Today: [1 Thessalonians 1:] What is the Wrath to Come? In this first chapter of 1 Thessalonians, Paul offers strong consolation to the church in that city that is suffering harsh persecution from both the pagan and Jewish populations. In commending their faith under fire he makes an ambiguous reference to a “wrath to come” that brings up for us a very inconvenient implication of unavoidable eschatological eventualities that on the whole, the church of today has no interest in contemplating.
