What are we preparing for? We are preparing to greet the Risen Lord, in His glory and as King. We are preparing for the new heavens and the new earth. We are preparing for the ultimate reality. It is is ultimate and real because, unlike this present reality, it will not pass away. What we know and what we are is illusory, we, all of us, me, you, the ones you fear, and all we see around us, good and bad, will die, it will be no more. That we, any of us, all of us, and everything we see and know exists is because of God's mercy. He could come in judgment at any moment, that He does not is His patience, the patience and mercy He showed the Canaanites by forcing His people to remain in Egypt over 400 years until the sin of the Canaanites filled the Land. We are called in the Epistle to be prepared in righteousness and godliness. We're being given an opportunity right now to re-evaluate ourselves, our purpose and our ways as individuals and as the church are we doing that work or are we just longing to get back to the way it was?
