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Fragments showing 1 Thessalonians 1:3–2:1 and 2:6–13 on Papyrus 65, from the third century. The First Epistle to the Thessalonians [a] is a Pauline epistle of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The epistle is attributed to Paul the Apostle, and is addressed to the church in Thessalonica, in modern-day Greece.
1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 They shall see the Son of man coming. The Lord himself shall descend from heaven. His angels, with a great voice. With the voice of the archangel. With a great trumpet. With the trumpet of God. They shall gather together his elect. Caught up together with them. In the clouds of heaven. In the clouds to meet the Lord.
The teaching that Christ will be universally visible is based on Revelation 1:7 which states that "every eye will see him." The second coming will coincide with the resurrection and translation of the righteous, as described in 1 Thessalonians 4:16. Adventists believe that the unrighteous, or wicked, will be raised after the millennium. [43]
The Pauline epistles are the thirteen books in the New Testament traditionally attributed to Paul the Apostle.. There is strong consensus in modern New Testament scholarship on a core group of authentic Pauline epistles whose authorship is rarely contested: Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, and Philemon.
According to this view, 1 Thessalonians 4:15–17 [30] is a description of a preliminary event to the return described in Matthew 24:29–31. [31] Although both describe a coming of Jesus, these are seen to be different events. The first event is a coming where the saved are to be 'caught up,' whence the term "rapture" is taken.
[8]: 204 What remains today of the manuscript is roughly 85 out of 104 leaves consisting of Romans chapters 5–6, 8–15, all of Hebrews, Ephesians, Galatians, Philippians, Colossians, virtually all of 1–2 Corinthians and 1 Thessalonians 1–2, 5. The leaves have partially deteriorated, resulting in the loss of some lines at the bottom of ...
Isaiah 46:1-4 = The fall of Bel; Isaiah 46:5-7 = Yahweh is without equal; Isaiah 46:8-13 = Yahweh is lord of the future [4] There are no subdivisions in the New King James Version, where the chapter is sub-titled "Dead Idols and the Living God", or the New International Version, where the chapter is sub-titled "Gods of Babylon".
Unlike the New King James Version, the 21st Century King James Version does not alter the language significantly from the King James Version. [3] The author has eliminated "obsolete words". [3] The changes in words are based on the second edition of the Webster's New International Dictionary. [3] There were no changes related to gender or theology.