Bible Study
December 4, 2025
1 Thessalonians 2:15 – 17 (ESV)
“Results of Wrath”
15 “Who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind 16 by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last. 17 But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face,”
There is little question who killed Jesus. It was the same group who hailed Him as He rode in on a donkey on the Sunday before His crucifixion. His own people the Jews were responsible for His death. As they killed Jesus they also killed the prophets.
It was the will (and is) the will of God for all people to find His saving grace but the Jews did not desire for anyone to find salvation in and through Jesus. Paul at one time had sided with the Jews and killed believers. Paul is now a new man (in Christ) and he is fighting for the Gospel message to get out to everyone.
God’s wrath is to come to mankind. John wrote about it in the book of Revelation, Matthew tells of it in his gospel and Paul speaks of it here. God’s wrath will fall on the Jews yet He will save a remnant during the Tribulation period.
What is this “wrath” Paul writes about here? It covers several areas of scripture:
- The Babylonian exile when the Jews disobeyed God and ended up in captivity,
- Prophetically with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD,
- With the second coming of Jesus,
Paul had been taken away from the Thessalonians and he had a desire to be with much as a mother and father desire to be with their children.
God Bless.
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