They even tried to stop us. The Christians at Thessalonica were mostly Gentiles. Nothing fanned the flames of hatred among this group of Jews, as did the preaching of the Good News to the Gentiles (Acts 22:21-23). This is the last fall measure of the sins. Note this is their own act of free will. Jesus prophesied that God's wrath would fall on this group of people (Matthew 23:35-36). God's wrath did fall on them in many ways, but none so devastating as the destruction of Jerusalem (70 A.D.) which came in less than twenty years time from when Paul wrote this.

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