What follows this verse is the instruction regarding the return of Jesus Christ at the seventh trump.
So, where in the grand scheme of things is AD 50, the date of Paul's writing of this epistle? It is a mere nineteen years after Christ's death and resurrection, and He has not returned yet. It is a topic of hot conversation in the fellowship of the people of the church of God. Some are beginning to worry; some are beginning to feel that it is taken too long. Their hope is being deferred.
So, Paul has to write them, instructing them about the return of Jesus Christ, and to exhort them to get their hope back on track!
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