God could have just killed Satan and left everyone else alone.
Yes I completely agree except for the fact that there were a myriad of people who sinned exactly like he did, that fully agreed with him that such a rebellion was the best, most righteous, way to go. Then those who became elect by their faith before they ever sinned and therefore did not face judgment nor hell like their friends who chose to reject HIM totally (and came to be considered by GOD to be damned), also sinned by rebelling against the call to repudiate their friendship with the non-elect and thus forcing GOD to postpone the judgement day until GOD could redeem and sanctify these sinful elect because, as sinners, if the judgement was called before they were made holy, they too would be damned,
Matt 13, the parable of the weeds in two parts which you obviously ignored as I've written this out
for you at least twice before now...
You keep asking, I keep answering so when you ask again, doesn't it imply you ignored my answer?
As long as any elect is in sin, GOD cannot damn the reprobate, that is the non-elect, because HE promised not to ever judge the elect as part of the promise of their election and the judgement day will destroy every and all sinners.
That is why He did not kill Satan the moment HE sinned - some of those who put their faith in HIM and were chosen, promised, to be saved, sided with Satan and needed redemption and sanctification before the judgement day could happen.
I don't know why God cannot fulfill his missions without killing millions in the process.
Evil has natural and legal consequences. Every person who chose to sin understood what YHWH thought about the consequences of evil yet chose to sin anyway...so whose fault is the suffering and death...or do you think there should be no consequences for evil?
HIS purpose was a holy marriage based upon love...which cannot be fulfilled without a free will acceptance of HIS proposal and a free will must be able to reject HIS purpose or it is not free - this is what caused the death of so many...as I have written in this forum twice or more already.
The fact is that if God is in control of everything and all powerful then he can punish evil when it happens and punish it appropriately.
And that is exactly what is happening here, but you don't like it.
Evil is being exposed and punished here by suffering and death. Those people who can repent are having their eyes opened to the great evil in their own hearts / desires to understand both their need to repent and their need for a saviour,
and are also having their eyes opened to the the eternal and completeness of the evil in the hearts / desire of the damned so they can repudiate the non-elect finally and
come out from among them so that their damnation can finally be fulfilled.
Why is this war against evil not yet over? Blame the sinful Christians for that and our general fragility that makes HIM need to go so slow with us...