“If they were written to the Thessalonians and have already happened, there should be some historical record of them happening. Please cite a historical record of that prophecy happening in the past:
a) Jesus descending from heaven with a shout
b) with the voice of the archangel
c) with the trump of God
d) the dead in Christ rising first (into the clouds)
e) living Christians caught up together with them in the clouds
f) all of these people meeting Jesus Christ in the air
g) all of them remaining with the Lord Jesus Christ for ever after that.”
And if these had actually been physical events, and not spiritual, there would be a historical record of them.
However, had you read the link I posted from David Curtis, you would’ve seen how all this played out, ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE! I’d strongly suggest going back to read that link I posted to you so that you can understand this!
I did. I’m sorry, I don’t have time to respond to it, there are just too many points that he has wrong.
I always quickly check out the Matthew Henry Bible Commentary for each verse and see what it says. If I need more interpretation I continue searching elsewhere.
So I would have to do this for each of those quotes he has, and write up something that addresses each point he makes.
His excursis exhibits very weak/poor exegesis in a number of cases.
If I get time I will try to get back to that for you; if you’d like to start to analyze the differences between his excursis and the MHBC for the same verses, you can do that on biblegateway.com; just click on the STUDY THIS blue box next to Scripture text. There are a number of other resources there as well.