satan will be able to do them and other verses talk about others doing wonders (John 14:12). But what Psalm 136:4 (and Matt. 28:18) means is that all power ultimately lies with God and so only He can do great wonders while others can do signs and wonders only through the permission of God.<\/span><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Solution:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The power of the lawless one in 2 Thessalonians 2:9 is clearly allowed by God, who obviously holds all power (ultimately). It would be like saying no one (who is an enemy of Christianity) has any power since &#8220;all power belongs to Jesus&#8221;, despite the persecutions from Nero onwards<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: While this verse says God alone does great wonders, and Matthew 28:18 says all power belongs to Christ, verses like 2 Thess. 2:9 say Satan will be able to do them and other verses talk about others doing wonders (John 14:12). But what Psalm 136:4 (and Matt. 28:18) means is that all power ultimatelyContinue reading &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,8,27],"tags":[233,81,182,323],"class_list":["post-25321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","category-bible-study","category-bible-teaching","tag-antichrist","tag-god","tag-satan","tag-wonders","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}