How Long?

"Won't God provide justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Will he be slow to help them? I tell you, he will give them justice quickly. But when the Human One comes, will he find faithfulness on earth?"- Luke 18:7-8

It's interesting to me to compare Jesus' words above with a few other passages of Scripture. Clearly, God's idea of responding "quickly" when we cry out for justice is different from ours.

"Then the LORD said to Abram, "Have no doubt that your descendants will live as immigrants in a land that isn’t their own, where they will be oppressed slaves for four hundred years.But after I punish the nation they serve, they will leave it with great wealth."- Genesis 15:13-14

"A long time passed, and the Egyptian king died. The Israelites were still groaning because of their hard work. They cried out, and their cry to be rescued from the hard work rose up to God. God heard their cry of grief, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God looked at the Israelites, and God understood."- Exodus 2:23-25

"Then the LORD said, 'I’ve clearly seen my people oppressed in Egypt. I've heard their cry of injustice because of their slave masters. I know about their pain.'"- Exodus 3:7

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