Bible Study: 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5

 Chapter 5

The end of chapter 4 is the rapture.   Chapter 5 starting at v1 is talking about the second coming, during the tribulation.

V1 and 2.    You need not that I write ... for you know
        the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night
Amplified–––But as to the suitable times and the precise seasons and dates, brethren, you have not necessity for anything bing written to you.   2 For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord['s return] will come [as unexpectedly and suddenly] as a thief in the night.

No one knows the when.   BUT...V3 His return is compared to a woman in labor.  She doesn't know the exact day or time when her baby will be born but as the time gets close she sure knows it is close.  The closer it get the better the prediction!

V3. For when they say, 'Peace and safety';

V4 Not in darkness---we won't be surprised.    We are expectant

V5-6  let us not sleep (2518), but be doers, sharers of the Good News; be sober 3525 = be discreet, abstain from wine and alcohol, and watch

V7. They that sleep 2518 = to fall asleep––––those that have not hope

V8. Those of us who are of the Day
    be sober 3525 to abstain from wine (drinking alcohol period),  watch
    put on the breastplate of faith and love
    put on the helmet of hope of salvation

––Those of us that are believers need to be aware, and keep being aware of the signs and times.  
––The Lord doesn't want  us to just float along in life as those that have no hope do.
––those that have no hope---the unbelievers, those that say they believe and yet act as the unbelievers do––not looking to Jesus and His Word, not seeing what He says, not trusting
––We need to be reading His Word, believing it, confessing it, studying it, trusting it

V9.   He has not appointed us to wrath 3709–––not to get angry at people, to correct them, but to share the gospel–––to share the truth in love.  Ephesians 4:15–speaking the truth in love.  The rest is up to them.
----but to obtain salvation from the Lord Jesus Christ.

V10    We should live together with Him––day and night

V11    comfort and edify one another

Read from the Amplified verses 9-11

V12-13    know who labors over you––
–our pastor esteem her, prayer for her, pray for her, honor her
–teachers who work with our children
–––and be at peace

V14    we exhort or beseech you to warn that are unruly
    comfort the feebleminded–small or little, discouraged
    support the weak––those without strength

V15. Don't give back evil for evil

V16. Rejoice evermore     Philippians 4:4 rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice.

V17  Pray without ceasing 89 uninterruptedly, i.e. without                 omission –––omitting:  whether leaving something out or             abstention from inserting, or by neglect or failure to do                 something.  Thing omitted or left undone.

    Luke 18:1 ––– always pray and not to faint--don't give up
    Luke 21:36 ––– watch---and pray always

V18  in everything give thanks      Colossians 3:17  and whatever you do...

V19  quench 4570 to extinguish––go out

V20  in fact we are told to seek to prophesy  1Corinthians 14:1, 39

V21 prove all things
    and hold fast to that which is good

V22  Abstain from the very appearance of evil
    CJB––Keep away for every form of evil.
    AMP––Abstain from evil––shrink form it and keep aloof from                         it––in whatever form or whatever kind it may be.

V23. 2Peter 2:9. The Lord knows how to deliver....
    Amp –– Now if [all these things be true, then be sure] the Lord knows how to rescue the godly out of temptations and trials, and how to keep the ungodly under chastisement until the day of judgment and doom;

Psalm 34:17-19

V24  Faithful – pistis – Trustworthy, True, Believable
        God cannot change

V25. Pray for us

V26 Kiss 5370 philema from 5368 phileo which means to be a friend

V27 read to the rest

V28Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.  Amen.