By Pastor Kameron DeVasher
The topic of evil raises many questions. If God is loving and good, why do we see evil in His creation? Did God create a devil? Is He ultimately responsible for evil? Why didn’t God immediately destroy the devil and prevent the mess he has caused? Why is he still allowed to exist? Will God one day eliminate evil?
These questions demand solid answers. The Bible tells the story of how evil began and God’s wise plan to end it so that it will never rise again.
In Matthew 13, Jesus told a parable that can help us understand the origin of evil and God’s response. A man sowed good seed in his field. “But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, the
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The New Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (Christian Copyrights, 1983), p. 940, quoted in Alberto Timm and Dwain Esmond, The Gift of Prophecy in Scripture and History (Review and Herald, 2015), p. 167.
Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages (Pacific Press, 1898), p. 761.
Ibid.
White, “What Was Secured by the Death of Christ,” Signs of the Times,Dec. 30, 1889.
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Kameron DeVasher is the Sabbath School and Personal Ministries director for the Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.