God answered Abraham's question about evil with a revelation about the nations. He was angered at them on account of Abraham's descendants, the people who would be separated after him. "I will tell you what shall be, and how much shall be, in the last days. Look now at everything in the picture."
Abraham looked and saw what lay before him in creation.
He saw Adam and Eve. With them, the cunning Adversary. And Cain, who acted lawlessly through the Adversary's influence. Then the slaughtered Abel, and the destruction brought upon him through the lawless one. The first murder. The first blood spilled on earth. Not merely a crime of jealousy between brothers, but an act driven by the spirit of Azazel, who used human weakness as his instrument.
Abraham's vision widened. He saw Impurity personified, and those who lusted after it, and its pollution, and their jealousy, and the fire of their corruption burning in the lowest parts of the earth.
He saw Theft personified, and those who chased after it, and the arrangement of their retribution at the Great Judgment.
He saw naked men, foreheads pressed against each other in conflict, their disgrace and their passion against one another, and their punishment.
He saw Desire, and in her hand the head of every kind of lawlessness, her scorn and waste assigned to perdition.
The vision was a catalogue of human evil, each sin given a face and a body. Impurity. Theft. Desire. Each one traced back to the moment when Azazel stood behind the tree in Eden and handed the fruit to the first man and woman. From that single act flowed every corruption Abraham now witnessed unfolding through the ages like a scroll of devastation.