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Patience of Hope: 1 and 2 Thessalonians Simply Explained is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paul’s epistles to the Thessalonians were written to a young church and one that was facing persecution. Yet, in the midst of their difficulties, these new converts were noted for their “work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.” In the way that he dealt with their problems, the apostle has left Christians in all ages with teaching, ideally suited for the...

Having dealt with the problems posed by the ‘weak’ and the ‘unruly’, Paul addresses himself in the third place to the ‘faint-hearted’, an element in the fellowship who were concerned about their departed loved ones (4:13–18) and indeed about their own hopes for salvation (5:1–11). This section provides us with instruction about two of the issues that are involved in the wider subject of ‘eschatology’, the Bible’s teaching
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