The time before the Feast of Tabernacles can be filled with frustrations and annoyances, requiring the incorporation of longsuffering, identified as one of the fruits of God's spirit. As God's called-out ones, we sometimes despair that individuals who have not yet been called, perhaps blood relatives, demonstrate patience or unflappability better than we do. Theologian Stephen Charnock, regarding the patience of God, writes. "There is indeed the power of His anger, and there is the power of His patience, and His power seen in His patience than His wrath," adding that "revenge is the sign of a childish mind and the stronger a man is in reason, the more command he has over himself." From the time of Adam and Eve, followed by the exodus of our rebellious forebears on the Sinai, followed by their foolish decision to choose a king to be like the rest of the world (I Samuel 8:4-7), up to the present, when the descendants of Jacob are still acting like spoiled brats, God has exercised patience, longsuffering, and forbearance, but He cannot acquit the unrepentant sinner; If we don't repent, there is a time when His longsuffering will end and the time His wrath will begin.