God Made All For Himself

We can most certainly agree that the Lord has made everything for Himself and His own purpose. This is what His decree is all about. It is the words "made the wicked for the day of evil" that perplex us. It almost seems as though God makes them and then His only purpose is to destroy them. But this is not the right way to view this verse. I think that we must think about this verse in a different way. And we must think about God in a better way; not to caricature Him in a way which thinks badly of Him because He is a God of Justice. God does raise up men to fulfill His purposes, and He does use the acts of wicked men to fulfill those purposes without ever once approving of their sins. His decree concerning them is not His creating them to destroy them, but it is His creating them to fulfill His own holy purpose. His own purpose is to demonstrate His justice (His wrath) upon them and their sins, which they love and will cling to despite all of His commands to repent and all of His offers of mercy.