Christians in ancient Thessalonica thought it was imminent.
I wrote for Indiafacts on project Thessalonica.
How many people know about projects Thessalonica?
In Thessalonica, the battle started again.
Acts 17: 1 Thessalonica-“ a synagogue of the Jews”.
How was Paul able to start a congregation in Thessalonica?
An assembly in a forest near Thessalonica, late 1960' s.
Some early Christians in Thessalonica said,‘ Jehovah's day is here!
Opposers were angry with the growth of Jehovah's Witnesses in Thessalonica.
The letters to the church in Thessalonica is Paul's eschatological letter.
God's word next prevailed in Thessalonica, Macedonia's capital and main seaport.
When addressing the congregation in Thessalonica, Paul said:“ Support the weak.”.
Who in the Thessalonica congregation were encouraged to help other congregation members?
I was on duty in Thessalonica, in northern Greece, when Father died.
The following year Athanasius of Thessalonica paid 60,000 silver coins for the office.
Paul described the hardworking older men of Thessalonica as“ presiding over” the congregation.
Thessalonica was then a bilingual city;
its inhabitants spoke Greek and a form of Slavic.
Christians in Thessalonica were to“ make sure of all things” in any prophecies they heard.
Paul wrote these letters very short time after he had founded the church in Thessalonica.
Passing to Thessalonica and Hellas,” wrote Theophanes the Confessor,“he subjugated everyone
and made tributaries of the kingdom.
So, project Thessalonica is saying that there are,
we need to have strategic intervention as a war tactic.
Years later, Christians in Thessalonica had to be reminded that Jesus' presence
was some time in the future.
This means that his letters were written not long after the church in Thessalonica had been established.
This was the case in Thessalonica, where Paul sought out Jews and God-
fearing Gentiles at the synagogue.
In Paul's early letters letters to Thessalonica and Galatia, never used the word'Soteria' to express a spiritual salvation.
For Demas left me, having loved this present world,
and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world,
and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
Now when they had walked through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they arrived at Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.
In his letter to Christians in Thessalonica, Paul was used to throw light on the future.
Jehovah's day would come as a thief in the night.
For example, Acts 17: 6 relates that in Thessalonica, northern Greece,
opposers cried out:“ These men that have overturned the inhabited earth are present here also.”.