Reading for August 9th

Read 1 Thessalonians 4.13-5.11 The expectation of the end times.
Paul shows the distinctiveness of a community expecting the Lord's coming.
In verse 4.16 God's trumpet, see Ex 19.16, 19; Isa 27.13; Joel 2.1.
In verse 17 meet, a term used of a delegation going out to meet a ruler.
In verse 5.3 labor pains, see Jer 6.24; 13.21; 22.23; Hos 13.13; Mic 4.9.
In verse 5 children light, an expression that occurs in the Dead Sea Scrolls (1 QS 1.9-10; 3.13).
In verse 8 on military imagery, see Isa 59.17.
In verse 10 who died for us, an early formulation of belief about Christ.
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