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Through their blindness and insistence on discarding God’s ways in favor of their own, they in fact dismissed themselves as His true workers. Instead, the Lord had to call an alternative team to start afresh with His original plan. These new workers made a good beginning, but once again it did not take long be fore they repeated the performance of their predecessors. If these occasions were the only times in history when such a rebellion had happened, the matter would be serious enough, but it is a recurring problem. History tells us that many movements have ended in such a deplorable condition. Each time this took place, the work was delayed by decades and even centuries. Vast amounts of money and materials were wasted, and still, after al most six thousand years, the work remains unfinished. And so it will continue until God has a team of workers who know that He alone is the Architect of the plan of salvation. They will accept their role as faithful, dedicated workers who never turn aside to appoint a committee of plan makers in God’s place. We are unable to comprehend what this unnecessary delay does to God. Centuries have passed by without the plan of sal vation reaching its fulfillment. This has brought untold anguish to the heart of our loving Creator who suffers with everyone tor tured by the effects of sin. “In all their distress he too was distressed, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and mercy he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.” Isaiah 63:9. “And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the Lord: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Isra el.” Judges 10:16 (KJV). “... for the L ORD had compassion on them as they groaned un der those who oppressed and afflicted them.” Judges 2:18. “Those who think of the result of hastening or hindering the gospel think of it in relation to themselves and to the world. Few think of its relation to God. Few give thought to the suffering that sin has caused our Creator. All heaven suffered in Christ’s God’s Suffering