The Coming of the Lord

On this Remembrance Sunday, following our memorial liturgy for military members who have given their lives in service to Canada, Rev Derwyn continued our series through 1 Thessalonians. This portion of the letter brings us into that area of study known as eschatology, the exploration of last things. What Paul has to say here begins to expand on what Jesus probably had already said about the subject and adds new information about it. But where did he get this information from? And, noting that his language about the coming of the Lord changes in his later letters, what does this say about what he understood in 50 CE as compared to 12 years later? This is all too much to cover in one sermon, but there is an approach we can take in light of all of this, and that is what Rev Derwyn encourages us to consider.