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1 and 2 Thessalonians

  1. Lesson One
    Overview of 1 and 2 Thessalonians (1 Thessalonians 1–3)
    20 Activities
  2. Lesson Two
    Christ's Return (1 Thessalonians 4–5)
    22 Activities
  3. Lesson Three
    The Man of Lawlessness (2 Thessalonians 1–2)
    19 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  4. Lesson Four
    Work (2 Thessalonians 3)
    17 Activities
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    2 Assessments
  5. Lesson Five
    Author and Audience (Review 1 and 2 Thessalonians)
    17 Activities
  6. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment

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Grab your Workbook Journal!

[Record your answers in the workbook provided at the beginning of this course.]

In the weeks before Jesus’ death, He made a striking promise to His disciples: 

Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.
Matthew 16:28 NIV

Two decades later, as Christians continued to die before Jesus’ second coming, the church wrestled with this promise. Some believers apparently “tasted death” without “seeing the Son of Man come in his kingdom.” This question was pressing on the Thessalonian church, and Paul addresses this in his letters. 

Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 NIV

 

He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.
1 Thessalonians 5:10 NIV

  1. How would you describe Paul’s answer to this question in your own words? (See 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14, 5:10.)