"Jesus has not come because the people of this world are not ready."

This has been Adventist's message from the beginning, but how what are the people of this world to do to be ready?  Usually, the guilt is  directed from the pulpit that the audience listening are faulted because they have not yet become ready.

Since you're a true believer in Adventism, what should people be doing to hasten His return?  Are the people to determine when they are ready, and then give Jesus the signal:  "Now it's time to come"?  Or should we remember that only the Father knows when all will be ready and then Christ will come?  We do not control the Second Coming, but according to many who blame the church for not being ready, we must "get ready" (what does that mean in actuality?) then we can tell the Father, "O.K., now's the time?

So many Adventists through the years have piously quoted this idea of getting ready:  an ambiguous and meaningless phrase which has become part of the verbiage