Job 24:1-25
God, knowing that Satan had this goal, decided to accept Satan's challenge and put His loving gift of free will in man to an eternal test. Satan knew that if he could get man to use his free will to soil the image of God in him by choosing to sin, then a Holy God would never be able to accept him into His presence again, and Satan would thus gain complete control of the image of God in man so that he could torture man forever until he succeeded in utterly destroying God's image in man. In such a case, Satan would gain some power over God so that he would eventually be able to kill Him. Satan also knew that once man sinned, he would never have the power within himself to save himself from spiritual death which results in an eternal separation from God and complete control by the Devil. Satan believed that if he could just get man's good image to sin, He would gain some control over God Himself.
But all of the time that Satan plotted his evil scheme, he did not know that God was using him to prove that God's Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. Satan did not count on God Himself suffering all of man's sin and eternal spiritual death in man's place on a cruel cross and rising from the dead to give His eternal life back to man. In this way, God proved that His Love can never fail and that He can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Colossians 1:15-20; Romans 11:36. The Devil believed that God had made a mistake in giving free will to man, and he could use that mistake to completely ruin humans forever and eventually murder God as well. For this reason, God had to devise a plan to bring all the good images that He created in man back to love for Him and faith in him of their own free will. In this way, God would prove that His Almighty Love cannot be diminished and that His gift of free will to man was not a mistake.
Because God created man in His own image, many of the attributes of God that issues from His Love can be found in man's good life. This means repentance, faith, forgiveness, and reconciliation form a part of the measure of faith that God has given to every man. Romans 12:3. Jesus reminded the sinful Pharisees of His good image in them when He told them "the kingdom of God is within you." Luke 17:20-21.
Satan counted on there being at least one good image of God in man who would never choose to return to God in repentance, faith, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Lucifer misused his gift of free will to choose to rebel against God. He also chose to refuse to ever repent, and he hoped he could cause mankind to do the same. God could see that Lucifer would never repent and return to His Love. Therefore, God stripped the system called Lucifer of all the good elements that He had put into him and exiled him to earth as a totally evil and demonic being. Ezekiel 28:13-19. Because God loved Lucifer, He recovered all of His goodness He had put into his system, perhaps to use to create a new cherub.
God cast Satan to the ground as being equal to absolute nothingness. God recovered even the useful and creative idea of nothing from Lucifer. This means absolute nothingness can only be equal to less than nothing. Isaiah 40:17; Luke 8:18. God created everything except absolute nothingness which emerges from negative consciousness (whatever that is or more properly is not) within the bowels of the abyss which the Bible calls the bottomless pit. Revelation 20:3.
Somehow, a negative consciousness, also called a devil, emerged from the bottomless pit to cause Lucifer to sin by acting on the good gift of free will that God had given him. A demon, in some unknown way, entered into God's good creations and caused Lucifer to choose to rebel against God. Ezekiel 28:15. God is completely innocent. God knew nothing about this realm of negative consciousness and total evil until it suddenly emerged in heaven to cause Lucifer to sin. II Thessalonians 2:7. God's Love did not fail when Lucifer rebelled because He was totally innocent, and He found that He hated the total evil in Satan which proved the usefulness of the emotion that He created called hate. Satan charged God with a failure of His Love, but God proved the eternal value of His Love by creating a creature who would sin but whom God would rescue from eternal death by His own sacrifice which would cause this creature to return to love for God and faith in God of its own free will. John 6:28-29; Revelation 5:11-14.
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