and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead-- Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
But when he speaks of deliverance from the wrath to come, he reverts to the pronoun "us." He expects to share in that final emancipation along with the Thessalonians just as by his use of "we" in the fourth chapter he expects to share with them in being caught up together (13-17).