How Will the Great Commission be finished?

The suffering in this world will completely stop when Jesus returns. Is there anything we can do to speed that up? Jesus was very clear, "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come" (Matthew 24:14). That means we are not waiting on Jesus to return; He is waiting on us.

With love for a suffering world, each of us has the duty and privilege to take up this great commission to make disciples of all the nations (Matthew 28:18-20). With 3.58 billion unreached Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, and others in 4,487 distinctly different people groups this is a huge challenge. We turn to the Bible and Ellen White's writings for answers to this most pressing question, How will the Great Commission be finished?

“With such an army of workers as our youth, rightly trained, might furnish, how soon the message of a crucified, risen, and soon-coming Saviour might be carried to the whole world! How soon might the end come—the end of suffering and sorrow and sin!” (Education, 271).
By Training Young People
“With such an army of workers as our youth, rightly trained, might furnish, how soon the message of a crucified, risen, and soon-coming Saviour might be carried to the whole world! How soon might the end come—the end of suffering and sorrow and sin!” (Education, 271).
“Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked, that you cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh? Then your light shall break forth like the morning, your healing shall spring forth speedily, and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard” (Isaiah 58:6-8).
By Healing and Restoring Ministry
“Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked, that you cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh? Then your light shall break forth like the morning, your healing shall spring forth speedily, and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard” (Isaiah 58:6-8).