Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one is about 1st Thessalonians.

1st Thessalonians is another one of these letters written by the Apostle Paul to a church

that he founded.

In this case, that church is in Thessalonica, which is a super ancient, very Greek city

that had played a role in all kinds of the Cummings and Goings and warfare and politics

of the ancient Greek world and the dealings with the Persians when they came and went.

So this town is a big deal.

It's a very cosmopolitan.

There are people from all over the world who live there.

And there's also a Jewish synagogue there.

So on Paul's second missionary journey, which is recorded in part in Acts chapter 17,

Paul and his buddy Silas show up in Thessalonica, and apparently they do what they were doing

at any of these towns where there was a Jewish presence.

They went first to the synagogue, and they would reason there with the Jewish people.

Paul spoke their language both literally and figuratively.

And it says that in Thessalonica there was a pretty good response.

Some of those Jews were persuaded that their Messiah had indeed arrived.

The promised king of David is here, the one who would crush the head of the serpent promised

all the way back in the beginning of Genesis.

He has arrived.

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