Let's imagine that we live during the time when Jesus was accused of setting himself up as the king of the Jews. Say that we believe that Jesus is innocent but we also want him to show his powers and punish his accusers. So we don't react and demand his release. In our minds, He is really a divinely appointed all-powerful king; therefore we are convinced that no one can harm Him. Whether we are Jews or Romans or of any other race or religion doesn't matter: We want to see Jesus ' powers in action.
But he actually dies on the cross! Why?
These days, we may say that He wasn't really divine and therefore he died on the cross as a man. On the other hand, we may say that He was sent by our Creator and that His love for us was so great that He endured His suffering rather than give us a proof of divine might which would rob us of our spiritual freedom of choice between Good and Evil. A freedom of Choice which was the cause of our Fall and now the Way back to our Redemption.
With reference to current events, there may be a widespread longing for direction to a more meaningful life and way to the spiritual. As in the time of Christ, there is a kind of hunger for proof of the existence of God, angels and messiahs, so there is a tendency to let catastrophic events unfold so that a divine intervention becomes a necessity.
But were proof of divine power be given to mankind, the whole purpose of human evolution, which is eventual divine consciousness in spiritual freedom, would utterly fail because mankind would then be unable to choose according to their good will, which must be active without fear or expectation of convenient rewards.
