The intimation in this Scripture then is that Satan, with a host of angelic beings, was placed in charge of the original or primeval earth, and that he through pride (1 Timothy 3:6; Isaiah 14:12–14) sought to be equal with God, and that to punish him, the earth was thrown into a chaotic state, and Satan and his angels, amounting to a third of the angelic hosts (Revelation 12:4) were excluded from heaven, and took up their abode in the heavenlies, the second heaven, located between the atmosphere of our earth and the heaven where God dwells, and thus became the principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this age, and the spiritual wickedness in high places (the second heaven), of whom we are warned in Ephesians 6:12. This seems very plausible, for Satan is said to be the prince of the powers of the air (Ephesians 2:2), and the god of this world (age), and it looks as if his plan for the fall of man was a scheme to regain control of this earth.