"Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians — In Everything Give Thanks, for This is the Will of God”

Today we finish Paul’s first letter, his first letter to the Thessalonians.  What a blessing it has been to learn so much about our Blessed Hope, the Rapture of the Church which is His Body.  Having presented in chapter 4 the teaching that Christ’s Body saints will be regathered into the heavenlies (not into the earthly Millennial Kingdom) when Christ returns, the saints were encouraged regarding the loss of loved ones.  In chapter 5 the apostle finishes his early teaching on this subject by explaining why the saints of this current dispensation of grace are entirely different in their heritage from the Jews of the Tribulation period.  He writes that the difference between living in this dispensation is like day and night in comparison to them of judgment coming to this earth as the Lord refocuses his work on his chosen nation.  The Rapture, we must conclude, is pre-Tribulational therefore.