APL; it is called God's "strange act" for a reason.

"God’s judgments will be visited upon those who are seeking to oppress and destroy His people. His long forbearance with the wicked emboldens men in transgression, but their punishment is nonetheless certain and terrible because it is long delayed. “The Lord shall rise up as in Mount Perazim, He shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that He may do His work, His strange work; and bring to pass His act, His strange act.” Isaiah 28:21. To our merciful God the act of punishment is a strange act. “As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked.” Ezekiel 33:11. The Lord is “merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, ... forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin.” Yet He will “by no means clear the guilty.” “The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked.” Exodus 34:6, 7; Nahum 1:3. By terrible things in righteousness He will vindicate the authority of His downtrodden law. The severity of the retribution awaiting the transgressor may be judged by the Lord’s reluctance to execute justice. The nation with which He bears long, and which He will not smite until it has filled up the measure of its iniquity in God’s account, will finally drink the cup of wrath unmixed with mercy.... {DD 43.4}

James - READ The Great Controversy, page 36. UNDERSTAND it!

God does not stand toward the sinner as an executioner of the sentence against transgression; but He leaves the rejectors of His mercy to themselves, to reap that which they have sown. Every ray of light rejected, every warning despised or unheeded, every passion indulged, every transgression of the law of God, is a seed sown which yields its unfailing harvest. The Spirit of God, persistently resisted, is at last withdrawn from the sinner, and then there is left no power to control the evil passions of the soul, and no protection from the malice and enmity of Satan. The destruction of Jerusalem is a fearful and solemn warning to all who are trifling with the offers of divine grace and resisting the pleadings of divine mercy. Never was there given a more decisive testimony to God's hatred of sin and to the certain punishment that will fall upon the guilty." {GC 36.1}

First thought is, who killed Saul.

Isn't it interesting that you think God killed Uzzah for touching the Ark, but the Philistines (presumably?) touched it without dying? Whether they removed the cover or not?

In Malachi it is talking about the people returning to God. What does the following statement mean to you?

I still seem to be having a problem of how that addresses the question. Does Jesus cause disease, death, destruction or doesn't He? If He does, then why does he need evil angels to do it? And what does setting limits have to do with the issue of whether He causes it or not? That sounds like you are saying He is obligated to work with them, but does set limits they cannot exceed. Like the government rewarding a contractor a job, but telling him exactly what to do.

(By the way, when you start a paragraph, #157785, with quotes, and you don't put a break in it, it's not readily apparent you added anything)

I believe I do understand it APL.

Look, I am not saying that God does not let Satan have free reign over the wicked in the last days, I perfectly agree with that. Scripture totally supports this because the whole world wanders after the beast.

But for you to deny that God has used His righteous angels to destroy the wicked, to me this makes it obvious that you do not know how to rightly divide the word of truth.

God the Father will punish Satan for what he did to Jesus. Every confessed and forgiven sin will finally be put on the head of Azazel, the Scapegoat, Satan, and he will burn proportionate with the guilt of those sins. This punishment is from the glory of the Father. It is going to happen. And every other sinner since Satan who has not confessed receives their portion, proportionate to their own sins.

This worm will not go out until it has all been paid for.

There is a strong movement within the SDA church that believes what you are saying. They always seem to quote this exact quote in the GC page 36. They never seem to add this part of the book you quote...

“Every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.” “The indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and His fury upon all their armies: He hath utterly destroyed them, He hath delivered them to the slaughter.” “Upon the wicked He shall rain quick burning coals, fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.” Isaiah 9:5; 34:2; Psalm 11:6, margin. Fire comes down from God out of heaven. The earth is broken up. The weapons concealed in its depths are drawn forth. Devouring flames burst from every yawning chasm. The very rocks are on fire. The day has come that shall burn as an oven. The elements melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works that are therein are burned up. Malachi 4:1; 2 Peter 3:10. The earth’s surface seems one molten mass—a vast, seething lake of fire. It is the time of the judgment and perdition of ungodly men—“the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.” Isaiah 34:8. {GC 672.2}

Did you notice that some of the same texts that are used in describing His second coming are used here for the second death scene? God the Father is the one who rains fire out of heaven.

“Upon the wicked He shall rain quick burning coals, fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.” Isaiah 9:5; 34:2; Psalm 11:6, margin. Fire comes down from God out of heaven." {GC 672.2}

I actually see the fire of God as merciful.

In the second resurrection they will be shown everything that led to their destruction. They will realize that they have forsaken the mercy of the Lord. They are going to be terrified. Blood will come out of their pores from terror. Their blood on their own heads.

No longer does the Spirit of God call them back from the brink. No Holy Angels to protect them any more, and totally cut off from the Father, this is the punishment of the second death. This is what Jesus went through in Gethsemane, and everyone who accepts Christ as their propitiation are accepting His second death for theirs.

So during all of this horror, God will put them out of their misery by raining fire down out of heaven to purify the earth. They will be like they never existed. Forever gone.

Where in this can you prove that we are wrong?

Jesus commanded Moses to stone sinners to death. Jesus commanded Moses to wage war. I realize you think none of this matters because you believe Jesus was simply accommodating the sinfulness of sinners. I believe otherwise. You also think permitting evil men and evil angels to wreak havoc means Jesus is free of culpability. I believe it means He is in control.

Jesus doesn't need evil men or evil angels to wreak havoc. He permits them to do so. Job is an example. Setting and enforcing limits means Jesus is in control. They can do nothing without His permission.

Amen.

We have the evidence of Christ. Christ died the death of a sinner. Did the Father execute Christ? Nope.