Big Healing Book - God Created the Destroyer to Destroy (Isaiah 54:16), So Satan Is

Objection: God Created the Destroyer to Destroy (Isaiah 54:16), So Satan Is Just Doing the Job That God Created Him to Do

First, God did not create Satan as a destroyer any more than God created Adam as a sinner! God created Lucifer, not Satan. God created a sinless Adam, not a sinful one. What happened after God created them was the result of THEIR wrong choices, not God’s choices. It is unfair to blame God for the sins of beings with a free will.

Second, Jesus came to DESTROY the works of the devil, not DEPLOY the works of the devil (1 John 3:8). Jesus only did things that pleased the Father (John 8:29), so it pleased the Father to destroy the works of the devil. If God the Father and Jesus both were pleased to destroy the works of the devil, the works of the devil could not possibly have pleased Them.

Third, if this version of the old “God Uses Satan” lie were true, God would owe Satan a check for work performed according to specification, not eternal damnation in the lake of fire. So what Satan is doing today cannot possibly be what God originally created him to do!

Fourth, and most importantly, this objection is wrong from the get-go because Isaiah 54:16 doesn’t even refer to Satan when you read it in its context!

Isaiah 54:13-17:
And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.
Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

God created the “waster” (which can be translated “destroyer”) to destroy His ENEMIES, not His PEOPLE! This destroyer is on God’s team! This entire passage is a positive and comforting statement from God to His people. This cannot have a thing in the world to do with Satan or anyone else destroying God’s people! This “destroyer” has the job of making sure that the enemies of God’s people DON’T destroy God’s people.

The immediate context right before the verse in question is, “…whoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.” It is this “destroyer” who sees to it that such people fall. This destroyer is most definitely not causing God’s people to fall – he’s preventing their fall!