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Linguistic support for a one-event second coming are in the words "meet" and "coming" in 1 Thessalonians 4. The meet in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 and in Matthew 25:1 (a second coming parable) refers to the custom of people going out to meet a dignitary as he was approaching their city before he got there, and accompanying or welcoming him back to ...
In the Epistles of Paul, most notably in 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 ("the dead in Christ shall rise first") and 1 Corinthians 15:51–52, a trumpet is described as blowing at the end of the tribulation to herald the return of Christ; Revelation 11:15 further supports this view.
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 4:16; In one single event, the saved who are alive at Christ's coming will be caught up together with the resurrected to meet the Lord in the air. [111] "Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord." ~ 1 ...
(1 Thessalonians 4:15–17) Christians argue that Paul speaks about his own presence at the last day only hypothetically. [ 86 ] They point out Paul later states the Day of the Lord comes like a thief ( 1 Thessalonians 5:1–2 ) which is a word Jesus uses himself ( Matthew 24:43–44 ) expressing the impossibility of predicting His second ...
1 Thessalonians 3:2 και συνεργον του θεου εν τω ευαγγελιω του Χριστου ( Gods co-worker in the Gospel of Christ ) – D Byz f m vg syr cop και συνεργον εν τω ευαγγελιω του Χριστου ( co-worker in the Gospel of Christ ) – B 1962
Christians who follow the Posttribulation rapture doctrine, argue that the seventh trumpet is the last trumpet mentioned in I Corinthians 15:52, [20] and that there is a strong correlation between the events mentioned in Isaiah 27:13, [21] Matthew 24:29-31, [22] and I Thessalonians 4:16. [23]
A 16th century painting of St. Jerome in his study. The translation he made of the Bible, called the Vulgate, gained common usage in the Catholic Church.. In the early centuries of Christianity, the Greek-language Septuagint, a translation of the Old Testament from the Biblical Hebrew was first used and formed the basis of texts used by the Christian Church (including the Latin Church).