17 Sources of Evil
SOURCES OF EVIL
YHWH (Yahweh) Creates EVIL – disaster, calamity ill.
The following verses show that YHWH (Yahweh) creates EVIL, that he threatens people with EVIL, and that he sends EVIL spirits, among other things.
Because He loves us -
Deut. 8:5 As a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.
Job 5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God reproves.
Prov. 3:12 Yahweh reproves him whom he loves.
Prov 13:24 He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him
disciplines him promptly.
Prov. 29:17 Discipline your son, and he will give you rest.
That we may fear Him -
Ps. 103:11 So great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him.
Ps 103:17 The steadfast love of Yahweh upon those who fear him.
Ps 147:11 Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, steadfast love.
Mal. 4:2 For you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall rise.
Ac. 13:26 Those among you that fear God, the message of this salvation.
To know our thoughts, to test humanity -
Gen. 22:1 God tested Abraham.
Ps. 7:9 Thou who triest the minds and hearts, thou righteous God.
Ps. 11:5 Yahweh tests the righteous and the wicked, and his soul hates him that
loves violence.
Ps. 17:3 If thou testest me, thou wilt find no wickedness in me.
Ps. 26:2 Prove me, O Yahweh, and try me; test my heart and my mind.
Ps. 139:1 O Yahweh, thou hast searched me and known me.
Zech. 13:9 I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver,
and test them as gold is tested.
Mal. 3:3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons.
Ja. 1:12 Blessed is the man who endures trial….he will receive the crown of life.
1 Pet. 1:7 Your faith, more precious than gold, though perishable is tested by fire.
1 Pet. 4:12 Do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal, comes upon you to prove you.
The correct definition of the word EVIL -
In the Hebrew, the word EVIL is RA, and simply means bad, in the Greek the word is KAK-ON the meaning is the same (the opposite of good) i.e. bad. But, the definition is to be distinguished from sin, in that it is not a mistake when YHWH (Yahweh) creates EVIL. Thus, the word has no moral tinge.
Isa. 45:7 I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and CREATE DISASTER; I, YHWH (Yahweh), do all these things. NIV
NASB: CREATING CALAMITY; I am YHWH (Yahweh) who does all these.
RSV: CREATE WOE, I am YHWH (Yahweh), who do[es] all these things.
KJV: CREATE EVIL: I YHWH (Yahweh) do all these things.
DBY: CREATING EVIL: I, YHWH (Yahweh), do all these things.
YLT: PREPARING EVIL, I [am] YHWH (Yahweh), doing all these things.
Lam. 3:38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both CALAMITIES and
good things come? NIV
NASB: Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both good and ILL go
forth?
RSV: Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and EVIL come?
KJV: Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not EVIL and good?
DBY: Out of the mouth of the Most High doeth not there proceed EVIL and
good?
YLT: From the mouth of the Most High go not forth the EVILS and the good.
Other verses – a selected few.
2 Sam. 12:11-12 YHWH (Yahweh), 'Behold, I will raise up EVIL against you.
1 Ki. 14:10 therefore behold, I will bring EVIL upon the house of Jerobo'am.
1 Ki. 21:29 I will not bring EVIL in his days; but in his son's days I will bring EVIL.
2 Ki. 21:12 I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such EVIL.
2 Chr. 34:24 Thus says YHWH (Yahweh), Behold, I will bring EVIL.
2 Chr. 34:28 your eyes shall not see all the EVIL which I will bring upon.
Job 2:10 Shall we receive good at the hand of God, shall we not receive EVIL?
Job 42:11 Comforted him for all the EVIL that Yahweh had brought upon him.
Prov.16: 4 YHWH (Yahweh) has made all for His purpose, the day of EVIL.
Isa. 31:2 And He also [is] wise, and bringeth in EVIL.
Jer. 11:11 Thus says YHWH (Yahweh), Behold, I am bringing EVIL.
Jer. 14:16 And I have poured out upon them this EVIL.
Jer. 18:11 Behold, I am shaping EVIL against you.
Jer. 19:3 I am bringing such EVIL upon this place.
Jer. 19:15 Thus says YHWH (Yahweh) all the EVIL that I have pronounced.
Jer. 23:12 For I will bring EVIL upon them in the year of their punishment.
Jer. 26:3 Then I will relent and not bring on them the DISASTER.
Jer. 26:13 YHWH(Yahweh) will repent of the EVIL.
Jer. 36:3 Judah will hear all the EVIL which I intend to do to them.
Jer. 32:42 YHWH (Yahweh): Just as I have brought all this great EVIL.
Jer. 35:17 YHWH (Yahweh), all the EVIL that I have pronounced.
Jer. 36:31 All the EVIL that I have pronounced against them.
Jer. 40:2 YHWH (Yahweh) pronounced this EVIL against this place.
Jer. 42:10 I repent of the EVIL which I did to you.
Jer. 42:17 From the EVIL which I will bring upon them.
Jer. 44:2 You have seen all the EVIL that I brought upon Jerusalem.
Jer. 45:5 I am bringing EVIL upon all flesh, says YHWH. (Yahweh)
Jer. 49:37 I will bring EVIL upon them, my fierce anger, says YHWH.
Jer. 51:64 Babylon sink because of the EVIL that I am bringing upon her.
Ezek. 6:10 YHWH (Yahweh); I have not said in vain that I would do this EVIL.
