What is the blessed hope of the believer?
The blessed hope of the believer is the soon appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ, as Paul writes to Titus. At that hope, the corruptible body is raised incorruptible and changed to be fashioned like His glorious resurrected body, no longer limited by time and space.
Les teaches that the blessed hope is the soon appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ, which he connects with I Thessalonians chapter 4 beginning at verse 13. He also ties it to the believer's resurrection: the vile, corrupt, death-prone body will be changed and fashioned like Christ's glorious body—the same body He walked in for forty days after His resurrection. That body was supernatural, not limited by time and space; He could go through walls and ceilings. Les says this is not gobbledygook but Scriptural fact. In I Corinthians 15, the corruptible must put on incorruption and the mortal must put on immortality; the believer will be raised incorruptible and changed into a glorious body like His resurrected body. While we are limited to this old planet's physical aspects now, the Eternal is a whole new ball game.
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
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What is the blessed hope that believers are to be looking for?
The blessed hope is defined as the glorious appearing of the great God — the God of creation, the God of this Book — who is our Savior Jesus Christ.