Can Good Beings be Consequentialists?

Is God a consequentialist? In some ways, I find it easy to say "yes". I can see God wanting to maximize some variable (whatever that variable may be -- maybe a measure of some complex good). But, part of being a consequentialist can easily be to do something or allow something bad so that greater good can result.

Can a perfectly holy being do something bad, even if greater good would result? Maybe, maybe not. I would initially lean toward "no". But obviously God does a lot in the world. There are times when it clearly looks like he orchestrated some event which does a greater good thing through some form of evil. So are God's hands tied by his own purity? Or is there a way for him to accomplish his will without sinning?

Generally I think of the purpose of Satan as being that of doing what God can't do. So if people need to be tempted, through Satan, it is done. Satan wills evil, which God can't do. God can execute the will of Satan, but he can't initiate harm. In that sense, it is not God who does bad things so that greater things result, but Satan. Satan is a self-defeating person (or collective), when greater good results from his (their) evil, but I suppose hopes that greater good doesn't result, which is the case sometimes.

So the kind of consequentialism which is evil leading to greater good requires both the participation of God and Satan. Or, perhaps, humans can perform the Satanic role -- and may even have in mind God's results. The humans are capable of doing so because they are at least somewhat morally insensitive (Satan's doing) and yet may still have some real desire to do God's work. To be such a consequentialist is a risky thing, because you are bringing Satan's will into the world, and it can affect who you are. It may be more effective in the short term or medium term to be this kind of consequentialist, but it is morally caustic and thus risky.