Thessalonians that contrary to what some of them may have thought, both groups, the dead and the living, will end up together. (2) The most important point to note in all this is the result: All believers in Jesus, whether alive or dead at the time of his Parousia, “will be with the Lord forever.” That is, death—the one thing that some Thessalonians (apparently still influenced by pagan perspectives) thought would stand as an insurmountable barrier, preventing those followers of Jesus who died before