Because yes, praise God, He will take it back. All the misery, suffering, pain, fear and death will disappear, and He will place His King to rule this earth with justice and righteousness. That King, His anointed one, will be Jesus of Nazareth, also known as the Christ. He was sent by God, also known as the Father, about 2000 years ago. God the Father informed us of His coming since the beginning of our existence through prophets, history, revelation, and the law of Moses. The entire Old Testament talks about Him, the One through which everything created was created, the One who sustains all created things in existence.

When Jesus, the Son of God, and Israel’s promised Messiah, came to earth, He proclaimed: “Repent! Because the Kingdom of God has come near!” He called that proclamation “the Good News of the Kingdom,” what we call in our days the gospel. The King was here, and every one of His followers expected earnestly that He would destroy their oppressors (the Romans at that time) and grant Israel independence and power. But, to their surprise, He didn’t. Because the real oppressor of Israel, and of the entire world, is not Satan, nor any government, the real oppressor is us. We love sin more than we love God, we love ourselves more than we love Him, and run towards Satan’s dominion through our sinful lifestyles. We have joined the gang of a condemned criminal, and we commit the same crimes he committed, deserving the same punishment he will receive.

Fortunately, God the Father is a merciful God. He decided to give us a chance and did not destroy us immediately. He chose to love us, and in order to be able to righteously forgive us, He needed to place the punishment for our crimes on someone strong enough and holy enough to carry all sins upon His conscience and pay for them at once and for ever.

Would there be anyone able to accomplish such a mission? Yes, God Himself. That was Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God, who renounced to His glory as part of the Godhead, became like one of us, lived among us, taught us the way back to the Father, and gave His life as a sacrifice to pay for all our sins by dying on a cross.

But the story does not finish there. He was part of the Godhead; He was holy and pure. He proved His sovereignty by taking His life back three days later, resurrecting on His own power as the victorious King! There were many witnesses of this event, whose lives were so radically changed that there cannot be other possibility than this being true. The resurrected Messiah then sent us to proclaim His victory to all nations, and to call people to return to the Kingdom of God, walking out of the darkness of this world through faith in His name, and to be ready for His return.

Yes, He will return! He will come back to reign on earth, after having taking revenge of His enemies. He will then come as a sovereign ruler, and not anymore as a meek suffering rabbi.

However, the mission is way to big for us to accomplish it in our own strength. That’s why He sent His Holy Spirit from Heaven, which was promised to Abraham in the beginning of the Bible. This Holy Spirit would remind us of all Jesus taught, and guide us to the fullness of the truth, sealing our souls as a guarantee of our future salvation, and equipping us with supernatural power to fulfill the task given to us. He would communicate to us all that the Father and the Son have to say, and without Him, there’s nothing we can do.