Thread by @bonestobreak, right Serious Question: surely now would be a really good time for [...]

right Serious Question: surely now would be a really good time for Jesus to return? He could literally heal the whole world and everyone would know His healing, compassion, and love. so, at the risk of sounding like a petulant child, why not now?

i know it's His plan, not mine, but i can't help but think about what it could be like if Jesus came now to this deeply broken world

reading scripture, knowing Jesus will return when it's the Father's will (John 6:39-40), that there will be great sorrow before He returns (Matthew 24:5-14) and that the gospel has to be preached in all the world before the end times (Matthew 24:14)

we should be ready (Matthew 24:42, Luke 12:40)

we should be patient, strong, and try to be holy (Titus 2:11-13, James 5:7-9, 2 Peter 3:8-9)

(btw this is just what i'm understanding i might be completely wrong just idk

("sharing")

my friend @c0caineSoda said that people need to come to God by faith rather than through some grand revelation so preaching the gospel (which might look like idk living it out?) is rlly important (which fits in with Matthew 24:14)

i think i'm started to really look forward to the Second Coming, when 'every eye shall see Him' (Revelation 1:7) and there will be no more sorrow or pain (Revelation 21:4)

can't come soon enough

only God knows when (Matthew 24:36) but in Revelation 3:11, 23:20 Jesus says 'I come quickly', but one day is a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is one day (He is not bound by time, is He outside of time, this is a tangent) but He keeps His promises (2 Peter 3:8-9

just thinking about 1 Thessalonians 4:16 when the Lord shall descend from heaven with a shout (what will that sound like?)

also don't think i've said 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 (but i've probs left out stuff this has been one night of trying to answer my own question might be wrong)

if i'm chatting utter horse shit lmk there's every chance i've got the wrong end of the stick somewhere save me any more humiliation if i've got it wrong

i know there have been many many times in human history where we srsly needed some divine intervention (i mean don't we always?) but now p much the whole world is dealing with the same threat (not that it's some great equaliser, it's different depending on personal

circumstances many have made this point more eloquently than me)

forgive me for getting wide eyed it's 4:30am and i dont think i can say that all the world is "united" against a common enemy bc there is horrible staggering inequality everywhere but if our Lord and Saviour

came to us now with the ability to defeat this virus (something we all want) it would be Big News and okay maybe it's better to have faith rather than have a showing but the souls that could be saved...

i'm probably just fantasising bc i really want this pandemic to be over; so many people have lost their lives, so many families having to grieve in isolation, NHS staff on the front line often not being paid nearly enough for the risk they're exposed to...

feels like the majority of people haven't processed just how many people have died or had to be in intensive care dealing with all the fear and the noise and not even being able to have a visitor, i don't wanna go on and on about the terrible impact but yous probs know how i feel

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