Human volition is the focal point of the firestorm. God created man to resolve this angelic conflict. Satan will not suffer defeat without an intense struggle. Planet Earth is now the battleground where Satan seeks to outmaneuver God, prove the judgment unfair, and foil the execution of his sentence. Satan appealed the sentence, claiming unfairness-questioning how a loving God could cast His creatures into hell. God justly condemned Satan and his fallen angels to spend eternity in the lake of fire. He wanted to make himself “like the Most High” and recruited one-third of the angels to follow him.
Long before the advent of human history, Satan arrogantly rebelled against his Creator. This is a war beyond the world-an invisible warfare between the forces of Satan and the forces of God. Doctrinal Bible Studies Catalogue (PDF).
