All things were made by God for His Pleasure. (Rev. 4:11)
Evil did not just pop up out of nowhere, entirely on it's own. If ANYTHING exists, it exists because of GOD.
God will take a great delight in putting EVIL away permanently when it is done SERVING HIM.
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Good script , but even this does not go as far as scripture does ....
When one discovers that Satan was in Eden as the serpent and stands at teh very left hand of God as the covering cherub, then one might begin perhaps to see that the divided religion of sinners really cannot stand as the truth of God... that Satan was only created to show perfectly that no OTHER way of salvation than the seal of God, to DEPART completely from sin, is possible...
Ezek 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
Satan is thus half of the two closest to God at His throne, Jesus stands at the right-hand so Satan is on the left, but both look alike to God , the two cherubim at the mercy seat are made IDENTICAL ... both have the face of a man at one stage, both have a period of destructive power in the earth as a lion, both end up on eagles wings as the spirit when all created beings submit to Jesus as lord :-
Revelation 5:13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
Ezekiel 10:14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
It would probably be accepted by most that Satan is in charge of the evil of this earth , but few realise that the most powerful evil is mediated through the corrupted divided religion of mankind pretendng that it is from God.... the blaspemy of the final antichrist can only come to its fruition ["Thess 2:4] by the uniting of all the world in religious worship of the image of a Christ created by Satan himself [Rev 13:3-8] ... only non-sinners will resist, the few saints of Rev 7:3-8 ... perhaps as few as two thousand scattered indivisuals worldwide alive at any oe time [for the saints are always on the earth, at no time does God allow them to be utterly wiped out though they are repeatedly killed and persecuted by all men for simply saying the truth, just as Jesus was ... baptism of 'fire' , the trial of faith which scripture says is the necessary perfection of love before translation to spirit ...
So the purpose of God in creating Satan and havoing him next to God , sharuing half God's power , given almost all men to corrupt into sinners and invenmt a religion where sinners do not have to depart from iniquity, that fails of course at Jesus' return? :-
2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Why then craete Satan just to destroy him after manifesting as a man, to prove he is not the god he comes to think he is because almost all men follow him as sinners, not becoming saints before Jesus' return...?
the purpose is rather obvious, Satan tries perfectly to show that there is another god than God, that there is another way to etrnity than perfect love with no sin... he fails of course and that is the glory of God in him, that eh has shown that sin fails EVERYONE , and Jesus shows
on the other hand that perfect love DOES lead to eternity, and that 144,000 already follow him by his return, showing that love can and does work... Satan shows then that love is the ONLY way, that there is no alternative, that one cannot sneak into paradise as a sinner ...no matter what Satan teaches through religion of sinners now...
the seal of God, His very foundation, is love, departing from sin ... grace then is only for the few whom it says it is for [Heb 8:8-12] God never made any covenant in scripture with everyone for His grace because only the few who are firts fruits need it, everyone else is freed from sin by death and starts afresh in the kingdom come, where Jesus rules, not Satan ... tis' stan rules almost all men in this world, only the saints ave the kingdom in their hearts and minds now...