Why did Jesus Allow a Thief to be the Treasurer

I should be asleep, but I don't want this to be forgotten, so I got to write it down.

I won't be spending too much time discussing about what other people have written before, but essentially it can be summarized into this two words: learning points. Many people say that such a turn in events allowed the many subsequent generations to learn about many things. I'm not saying that this is wrong. In fact, there indeed are many valuable pointers to note, on hindsight. The point of writing this article is this: I don't believe lessons are the sole, or even the primary purpose for Judas to have to go through such an ordeal, and a terrible ending. This contradicts the God whom I know, and such an explanation certainly tags upon Him the name of cruelty. Too much~ 

If the Word says flee from all your temptations lest it overtakes you, yet Jesus subjected Judas to the temptation of his biggest bane, does that mean Jesus set him up to fail? Imagine with me: at the end of times, Judas stands before the judgment seat, and he was being told "your life and the unfolding of it was to serve as a lesson to everyone who comes after you". How cruel is that?! 

The God whom I know loves everyone this much, that He would never have allowed things to unfold this way. Rather, I'm a lot more inclined to think that precisely because Jesus knew, yet He allowed, thus the demonstration of grace; precisely because Jesus knew, thus He tried, to pry Judas away from where he would fall (He spoke extensively on the topic of money, and Judas was definitely one of the audience who had been present). This is the love of God. All the way until the last minute, Jesus was trying, except that He also knew that Judas would not heed.

In Joseph's story, it is explicitly stated that "what others have meant for evil, God meant them for good." God never intended sufferings, and it's a very harsh sweeping statement to accuse God of allowing sufferings. If anything, God allows free will, and many of our sufferings are actually a consequence of our own foolishness. Lessons are derived from hindsight, so we can never understand lessons in terms of foresight. God planned for Judas to betray Jesus conveys the message of a scheming, trigger-happy God to sacrifice one of His precious creation to fulfill His ultimate salvation plan. Understanding it from hindsight puts things back in order. God knew he would betray, so He reversed and rode on it so that His plan can be fulfilled. All these have to do with the right heart- something beyond what our logic can offer. When the crowd saw the blind man, everyone assumed that the parents have had sinned, that was why he was born blind, but Jesus corrected them. 

Knowing the heart of God is so important to help us to understand what is happening.