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Satan

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The question

If in heaven and around God everything is good, how did Satan fall? How did he even feel jealousy when no evil was present at this time in heaven? Does this mean that in the Second Coming when we are in heaven that we may be exposed to those ideas that wandered us away from God?

The answer

God created angels with a complete free will but without a plan for salvation. The fall occurred once, and this was the division between heaven and hell. After the Lord's Second Coming, we will be a new creation, without the temptation of sin. Our relationship with God is parental, which is different than His relationship with angels. "For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor" (Psalm 8:5). Angels were created for a purpose, to minister to God, and in this ministry, He sent them with special messages to us. "Who makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flame of fire" (Psalm 104:4). Thus, when some of these angels geared toward pride and sin, their fall was swift, and according to their own will without return.

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