God Ordains, Yet He Holds Agents Totally Responsible
One example of God ordaining an event he holds the human agent totally responsible for is found in Jer. 25:8-9, 12. It is clear that even though the king of Babylon is doing the bidding of God, he will be held responsible for what he does:
8“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, 9behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation…12Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste.