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[quote] I would request you all to see the 'explicit references' in proper context. I have only studied the first one (Tit 2:13-4). We come to the others too. But let us see these verses in their proper context. None will find it hard to know that the exhorter is talking of the Hereafter:
 Exhort bondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back, [See for other similar verses from the bible: Eph 5:24; 6:5; Col 3:22; 1Ti 6:1-2; 1Pe 2:18] (10) not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. [See also: Mt 5:16; Php 2:15] (11) For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, [see also: Lu 3:6; Joh 1:9; Ro 5:15; 1Ti 2:4; Tit 3:4-5; 1Pe 5:12] (12) teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age , [See also: Lu 1:75; Ro 6:19; Eph 1:4; Col 1:22; 1Th 4:7; 1Pe 4:2; 1Jo 2:16] (13) looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, [see also: Ac 24:15; 1Co 1:7; Php 3:20; Col 1:5,23; 3:4; 2Ti 4:1,8; Tit 1:2; 3:7; Heb 9:28; 1Pe 1:7; 2Pe 3:12; 1Jo 3:2] (14) who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.

Also please see Adam Clark:

"Verse 13. Looking for that blessed hope] Expecting the grand object of our hope, eternal life. See Tit 1:2. This is what the Gospel teaches us to expect, and what the grace of God prepares the human heart for. This is called a blessed hope; those who have it are happy in the sure prospect of that glory which shall be revealed. 
 The glorious appearing] kai epifaneian thv doxhv tou megalou yeou kai swthrov hmwn ihsou cristou. This clause, literally translated, is as follows: And the appearing of the glory of the great God, even our Saviour Jesus Christ. On this passage I must refer the reader to the ESSAY ON THE GREEK ARTICLE, by H. S. Boyd, Esq., appended to the notes on the Epistle to the Ephesians, where both the structure and doctrine of this passage are explained at large. 
 Some think that the blessed hope and glorious appearing mean the same thing; but I do not think so. The blessed hope refers simply to eternal glorification in general; the glorious appearing, to the resurrection of the body; for when Christ appears he will change this vile body, and make it like unto his GLORIOUS BODY, according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself. See Php 3:20,21."
"Verse 14. Who gave himself for us] Who gave his own life as a ransom price to redeem ours. This is evidently what is meant, as the words lutrwshtai and laon periousion imply. The verb lutrow signifies to redeem or ransom by paying a price, as I have often had occasion to observe; and periousiov signifies such a peculiar property as a man has in what he has purchased with his own money. Jesus gave his life for the world, and thus has purchased men unto himself; and, having purchased the slaves from their thraldom, he is represented as stripping them of their sordid vestments, cleansing and purifying them unto himself that they may become his own servants, and bringing them out of their dishonourable and oppressive servitude, in which they had no proper motive to diligence and could have no affection for the despot under whose authority they were employed. Thus redeemed, they now become his willing servants, and are zealous of good works-affectionately attached to that noble employment which is assigned to them by that Master whom it is an inexpressible honour to serve. This seems to be the allusion in the above verse."

What I get from the quote is that the exhorter says to be pepared for the Last Day. Of course explicitly.

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