2. “What Is God Waiting For?”

3. What Is God Waiting For?
God desires salvation for everyone (I Tim. 2:4)
God is merciful and patient (Psa. 86:15)
God has also promised to punish evil (Prov. 11:21)
So you may be thinking, “What is he waiting for?”

4. What Is God Waiting For? Adam & Eve
Punishment promised (Gen. 2:17; 3:17-19, 24)
Some 900 years of life afterward (Gen. 5:3-5)
God’s greater plan
Time to initiate the plan of salvation (Gen. 3:15)
Time to “call on the name of the Lord” (Gen. 4:26)
Time to multiply (Gen. 5:3-4)

5. What Is God Waiting For? Flood victims
Punishment for sin promised (Gen. 6:5-7)
120 years of patience (Gen. 6:3)
God’s plan
Time to build the ark (Gen. 6:13-7:1)
Time to preach (II Peter 2:5)
Time to repent (I Peter 3:20)

6. What Is God Waiting For? Natives of Canaan (Amorites)
Punishment promised (Gen. 15:16-21; Lev. 18:24-25)
400 years until they would be driven out
God’s preparation
Time to build an army (Exo. 1:7; Num. 1:45)
600,000+ fighting men
Time to build Israel’s faith (Exo. 14:13-14)
Time to tear down the Canaanites’ courage (Josh. 2:8-11)
Time to teach Israel its Law before entering Canaan

7. What Is God Waiting For? Nineveh, capital of Assyria
Punishment promised (Jonah 3:4)
Message came 40 days before destruction
God’s plan
Time to repent (Jonah 3:10; 4:11)
Punishment promised again later (Nahum)
Patient, but not lax (Nahum 1:2-3)

8. What Is God Waiting For? Israel & Judah Punishment promised for Israel
Amos & Hosea (750 BC); Moses (1400 BC)
Exiled by Assyria (722 BC)
Punishment promised for Judah
Isaiah & Micah ( BC)
Exiled by Babylon (586 BC)
God’s plan
Prepare Assyria & Babylon (Isa. 10:5; Hab. 1:6)
Time to repent (II Chron. 36:15-16; Hos. 10:10)

9. What Is God Waiting For? Paul
Example of God’s patience for us (I Tim. 1:16)
God is waiting for us to come to him
Fallen saints in Thyatira
Warning for them, and us (Rev. 2:20-23)

10. What Is God Waiting For? Why is God waiting to punish evil?
Maybe he’s waiting for more people to “get in the ark” (II Peter 3:9)
God’s patience will end (Num. 14:18)
Some will repent in time, some will not
God’s patience is time to repent, not wait (Rom. 2:4-5)

11. “What Is God Waiting For?”