1 and 2 Thessalonians

Key-word, “Waiting;” Key-verse, 1 Thessalonians 1:10; 2 Thessalonians 3:5.-These two epistles both treat of the second coming of our Lord, its antecedent and consequent events. They rebuke Thessalonian materialism, which inscribed on tombs, “Death is an eternal sleep;” they correct mistakes as to the dead saints, and the man of sin. Two aspects of Christ’s second advent are here plainly presented: in the first, he comes with the trump of God to raise the dead in Christ and catch up the living saints; in the second, he comes with his mighty angels, taking vengeance on his foes. [p. 121]HBS 44.3