2nd Chronicles 36:15 And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place.
Day by day persons are given opportunity to choose between Christ and satan, between truth and error, and between good and evil, and thus, the choices a person makes become permanently crystalized into character, for the decisions that will be made at the time of the latter rain, represent for the most part, a culmination of choices which have been made over the course of one’s lifetime.
Persons would not get up one morning, and decide to take the mark of the beast suddenly, and persons should not expect to be sealed suddenly either, for both the sealing work and the mark of the beast are representative of processes of preparation that have been ongoing for many years, in most instances.
God has been working and He’s currently working in many hearts and some of the recipients of His grace may not have a clue that such a work is taking place in the background. The thief on the cross who gave his life to Christ did not do so suddenly. Long before he acknowledged Christ publicly, the Holy Spirit had been working with him.
Romans 5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!