There is purpose in everything God does…
This is a quick message to anyone who feels overwhelmed by evil. Whether it be evil that comes from the outside or your own evil that comes from within. There is hope and it is this:
1 Corinthians 15:28 says that God will eventually be All in all in every one of His creatures. This means that you and every loved one of yours will be perfected by Christ’s death for sin, His entombment, and His resurrection. All evil that we experience plays a part is shaping us to that perfection of being children of God. So, every single experience of pain, horror, and evil that you and yours experience are vital parts of God’s plan to bring the greatest possible joy and understanding to His creatures. We can’t understand this now, but we will when we are perfected and evil is abolished forever.
In fact, without our own personal experience of evil, we would not reach our full potential of joy and understanding of the goodness of God. That is the way the Almighty has designed it.
Before I get started, I just want to say that I do not claim to understand why such horrible things happen in this world. However, I trust that as scripture declares, all things are under the complete and total control of Almighty God. Not one thing in God’s universe can happen without God writing it into existence.
As a result, every experience we have whether good or evil, comes from God. The evil done to us and the evil that we do to others cannot thwart God’s plan. Instead, all evil is part of the experience that God has given humanity in order to create man in Christ Jesus.
It is an experience of evil Elohim has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it. – Ecclesiastes 1:13
Notice that the above verse is found in the bible and it does not say that Satan gives the sons of humanity an experience of evil. It does not say that human choice or human sin gives man an experience of evil. No. This verse says that Almighty God gives the experience of evil to us.
Evil did not come into existence apart from God’s plan and now He must do the best He can to limit its impact. Its God that created the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, with evil in it. Not to mention, the Almighty called this tree ‘good.’
And Elohim saw all that He had made; and behold, it was very good. -Genesis 1:31
Why would God call a tree with evil in it, good? Because an experience of evil is necessary to understand good. Evil serves a purpose in shaping God’s creatures to become greater in understanding and joy.
Why can most people not understand the fact that God created evil when scripture clearly teaches it?
It’s because they cannot see the long-game purpose of evil which will produce greater joy and love of God in the creatures that experienced it. They think that if God created evil then He must be evil. However, this is not the case if the evil created was purposed for good…which it is.
You devised evil against me, yet Elohim, He devised it for good in order to accomplish, as at this day, to preserve many people alive. -Genesis 50:20
Does God take pleasure in evil? Of course not. However, evil is a necessary part of creating perfect children of God. Like the scaffolding on the mighty skyscraper, evil supports the creation and foundation of the building. Then, when complete, the evil scaffolding is done away with forever, leaving the magnificent skyline.
So it is with the experience of evil God has given us. It is necessary to know evil in order to truly understand and enjoy good. We must experience evil, sin and death in order to fully understand and enjoy God’s goodness, sinlessness and immortality. Once it serves it purpose…evil, sin and death will be abolished forever, existing nowhere in God’s creation.
Why did God say this after Adam sinned in the garden?
Then Yahweh Elohim said: Behold, man has become like one of Us in knowing good and evil. – Genesis 3:22
There is a reason God put good and evil in the same tree. Knowing evil is a vital step in becoming like God and being created in His image. Without evil, there is no understanding of good. Without evil, there is no understanding of God. This is what we are experiencing here on earth. The evil we experience, no matter how bad, is a prelude and necessary contrast to experience the fullness of joy and of God. God Himself fills each one of us through Christ’s death for sin, His entombment, and His resurrection, the guarantee that all evil will end.
Evil is a creation of God. We, as humans, seek to do good and not evil. When we do evil, its evil and we will be held accountable for that evil. This means that God will show us ‘this evil’ and through it bring us to a greater knowledge of good and of God because we experienced it…whether we committed the evil or it was done to us. God is so much higher than humans in that He can use evil for a long game, good purpose.
So, let’s stop treating God like He is a mere human when it comes to evil. Just because God created evil, it does not mean that He is evil. Why? Because from the absolute perspective God will use all evil to produce good.
For my designs are not your designs, And your ways are not My ways, averring is Yahweh. For as the heavens are loftier than the earth, So are my ways loftier than your ways, And My designs than your designs. -Isaiah 55: 8-9
Adam and Eve sinned. God did this in order to reveal His love for the world by sending His Son to die for unworthy creatures. God would not have been able to do this if Adam and Eve did not sin. Are we going to credit Adam and Eve for Christ’s coming or God?
Herod, Pilate, the Jews, and the Gentiles conspired to murder Jesus by the counsel of God’s will. This was evil on their part. However, God planned this in order to save humanity and in fact, all creation. Are we going to credit Herod, Pilate, the Jews, and the Gentiles with salvation or are we going to credit God?
Many people try to get God off the hook in the creation of evil, but in doing so they take Him off His throne. They unwittingly rob God of His Placer and Subjector status by making the Almighty react to an outside source. As if anything can be created apart from the creator.
Christians and religious people will say that God can work with evil and turn it into good, but only if we allow Him. However, this is human thinking and the whole argument that if evil gives God lemons, then He can make lemonade.
Noooooo! Don’t you know that God makes the lemons too. He makes and ultimately does everything. So many verses prove this but here are just a few that show the Creator of evil:
Former of light and Creator of darkness, Maker of good and CREATOR OF EVIL, I, Yahweh, make all these things. -Isaiah 45:7
Indeed should we receive good from the One, Elohim, and should we not receive evil? -Job 2:10
Okay, so let’s call it what it is. If you deny that God created evil than you are denying scripture. Period.
I want to end with the Apostle Paul discussing the evil of sin and how this leads to an understanding of God. In Romans chapter 7, Paul discusses how he cannot do what he wants and that he does what he does not want to do (Romans 7: 15-20). The struggle Paul describes is the Sin making its home in him.
What does Paul say the answer to this evil, this Sin is?
Grace!
What will rescue me out of this body of death? Grace! I thank God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. -Romans 7:25
You see, Sin has brought the apostle Paul to the realization of God’s grace. He comes to a point of thankfulness, trust, and love for God, through Jesus Christ that would not have been there without the presence of Sin. We would not know God’s grace if it were not for sin and evil. We would not know His love, through Christ’s sacrifice, without being sinners. Yet, so many people want to say that God has nothing to do with the necessary evil that is a backdrop for His love and grace.
Remember that God does not hide the fact that this life is an experience of evil (Ecclesiastes 1:13). He says it plainly. I believe He tells us this so that we can know that all is under the Almighty’s control and every single horror, heartbreak, disappointment, and sin that you experience…has a purpose in Him. God will bring you to a greater experience of joy and understanding of Him because of these experiences.
Now, whenever all may be subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also shall be subjected to Him Who subjects all to Him, that God may be All in all. -1 Corinthians 15:28
God will one day be All in all. He will be this in every person that dies in Adam and every creature ever created. Each in their own order. When God is your All, you will look back on every experience you had, both good and evil, as being necessary to bring you here to completion.
You will say things like, “I hear from you everyday Father, there was a time when I didn’t hear from you at all.”
The apparent separation from God, the evil, the sin and the death will bring us to a deeper understanding of God, righteousness, goodness and immortality. Boy! The joy will be real. This is the end-game of evil.
Grace and peace to you all.
Saved ignoble 
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