2 Peter 3:8-9
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
If the world continues, it is because there are elect who need to be saved and elect that are yet to be born. God endures the sin of men for the sake of the elect, those He is currently calling and those whom He has yet to bring forth. Any who are saved must be born of God. Some of the walking dead are yet to be reborn in their lifetime and some who are to be reborn have not been born the first time yet.
All that to say, the world must go on until God redeems the very last one who will make up the sum total of those He has elected before the foundation of the world to inherit to whole shabang.
God is not slow, He is meticulous. He isn't impotent, He's patient. He isn't asleep at the wheel, He is waking sleepers from their slumber.
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