Amos 3:6 Does EVIL befall a city, unless YHWH (Yahweh) has done it?
Mic. 1:12 Because EVIL has come down from YHWH (Yahweh).
Mic. 2:3 YHWH (Yahweh): Behold, against this family I am devising EVIL.
Yahweh sent Evil spirits – (see Satan / Devil and Demons section)
Jdg. 9:23 Yahweh sent an EVIL spirit, between Abim'elech and Shechem.
1 Ki. 22:19-23 I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the prophets.
2 Chron. 18:18-21 Behold, the Lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of
these your prophets, for the Lord has proclaimed disaster against you.
2 Chron. 21:16 Yahweh, stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines.
1 Sam. 16:23 Whenever the EVIL spirit from YHWH (Yahweh) was upon Saul.
1 Sam. 18:10 An EVIL spirit from YHWH (Yahweh) rushed upon Saul.
1 Sam. 19:9 Then an EVIL spirit from YHWH (Yahweh) came upon Saul.
1 Sam. 16:14 Now an EVIL spirit from YHWH (Yahweh) tormented him.
1 Sam. 16:15 Behold now, an EVIL spirit from Yahweh is tormenting you.
Strong Delusions -
Ex. 10:20 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart.
1 Sam. 18:10 An evil spirit from God came mightily upon Saul, and he raved.
1 Ki. 22:18-22 Be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.
2 Chron. 18:18-22 Yahweh has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth.
Ps. 69:27-28 Add iniquity to iniquity, they not come into Your righteousness.
Isa. 19:14 The Lord has mixed within her a spirit of distortion.
Isa. 63:17 O Yahweh, do You cause us to stray from Your ways,
and harden our heart from fearing you.
2 Thess. 2:11 God will send upon them a deluding influence, they will believe.
Deaf, blind, dumb -
Gen. 19:11 They struck the men at the doorway of the house with blindness.
Ex. 4:11-12 Who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh.
Deut. 28:28-29 Yahweh will strike you with madness, blindness, and panic.
Prov. 20:12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye, The Lord made both of them.
Ezek. 3:26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth.
Lk. 1:20 And behold, you shall be silent and unable to speak until the day.
Starvation -
Deut. 28:48 Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness.
Lev. 26:39 Will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies;
and also because of the iniquities of their forefathers they will rot away.
Ps. 105:16 He called for a famine upon the land; He broke, whole staff of bread.
Isa. 3:1 Yahweh, is going to remove, supply, support, the whole supply of bread
and the whole supply of water.
Ezek. 4:15-17 Bread and water will be scarce …. waste away in their iniquity.
Ezek. 14:13-14 If a country sins against me, I will stretch out My hand against it,
destroy, supply of bread, send famine against it, cut off, man, beast.
Ezek. 24:23-24 You will rot away in your iniquities and you will groan.
Pestilence - just a few
Ex. 5:3 He will fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword. (Ex. 9:3, 15)
Ex. 23:28 I will send hornets ahead of you. (Deut. 7:20)
Num. 14:12 I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them.
Deut. 28:21 The Lord will make the pestilence cling to you.
2 Sam. 24:15 So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel.
Jer. 21:6-7 Both man and beast; they will die of a great pestilence.
(Jer. 21:9, 24:10)
Jer. 42:17 Famine and by pestilence; ,the calamity that I am going to bring.
Hab. 3:5 Before Him goes pestilence, and plague comes after Him.
Rev. 2:23 I will kill her children with pestilence. (Rev. 6:8, 18:8)
Sickness, Disease, Natural disasters etc….
Too many to list (ex. Egypt, Sodom and Gomorrah, Jerusalem)
God brings all these things to fulfill His divine will and purposes.
God makes people drunk to destroy them -
Isa. 63:6 I trod down the peoples in My anger, made them drunk in My wrath.
Lam. 4:21 You will become drunk and make yourself naked.
Hab. 2:16 Now you yourself drink and expose your own nakedness.
Other verses -
Ru. 1:20-21 I went away full, and Yahweh has brought me back empty.
1 Sam. 2:7 The Yahweh makes poor and makes rich; he brings low, and exalts.
Job 1:21 Yahweh gave, and Yahweh hath taken away.
Job 12:23-25 He makes nations great, and destroys them; he enlarges nations,
and disperses them. He deprives the leaders of the earth of their
reason; he sends them wandering through a trackless waste. They
grope in darkness with no light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
Ps. 75:7 It is God who executes judgment, putting down one, lifting up another.
Lam. 3:38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and evil come.
Neh. 4:15 God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall.
Yahweh does not hear the wicked – (see Satan / Devil and Demons section)
Ps. 66:18 If I regard wickedness in my heart, The Lord will not hear.
Prov. 15:29 The Lord is far from the wicked, He hears the prayer of the righteous.
Prov. 28:9-10 Even his prayer is abomination, who leads upright astray in evil.
Jn. 9:31-32 We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is
God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.
Ja. 4:3-4 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so
that you may spend it on your pleasures.
Antichrist – Nowhere in Scripture is Satan, The Devil, or Demons ever equated with the Antichrist. Antichrist is always referencing to those who deny Christ’s human nature. Never refers to His supposed Godhood, rather the opposite.
(1 Jn. 2:18, 22; 1Jn. 4:3; 2 Jn. 7) (see Trinity Verses Explained)
