Why Are We Still Here?

Firstly let’s begin with a brief history.

There has never been a time since the “first vision” on 31st December, 1844, that there has not been error introduced in our church, which has had to be met with a “Thus saith the LORD” or the counsel of the “Faithful and True Witness”/“the Testimony of Jesus, which is the Spirit of Prophecy”. 
Following the 1888 “most precious message”, “the LORD was ready to come, but…”

He would have been here “ere this” before 1902. There was the successful outcome of the 1901 General Conference (GC), where the “kingly power” was stopped and a committee with a rotating chairman was instituted by God. But, our prophet was shown that this would be short lived and it was overturned at the next GC in 1903.

Seeing all of this coming in vision we received the following statement instead of the world ending and His people going to heaven -

Charge It Not to God—We may have to remain here in this world because of insubordination many more years, as did the children of Israel; but for Christ's sake, His people should not add sin to sin by charging God with the consequence of their own wrong course of action. Ev 696 

N.B. the date.

So, now we know what caused the delay and why we are still here.

insubordination 
noun [mass noun]
defiance of authority; refusal to obey orders. 
Oxford Dictionary.

Much could be said about the topic, the defiance and refusal to adhere to the counsel given, and its results in the intervening time, but, if we would all “receive reproof” correctly and understand the true “purpose of the testimonies”, then, let’s switch the subject around to the +ve and see how we could all hasten His coming -

It is the privilege of every Christian, not only to look for, but to hasten the coming of the Saviour. AA 600

“Christ is waiting with longing desire for the manifestation of Himself in His church. When the character of Christ shall be perfectly reproduced in His people, then He will come to claim them as His own. 
It is the privilege of every Christian not only to look for but to hasten the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, (2 Peter 3:12, margin). Were all who profess His name bearing fruit to His glory, how quickly the whole world would be sown with the seed of the gospel. Quickly the last great harvest would be ripened, and Christ would come to gather the precious grain.” COL 69

So, it is our privilege hasten His coming, subordinating ourselves, and allowing Him to produce this glorious outcome in our lives. Let us no longer delay His coming, but hasten it.

We can then be with our Beloved Husband for eternity!