This age that we are in now is so that people can have an experience in physical life. It is this 'experience' that is so importance and it is to learn good and evil.
Ecc 1:13 I applied my heart to inquiring and exploring by wisdom concerning all that is done under the heavens: it is an experience of evil Elohim has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.
In this present age, from Adam all the way until Christ returns when the human race is completed, this whole world has been in darkness and are 'lost' as Job said;
Job 12:25 They grope in the dark without light,
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
This darkness and the "experience in evil" that is necessary for all people. But it is only a moment in time, that we will spend here in our existence.
James 4:14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
It is this brief period of time that all the people are gaining the contrast of the darkness that we all need, by this evil experience. The suffering and sadness and grief must be and to the degree that will be remembered and God determines what it takes. But this is only for a predetermined amount of time, so that we can endure it (not an eternal torment, like hell that the church preaches).
When we look back on everything we have suffered, we will remember the experience but not so much the actual pain. So it is this experience that we will take with us from this life.
When Christ returns and raises the dead, the world will be so different and everyone will receive comfort and these things we all suffer will be only a memory.
Rev 21:3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.
v. 4 And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away."
It is only a very few that He is choosing out of this world that will serve with Him to bring all the rest of humanity to salvation in the age to come. For now the people of the world are blind and content to stay that way.
John 3:19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
Those who have their eyes opened are so few. We should be so thankful and hopeful that we can remain faithful until the end.
Luke 21:34 "But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.
v. 35 For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
v. 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man."
mercy, peace and love
Kat