The return of the Lord Jesus Christ to the earth and the raising of the bodies of the saints have been the hope of the godly from the days of the Apostles of the Lamb, and ought to be the hope of the believers of our time. Instead, an unscriptural emphasis on the catching up ("rapture") of the saints has been inserted in place of the historic hope. The emphasis on the catching up of the saints rather than their resurrection has destroyed the spiritual vitality of the Christian churches.
