sat on God’s divine council, a group of hand-selected spiritual beings whose job was to collaborate with God’s rule over the world.14 But he chose to rebel against God’s rule, to seize the world’s throne for himself, and to enlist as many creatures as possible in his violent insurgency.15 Some scholars argue that Eden was created in a war zone, as a beachhead for God’s kingdom.16 But when humans later joined in the devil’s rebellion, the earth fell under his dominion.17
