A common misinterpretation isolates this verse to emphasize only the rapture or gathering without its contextual warning against deception in the following verses, leading some to promote an any-moment return of Christ ignoring the preceding signs like the apostasy and revelation of the man of sin; others erroneously apply it to prove the Day of the Lord arrived in the first century, twisting Paul's corrective intent into support for full preterism, or misuse it to dismiss eschatological discussions altogether by claiming undue speculation.
II Thessalonians 2:1
King James Version (1769)
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
Paul earnestly implores the Thessalonian believers, grounding his appeal in the profound realities of Christ's second coming and the believers' gathering to Him, to remain steadfast and unshaken in their faith amid circulating false reports that the Day of the Lord had already begun, thereby highlighting the eschatological hope that anchors Christian doctrine against doctrinal confusion.