Armed For the Battle
The Battle We Fight Because the whole of the new dispensation constitutes the “last days,” there was a battle for the Christians to whom Paul wrote in Thessalonica, and there is today, and there will be until the end a battle for the young people of the church. In these latter days, the days grow darker, and the battle waxes ever hotter. That there was and is and will be a battle is made plain by the theme text (1 Thess. 5:1–8), which states in verse 8, “But let us who are of the day be...