The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life - HOW LONG WILL THE TEST CONTINUE? -Continue

 Jehovah has permitted wickedness until our day in order to settle all the issues raised by Satan. But he will not permit wickedness to continue indefinitely. He has set a definite time when he will bring it to an end. The Bible writer Daniel referred to this long when he wrote: "The end is yet for the time appointed," - DANIEL 11:27. 

Nearly six thousand years from Adam's day to ours may seem a long time when viewed from the standpoint of humans about seventy years. But since God set the time limit, it is good to appreciate his view of the matter. The prophet Moses, at Psalm 90:4 [89:4, Dy], says of him: "A thousand years are in your eyes but as yesterday when it is past." A year is a long time to a child of five, but to a man of sixty it is comparatively short. Likewise, to Jehovah, who lives for eternity, a thousand years like a day. - 2 PETER 3:8. 

This set time during which wickedness has been permitted has been no injustice to us. Why, if God has immediately crushed the life out of all the rebel in Eden, we would have been born! We never had the opportunity for eternal life in his new system. So the fact that Jehovah did not cut short his long-suffering at some earlier time has given us the opportunity to live now, and eternally in the future.  (2 Peter 3:9, 15) Also, God has this time to provide for man's redemption through Christ. - GALATIANS 4:4, 5. 

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