How Long Are Lord, How Long?

The question of apparent divine delay has been with us for a very long time. Many Jewish writers and some early Christian writers were quite clear about this. If God stepped in and said, okay, we're making the new thing right now, there's an awful lot of people who are at present rebelling against it. And so that's all going on in the background, as it were. It seems to me that the underlying answer to this question is very similar to what we said in a previous episode about prayer that God wants humans to be involved in the work.