Ezekiel: God who travels Chapter 31

 By the abundance of your trading

You became filled with violence within,

And you sinned; 

Ezekiel 28

Abundance speaks of plentiness. It is gross. Trading is a word for voluntarily exchanging of whatever you would gain as profit and become above others.

So in this, the first business in heaven was born under Satan's trade. Are we saying that business itself is evil? Why not? Because in business no one wins except the owner who profits but are they willing to share it? Profits are meant to always take away as much as you can from others and not willing to share it but with the intent to store up for yourself for whatever purpose. 

When God created man in his image and holiness, God never made business in man. Everything was made by God for free. He freely gave it in exchange for hard labor or anything that man could offer so that God could profit. In fact, God instructed man to just do one thing in Genesis 2: "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

It's a simple command yet it easily ended man's destiny out of God's plan because of sin of disobedience. Whereas Satan's first sin is the sin of pride. Pride pushed Satan to refine its business, and introduce "trading" in exchange for something so he could profit other than what God already provided for him. Trading is an avenue where Satan wants to gain more from what God has allotted to him. Did greediness entered then? Yes. Did God allow Satan to swallow Greed in its vilest form?

Maybe we should ask... Why would God not spare mercy by teaching Satan about greediness so Satan can behave better and respect God by not doing any trading or business? 

Again the subject becomes complicated.

Because the next question is: Where did evil really come from? And if evil existed before Angels and human beings, does this mean, God is the first being who controlled its powers by putting what is its opposite which is the word "good"?

Can evil exist on its own without introducing what is good? 

How can one know evil without knowing what is good? 

"Trading."

You got the answer here.

AC

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