[editor-surveyor]

It’s helpful to read the entire epistle at once, if understanding is your goal.

You skipped much of the discussion with your post.

Verse clipping is the heart of cultism.
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[Salvation]

I would say the same thing to someone who quotes only 1 Thes. 4:17 — they take that one verse entirely out of context.

[Salvation]

Another thing — Everyone will be caught up to the Lord, but then the Lord separates the sheep from the goats and not all will go to heaven.

Paul covers that too.