Why Hasn’t God Stopped the Suffering and Evil?

Why hasn’t God stopped the suffering and evil in this world? In this powerful message, Herbert W. Armstrong explains why the world is filled with heartache, trouble, discontent, and suffering, and why God has not yet fully intervened to end it.

Full program: https://youtu.be/qD3orZxiuow

Armstrong explains that Lucifer was originally created as a perfect superarchangel, but through rebellion became Satan. This world has suffered under Satan’s way ever since. Yet Jesus Christ came, conquered Satan, paid the penalty for sin, and now sits at the right hand of God as High Priest and Head of the Church.

So why has Christ not yet taken over the throne of the earth?

This short message explains why this present world continues as it does, and why the day is coming when Jesus Christ will return to rule all the earth.

Transcript

Now this Satan, originally when God created him, was not Satan. He was the perfect superarchangel Lucifer, perfect in all his ways, as God created him, until iniquity was found in him. He was given free moral agency, even as you and I. He had to make a choice, and he chose rebellion against God, and against the government of God. The government of God was taken away from this Earth, and this Earth has been ruled by Satan and his ways, just the opposite of the government of God, ever since.

It is a way that causes heartache and trouble, and wretchedness and discontent, and that’s what the Earth is suffering today, and has been now for 6,000 long years. However, Jesus Christ came, conquered Satan, qualified, did not take over the throne of the Earth, but rather went to the cross, the most humiliating possible death, that he suffered for you and me. And he paid the price of our sins by his death, by his shed blood. He bled to death, and by his shed blood, our sins may be forgiven IF and when we repent and turn around to go the other way, and to live the way of God’s law, and God’s way of life.

However, he did not take over the throne, even though he had qualified. Rather, he ascended after his resurrection, ascended to heaven where he sits at the right hand of God now, as the high priest and also the head of the church. And the only thing on this Earth that Jesus Christ is ruling now, is his church that are called out from this world of Satan. He is ruling nothing else, but the day is coming when he is going to come and rule all of the Earth.