Well done Jim. I'm really starting to like you

, in a brotherly way of course

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Can I add one thing along your theme? Paul wrote to the Thessalonians to comfort them through all the persecutions they were enduring at the hands of disbelieving Jews around them. Paul promised them rest when Jesus returned in flaming vengeance. But if you listen to these futurists, the Thessalonians were out of luck, up the creek without a paddle, no rest for the weary, sorry boys. The beatings will continue until moral improves. These futurists actually have stolen this comfort and taken it for themselves as if Paul was writing to them.
Oh and in the Olivet the disciples weren't going to get beaten and hauled into synagogues and before kings and the HS wasn't going to give them any words to say, that also was stolen by the futurists for themselves.