Maybe this subject should be re-phrased..Evil God?

 How many times have we heard  or perhaps  said ourselves,  “How can there  be a God that  lets this happen? “, or  maybe even  “There is no God, otherwise this evil would’nt happen”,      or this,    " God wouldn’t let this happen, this is the devil’s doing”.

 A.E. Knoch, the verenarable co-founder of Concordant   Publishing  and editor of the original  Concordant New Testament,   has an article in the latsest UNSEARCHABLE RICHES  (once again, if you haven’t ,subscribe).

 In his article , he makes us aware that  everything  he learned of God’s intent and purpose,  is what Paul teaches,  and Paul tell us, that  EVERYTHING is of God!

 What man considers evil, is just another part of God’s design..done to accomplish His ultimate  purpose.

 What is God,  the Father’s  ultimate purpose?

 To bring all of mankind  to Him, even the great “evil-doers” of history, such as Genghis Khan,  Hitler, Stalin..the list goes on,  will be embraced by Him.

 Not many I know of,  would believe this, that these “monsters”  will  be included in His embrace.  Most of the “world” would have  you believe that they are or will be suffering “eternal damnation  in Hell!”

 When, in fact, all are merely in repose, until the day of their resurrection, at which time they will be judged.

 But this is not about the “the Lsst Judgement:”, only intended  to remind us all,  that even those perpetrators of the greatest evil  to makind, will  one time  be embraced by God’s eternal love. 

 Indeed, these “evil doers”,  oftentimes were used by God, through His minion on earth, Satan (the Adversary) for His purpose,  even thgough  we humans cannot  understand what that purpose might be.

 I refer you, once again, to JOB, where you are told, first hand,  of how Satan is controlled by God.

 Man cannot begin to understand  the “purpose” of great and terrible  destructive  occurrences that seem to happen too many times ,  but it’s sufficient to know that God understands  its purpose.

 And such catastrophes and  disruptions  such as war and natural disasters,  claiming untold millions  of lives  should’nt be appreciated, but   should be expected, indeed anticipated, much as we might not  like it.

 We were told by the Christ that these would occur!

 Why should we be surprised?

 It doesn’t matter  that we don’t  understand  the “how” and the “what” “evil” that is perpetrated  on mankind,   during this eon,  it just does us well to understand the  “why”..to bring ALL humans  into the embrace of our loving Father..paulnbob