The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 4:16
The elect and the damned are predestined by God. 1:4
Paul, with his usual modesty, proclaims that he is holy, just, and blameless. 2:10
Paul would have arrived earlier, but Satan hindered him. 2:18
"Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?"
Paul believed that those alive in 49 CE would live to see Jesus come. 2:19
"We told you before that we should
suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass." Paul thought that the tribulation that he believed would
precede Jesus' coming had
already passed. 3:4
Every man should know how to possess his penis or his wife (depending on the translation) in a holy way. 4:4
