Lucifer Trilogy III

Of all God's creatures, man stands alone;
God forgives the sins of him who repents;
Remorseful eyes are dried, till tears are gone;
And wages of sins He always relents!
What of Lucifer, the father of sin?
Was he compelled to play that dead-end role?
Where is his second chance, like that of men?
Can he never re-enter heaven's fold?
A mortal might condemnation evade,
By repenting, trusting in Christ as Lord;
But Satan? He lost his place in God's glade;
If he repented, God would disregard!
It must have been intended so to be,
Making man's will to choose ever be free!

Angels are created immortal, to live forever. Since nothing is impossible for God, He could have killed Lucifer when he lost his rebellion to sieze God's throne for himself. Had He done so, though, there would have been no Satan awaiting the creation of man; if there were no Satan, how would those men who professed faith in Jesus Christ have been tested for sincerity? If believers did not have to face the temptations that the devil surrounds them with in this world, how would God know that they would live sinless in the next world---that is, in heaven? Above all else, God wanted men to have unfettered free will in choosing to live in love and service to others; if there were no evils in this world for a man to avoid---because this world's flesh would offer a sterner test of him that the next world's spiritual sexless body---thus proving his sincerity and strength of will, God could not be confident that another traitor such as Lucifer would not be admitted to heaven.

So Satan-nee-Lucifer was an essential part of God's master plan for man; he was allowed to live to provide a stern test for the sincerity of our faith in Jesus. He was an instrument of God, who has always used unGodly men as tools with which to punish(discipline) His children. Egypt's Pharaoh in the time of Moses; the Babylonians in 587 B.C.; the Romans under Titus in 70 A.D.; these and many more have served as instruments for the use of God. That is essentially the role of Lucifer, and why God didn't slay him or put him in imprisonment after his first defeat in heaven. His fate will be to spend eternity in the tortures of hell with the majority of the human race.