Hope is what enables us to endure times of trouble. Jesus knows the needs of His troubled disciples and points them to the vivid hope of heaven. He portrays heaven as a home, a return, and a reunion. What will mark our reunion with our Lord is His return. This is the rapture explained further in 1 Thess. 4:17. The Lord Jesus Christ will indeed remove His church before unleashing His wrath upon the world for its wickedness and its persecution of His people. May our Lord find us busy about His work whenever He should come for us. Maranatha!