CHAPTER 4

          Happy to have you back to share in a bit of Daily Bread today. This part of Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians that we’ll be studying today is very interesting. Paul has made his introduction, talked a bit about past events in Thessalonica, and expressed his deep emotions for the people there. Now let’s read as he gives some words of urging to live righteously, and then he talks a little bit about the End Times.

          Furthermore, then we ask you brethren, and encourage you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have learned from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you would abound more and more. You know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus, because this is the will of God, and your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication. Every one of you should know how to possess (control, maintain) his vessel (body) in sanctification (holiness) and honor, not in the lust of concupiscence (personal desire), like the Gentiles who don’t know God.

          No man should go hereafter and defraud his brother in any matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such actions, as we also have forewarned you and testified. God hath not called us to be unclean, but to be holy. So, whoever doesn’t listen, doesn’t disobey man, but God, who has also given to us His Holy Spirit.

THE SECOND RAPTURE LESSON WITH THE SECOND RAPTURE EXPLANATION

          But speaking of brotherly love you don’t need me to write to you, because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all of Macedonia: but we ask you, brethren, that you increase more and more; and that you try to be quiet (meek), and to do (mind) your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we directed you, so that you may walk honestly toward them that are without (so people outside the Faith can recognize your righteousness), and that you may have lack of nothing.