In 1 Thessalonians, Paul writes to those in Thessaloniki about the final return of Jesus Christ, when the “Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God,” and the dead in Christ will rise and they will meet the Lord in the air (4:16–18). Paul uses technical language to describe welcoming and celebrating the royal king as he returns to his city (similar to the entrance liturgy of Ps 24:7–10).  Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett