nature of a future millennium. There are honest disagreements here even among conservative scholars. One’s millennial position (e.g., postmillennial, dispensational) does partially affect the interpretation of these two sections in 1 Thessalonians. For example, traditional dispensationalists consider 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 to be referring to the future event which they call the ‘Rapture’, and not to the Second Coming.4 However, there is also much interpretative agreement among the various millennial
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