Where did Paul go after he was forced out of Ephesus?
After being forced out of Ephesus due to hatred from pagan followers of Diana, Paul traveled north into the northwest corner of present-day Turkey to the ancient city of Troas, also known as Troy, where he evidently began a congregation and expected Titus.
Les explains that the second letter was written sometime after Paul had been forced out of Ephesus because of the tremendous hatred for the gospel from the pagan followers of Diana, whose statue oversaw the whole city. After leaving Ephesus, Paul went up north into the northwest corner of what is now Turkey to the ancient city of Troas, which was the city of Troy, the place of the Trojan horse legends. He stopped at Troas, or ancient Troy, and evidently began a little congregation there. He was supposed to have met Titus (not Timothy), and in chapter 2, verse 13, it was Titus. Les gives this background to show why Paul was under such constant satanic attack, noting that from Genesis 3:15, when God said the seed of the woman would bruise the head of the serpent, Satan knew a Redeemer was coming and kicked in gear everything to prohibit the coming of a Redeemer for the human race.