“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17 (KJV) The early church did not treat the return of Jesus as a distant idea; they lived with a daily expectation that He could come at any moment. When Pa...