What does it mean that the coming of Christ is imminent?
The imminent coming of Christ for the Church means it may happen tonight, tomorrow, or ten years from now, with no set prophetic program that must be fulfilled first. Believers are to expectantly look for it at any time, without a known date.
Les teaches that the imminent coming of Christ for the Church is the teaching that this event could occur at any moment—tonight, tomorrow, or even ten years from now—because there is no set prophetic program that must be fulfilled first. Paul wrote as though it would happen in his lifetime, and believers are to expectantly look for it at any time. This truth is tied to the secret Paul reveals in verse 51: not all believers will die physically, but they will be changed. Their resurrected body will be fashioned after Christ's resurrection body—a spiritual body of flesh and bone without blood, activated by the Spirit. Since no prophetic schedule stands in the way, the Church lives in constant expectation of Christ's coming.