Few in all the ages have as yet profited by their experience with evil. But we have seen, according to the Bible those who sleep in death will be awakened, and given an opportunity then to profit from the experiences of the present life. Then they will enter another term, as it were, in their school of experience.

In Job’s case, when the experience was over he could say, “I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee.” So it will be with the world of mankind. When the experience of suffering and death is over, and they are awakened from death, their faulty understanding of God will be corrected. Then they will learn of the gracious, loving provision the Creator made for them through Christ to ransom them from death, and restore them to life.