What more can I say than has already been said? That reminds me of a passage from scripture.

Let me sing for my beloved
my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.
He dug it and cleared it of stones,
and planted it with choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
and hewed out a wine vat in it;
and he looked for it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
What more was there to do for my vineyard,
that I have not done in it?
When I looked for it to yield grapes,
why did it yield wild grapes?

And now I will tell you
what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove its hedge,
and it shall be devoured;
I will break down its wall,
and it shall be trampled down.
I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and briers and thorns shall grow up;
I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
but behold, bloodshed;
for righteousness,
but behold, an outcry!

Isaiah 5:1-7
emphasis added

Ah, yes...Isaiah 5, the consummate Good Friday passage (well, verse 4, anyway, which was emphasized). A classic woe text; YHWH destroys that which is evil. He destroys that which He created to be good and a blessing to Him, but which turned against Him...rebelled against Him. They are sent into exile: "Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; their honored men go hungry, and their multitude is parched with thirst" (Isaiah 5:13).

The thing to remember in all of these texts of destruction and exile foretold against Israel is that there is always a remnant. There is a small element which, despite the evil around them, clings to God and His Word—a remnant which trusts in God and His mercy, eagerly awaiting His appearance, in spite of what their senses tell them. This remnant is preserved in the face of God's wrath. There is no greater example of this than Israel's captivity to Assyria (and Judah's subsequent captivity to Babylon). Though the people of Israel were scattered and mixed with the Assyrian people, there was a remnant from Judah that returned to Jerusalem to rebuild it and the temple. The lesson to learn is that God preserves His people and His Word in truth and justice.

And, there is a modern parallel. The Church today is under constant attack. Many within the Church have grown complacent in their sin believing that since they believe in God, He blesses all that they do—quite the same as the Hebrews in Isaiah's time, and the time of Babylon (and further back in history if you read the book of Judges). Despite this, there is a small element in the Church calling for reform and a return to that which is True—the Word of God. It has happened before (see John Hus and Martin Luther), and it should continue to happen.

There is evil all around, within and without the Church. And, there is a remnant, which continues to cling to God and His Word—which trusts in God and His mercy, eagerly awaiting His return, in spite of what their senses tell them.

Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
and shrewd in their own sight!
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine,
and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
and deprive the innocent of his right!

Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root will be as rottenness,
and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts,
and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 5:20-24

And so, the Church's—the remnant's—fervent prayer is as it has always been, "Come quickly, Lord Jesus."