Saturday, April 30, 2011
I am so sorry for your loss. No explanation, however reasonable, will make the pain of that loss simply vanish. Know first that God did not want them to die. God does not take delight even in the destruction of the wicked, let alone the death of anyone. (Compare 2 Peter 3:9.) Surely, he is deeply pained when someone dies. When Gods Kingdom rules without opposition over this earth, millions of people will be resurrected and welcomed back from the dead. Like the parents whose children Jesus resurrected back to life in the first century C.E., many then will be beside themselves with great ecstasy. (Mark 5:42; Luke 8:56; John 5:28, 29) And when all mankind is at last restored to the perfect state that Adam and Eve lost, then never again will anyone die!Revelation 21:3, 4.