That is what the Bible teaches. God could have just zapped all the perpetrators of the rebellion into oblivion immediately if he wanted. Of course all
that would have proven is his power. And just looking at his vast creation we know he has power. In fact nowhere in the Bible does Satan ever
challenge God's power. In fact he has to request of God to test mankind (look at his conversation with God in Job 1) and he has to follow God's
commands.
Even when persecuting Christians today Satan needs God's authority. Jesus told his followers:
"Simon, Simon, look! Satan has demanded to have all of you to sift you as wheat."-Luke 22:31.
That doesn't mean that Satan issues orders to God, but he basically said he could do to the apostles, and the rest of the followers of Christ that
were to come, what he, by slander, claimed he could do to Job. There he told Jehovah that he could get every human to reject Jehovah God.
It is true that the majority of humankind has rejected Jehovah as the Sovereign. Much to the pleasure of Satan. But he has not successfully turned all
humankind.
It is the good will of Jehovah that all sorts of people come to this accurate knowledge of truth about why the world is the way it is, who created us,
why we suffer, and what our hope for the future is:
"This is fine and acceptable in the sight of our Savior, God, whose will is that all sorts of people should be saved and come to an accurate
knowledge of truth."-1 Timothy 2:3-4.
Everyone alive today was born as a descendant of Adam, a slave to sin and death, amid this universal war being waged between God and Satan. And the
forces of good, with God's son Jesus Christ leading, and the forces of evil under Satan, his wicked angels whom rebelled alongside him, and the vast
hordes of wicked human society.
Every human is a victim. And God is very well aware of all of our defects and flaws, our background, what molded us into what we are. Even as we
strive to serve Jehovah it is a struggle, both against the wicked forces of this system of things, and the sinful tendencies of the fallen flesh. That
is why the beloved apostle John was inspired to write about God's enduring love usward, toward us pitiful, decaying sinful people:
"God is greater than our hearts and knows all things."-1 John 3:20.
edit on 11-3-2023 by randomuser because: (no reason given)