Satan's rebellion and God's will: God wills that creatures have genuine free will, which entails the possibility of rebellion.

Mike distinguishes God's ultimate sovereign plan from God's permissive will regarding creaturely choices. God desires beings who genuinely choose to worship him, which requires a real choice. A parent analogy: you give your children commands but also give them the freedom to obey or disobey, because authentic relationship requires real agency. God wills that Satan and humans have genuine will; he does not will the evil choices made, but he does will the existence of the freedom to make those choices. Satan's rebellion is traced to the "I will" statements in Isaiah 14.