If Christ hates evil, as I believe He does, why is He waiting so long for His Second Coming?

[Reep]

Robert, He is waiting for the rest of my grandchildren to be born!

 

[tonyrey]

It seems obvious that He’s waiting for the appropriate time, but what is it exactly that He’s waiting for? For example, does our world need to achieve some sort of completion before He comes? Please do not take this the wrong way, I wish that He would come today!

You’re impatient, Robert, and underestimate the complexity of life but at least you long for God - which is all that matters! Remember that He is with us right now even if we’re not aware of His presence. Without His love we wouldn’t even exist…

 

[meltzerboy]

meltzerboy - There have been many, many miracles attributed to the intercession of Jewish sages. The Rebbe, for one, and certainly the Vilna Gaon, among others.

Certainly the “smaller” miracles of the sages and of individuals in their own lives still exist. However, the grand miracles of yore, to which I was alluding, are no longer present.

 

[Vonsalza]

It seems obvious that He’s waiting for the appropriate time, but what is it exactly that He’s waiting for? For example, does our world need to achieve some sort of completion before He comes? Please do not take this the wrong way, I wish that He would come today!

When looking through the clouded and biased glass of eschatology, one would be best served by saying “Oh, all this speculation is rather interesting!” and then move on to things that are actually relevant like showing others Christ through your life.

Your view seems to suggest premillennialism. There are other views.

 

[ericc]

It seems obvious that He’s waiting for the appropriate time, but what is it exactly that He’s waiting for? For example, does our world need to achieve some sort of completion before He comes? Please do not take this the wrong way, I wish that He would come today!

The answer is in Rev 6:10-11.

 

[ericc]

I wish he would come today as well!

I have a feeling that the “second coming” is not a temporal event. As long as human beings can reproduce why end it? I think humanity will be around for millions of years assuming we don’t wipe each other out or a natural event does not finish us off.

I wish i could be alive until the very end.

I don’t think I am ready. Not clean enough for him.

 

[Robert_Sock]

You’re impatient, Robert, and underestimate the complexity of life but at least you long for God - which is all that matters! Remember that He is with us right now even if we’re not aware of His presence. Without His love we wouldn’t even exist…

Look at all the pain and suffering in the world then you will see why I’m a little impatient. Things like war, illnesses and disease, extreme poverty, all sorts of sin, the hardships of growing old, and so on.

 

[ANV]

Look at all the pain and suffering in the world then you will see why I’m a little impatient. Things like war, illnesses and disease, extreme poverty, all sorts of sin, the hardships of growing old, and so on.

Waiting for the flood.

 

[ericc]

Waiting for the flood.

God promised no more mass destruction by flood after Noah’s. You can stop waiting.

 

[fisherman_carl]

If Jesus had returned earlier you and I probably wouldn’t exist. God does things in his timing and takes into account more than we can know.

 

[Hunho]

This passage doesn’t give us a date for the Second Coming of Christ, but it does say what measure will be used to trigger that event.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne; they cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before thou wilt judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell upon the earth?” Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
–Revelation 6:9-11>

 

[spiritualsoldier]

The forces of good must triumph over evil first