How did Satan become the God of this world and why did God allow him to reign?

Well, we can piece together a couple things in the scriptures. One of them is that I do believe

Satan is the one who's behind the temptation in the Garden of Eden.

Okay, that he's that Serpent of Old.

Okay, so I take that revelation statement, that Serpent of Old.

He's the tempter.

He's the adversary.

He's these things.

I do think he's there in the garden.

When Eve listened to the Serpent, that was the one who they were obeying.

It was ultimately Satan.

That may have had some impact on our relationship with Satan.

That's one aspect of it.

Another aspect is Satan is, well, let's think about what happens when there's a rebellion.

Like think about even anarchists, even anarchists have leaders, they don't want them, but they get them anyway.

Because when there's a rebellion, you break away from the proper order and the proper authority,

there will always, it seems, rise up some authority within the group,

and it's usually the biggest, the strongest, the smartest, the people who are best at controlling others.

Satan, it seems as that.

That Satan is the one who initiated the breakaway.

That's why it's called the devil and his angels in revelation. He's the one who is sort of coordinating and organizing the

rebellion against God. He is, it seems the first one of the angelic host to break away

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