At a time when the end of things was expected to be imminent, Christians were concerned, not only for their own spiritual future, but that of friends and family, not only those living but the dead. If God would come and save the believers, what would happen to those who were no longer alive? In this passage St Paul reassures them that the Lord will not only lift the living to Heaven, but also those now dead, who were of the Christian community of the time.
He exhorts his community to comfort one another with this promise; a message as relevant today as it was then.
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