As we Christians are told that we must endure until the end,
Matthew 24:13,
1 Corinthians 10:13,
Revelation 13:10 & 14:12, + do not expect God to rapture you away from testing and trials.
1 Peter 4:12-19
Well, Peter and Paul were at odds from time to time..... Even Peter admitted Paul's writings were valid though. Some keep looking for the beast / antichrist / man of sin but I will keep looking for the Messiah. Then we will all be at least looking expectantly.
Titus 2:13 looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
2 Timothy 4:8 Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by
our assembling unto him,
2 That ye be not suddenly moved from your mind,
nor troubled neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as it were from us, as though the
day of Christ were at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for
that day shall not come, except there come
a departing first, and that that man of sin be disclosed, even the son of perdition.
2 Thessalonians 2:5-8 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
1 Thessalonians 4:17-18 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore
comfort one another with these words.
Kinda hard to be comforting to the brethren when one is telling them to expect to live thru the worse period of time that has ever come upon this planet. Sure doesn't sound like a blessed hope to go thru that period. But all who want to go thru that period, maybe it is their blessed hope. It think that going thru the tribulation period would be the blasted hope. But I guess we each have our own perspectives on these things. King David and Isaiah seemed to have this worked out. That is a couple of heavy hitters, so I think I will side with them.
And Yeshua in Hosea laid it out pretty clear what the main focus of the Tribulation Period is. And no, it is not about with church purification, testing of the saints, and much of the other stuff that folks throw out there.