Did God create the devil? No! Everything God makes is perfect. A good God would not produce a devil. And yet the Bible states that the devil, along with the angels he had deceived, lost their place in heaven and came to our world where he carried out a successful coup: wresting the stewardship of the world from Adam and Eve.

Where did the devil come from? How did he get into heaven in the first place?

“You were anointed as A GUARDIAN CHERUB, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones. YOU WERE BLAMELESS IN YOUR WAYS from the day YOU WERE CREATED till WICKEDNESS WAS FOUND IN YOU.”
—Ezekiel 28:14, 15

According to this scripture, God did not create the devil, He created a perfect angel, and this angel gradually turned himself into a devil. Satan actually began his career as one of heaven’s leading angels, standing next to God’s throne. But then he sinned—”wickedness was found in” him. Expelled from heaven, and posing as Adam and Eve’s friend, he became humanity’s deadliest enemy.

When you see cartoons portraying the devil with horns, a tail, and split hoofs, remember that the Bible is not so naive. In Scripture we discover that God’s great enemy was once the most beautiful and wisest of the holy angels.