Why is the Blessed Hope not a cop-out?
According to Paul's writings, the Blessed Hope is not a cop-out because believers are suddenly translated from this life to the eternal with new bodies, to be with the Lord forever in an instant. It is the snatching away and catching up to meet the Lord in the air.
Les explains that the Blessed Hope is not a cop-out because the believer will be suddenly translated from this life into the eternal, receiving new bodies to be with the Lord forever in an instant. He notes that all of creation is waiting for the manifestation of the children of God, and Paul's writings call this the Blessed Hope. The timing is unknown—it may be today, tomorrow, or a while—so no dates are set. Les points to globalism in its forms, global religion, global economies, and global government as signs that the Antichrist's appearance is near, but before that believers will be snatched away and caught up, as in 1 Thessalonians, to meet the Lord in the air. Creation looks for that day because it triggers the final days of the curse, when the seven-year tribulation becomes God's way of paying off Satan's mortgage, as studied in Revelation 5.