What is the Blessed Hope?

The blessed hope is your assurance of everlasting life found in John 3:16.Show more

Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Titus 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Attitudes and platitudes being the subject of Titus 2 the blessed hope (eternal life) is your reward for abeyance to the commandments. (Subject matter)
If you believe the glorious appearing is a reference to a rapture then give scripture. The glorious appearing is understood in two ways; the minute you die; or at the second coming.
Colossians 1:5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
The blessed hope is what Jesus Christ did on the Cross for you.
not some eschatological viewpoint in a word that's not even in the Bible.
Your hope is in eternal life not a rapture. What would you rather have; a rapture or eternal life? What good is a rapture without eternal life?
To top it off, the rapture you put your hope in, is a fairy tale, dreamed up by over active imaginations or machinations of men.

This is the kind of eschatological heresy that is taught in these houses of rapture. They’re looking under rocks, behind bushes, in the closet, under the bed for a rapture. They twist and contort the Word of God to fit a preconceived narrative of a fairy tale. They act as if one second coming isn’t enough so they just added a (second) second coming.
From a hermetical standpoint the rapture doctrine can be dismantled on every point. Their interpretation of the blessed hope is just one more example of this.

Below are examples of the way in which the word HOPE is used in the NT. The word Blessed is self explanatory. Notice how the word resurrection is used in connection with the word HOPE. It’s also used in connection with eternal life in Titus 1:2 and Titus 3:7. All point to the blessed hope meaning as being; our hope is in a resurrection to eternal life after death and not in a rapture.
The blessed hope is what Christians have hoped for sense time began and it’s not a onetime event. Every time a Christian dies Christ makes a “glorious appearance” to them at the JSOC found in 2 Timothy 4:1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
Your dying in the flesh is often referred to as Jesus appearing to you. The second coming will be the same way except for the people who are alive in Christ and remain at the second coming will be changed in the moment in the twinkle of an eye. In a sense they will not die but they are changed or resurrected from flesh to spirit.

Examples
1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Acts 23:6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
Acts 24:15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Acts 28:20 For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

“Blessed” G # 3108 makarismos: a declaration of blessedness Original μακαρισμός, οῦ, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: makarismos Phonetic Spelling: (mak-ar-is-mos') Definition: a declaration of blessedness Usage: regarding as happy, blessed, or enviable. From makarizo; beatification, i.e. Attribution of good fortune -- blessedness.
“Hope” G # 1680 elpis: expectation, hope Original Word: ἐλπίς, ίδος, ἡ Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: elpis Phonetic Spelling: (el-pece')
Definition: expectation, hope Usage: hope, expectation, trust, confidence. faith, hope. From a primary elpo (to anticipate, usually with pleasure); expectation (abstractly or concretely) or confidence -- faith, hope.
1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

1 Thessalonians 2:19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
1 Thessalonians 4:13 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.
Colossians 1:5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
Colossians 1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
Colossians 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

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