Thirsting Souls Bible Teaching

(2Th 1:7)  “And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,(8) In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:”  Here is a very different event than that which is spoken of in 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4. There the Lord meets the resurrected saints in the air; here He returns to the earth. Since there is a seven year space between the two events, I draw your attention to the phrase, “rest with us”. Rest speaks of some sort of cessation of labor. Labor can be concern, or the activity of the mind. I say to you, “Rest in the Lord. He will take care of everything. Stand firm in Him.”