How Long, O Lord?
When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those slaughtered because of God’s word and the testimony they had. They cried out with a loud voice: “O Lord, holy and true, how long until You judge and avenge our blood from those who live on the earth?”
(Revelation 6:9-11 from Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®)
While He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached Him privately and said, “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what is the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?”
Then Jesus replied to them: “Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and they will deceive many. You are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, because these things must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these events are the beginning of birth pains.
“Then they will hand you over for persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of My name. Then many will take offense, betray one another and hate one another. Many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. Because lawlessness will multiply, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered. This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the world as a testimony to all nations. And then the end will come.
(Matthew 24:3-14 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®)
A century is a long time. 20 centuries is an unimaginable length of time. In that time, the Family of Jesus has been so distracted by Roman Mythology and wars and building bigger barns and games and racisms and fear and pride and thousands of other misdirections that not much has been done to preach the good news that Jesus died to pay for the sins of the people on the earth.
Even less by far has been done to preach the good news about the Kingdom, which is the activity Jesus mentioned in Matthew 24:14 above. I expect that unless we are delivered from the crippling ideas that it is not “us” who are responsible for giving our lives and fortunes to accomplish the announcement of the good news, but the “clergy,” and delivered from the profound ignorance among believers regarding things Jesus said and what they mean, we will continue condemning billions of people (like 30 million this year) who could become sons and daughters of Yahweh to eternities of separation from Him instead, and prolonging His coming for many more centuries… Very sad.