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NASB | Joel 2:25 "Then I will make up to you for the years That the swarming locust has eaten, The creeping locust, the stripping locust and the gnawing locust, My great army which I sent among you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Joel 2:25 "And I will compensate you for the years That the swarming locust has eaten, The creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust-- My great army which I sent among you. |
Bible Question: "...My great army which I send among you." suggests that the locust etc were sent by God; but in James 1:13 ...for God cannot be tempted with evil. Please I need clarification. |
Bible Answer: Hi Myke, Welcome to the forum! First of all Myke, we need to wrap our minds around the fact that God is sovereign in all things. Yes, it says that He cannot be tempted with evil. But that is not to say He doesn't bring what is His judgment against evil sinners. He cannot be tempted to do evil by anyone, anything, or forces outside himself. Just imagine, Myke, how much worse an eternity in the fires of hell will be for them, compared to a plague of locust? In his piece called, The Sovereignty of God, John Murry, puts it like this: "If the sovereignty of God rests upon the fact of his oneness and upon the fact of creation, it may be said to consist, first of all, in the right of dominion and rule over all and in the fact of universal possession. The Psalm sounds this note succinctly. "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof" (Ps. 24:1). The prophets do the same when they affirm that he is "the God of the whole earth" and as the "Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will" (Isa. 54:5; Dan. 4:17, 25). In the formula of Melchizedek and of Abraham, he is the "possessor of heaven and earth" (Gen. 14:19, 22), and in the words of Paul, "in him we live, and move, and have our being" (Acts 17:28). It respects good and evil, so that even the sins of men come within the scope of his rule and providence. "What," asks the oppressed and the afflicted Job, bereft of flocks and herds and smitten with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto the crown, "shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil?" (Job 2:10). For "with God," he says again, "is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding. Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening" (Job 12:13-14). He forms the light and creates darkness; he makes peace and creates evil. He kills and he makes alive; he wounds and he heals (Isa. 45:7; Deut. 32:39). He "hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil" (Prov. 16:4). "Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" (Amos 3:9)." John Murry John |
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