“those who fall asleep,” since the Thessalonians were “ignorant” in this area. The Antichrist was not such a doctrine; they knew about it before Paul wrote. He had shared it with them during his stay in Thessalonica. Obviously, then, this was not a doctrine only for advanced Christian knowledge. And it surely is not to be classed as one of the “problems” of theology and the Bible, as many suggest today. It was and is a matter that concerns every Christian, including those just new to the faith. Since