Destined for Salvation: A Supplementary Summary for 1Thess 5:9-10

"Destined for Salvation" is a supplementary summary for 1Thess 5:9-10 that compliments the author's discussion in "The Outer Darkness." Five major models for interpreting 1Thess 5:9-10 are evaluated, and a mediation is taken that perceives the passage as promising an unconditional rapture (and thus unconditional security) to all believers in Christ, even to those who are morally asleep. However, an incentive for being morally awake is provided by making salvation (in the form of millennial and eternal ridership) contingent upon being morally alert in view of the attendant Bema judgment that is to ensue. Harmonization between these perspective and some key passages is then demonstrated in connection with the "blessed hope" of Tit 2:13 and being saved by Christ's death and life in connection with the approaching tribulational wrath of Rom 5:9-10.