 After being defeated by God and cast out of heaven, Satan sought to hurt God by destroying what God loves most. And friends, that's mankind. That's you and me. That is why Satan would tempt Adam and Eve in the garden. He wanted to see God's crowning creation marred and destroyed forever. When Adam and Eve sinned, the rebellion plunged the human race into sin. And the wages of sin, or the penalty of sin, and rebellion against God, it is eternal death forever.