The Left Behind series popularized a dispensational teaching that one day Christians will disappear to heaven, and those left behind will face a terrible period of tribulation.
Yet Jesus compares his second coming to the days of Noah when the "flood came and took them all away" (Matthew 24:39) and the ones left behind were the people who were saved.
The Bible tells us that one day heaven and earth will merge, and God will dwell forever with his people on this earth made new (Revelation 21:1-4).
Paul calls the return of Jesus "the blessed hope" (Titus 2:13). Indeed, there may be more reasons than we thought to find hope in the return of Jesus and the renewal of all things.