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I was think more along the lines of the Pharisee and the publican in Luke.

In the parable of the Pharisee and publican, who was the more righteous in their own eyes? Who was more righteous in the eyes of God? Who did the Almighty use?

Maybe they were not "destined", as in a Noah, Mosses, David, and etc., whom I had in mind, but are the less_than_righteous (both the Pharisee and publicans) used for some purpose of the Almighty, I would be among the yeas.

How overwhelmingly complex when you stop to consider all the ways and times the Almighty has steered mankind down a path only he fully knows/understands.

For instance, the Pharisees, righteous in their own mind at the time of Yeshua, played a major role in convicting the entire nation of Israel. Our liberals today, righteous in their own minds, and even with outside help, are playing a similar role.

Have we learned anything from history/scripture, or will we repeat the past and allow ourselves to be convicted, as a nation, by the actions of a few? So far we have. It's why one third of all pregnancies end in the murder, and why unholy matrimony takes place in a house of God.

It seems complex and really hard to get "intelligent beings", with freewill, past a point of self-destruction, even for the Almighty.

In fact, it seems so hard, maybe it has something to do with why we haven't seen signs of others in this galaxy? :)

Likewise, on the opposite side, it seems evil also uses people.

Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual ...