"Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians — He Is Coming Again! Our Faith Will Make All the Difference”

The last section in Chapter 4 contains the teaching about the Rapture of the Church which is His Body.  This teaching is distinctive for the Body Church and its timing is pre-Tribulation.  That begins to be clear here but it is the special focus of chapter 5 and the second chapter of the second Thessalonian letter.  Here though, Paul instructs believers regarding the resurrection of those saints that had already died and the teaching is clear — their resurrection will immediately precede our own catching up to be with the Lord.  In fact, they will return with the Lord and we shall meet them in the air along with the Lord at the appointed time.  This teaching is designed to comfort the believers who will read this letter and it surely did.   The teaching here is a critical one without which our own faith will surely be influenced.