Just asking (19): evil or good?

There’s an American TV series called Manifest.

It talks about a mysteriously disappeared flight reappearing five years later.
Passengers on board all had troubles to deal with after five years absence.
Lives appear to be upside down.
Bad.
But amidst bad passengers did good, or at least attempted to.

It is Flight 828.
It has a slogan “all things work good”.

This piece is not about TV.
Not even about how Roman 8:28 could be interpreted.
Certainly not about how life would turn out.

There are two main ways in rendering Romans 8:28:
1. All things work good.
2. God works all things for good.

There are many feelings evoked depending on one’s belief and view of the world.
It would be pointless to argue whether God arranged things or things would work out themselves.

But one thing is sure.
The outcome is good.
However interpreters define “good”.

This piece asks where did Apostle Paul in New Testament times get the idea that things would work out for good?

Could it be the life of Joseph, where after decades of misfortunes and final fortunes, both at the hands of others?

Charles Foster, Joseph is sold by his brethren (Charles Foster, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Near the end of his career, after reuniting with his siblings who had mistreated him, Joseph realised life as it was and said something.

And as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. (Gen 50:20, NASB 1977)

Isn’t it a reasonable suggestion of an echo?
Isn’t it a reasonably robust way to view life?

I’m just asking.