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Introduction
Introduction
Who was the author : Paul, Timothy, and Silas. Probably was written in AD 49-51 He wrote the epistle from Corinth
who was the audience: The church of Thessalonica. The city of Thessalonica flourished for hundreds of years, partly because of its ideal location. It was situated on the banks of a hospitable harbor in the Thermaic Gulf near the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. In the Apostle Paul’s day it was the chief seaport of the Roman province of Macedonia. Thessalonica ranked with Corinth and Ephesus, the main ports of the provinces of Achaia and Asia, as a great shipping center.
Estimates of the population of Thessalonica in New Testament times place it at near 200,000, Most of the inhabitants were native Greeks, but many Romans also lived there. Orientals and Jews likewise populated the city. Wherever commerce flourished in the ancient world one would find Jewish businessmen. The Jewish synagogue in Thessalonica was influential; many Greek proselytes were present when Paul preached there
Thessalonica was built by Cassander in 315 b.c. near the site of an ancient city called Therma, named for the hot springs in the area. He chose this place for its excellent location and named it after his wife, Thessalonica, who was a half sister of Alexander the Great
Cassander was a Greek general under Alexander.
Many years later, when the Romans conquered the area (168 b.c.), they divided Macedonia into four districts and named Thessalonica the capital of one of these. In 146 b.c. the Romans reorganized Macedonia and made Thessalonica the capital of the new province which encompassed all four of the older districts. In 42 b.c. Thessalonica received the status of a free city from Anthony and Octavian (later called Caesar Augustus) because the Thessalonians had helped these men defeat their adversaries, Brutus and Cassius. The Romans ruled Thessalonica with a loose hand; though the Roman proconsul (or governor) lived there, no Roman troops were garrisoned in the city. The citizens were allowed to govern themselves, as in a Greek city-state, which they did through a group of five or six politarchs, a senate, and a public assembly.
In World War I the Allies based soldiers in Thessalonica, and during the Second World War the Nazis extracted 60,000 Jews from the city and executed them. Thessalonica still exists today with a population near 300,000. It is called Salonica
What is the backround
The Apostle Paul first preached the gospel in Thessalonica during his second missionary journey
Through a series of circumstances the missionaries were led to leave Philippi and press on about 100 miles westward along the Egnatian Way to the next major population center, Thessalonica
As was his custom, Paul visited the Jewish synagogue in Thessalonica where he knew he would find people who held much in common with him. Paul’s message consisted of three points. The OT teaching of the suffering, dying and resurrecting of Messiah. Those profeceiceies being fullfiled in Jesus of Nazerious. Lastly teaching Jesus will fullfill the rest of the Messianic professies.