WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE EDEN AND WHY DID GOD CREATE US?

Before there was a garden, there was a throne.

Before there was a temptation, there was a rebellion.

Before there was a fall of man, there was a fall of an angel.

For centuries, believers have wrestled with questions that are rarely explored in depth:

Who was Lucifer before he became Satan?

What happened in heaven before Genesis 3?

Why did God allow a fallen being access to Eden?

Why did God place humanity in a world where temptation was possible?

Why didn't God simply destroy Satan immediately?

And perhaps the greatest question of all:

Why did God create humanity in the first place?

This book seeks to explore those questions through the lens of Scripture.

We will journey beyond the familiar stories and examine the larger narrative that stretches from eternity past to eternity future. We will investigate the mysterious passages concerning Lucifer's rise and fall. We will explore the possibility that the earth itself bears evidence of an ancient judgment. We will examine why mankind was created in the image of God and placed at the center of a cosmic conflict.

Along the way, we will discover that the Bible is far more interconnected than many realize. The story of Job, the temptation of Christ, the ministry of the Church, and the final defeat of Satan are all threads woven into a single tapestry.