Lucifer was a beautiful angel who was proud, vain, and selfishly ambitious. He wanted to be like God. He planned a rebellion amongst the angels, and a great battle took place in heaven. The result? Satan fell from heaven (Isaiah 14:12-15). Ouch. Bad move. Lucifer became what we refer to as “the fallen angel” or the Devil or Satan. In your life, you need to guard against your own attitudes and actions. The Bible warns us of having selfish ambitions (Galatians 5:20) and encourages us to demonstrate the fruit of the Spirit in our lives. Obey God so that the saying, “Pride goes before a fall," (which comes from Proverbs 16:18) doesn’t become true in your life.

The answer is yes and no!

Confused?

Well, we were created in God's image. Since God is THE Creator, we also have the ability to be creative. One big difference is that whatever we make, we create from something that already exists. The Bible tells us that God created something out of nothing. He created the universe and everything in it by only speaking. God said, “Let there be light” (Genesis 1:3), and, “Let us make...” (Genesis 1:26) – and then it came TRUE. The Bible teaches us that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (the Trinity or Triune--that is, three-in-one--God) were present at Creation in the beginning (Genesis 1:1).

God gave Adam and Eve two rules to obey: Do eat any fruit in the garden, but don’t eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 2:16). Adam and Eve chose to obey God until they gave into the temptation of the serpent. God placed Adam and Eve in a beautiful world, gave them clear instructions, and the freedom to follow those rules. When Satan tempted Eve, she could have said "no." Adam and Eve chose to disobey God and to do what they wanted to do instead. We all need to learn obedience: to choose to resist temptation and to obey God. Deuteronomy 11:26-28 emphasizes this choice. The Lord’s message is this: “Look, today I am giving you the choice between a blessing and a curse! You will be blessed if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today. But you will be cursed if you reject the commands of the LORD your God and turn away from him and worship gods you have not known before.”

Adam and Eve disobeyed God. But when God asked them what happened, Adam blamed Eve, and then Eve blamed the serpent. They sinned, and there were consequences to their actions. Those consequences included a broken relationship with God. When you toss a stone into a lake, it will ripple on and on and on, making waves much larger than the stone itself. That is a consequence. A consequence is a result or an effect. All actions have consequences, either good or bad, depending on the action. There are many instances in the Bible where we see consequences in action – sometimes for good and sometimes not so good. These follow an "If (action), then (consequence)" pattern. Genesis 3:3 - “If you eat the fruit, then you will die.” Exodus 20:12 - "If you honor your mother and father, then you will live long." Deuteronomy 6:3 - "If you obey… then all will go well with you." 1 John 1:8 - “If we claim we have no sin, [then] we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth.” 1 John 1:9 - “But if we confess our sins to him, [then] he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.” Romans 6:23 - If you sin, then the consequence is death. If you accept Jesus as your Savior, then you will receive eternal life."

• When God spoke to the serpent, He referred to Christ’s victory over Satan through Jesus' death on the cross: “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel" (Genesis 3:15, NKJV).
• When God made clothing out of animal skins, it has been said that it points to Jesus, the Lamb of God, who died to save us.
• Have you thought about Noah’s Ark representing salvation through Jesus (Genesis 6, Hebrews 11:7)? Or Jonah being entombed in the great fish for three days before being released (Jonah 1:17, Matthew 12:40)?

God’s plan for your life involves forgiveness (John 3:16, 1 John 1:9) and gives "a hope and a future" (Jeremiah 29:11).