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The Evil Which the Lord Creates

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 26, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 12.

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The Evil Which the Lord Creates.

Isa. xlv, 7. “I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I, the Lord, do all these things.”
GOD says: “I make peace, and create evil.” But what kind of evil? Not moral evil, or sin, by any means; but physical evil, such as was threatened against Nineveh. “And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them, and he did it not. Jonah iii, 10. Did God repent of the sin he was about to commit against the Ninevites? All evil, which God is said to create, we understand to be judgments which he brings upon men for their disobedience. Thus it is said: “Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?” Amos iii, 6.—Campbell.