Why are we exhorted to patience?

Answer

"But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting [lacking] nothing
James 1: 4.

How futile was all this?
Who minister to God, and assist in the judgment?
What challenge is made by those who worship the beast?
Who will sing the song of Moses and the Lamb on the sea of glass?
Does the Papacy acknowledge that it has changed the Sabbath?
To whom is salvation promised at Christ's appearing?
How did Elijah pray before obtaining his request?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle