“He presented himself alive to them by many proofs after he had suffered…”

“While meeting with them, he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for ‘the promise of the Father about which you have heard me speak’…”

—Acts of the Apostles

Even when things seem to be crumbling all around you (whether in the world at large, or just your own community) if someone with a track record of knowing The Way goes out of their way to give you a really great opportunity to help fix things, it might be best to stick around to see it through.