Praise and Glory and Honor, the Things of God for Us?

In this you rejoice, even if now for a little while you have had to suffer various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith—being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.  vvs. 6-7 

The result of the testing by fire of our faith is praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.   When is Jesus Christ going to be revealed?  Peter’s writing seems to imply that it will be imminent.   Jesus has gone within this generation, the expectation that he will return within this generation.  This was never made explicit-in fact, Jesus went out of his way to make sure that the day of his return was NOT explicit, that it was the Father’s choice, and a choice he was not a part of.

But praise and glory and honor are the result.  Are these simply synonyms, a triplet of the same idea intended for effect?  In the bible, these words are usually reserved for God.  They are words of high worship, of what is given to, what is deserved by God.  In this phrase, it is not clear whether these are meant for God, coming from the genuineness of our faith, or they fall upon us, because our faith has been tested by fire, or the result is for both.

Praise is the lifting of voices in words of positive affirmation to another.  Glory is the provision of positive affirmation lifted up to another.  Honor is positive affirmation given in fealty, in service, to another.  “Positive affirmation” drains each term of the full measure of intensity implied.  “Intense positive affirmation” begins to sound silly.  Most importantly, we see here the results of being faithful even when having undergone trials.

And because we are gathered unto God in that which we have received, I believe that the whole of the faithful, God and ourselves, will receive the result when Jesus is revealed.