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Tintin
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It almost sounds like you think God originally created Satan evil.
In Ezek.28, God showed that He originally created Satan perfect in his ways. Satan served God back then prior to his rebellion. He was even perfect in serving God then, which is what that means. So if you can understand it, when Satan was a good cherub following God, there was no... evil or sin in that time.
In 1 John 3, he said the devil sinned from the beginning. John is referring to the actual FIRST sin ever done, i.e., Satan coveting God's Throne and drawing a third of the angels into rebellion with him. Since Satan was already in God's Eden as "that old serpent" tempting Eve, then it means he had already sinned, even before Adam and Eve did.
Rev.12:3-4 reveals an old beast kingdom Satan first rebelled with, a beast system that had ten horns, seven heads, but only seven crowns. That one is not the one for the end in Rev.13 which has ten crowns. That one with seven crowns in Rev.12:3-4 is given in conjunction with the time of Satan drawing a third of the angels to the earth with him.
So where do you think Satan had that old beast kingdom with seven crowns setup against God? On this old earth is where.
Revelation isn't entirely linear. Also, it covers the same events from different perspectives (repeats them in different ways to really get the point across). I don't believe Revelation is as difficult or as easy to understand as some people here make it out to be.