[Buggman]

If I may add a clarification: We do draw a distinction between God's action and God's permission, while considering both to be His will. That is, He may control events by actively interceding--influencing hearts, controlling the weather, dropping a nuke on Sodom and Gomorrah, etc.--or He may allow events to run their natural course, knowing fully the near- and long-term outcomes. He may also do any combination of the above, for example by allowing evil men to carry out their plans to attack Israel so that He can give them another miraculous victory, as He has numerous times since 1948.

If you want to get a sense of how God is interacting with His Creation today, look in Scripture to see how He has interacted with us in the past. Just as the NT authors understood the prophets who wrote of Israel's then-impending Babylonian captivity to also be speaking to their own day, we can understand that God's actions for and against Israel in the Bible speak to our own day.

[sinkspur]

Exactly. You have outlined the difference between God's Permissive Will, and His Active Will.

[blue-duncan]

"He may control events by actively interceding--influencing hearts, controlling the weather, dropping a nuke on Sodom and Gomorrah, etc.--"

Yeah, I get it, sort of like what He did when He dropped Eve onto the scene in what was before a peaceful garden.