THE COMING OF THE LORD - ANSWERS

A) "Knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, 'Where is the promise of His coming...'" (2 Pet. 3:3-4)

The night before He was crucified, Jesus promised the church he would someday come back for us (John 14:1-4). At the coming of the Son of Man (resurrection), like in the days of Noah, the righteous will be delivered before the wrath is poured out on the wicked. (Mat. 24:37-39, 1 Thes. 1:10)  Peter calls this day of deliverance then wrath, the day of the Lord. (2 Pet. 3:10-13) The promise of His coming is the catching up (rapture) of the saints (1 Thes. 4:17) out of the Great Tribulation (Rev. 7:9-14) before Gods wrath is poured out on a Christ rejecting world (1 Thes. 1:10).  The scoffers are those denying the rapture of the church from the wrath to come. (2 Pet. 3:3-4)