Abstract

Abstract In 1 Thess 4:14 Paul has often been understood to teach that dead believers, who have been in heaven, will return to earth with Christ at the parousia. Others understand it of believers being transported to heaven. This article proposes a fresh understanding of the passage, informed by the OT and Second Temple background of God leading his people out of the realm of death and into life in his presence.

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