BLESSED HOPE The Second Coming of Christ has always been called the blessed hope of believers. That name comes from Titus 2:13 where Paul tells Titus to teach his congregation to live soberly, “looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.” That hope was always a key element of Paul’s teaching. In Thessalonians, among Paul’s earliest letters, teaching about the Second Coming figures prominently. In Titus, one of Paul’s last letters, he is still exhorting