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Why did GOD make the Devil?
Firstly, let's note that God didn't create a rebellious being called Satan - He created a multitude of angels which were designed to serve him and each of these appears to have had freewill to obey God.Satan comes from one of these angels, it would appear, who set himself to oppose God's will and to destroy what He'd created.
So, it wouldn't be correct to think that God created Satan *if* by that we think of a being created who was inherently evil - that is, that he was intentionally made that way.
Why didn't God destroy him?
Second, it's a fair question as to why God didn't destroy satan either when he first showed himself to be opposed to God or after the initial act of rebellion when he persuaded the man and the woman to subject their own wills to himself. Unfortunately, the Bible doesn't appear to have an answer - for that - even though it notes that, at the very end, he will be dealt with.Actually, to destroy Satan means to judge him and it may be right to think of God as being unwilling to judge all sin (which would have included mankind) until he had sorted out the problem and offered all those a way to escape from being enemies of God as Satan himself is (the name 'satan' means 'adversary' or 'enemy').
Therefore, God refrained from judging satan because he was unwilling at that time to judge mankind for sin - until, that is, the time when the Kingdom of God on earth is set up *visibly*.
These last explanations are merely my own reasoning - there doesn't appear to be anything in the Bible which would directly answer the question.
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