and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead-- Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
It is not amiss to note, in this context, that some prefer to believe that the Holy Christ and the blessed apostles were all mistaken; and that bias enters into their interpretations.  The importance of this question is inherent in the fact that if the Lord himself and his apostles were truly mistaken about such an event as the Second Advent, then how may one be sure they were not also mistaken about heaven and hell, the terms of the gospel, the necessity of godly living, and all the rest of the Christian message? There is no way that this writer could accept either such implications or the false interpretations by which they are advocated.  The holy apostles were inspired of God in what they wrote, and the totality of their teaching derives from God himself.