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God Working Good Out of Evil, Part 4 (TMF:2554)

Thursday, February 20, 2025
Peace to Live By: God Working Good Out of Evil, Part 4 (TMF:2554) - Daniel Litton
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       And technically speaking, and not to get too off track, really it would appear that God never originally wanted governments to begin with—for they are a result of the fallen world. Now, we do know that Revelation 21 tells us of the New Jerusalem that, “By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there” (Revelation 21:24-26, ESV). Governments then could be part of the New World. To reiterate, though, evil is present in the current governments not because God is perverted—but rather it is because people are that way. God is not authoring evil. Remember, mentioned last week was the verse in Acts 12 where the angel of the Lord struck down Herod. If God had chosen Herod for evil purposes to bring about good, then why would God have struck Herod down? One could say that it was because God was through with him, but the passage doesn’t seem to imply that.