Why do people die at the same time if everyone's life is different?translated

Reader question:

Hello. When all people perish at once, is it considered that God takes everyone at the best time for eternal life? At the same time, everyone had a different life up to this moment, and everyone died - how to understand this?

Olga

Priest's answer:

Priest Evgeniy CHEBYKIN

Hello, Olga.

From the point of view of Orthodox Christianity, after the fall of our ancestors, Adam and Eve, in our world, which was created by God “very good” (Gen. 1:31), such unpleasant phenomena as sin, enmity and death reigned.

Our Lord Jesus Christ, through His death and Resurrection, put an end to their despotism, but this victory of His will become final and unconditional only after His Second Coming into the world.

“Christ has risen from the dead, the firstborn of those who died,” the holy Apostle Paul writes about this in his First Epistle to the Corinthians. “For just as death is through man, so is the resurrection of the dead through man.” Just as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will come to life, each in his own order: the firstborn Christ, then those of Christ at His coming. And then the end, when He will hand over the Kingdom to God and the Father, when He will abolish all authority and all authority and power. For He must...