God is sovereign, but He is not in control of what happens on this planet, man is, specifically, the church.
The priests came to Jesus one time to ask Him where He got the authority to do the things He did.
1And it came to pass, that on one of those days,
as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel,
the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,
2And spake unto him, saying,
Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things?
or who is he that gave thee this authority?
-Luke 20:1-2
Jesus told them that if they answered a question for Him first then He would answer them. He asked if Johns baptism was from God or man. They were afreid to answer so Jesus said He would not answer their question either. Then He immediately told a parable about authority. To bad the Priests did not have ears to hear, or they would have understood that He answered their question anyway.
8And Jesus said unto them,
Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
9Then began he to speak to the people this parable;
A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen,
and went into a far country for a long time.
10And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen,
that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard:
but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
11And again he sent another servant:
and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully,
and sent him away empty.
12And again he sent a third:
and they wounded him also, and cast him out.
13Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do?
I will send my beloved son:
it may be they will reverence him when they see him.
14But when the husbandmen saw him,
they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir:
come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.
15So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?
16He shall come and destroy these husbandmen,
and shall give the vineyard to others.
-Luke 20:8-16
Now, this was specifically a reference to the blessing of Abraham, and the promised land. But it was also a reference to the garden of eden, and the entire world because the pomised land was not just the land of Palestine. Abraham was promised the world:
13For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world,
was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law,
but through the righteousness of faith.
-Romans 4:13
The blessing of Abraham was all the promises given to his seed, the Jews, which of course is all the promises of the Bible, because the Bible was written only by Jews, the descendants of Abraham, the seed that He promised to bless. Those promises outline a plan by God to take back the authority that Adam had given to satan in the garden of eden, and give the world back to mankind.
When that Word, (those promises) became flesh, and we called Him Jesus, He was not a servant of sin. Therefore He walked fully in the authority of the first Adam, satan was not His lord, nor did death riegn over Him as it had over all humanity since the garden.
In fact, Jesus once told us the disciples why He could do the things He did. And it wasn't because He was the son of God. It was because He was the son of man. That is, the son of Adam.
26For as the Father hath life in himself;
so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
27And hath given him authority to execute judgment also,
because he is the Son of man.
-John 5:26-27
You see, only man has authority on this planet, until the lease period runs out. God cannot interfere, any more than you can break into your neighbors house and take away their cigarettes and drugs. He has the power to intervene, but because He is not a liar, He cannot lie, and it is impossible for God to lie, He will not take back or violate the dominion that He gave to Adam.
It is up to the church to take it back, peice by piece, until death is fianlly defeated. WE have the power to defeat death, as the body of Christ, becasue we are the sons of Adam as our Lord was/is. And when we became born again, we were reinstated into the authority of Adam, given back the keys of the kindom, reigning over death.
God allows nothing, we the church do. We argue about doctrine and why God doesn't just DO something, and all the while He is waiting for us to do it. It is not His fault, it is ours, mine included. Jesus is seated at the fight hand of the Father until His enemies be made His footstool. And the last enemy to be defeated is death. Please, tell me, who is going to defeat death for Him, so that He can get up and come back to get us, if He isn't going to do it?
WE, His body, that is who; it is our duty, and it will happen, though some may be dragged along into their authority, kicking and screaming and biting and scratching. Still, they will come, if they love Jesus, or they will be cast into outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Peace...
