This is a Sabbath sermon that shows that we, as Seventh-day Adventists, should not even be here in this world. We should have been in heaven years ago. What went wrong?
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God has an appointed time for everything. For everything there is a season, and He has made it clear that He knows the time. And not only does He KNOW the time, He has APPOINTED the time. When the fullness of time has come, Christ Jesus *will* return, whether we are ready or not, whether we have worked or not, whether we have preached or not.
In 2 Peter 3:18, our “hastening” of His coming does not mean WE can “get Him to hurry up and come faster if we do this or that.” No, the word means that we are urging Him on, awaiting His coming with great eagerness. In all 6 verses where this Greek word occurs, it is people “moving fast” to get from one place to another. We don’t move HIM faster. It never means that we can affect when He returns. Many (most?) Adventists will disagree with me on this point, but if you think it through, believing that we can affect when the Lord returns is to make His return conditional upon what WE do. “But,” you may say, “it is God who finishes the work, not man.” That’s simply a contradiction of the fact that if His return is conditional upon our efforts, then one can reasonably argue that WE determine when He returns, not God. But that’s simply not the truth.
Ok, then, how about the necessity of the gospel being preached in all the world, then the end will come? Jesus is merely giving one of the signs of His imminent return. That preaching WILL be accomplished, and there is reason to believe that the world, as a whole, has already heard the gospel, just as the video above states the gospel was preached, in the days of the apostles, to the whole world in that day. I’m just saying that if God wanted to return in the 1800s He would have done so. If He wants to return this year, He will do so. Whenever the appointed time comes, He WILL come back, and not a moment sooner, no matter what lazy saints do or don’t do.
You may appreciate this chapter from a book by SDA lawyer Lewis R. Walton’s book, Advent, about when Jesus almost came.
http://prophecyhelps101.com/rich_text_55.html