Ecclesiastes 2:24-26
There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
God uses the creative industry of the wicked to build an inheritance for the righteous.
Deuteronomy 6:10-15
And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build, and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, then take care lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. It is the LORD your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear. You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you—for the LORD your God in your midst is a jealous God—lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
God gave Israel a land full of cities they had not constructed, homes they had not built, wells they had not dug, and fields they had not plowed,
God will one day give the entire earth and all the refined fruits thereof to the meek. At that point, all that the wicked genuinely achieved will be left to the righteous. All that the wicked discover, they lose. All that they conquer, they surrender and will be reopened under new management in the world to come.
All the hard work of the wicked will only benefit the elect in the long run.
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