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As most people do, Satan also equates innocence with weakness. Satan threw the entire bulk of all the sins and evil of all mankind at Jesus on the cross, and the Father allowed it. Satan believed that the awesome horrors of all that sin and evil would so overwhelm the innocence of Jesus that He would succumb to its power, His Holiness would be destroyed, He would die forever, and Satan would then be free to take control of God's world. Satan's goal is to murder God as revealed in his temptations of Jesus as recorded in Matthew 4:1-11.
When God the Father created Lucifer and gave him free will, God did so in all innocence. At that time, God knew nothing about sin and evil. God only created good and righteous systems based on His set of infinite Ideas in His Infinite Mind, and Lucifer was one such system. But Lucifer discovered a weakness in God's gift to him of free will. Lucifer discovered that he could choose to invent false systems by misusing God's good Ideas; that is, false systems of excessive pride and pleasure which would lead him to rebel against God. Lucifer misled one third of God's angels in his rebellion, and he refused to repent of it. God had to dissolve his system, strip him of all His good Ideas that He had put into his system, and exile him to earth as an empty, negative consciousness. For this reason, the Bible often refers to sin and evil as being vanity which means both excessive pride and emptiness. God used His consuming fire to dissolve Lucifer's system, and He will use His consuming fire to dissolve all human systems within the regions of the dead in order to separate and recover His living images in them and to cast their spiritual deaths which are totally evil into the lake of fire. Ezekiel 28:15-19; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15.
Christ made that separation possible by His descent into hell. God must consign the souls and spirits of all humans not saved by grace to one of the three regions of the dead because sin and evil still remain as a part of their beings. But because Jesus left all of their sins and evil behind in hell when He rose immaculate from the dead, His self-cleansing became God's power to use His consuming fire to separate His living images in all these humans for Him to recreate from their spiritual deaths which He will cast into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 15:26; I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; Luke 20:38. But no human can be saved without repentance and faith. God will return the living souls and spirits of all humans within the regions of the dead to repentance and faith in Christ as recorded in Revelation 5:11-14. If all humans are alive to God as recorded in Luke 20:38, and God destroys their deaths as recorded in I Corinthians 15:26, then God must save all living humans forever. Ecclesiastes 3:14.
Before God created Lucifer, in His innocence, He knew nothing about sin and evil. After evil emerged into His creations to cause sin to exist, God realized that as a result of His creations, He probably also accidentally caused a region of nonexistence filled with negative consciousnesses called demons. Isaiah 45:7. Whenever a something appears then the idea of nothing must also appear as a means to distinguish that particular something from all other somethings. God uses the idea of nothing to separate objects in space but also to exclude ideas which cannot work in any particular system that he happens to be in the process of creating. God's Infinite Mind knew only positive creations. God had no idea that the useful idea of nothing could also conceal a region of nonexistence. God created darkness before He created light. Genesis 1:2. After Lucifer's fall, God realized that somehow demons emerged through darkness, which can conceal even emptiness, into His creations to exploit the weakness in Lucifer's free will to cause him to rebel against God.
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