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This is not just another book about the problem of evil. It is more specific and more radical. The focus is not on spectacular calamities, but spectacular sins. The question is not: where was God in the storm? But, what is God’s design in sin? Piper’s claim is that God does not just rule the wind—he rules wickedness, your sin, and the sin of those who have hurt you. How can this be good news—for...

saying, “He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.” So here are the “rulers and authorities” that he referred to in Colossians 1:16. They are evil. Jesus died to disarm them. They turn up again in Ephesians 6:12: “We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities.” They are, Paul says, “the cosmic powers over this present darkness … the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” They are evil
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