This letter is the oldest book of the New Testament ... And the dead in Christ will rise first; 17 then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to ...

Paul’s teaching on death and the Second Coming of Jesus may have been distorted or confused, hence the need for a second epistle to clarify matters. First Thessalonians shows how much Paul cared ...

Paul inserts a prayer (3:11-13) in the middle of 1 Thess to transition between the two parts of the letter. The first part (1:1-3:10) deals with Paul's relationship with the Thessalonians.