This is another letter written by the guy who did whatever the fuck he wanted until Jesus put fish scales in his eyes and then he became an expert on how people should live, Paul.
He starts out like every letter he writes that he’s so happy that the Thessalonian church exists and he’s praying for them to be great and awesome.
He says he’s glad he got to see them, even though he was afraid they might have thought his visit was kind of a shit show. Paul’s whole life was a shit show, so he didn’t feel that way at all.
He tells them he’d love to come down and visit them, but Satan totally was preventing it. Probably because he was in prison. It doesn’t say that he was in prison, but he was a lot. So I’m going to say that he was.
He tells everyone that Timothy had good things to say about their church and that made him happy. He warns them, like he warns everyone, not to worry about doing anything of value, but only to live to make god happy.
He promises that Jesus is coming back soon, and dead people are going to crawl out of their graves and people who are alive and believe in Jesus are going to get escorted up into heaven, which is apparently just past the clouds.
He tells them that this is going to happen soon, almost 2000 years later and it still hasn’t, so to live their lives better. Don’t get drunk and sleep all day, spend your time doing good happy Christian things. He warns them to stay away from everyone remotely evil and from now on to greet each other by kissing. Which is the first thing he’s had to say in a while, I can get behind 100%.
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