and to give relief to you that are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
1.    "from Heaven" has reference to the place. In the first epistle the Thessalonians are said to have turned to God to serve him "and to wait for his Son from heaven" (1:10). This has reference to the visible descent of Christ (Acts 1:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:16).