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The Bible calls this "long-suffering". Which is pretty descriptive. Patience is usually thought of as being able to wait without fussing about something or to put up with behavior in children, well, because they are children and other thoughts along this line.
However, long-suffering tells us that in this waiting and tolerance there is suffering on the part of the one being patient. God hates sin. Sin offends Him deeply. yet, knowing how the Son would suffer and die for us, God suffered long in the sinfulness of mankind in order to bring them His Son as Savior. God would be just to have ended it all with Adam and started all over again. But He didn't. He could have created mankind anew after bringing death and judgment onto Adam and Eve. He could have ended ALL of mankind with the flood because ALL were sinful, but He spared sinful Noah and His sinful family members. He could have judged ALL mankind with the flood with death and judgment and created mankind anew. But He did not. He chose to be long-suffering instead, waiting for the fulfillment of the ages to arrive to send forth the Son.
God is patient with us as the Father of the prodigal son illustrates. He loves mankind and desires for the redemption of all of the elect. But in the meantime, until all elect have been saved, the elect will live among those who reject God, and God holds off His righteous judgment upon the world full of sinners throughout history until ALL salvation is accomplished for ALL of the elect. Then comes the end where Jesus returns to fulfill eternal salvation for all who believe and to execute righteous eternal punishment upon those who do not believe in Him, in His Son, and have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit.
Knowing how patient the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have been for all of the history of creation, even of the angels prior to the creation of the physical world (when some sinned horribly and most did not) shows us that we are to be merciful as He is.
The Bible calls this "long-suffering". Which is pretty descriptive. Patience is usually thought of as being able to wait without fussing about something or to put up with behavior in children, well, because they are children and other thoughts along this line.
However, long-suffering tells us that in this waiting and tolerance there is suffering on the part of the one being patient. God hates sin. Sin offends Him deeply. yet, knowing how the Son would suffer and die for us, God suffered long in the sinfulness of mankind in order to bring them His Son as Savior. God would be just to have ended it all with Adam and started all over again. But He didn't. He could have created mankind anew after bringing death and judgment onto Adam and Eve. He could have ended ALL of mankind with the flood because ALL were sinful, but He spared sinful Noah and His sinful family members. He could have judged ALL mankind with the flood with death and judgment and created mankind anew. But He did not. He chose to be long-suffering instead, waiting for the fulfillment of the ages to arrive to send forth the Son.
God is patient with us as the Father of the prodigal son illustrates. He loves mankind and desires for the redemption of all of the elect. But in the meantime, until all elect have been saved, the elect will live among those who reject God, and God holds off His righteous judgment upon the world full of sinners throughout history until ALL salvation is accomplished for ALL of the elect. Then comes the end where Jesus returns to fulfill eternal salvation for all who believe and to execute righteous eternal punishment upon those who do not believe in Him, in His Son, and have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit.
Knowing how patient the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have been for all of the history of creation, even of the angels prior to the creation of the physical world (when some sinned horribly and most did not) shows us that we are to be merciful as He is.
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