For as long as I can remember I have wondered about the end times. I was thinking about eschatology before I knew what the word meant. The fact that Paul addresses people who have 'fallen asleep' and talks about 'meeting the Lord in the air' in First Thessalonians means that Christians in the first century were perplexed about these issues also. Paul genuinely believed that the Lord would return in his lifetime, therefore he wasn't too worried about falling asleep and missing out on the Lord's returning. The people of Thessalonica obviously were disturbed about the ramifications of 'falling asleep.' Today, we (probably me more than anyone) don't completely understand ecshatology, and are asking the same questions that the Thessalonians were. It amazes me how many parallels that the we today have to the First Century Christians, and how we can learn from the teachings of Paul just as they did.
Steven Price
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