...I was surprised to hear Jack Hibbs saying something about Syria in one episode of his program (with Jan Markell), he said something like God could have used ISIS (or the civil war) to save Christians in Syria as most Syrian Christians fled the country (to Europe or somewhere else), do you agree?
Read Habakkuk 1...
The Lord’s Reply
5 “Look among the nations and watch—
Be utterly astounded!
For I will work a work in your days
Which you would not believe, though it were told you.
6 For indeed
I am raising up the Chaldeans,
[ancient location indicated]
A bitter and hasty nation
Which marches through the breadth of the earth,
To possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
7 They are terrible and dreadful;
Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards,
And more fierce than evening wolves.
Their chargers charge ahead;
Their cavalry comes from afar;
They fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.
9 “They all come for violence;
Their faces are set like the east wind.
They gather captives like sand.
10 They scoff at kings,
And princes are scorned by them.
They deride every stronghold,
For they heap up earthen mounds and seize it.
11 Then his mind changes, and he transgresses;
He commits offense,
Ascribing this power to his god.”
To the wider question as to whether God might use bad people (and their free choices) to fulfil His plan, I think there are some good biblical examples of it - look at Josephs jealous brothers throwing him in a pit, look at Pharaoh and the way God delivered the Israelites.
Romans 8:28 (KJV)
28 And we know that
all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
The “all things” include things that are good, and work to the good, and truly evil things, but God so intervenes that unintended good ends up coming from it.