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Originally Posted by PuritanCovenanter 
BTW, I am starting to look at death as a good mercy the older I get. It is a mercy to the unregenerate so they don't keep building up and storing up more sin for wrath. And it is a mercy because the fall has has ruinous effects on my physical being. I ache a lot more and relief is becoming more welcome. In that sense death is a mercy which is not ruinous.
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Evils can be mercies. I might inject an dying soldier with enough morphine to numb the pain, knowing that it will kill him. I might treat a patient who has severe burns for free. My treatment may involve causing great pain and harm and suffering. But I did it for free. It was a mercy.
The unregenerate will store up wrath in hell. They'll sin in hell, all sins deserves the wrath of God, thus they'll store up wrath to last them an eternity.
The fall has ruinous effects on your being, right. Pains and such are enemies that Christ will put under his feet. The last and greatest one is death. That's the most ruinous effect on your being. The ultimate indignity. That's why Christ came to beat and vanquish it. The death of death in the death of Christ. His suffering of an evil, brought about a greater good. Thus an evil can bring about benefits while still being an evil.