[MHGinTN]

I used to ask that question regarding the story of Job. I mean, a real tragedy befell them and they were no more! Then I realized that only God sees what is in the inner person and the timing of their demise may have been fortuitous from God's perspective yet unfathomable from myperspective.

It might help also to note that if God were caught up in reacting to what evil does, this side of the end times, then God would no longer be God for He would be at the behest of whatever evil wants to drag Him into countering. Think about it ... God has a solution to all of this, but we neither see it as we go through it nor are we privy to the Greath White Throne vagaries to come and what exists after the great judgment.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It might help also to note that if God were caught up in reacting to what evil does, this side of the end times, then God would no longer be God for He would be at the behest of whatever evil wants to drag Him into countering.

True. God does not let evil go on without limit because as you say the tail would be wagging the dog.

[James C. Bennett]

If you had your family blotted out of your life and swapped with a replacement set like how Job was handed, would you truly, honestly be happy?