Monday, November 24

1Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other,

4so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure,

5which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer;

6since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you,

7and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels,

8in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

10when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed.

20Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, 'The kingdom of God does not come with observation;

21nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.'

22Then He said to the disciples, 'The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

23And they will say to you, 'Look here!' or 'Look there!' Do not go after them or follow them.

24For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day.

25But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.