"Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and [by] our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand."

"When Paul was at Thessalonica, he preached to the people about the second coming of the Lord.

After he had gone away, he wrote to them a letter in which he said more about this same event, and in his writing he made it so much of a reality, and his hope was so centered in the event that apparently he put himself among those who would see the Savior come, and wrote as though he and others would be alive at that time.

Historical Basis

“In the first year of Neriglissar (king of Babylon), only two years after the death of Nebuchadnezzar, broke out that fatal war between the Babylonians and the Medes, which was to result in the utter subversion of the Babylonian kingdom.”

“Cyaxares, king of the Medes, who is called “Darius” in Daniel 5:31, summoned to his aid his nephew, Cyrus, of the Persian line, in his efforts against the Babylonians.”

Most ancient cities were always surrounded with big walls which were a form of protections against enemies while the inhabitants of the city lived within the walls. Babylon was no exception here and below is given an account of the walls of the city.

“The walls were every way prodigious : for they were in thickness eighty-seven feet, in height three hundred and fifty feet, and in compass four hundred and eighty furlongs, which make sixty of our miles.” 1