Because God, in His longsuffering, gives people abundant opportunity to be converted and saved, it will only be in the long run—afterwards, in the end—that He can fully attest to and confirm the divine splendor of His majesty. It is written that God is not mocked, and yet He permits Himself be mocked repeatedly by people all over the earth, directly and indirectly. However, in the end, after all is said and done, He does not accept mockery. He attests to the splendor of His majesty in two essential ways:1. In the first instance, He shows that He is exalted far above people’s vengefulness and wickedness and their pernicious temper by bearing and tolerating the ungodliness of all mankind through His unspeakable longsuffering—even being mocked and derided by pitiable human wretches in order to save them, if possible.2. Secondly, His great majesty will be revealed after He has abundantly demonstrated His exalted superiority and His longsuffering and goodness to each individual and to the entire world and has shown that He is the Mighty One, who firmly and righteously will judge one and all in small and great things, and will perfectly repay and avenge Himself, and thus fully attest to the glorious splendor of His name and His majesty!!! Then no one will have the opportunity to doubt the correctness of this word: “God is not mocked.” Gal. 6:7. Simultaneously, every mouth shall confess, honor, and praise His immense longsuffering and goodness throughout all the ages! God’s majesty is silent, waiting in its divine loftiness, while stubborn, short-sighted, and boastful men express their many assertions, defending their various opinions and choosing their diverse ways. He is silent and waits while the fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” Besides all that, He guides and leads and arranges everything and everyone so that they all, in the end, after having more or less declared bankruptcy (everyone in his own way), wholeheartedly gives His great name all the glory. He will gather all His enemies as a footstool under His feet. 1 Cor. 15:24-25; Ps. 110:1. What an honorable footstool that is! What an honorable end result to that war! All His saints, for whom He gave His all and gained by His honorable and majestic longsuffering, will spend their time around His throne and around His footstool, worshiping Him and glorifying Him for all eternity!!! Even His footstool will honor Him in agreement with the word: “That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Phil. 2:10-11. There are sufficient, reasonable grounds to sing as David used to sing: “I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, and on Your wondrous works.” Ps. 145:5.Elias Aslaksen