Lesson 4912

 (Lesson 4912) (07-13-25) 1st Thessalonians 2:14-19 

   “For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire. Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us. For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? For ye are our glory and joy.” 

 

   In today’s quote, Paul wrote that the Thessalonians had suffered the wrath of the Jews just as had the children of God in Israel, being persecuted by their own countrymen just like Jesus and the older Hebrew prophets had been. He declared that those responsible were opposing God and hindering the spread of His gospel, building on their sins, ultimately to face God’s wrath. Paul wanted to see the Thessalonians again but was hounded relentlessly, threatened at every turn by Satan through his own people, the Jews who were trying desperately to distort the gospel that Jesus had given to him ~