“Was God behind it?” I asked. “Man was behind it,” he answered. “Evil men were behind it. Up to that point they had been restrained. But that restraint would have its limits. As with the attack on ancient Israel, an attack would now be allowed on American soil.” “But it was planned by evil men,” I countered. “It was evil.” “Yes,” he replied, “but God can cause that which is evil to work for good.” “But what good?” “The sounding of an alarm to wake up a sleeping nation, to change its course, to save it from judgment.”
