1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 The young Thessalonian church wanted to know when the Lord would be returning, so evidently they asked the one guy that might know: Paul. He gives them an answer in this part of his letter to them, but it's probably not the answer they were looking for. And then, Paul answers a question they probably weren't asking but is a much more important one for them - and for us - to be asking.