What is the Blessed Hope that Paul writes about?
The Blessed Hope, according to Paul’s writings, is the believer’s sudden translation from this life into eternity with the Lord. It is the catching away before the Antichrist’s appearance, when believers are snatched up, caught up in 1 Thessalonians, and meet the Lord in the air, receiving new bodies to be with Him forever.
Les explains that the Blessed Hope is what the believer calls the sudden translation Paul writes about, not a cop-out, but the moment believers are translated from this life to the eternal with new bodies to be with the Lord forever in an instant. It may occur today, tomorrow, or later; no dates are set. As globalism, global religion, global economies, and global government appear, they are a sure sign that the Antichrist’s appearance is near. But before that, believers will be snatched away and caught up in 1 Thessalonians to meet the Lord in the air. All creation waits for the manifestation of the children of God, because that day triggers the final days of the curse, when the seven years of tribulation become God’s way of paying off Satan’s mortgage, as studied in Revelation chapter 5.