In the previous chapter we concluded, based on observations from certain biblical passages, that Satan, Lucifer, had become aware of God’s plan and purpose to create a material universe and fill it with humans, who would be in His image and likeness, and would fully and completely express, represent, and manifest God’s mind, heart, and will. Satan, all along, had desired the supremacy and preeminence among all angelic and heavenly hosts, as evidenced from the passages in Isaiah and Ezekial passages. His was the lust for power and the total admiration and adoration given to him by all God’s creation. He wanted to be like God, even perhaps share the office of Divinity as co-equal with God!

The creation of man in Genesis chapter 1, and in that special manner of being made in the image and likeness of God, was the beginning of the end in this quest of Lucifer for supremacy and universal dominion. Man was to be the master of the universe, starting with Earth as the base of operations, and ultimately inhabiting the entire universe and fulfilling God’s utmost desire to have a companion creation who would be in perfect harmony and fellowship with Him and would fully express the perfect compatibility with the person of the Son, who was the heir of all things.

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