Why did God wait so long?
I should more than likely know the answer to this question, but I can't seem to find an answer and I know there is one out there. What is the reason that God waited so long before he sent the Messiah after the fall of man? I understand that there had to be many prophets to "prepare" the people, and that there is a connection with the generations coming from the House of David, but is there any other reason?
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Permalink Reply by nicole on -
I am thinking Probably, although it is impossible to know all the reasons this side of eternity. One answer may be that making humans wait -- as distinguished from God himself "waiting" since God is outside time -- allowed humans to fully understand the need for a Redeemer and to fully understand their own inability to save themselves????
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Permalink Reply by Billy on -
"He makes all things beautiful in His time" so the words of the song say that I used sing as a child at Church.
The idea for the song comes from the following verse in Ecclesiates it seems "He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end." Ecc 3:11
"But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!" (Galatians 4:4)
Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He bows down, he lies down as a lion; And as a lion, who shall rouse him?
10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes; And to Him shall be the obedience of the people. (Genesis 49:10)
"Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel." (Isaiah 7:14)
"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. " (Daniel 9:24)
"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting."Therefore He shall give them up, Until the time that she who is in labor has given birth; Then the remnant of His brethren Shall return to the children of Israel." (Micah 5:2-3)
This was a great question thanks Nicole, I really enjoyed finding a good answer to this question, He makes all things beautiful in His time.
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