May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
    Paul’s prayer seems to wish that they would live (physically) to see the return of the Lord. This seems have given them the wrong impression that the "Great Day of the Lord" his physical Second Coming, was at hand. The Lord’s coming in judgment upon the Jews and Jerusalem would be in AD 70 because of their rejection of Christ when he came to them. Second Thessalonians seems to have been written to correct a wrong impression that the return of Christ was immediate.