Recent news trumpets the headline; Top figure on most wanted list meets his end. Some think it's a good time to celebrate, while others entertain questions over the proper way to handle this event before God. Let's take a brief look at God's word to give us an idea how He sees such events and how He would want us to conduct ourselves.  

First It's important to recognize that His kingdom functions on a different value plane than the world we live in today.

Isa 55:8-9   "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the Lord. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

So with this in mind is it O.K. to gloat or celebrate the misfortune or destruction of our adversaries.

Prov 24:17-18   Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;  Lest the Lord see it, and it displease Him, And He turn away His wrath from him.

How can this be? Perhaps it's because The Lord loves even the most vial person as much as He loves anyone else. A Father's greatest hope is that his child grows up to be a loving, compassionate adult. His greatest heartache occurs if His child rebels against those values and gets in trouble. Whether his greatest hope or his greatest heartache becomes reality, he will always love his child  

Yahweh told his prophet Ezekiel in Ezek 33:11:   'As I live, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live.

In death the actions of a life are made final! No more opportunities to repent for what we have done nor opportunities to do better next time. The pages allotted to a person in God's book of works has been stamped "FINAL COPY".  

Rev 20:12 and 15   I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.  And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

In the book of life on the line where their name should have been, perhaps a note sums it up. Invitations unanswered, Destiny unfulfilled.

Yes, The Lord had so many great plans for that person First among them was to help that person know Him in an intimate personal way. Someone made in God's image failed to accept The Father's invitation. Someone allowed their desires and a lifetime of bad choices keep them from fulfilling The Lord's purpose for their life.   These cases are never isolated. Just as we are affected by the bad that was done so we would have been blessed by the good that person was designed to do, and we are all the poorer for it