4189 — Satan and His Fall
God certainly knew Lucifer would fall. Why then was he created? Afterward He knew that Adam would fall. So why create Adam? These also are questions which, if we will stop to study them, we can see reasons for. No character can be formed without test. Otherwise it is a mere matter of machinery and mechanism, without will; but all the characters who are worthy to persist forever are those who have chosen God's service voluntarily, without compulsion, simply and solely because they love God and desire to do His will. On the other hand, the man who chooses to obey can choose to disobey; and the Lord saw, of course, that some would do this. Yet He does not even leave these in their misery and transgression, but calls after them then, and assures them that where sin abounds, grace much more abounds, so that even tho His creatures fall, He has opened a glorious way by which they may come back. And this must have been just as true regarding Lucifer and the angels as it has been true of man. But they would not. They would go on in their own way; consequently the Lord will use even the perversity of those who have rebelled against Him, to mark out a glorious lesson for the universe that will last through all eternity, and all eternity will demonstrate the wonderful love and justice of God. We may not see all these things, but God is working them out for His own glory and for His creatures' highest good. “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” asks the “father of the faithful;” and the redeemed for all eternity will answer, “Just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of ages.”