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Hope , Deferred
(From Forerunner Commentary)

1 Thessalonians 4:13  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) What follows this verse is the instruction regarding the return of Jesus Christ at the seventh trump. So, where in the grand scheme of things is AD 50, the date of Paul's writing of this epistle? It is a mere nineteen years after Christ's death and resurrection, and He has not returned yet. It is a topic of hot conversation in the fellowship of the people of the church of God. Some are beginning to worry; some are beginning to feel that it is taken too long. Their hope is being deferred. So, Paul has to write them, instructing them about the return of Jesus Christ, and to exhort them to get their hope back on track! John W. Ritenbaugh How to Know We Love Christ

Hebrews 10:34-35  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) We should add to this their deferred expectation of the return of Jesus Christ and the establishment of the Kingdom of God. In them were high expectations of Christ's return, and conversely, the ever-diminishing hope that He would come in their lifetimes, combined with the difficulties of Christian life. Does this apply to us today? Could we, too, feel that the return of Jesus Christ may be farther off and be beginning to have somewhat the same attitude as these people did? John W. Ritenbaugh How to Know We Love Christ

 

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