God uses evil to do good in Genesis 50:15-21
I believe any thing that has evil or bad cause is tainted. Like using bad money for good.
Or what of good understanding from bad teaching - if you understand some thing due to bad behaviour you should reject the teaching and understanding due to getting it from a bad source. Like bad behaviour at work, or in your job or by government. We should want all our understanding to be caused by good and clean things.
it’s hard for me to think God is behind the rape and murder of a child or such things.
it seems as if mans place on the earth as overseers and thier provocation of God is what brings any evil I’m not so sure it’s his Will at all in any way for anyone to ever commit evil and he’s going to make it a good work.
what I’m saying is first God tells
Man something that they need to believe and be blessed and then he
warns them of evil to come If they reject it. Sort of this process
“
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them:
for
I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of
them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.”
Exodus 20:3-6 KJV
If we take God at his word and then do what he says will bring evil such as making a calf and worshipping it and giving it his glory the. The result is going to be what he said it would be
“And the LORD said unto Moses,
Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
( Moses intercedes for them )
And the LORD
repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.”
Exodus 32:7-8, 14 KJV
he wasn’t intending or willing to do evil to them man provoked it by transgressing his true and irrevocable word he had warned them of which they swore to keep And obey that’s the ot and what governs it.
Truthfully God is light and in him is no darkness at all and God is love and love doesn’t do evil. but there is darkness in man that rejects his warnings of evil that is to come and provokes them truth of his warnings which he sets before us
his words do this for those who hear they give them a choice to be blessed in believing or cursed in rejecting
“See,
I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I command thee this day to love the
LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that
I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:”
Deuteronomy 30:15-19
Gods word cannot and must not be trifled with or we will fulfill the evil he’s warning us not to bring on ourselves.
