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rebel, chose to allow us an equal chance to measure our strength and might with His own, His Son and His loyal angels.
    He forced every angel to choose a side. All loyalties were laid bare before the eye of the Lord.
    Permit me to become a bit biblical in my thoughts now, a bit poetic.
    All of Heaven seemed in commotion. The angels were marshaled in companies, each division with a higher commanding angel at its head. I was warring against the law of God, because I was unwilling to submit to the authority of God's Son.
    The heavenly host was summoned to appear before the Father, to have each case determined. I unblushingly made known my dissatisfaction that Jesus should be preferred before Him, and that I worried for our futures once Man was permitted into the bliss of Heaven. I stood up proudly and demanded that I should be taken into conference with the Father so that I could understand His purposes.
    God, who had manifested before all the angels, something he had never done, informed me that to His Son alone He would reveal His purposes, and He required all the family in heaven, even me, to yield to Him in implicit, unquestioned obedience; but that I had proven myself unworthy of a place in Heaven.
    I boastfully pointed to those who rallied behind me, an army comprising nearly one half of all the angels, and exclaimed, "These are with me! Will you expel these also, and make such a void in heaven?" I then openly declared that I was prepared to resist the authority of Jesus and defend my place in Heaven by force of might, strength against strength.
    This, I must now admit, was foolish. There was no way we would have defeated God, the Son, and the loyal angels of Heaven. Though we held onto our convictions, and they gave us courage, none could have withstood the might of God's will in Heaven.
    Radueriel wept with his loyal brothers as they heard my words. But, God declared that the rebellious should remain in Heaven no longer. We lost our place by refusing to trust in our Lord. Our happiness and comfort had been held upon the condition of obedience to the law that God had given to govern Heaven. But no provision had been made to save those who should venture to transgress His law.
    I grew ever bolder in my rebellion, and I expressed contempt of my Creator's law. We needed no law, but should be left free to follow our own will, which would ever guide us right - God's law was a restriction of our liberty. To abolish that law was one great object of my rebellion. The condition of the angels, I thought, needed improvement.
    Not so the mind of God, who had made these laws and exalted them equal to Himself. The happiness of the angelic host consisted in our perfect obedience to His law. Each had his special work assigned, and until I rebelled, there had been perfect order and harmonious action in Heaven.
    Or so God, and Man, seemed to believe.
    Then there was war in heaven.
    The third Separation, when Heaven rumbled with the sounds of pride and arrogance.
    The Son of God and His loyal angels battled with the army I commanded. Heaven was awash in chaos and blood. Radueriel picked up a sword and fought against me, true to God throughout. Man never knew of the conflict his Creator and His angels engaged, but we fought long into Man's history.
    Jesus and the true, loyal angels prevailed, of course. I was expelled from Heaven, along with those who had fought in the rebellion. We were set on the Earth, forever from the sight of God, alone in the world we had not seen for many years. The angels in Heaven mourned our fate, mourned those who had been their companions in happiness and bliss. Our loss was felt in Heaven, even among those who had been most loyal.
    And I have existed through time. My hatred of my Lord has grown. He has manipulated Man just as He had said He would. Jesus came, He died, and now Man has turned from the path. I commend them for that, for refusing to bow before such a being.
    He took my power. He took my happiness. He