If Christ hasn't returned are you saved?1Thessalonians 5:8-9 New International Version (NIV)
8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, AND THE HOPE OF SALVATION as a helmet. 9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to RECEIVE SALVATION through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Heb. 9:28 8so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to BRING SALVATION to those who eagerly await Him
The first Century church was engaged to those saved by grace. Engaged was the same as married without consummation or vows back then..Until the old bride was dead Christ wasn't free to remarry his espoused church. In 70 AD The unbelieving old bride died Christ was free to marry the church under the new covenant. This established their salvation or resurrection from being spiritually dead.
.Romans 13:11 And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because OUR SALVATION is nearer now than when we first believed.
The early church is OUR and they were expecting deliverance from their enemies and for those alive and those in Hades salvation from spiritual death.Resurrected into Christ. This all happened in 70 AD. Now when we physically die our soul doesn't doesn't go to a waiting place we continue living in Christ. Above Rom.13:11 slumber was spiritual death or separation from God in Hades. Remember Jesus saying the girl sleepeth and they laughed knowing she was dead. Christ new she was in a waiting place & would have had her soul resurrected at his coming in 70 AD.