² ·Do not [We ask/request that you don’t] become ·easily [quickly] ·upset [unsettled; shaken] in your thinking or ·afraid [disturbed; alarmed] if you hear that the day of the Lord has already come [^Cthe time of Christ’s return and the judgments associated with it]. Someone may have said this ·in a prophecy [^Lby a spirit; or by the Spirit] or ·in a message [or by word of mouth] or in a letter as if it came from us [^Ca forged letter].