Why didn’t God kill Satan in the beginning? My e-mail friend from Kentucky asked me a hypothetical question about God’s conversation with Adam, in the Garden of Eden. He noticed that God asked them about eating the forbidden fruit after they mentioned their nakedness. Wouldn’t God already know about the fruit? And why didn’t God kill Satan, then, (even though the damage had already been done)? Yet, Satan roamed free instead. Huh? [Paraphrased] Since we had exchanged e-mails before, I knew he was serious so I wanted to give him a serious answer. Hours later, I was standing in my room, listening to earphones, and I began to think about the e-mail. I had really planned to sleep on it and answer in the morning. Suddenly, an answer popped into my head that I have never heard before. (Of course, it could be common to others.) Nevertheless, I typed it as quickly and accurately as I could remember. I’m just explaining the whole story because it sounds better than any answer I could have thought of on my own. There are a “host” of angels but only a few are mentioned by name, like God’s ‘inner circle’. When Satan betrayed Him, concerning His creation, it was not enough just to defeat Satan. God created a scenario that reflected the event on earth, when Jesus was betrayed by Judas. God created a replica of Satan’s betrayal and wrote His own ending, which is Revelation. God’s Plan You can tell that God had the whole plan in mind, at least by ‘flood time’, because He vowed not to destroy all living creatures, as He had done, even though He knewevery inclination of man’s heart would be evil from childhood. (Genesis 8:21) In other words, God was starting ‘over’ but He wasn’t starting ‘ALL over’. On the contrary, He took a different tactic with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, which led to the nation of Israel. Yet, only an Almighty God could accomplish something like that.Deuteronomy 4:34Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by miraculous signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes? Something to think about: By the way, one can tell that God had this plan in mind even before the flood, when you consider that Enoch is one of the two witnesses in Revelation. “With the Lord, a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day.” (2 Peter 3:8)