Salt Lake Christian Center

1 and 2 THESSALONIANS INTRODUCTION:
Paul wrote these letter's to encourage new believers in their faith, to exhort them to godly living, to give them assurance about the eternal state of believers who had died, and to defend the integrity of his ministry as an apostle. Thessalonica (present-day Thessaloniki, Greece) was the capital of Roman Macedonia. It was on important trade routes. Paul visited Thessalonica on his second missionary journey but was forced to flee because of Jewish opposition. He sent Timothy to work with the largely Gentile church there, and Timothy brought him good news of their faith (3:6). Paul reminded them that God will repay their persecutors. They were concerned that the Lord had already returned. Paul urged them not to become “shaken in mind or alarmed,” fearing that “the day of the Lord” (2:2) had already come. probably written about a.d. 50–51.

THE DAY OF THE LORD IS FOR:
-GOD'S WRATH
-GOD'S JUDGEMENT
-RE-FOCUS ON ISREAL

WHAT IS THE RAPTURE?
DEFINITION: "CAUGHT UP"
THEORIES:
-POST TRIBULATION
-MID TRIBULATION
PRE TRIBULATION -