Scripture Verses That Affirm the Role of God in The Existence of Evil.

References:

• What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? (Job 2:10)
• GOD IS SOVEREIGN – Since God is the BEGINNING and He contains everything – He must be the sole creator of evil also. Let’s analyze the Scriptures.
• Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth. (Psalm 46:8)
• I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. (Isaiah 45:7)
• Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? (Amos 3:6)
• Who hath made man’s mouth? or who makes the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord? – Exodus 4:11
• Deuteronomy 32:39 says, “See now that I, even I am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.” God holds final sway in every death and every life.
• God sent an evil spirit – Judges 9:23
• The Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him – 1Samuel 16:14,15/18:12/19:9 – the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house – 1Samuel 18:10
• And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. 1 Kings 22:21-22
• God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another – Rom 1:24
• And the Lord smote the king, so that he was a leper (2 Kings 15:5)
• And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight (2 Kings 17:20)
• And so, it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the Lord: therefore, the Lord sent lions among them, which slew some of them (2 Kings 17:25,26)
• And the Lord sent against him bands of – 2Kings 24:2
• Thus, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon – Jeremiah 29:4
• I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them: Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord – Jeremiah 29:17-19 – I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people (Zechariah 12:3)
• God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So, Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant. But when dawn came up the next day, – God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered – Jonah 4:6,7
• And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his (Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) hand (Daniel 1:2)
• A ravenous bird (ayit – a hawk or other bird of prey: — bird, fowl, ravenous (bird)) from the east, the man that executes my counsel from a far country (Isaiah 46:11) – about the anti-Christ!
• The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit. (Isaiah 19:14)
• And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. (Ezekiel 7:21)
• The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. (Proverbs 16:4)
• evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem (Micah 1:12)
• “Abraham fell into a deep sleep and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. Then the Lord said – Gen 15:10-12
• I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God (Ezekiel 25:14)
• But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. (1 Samuel 16:14)
• And the evil spirit from the Lord was upon Saul (1 Samuel 19:9)
• And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel (1 Chronicles 21:1) – And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah. (2 Samuel 24:1)
• And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. (1 Kings 22:21) – And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. (1 Kings 22:22) – Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee. (1 Kings 22:23)
• Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: (Acts 2:23)
• I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. Isaiah 45:5-7
• Evil is God’s punishment to the transgressing creature. If Satan is the author of evil, then how come He was once said to be perfect in all his ways until iniquity was found in him. Where did pride come from?
• Therefore, God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
• Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
• He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done

God rulers upon all Kingdoms

• The most High rules in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men (Daniel 4:17,25,32)
• The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turns it whithersoever he will (Proverbs 21:1)
• And he changes the times and the seasons: he removes kings, and sets up kings: (Daniel 2:21)
• For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, even for this same purpose have I raised thee up (Romans 9:17)
• Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high, (Psalm 113:5)—the Lord, who doeth all these things (Acts 15:17)?

But though he causes grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approves not.

Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commands it not?

Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not EVIL AND GOOD? Lamentations 3:32-38