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I'll take these one by one:“The LORD hath made all things for himself: Yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.” (Proverbs 16:4)
“Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?” (Amos 3:6)
“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” (Isaiah 45:7)
“Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?” (Lamentations 3:38)
“For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: But evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.” (Micah 1:12)
“For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?” (Ezekiel 14:21)
“There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” (Luke 13:1–5)
“The LORD said to him [Moses], “Who gave a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?” (Exodus 4:11)
1. The wicked are evil men. Yes He made man in His image, gave them free will and they choose evil.
2.The Lord allowed it. Evil man did it.
3. This is the annointing of Cyrus who God ALLOWED and empowered to do His will. This is a prophecy not a characterization of God Himself.
4. This is not a characterization of God. It is His ALLOWING the woes and well-being of man to proceed.
5.Again ALLOWED evil, not create it.
6. Indeed He allows evil to take place as wrath and judgment.
7-8. These are judgments, not creating evil.
9. Allowed it.
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