Bible Questions #5896-5904

By Joyce Webb

I Thessalonians Chp. 4 Vs. 1-18

5896. Verse 1,2 Paul tells them, We have told you how you should live as believers and followers of Jesus. We know what c____________________ we taught you.

5897. Verse 3 This is the will of God—-so you will be holy and clean as a Christian—do not do sexual sin—”f_______________”.

This means —do not have sex with someone who is not your husband or wife—-meaning a marriage of a man and a woman.

Verse 4 Everyone of you should know how to control his feelings and desires—–so that you will live a clean holy life as a Christian should.

5898. Verse 5 You should not be lustful-—-c___________________–meaning— an overly desire for sex—-always talking about sex, having many partners. watching sexual videos. pictures—etc.

5899. Paul said—this is how the G________________ do—- who do not know God. Followers of Jesus need to control their desires and have sex with their own partner they are married to.

Verse 6 Do not cheat and have sex with —or take another person’s wife.

The Lord will punish those who do this. (This means also—for a woman not to take another person’s husband—-or to have sex with him.)

5900. Verse 7 God has not called us unto un__________________. He has called us to be holy.

5901. Verse 8 A person who hates or rejects this command of God—-is not rejecting m______’s rules—-but he is rejecting G_____/s rules.

5902. Verse 9 In speaking about loving your “b____________”—others—God has taught you to love one another.

Verse 10 You have done this. You have shown love toward the believers in Macdonia. I hope that you will do even more.

5903. Verse 11 You should live a q________ life.

Do your own b_____________. Work with your own hands as we taught you.

Verse 12 Do your own work, so you will be a good example to those who do not believe in God/Jesus, and so you will have the things you need to live.

Verse 13 (Paul now talks about something this group of believers has had some questions about. They have learned about the “rapture” when some day Jesus will come in the clouds—-a trumpet will sound and believers on earth will go up in the clouds to be with Jesus. This will happen in a blink of an eye. But they have been sad—-thinking that believers who died will not be taken to heaven.)

Paul tells them— Do not be sad—thinking that believers who have already died—will not go to heaven. They will go to heaven.

When Jesus comes in the clouds—the believers who have died—will rise up first—-then those we are still living—will rise up with them in the air—and altogether —all will be with Jesus.

(In other places in the Bible, we know that when believers die their spirits go to heaven then. We do not know all the things about whar we will look like in heaven at that time.

But the Bible speaks of a resurrection of the body —-at the time of the “rapture”. We will be given a new heavenly body.

It also speaks of a resurrection of the body of those who do not believe in Jesus—-that will happen at the end of time for this earth. For those who do not believe—they will stand before God to be judged—and they will not be allowed to stay in heaven.

The people in the Old Testament times—-who believed in God and died—their spirits went to a “holding place” called “Abraham’s bosom”—-but after Jesus died on the cross and paid the death punishment for our sins—-Jesus took those believers to heaven.

The “rapture”—is the catching up—-into the clouds—of the believers.

Those who do not believe will be still on earth—-they will continue to live—-but things will begin to happen on earth that will be awful.

All kinds of natural disasters will happen—–storms, volcanoes, tidal waves,

meteors falling from space, earthquakes. Terrible diseases will spread to millions of people.

The nations will be divided into 10 large groups. One man will rule the whole world.

At first, he will seem to be the answer to all the world’s problems.

After 3 ½ years he will show what he is really like. He will demand that everyone worship him as god. He will demand that they take a mark in their hand or forehead to show they will be loyal to him. This mark will allow them to buy things or sell things, to have a job, etc.

If you don’t take his mark, then you will not be able to buy things, or have a job.

In taking that mark means you will worship that man as god.

He will be against anyone who says they believe in the God of heaven or Jesus. He will probably kill anyone who is a Christian.

But—God’s word says that if you take this man’s –mark you will not go to heaven.

5904. Verse 18 After explaining about the believers who have died—that they will also be taken up in the clouds, and that those still living being taken up in the clouds—–Paul said to c_______________ one another with these words—–that all believers will go up in the clouds together.