WHY did God ever allow sin to lift its hideous form in heaven, first when Lucifer fell and then on earth in Eden’s Paradise? Why did He not destroy Satan and save the human race from his temptations to evil? Why has He permitted all the terrible consequences of sin to go on throughout the millennia that man has been on earth? Why do even the most godly suffer with the worst and vilest? Why? why? why?
All these questions will be answered when the secret of God’s age-long toleration of evil will be revealed at the sounding of the trumpet which shall announce the closing-up of the present dispensation and the ushering in of Immanuel’s righteous reign. Then all mystery will be done away and we shall understand, as we cannot now, just why conditions were allowed to run their course which we may think might better have been prevented. In that day God will be justified in all His ways with men, and we shall realize that He has wrought all in accordance with His infinite love and wisdom.
“We are often tossed and driven on the restless sea of time,
Somber skies and howling tempest oft succeed a bright sunshine;
In that land of perfect day, when the mists have rolled away,
We will understand it better by-and-by.
Trials dark on ev’ry hand, and we cannot understand
All the ways that God would lead us to that blessed Promised Land;
But He guides us with His eye, and well follow till we die.
For well understand it better by-and-by.”
―C. A. Tindley.