For the Lord himself will come
down from heaven, with a loud
command, with the voice of the
archangel and with the trumpet call
of God, and the dead in Christ will
rise first.

This is the person who wrote this letter

When Jesus comes, this is who will rise first

After that, we who are still
alive and are left will be caught up
together with them in the clouds to
meet the Lord in the air. And so we
will be with the Lord forever.

This is who this letter was written to

It is God’s will that we should be
sanctified that we should avoid this

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see

The letter stated that we believe that this person died and rose again

To make our ambition to lead a
quiet life: we should do this