Good cop bad cop... You've heard of it? The two politically entrenched insider clubs have been doing this for decades...Works great!
As the audience of fools applaud as both opponents win....
Get it?
It’s a game that the devil tries to get folks to play so that God’s grace gets squeezed out.
Sometimes a big (and undeserved) humiliation will precede an awesome salvational move. It is in the pattern of Christ. It goes completely against the grain of fallen humanity. It seems idiotic and self hating — until it is also recognized as God loving.