<p>1:10- see on Mt. 3:7.</p><p><em>And to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come</em>- On one hand we are serving God in practice (:9), on the other, we are waiting for the Lord's return. The usage of &quot;Jesus&quot; without any title, such as &quot;Lord&quot; or &quot;Christ&quot;, is unusual. &quot;Jesus&quot; was a very common Jewish name at the time. Yet Paul baldly uses it, in purposeful juxtaposition with the fact He is God's Son, raised from the dead, who shall return. Yet Paul along with that emphasizes His utter humanity, having a name as common as Dave or Steve in the Anglo Saxon world. &quot;The wrath to come&quot; may refer to the time of trouble of the last days which Paul clearly expected to come upon that generation; they should not fear it, because it was to be the sign the Lord's return was imminent. He may well be alluding to the prediction that God's true Israel would be delivered by &quot;Michael&quot; from the time of trouble of the last days (Dan. 12:1). Paul considered both Jewish and Gentile Christians to be part of that new people of God.</p>