and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead-- Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
This is fembu at its noisome worst.  Neither Paul, nor any of the apostles, and least of all the Lord himself, expected that the Second Advent would be "speedy," or "in their lifetime," or at any time other than remote generations afterward; but none of that prevented Christians from living and dying "in expectation of the return of Christ," even as true believers do now!  And yet every Christian knows that the actual coming may still be centuries or millenniums in the future.