Mashiach can arrive either because we have earned him through our good deeds, or he will arrive because of what G-d has done, i.e. the time has come one way or the other. The Messianic era will look very different depending on which of these two processes is the one that occurs. Every generation is capable of bringing the Mashiach, and in each generation two special people are born with vessel souls of the Mashiach. Understand the concept of a vessel soul and discuss why it is that the current generation of assimilated Jews is exactly the type of generation that could merit to see the Mashiach.