{"id":7443,"date":"2025-05-14T06:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/?p=7443"},"modified":"2025-05-14T06:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:20:23","slug":"1-thessalonians-program-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?p=7443","title":{"rendered":"1 Thessalonians (Program #14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bible_light.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>1 Thessalonians (Program #14) &#8211; \tWatchfulness and Soberness<\/p>\n<p>When Paul wrote words to the Church in Thessalonica to encourage them, he stressed that the life of the believers is a life full of hope. And even at the endurance needed to live the Christian life is linked to that hope and flows out of that hope. But just as what is the hope that he is referring to? Well, is not the hope that one day we will all die and go to be with the Lord in heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Our hope and the hope of all believers is that one day the Lord Jesus will come again and we all will be caught up or rapture to meet Him. The rapture of the believers and the second coming of Christ are topics of immense interest to Christians and even to many unbelievers. 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