Sorrow not as those who have no hope. We tend to think eschatology is important but impractical. What does the millennium have to do with Monday morning? Quite a bit, Paul says. The Thessalonians were suffering intensely. They were being killed by their own next-door neighbors. Paul writes to comfort them—and he does i Canon Press resource: https://canonpress.com/products/the-mines-of-difficulty-a-commentary-on-first-and-second-thessalonians