1 Thessalonians – 1-5 - This "wrath to come" they will be delivered from is not the "rapture." 2020

1 Th 1:9
For they themselves report about us what kind of a reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

Paul tells these people, that when he told them of Torah, they turned from their idols and served Elohim only. They quit celebrating Xmas, Ishtar and sun-god-day worship ceremonies.

1 Th 1:10
and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

This "wrath to come" they will be delivered from is not the "rapture." it is the final judgment of Elohim. John the Witness talked about the same thing to the Pharisees and Sadduccees. They were not to be spared from the judgment of Elohim.

Matt. 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
This book is a letter written by the Apostle Paul in probably 52 or 53 AD. If that's true, then that makes this the first epistle that Paul wrote. (The english word "epistle" simply means "written correspondence.") Thessalonica was a Roman colony. It was located 50 miles west of Phillipi.

These letters to the Thessalonians are most often used to justify the strange allegations of a "rapture" and an "Antichrist" in prophecy. But did Paul really teach those things? Was Paul ever really given new prophetic revelation, or was he just teaching prophecy as it is given in the Tanakh? Set apart an hour or so and see if you don't agree!