The Results of the Fall
Then, the Devil counterattacked. The original challenge of Satan to God, as revealed in the book of Job, was his accusation that God had made a mistake in giving free will to Adam and Eve so that, over time, the Devil believed that he could cause at least one human to choose to completely rebel against God, as Lucifer had done, to the extent that that soul and spirit would become totally evil and spiritually dead and lost from God forever. But God has promised in His Word that He can never lose anything He has ever created. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:36; Romans 11:29. By this method, the Devil thought he could prove that God's Love is not Almighty which, in time, would so weaken God that the Devil could gain the power to murder God and assume control of His creations. Isaiah 14:12-17; Job 1:6-12. But God has promised that His Love can never fail. I Corinthians 13:8. The entire book of Job reveals the Devil's intention to misuse the free will that God gave to humans to cause humans to completely rebel against God and refuse to repent which would cause the eternal spiritual deaths of their souls and spirits which God had created and loved, thus proving that God's Love is not Almighty.
The sons of God in Job 38:7 who shouted for joy when God created the heaven and earth can only be the angels whom God created. This fact can only mean that the sons of God in Genesis 6:2 could only be certain fallen angels who came to earth and mated with the daughters of men which produced "giants" and "men of renown." Genesis 6:4. This fact proves that the angels have a sexual nature. These fallen angels could not have been any of those who rebelled against God and followed Lucifer because, according to to Jude 1:6 and Revelation 9:14, God chained all of these rebellious angels in the bottomless pit except for four that He chained in the river Euphrates. These fallen angels could not also have been any of those who remained faithful to God because all of them still live in heaven and serve God. These fallen angels could only have been those who remained neutral in God's war with Lucifer whom God exiled from heaven to wander through His universe.
These fallen angels could have come to earth on their own, but Satan could also have encouraged them to mate with human women in order to cause the evil in man's nature to gain even more power over humans. In either case, the evil in humans would have become more pronounced. By this method, the Devil counterattacked against God's special protection that He had provided to humans which caused them to continue to worship God and repent whenever they sinned. Genesis 4:26. This action by the Devil corresponded to Satan telling God that if He removed all of His special protections and blessings that He had given Job, then Job would "curse God and die," which means that the Devil believed that Job's living soul and spirit would become totally evil and spiritually dead. The Devil hoped that this increase in the power of evil in human nature would eventually cause the living soul and spirit in at least one human to become totally, spiritually dead.
God accepted this challenge of Satan because He had to prove that His Almighty Love would never allow Satan to so misuse the free will of any human to the extent that his living soul would become totally evil and lost from God's Love forever, even if the Devil did his absolute worst to humans. Job and his story actually happened, but it also symbolized this counterattack by Satan which would greatly enhance the power of evil in human nature which the Devil hoped would cause the living souls and spirits of humans to become annulled; that is, spiritually dead and lost from God forever. The spiritual death that Satan injected into humans is foreign to humans, but God will never allow that spiritual death to overpower His spiritual life that He gave to humans. Hebrews 2:9. In the end of the world, God will use His consuming fire to separate the spiritual deaths of all humans still in their graves from their spiritual lives, and He will cast their totally evil and eternal deaths into the lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Revelation 20:11-15.
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