Theory question 109
The Second Coming of ChristDescribe the coming of the Lord according to Paul's teaching. What does this teach us as christians?
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The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, the archangel's call and the sound of God's trumpet (1 Thessalonians 4:16).
The dead in Christ will rise first (1 Thessalonians 4:16).
Then those alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so be with the Lord always (1 Thessalonians 4:17).
Believers who are alive will not go before those who have died (1 Thessalonians 4:15).
The day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night, suddenly, when people say "peace and security" (1 Thessalonians 5:2-3).
Before it comes, the rebellion and the man of lawlessness will be revealed, whom the Lord will slay at His coming (2 Thessalonians 2:1-8).
Lessons: be watchful and sober, ready at all times (1 Thessalonians 5:6-8); comfort one another with hope about the dead (4:18); live holy lives; do not be idle or alarmed by false reports (2 Thessalonians 2:2; 3:6-12); hold firmly to the faith.
Describe the events of the Parousia, then lessons for Christians.