>>828083
>But that's another topic.
No it isn't.
1. You're assuming that Satan was on His butt for the whole 40 days, which would be incorrect. It was at the beginning, and then the remaining 40 days Jesus was ministered to by angels.
2. The 40 days were God's idea.
>He was still put to death by works stemming from the free will of jews, no?
Wrong camp, I'm a Calvinist. Creaturely will is free to act according to its nature, but subordinate to the will of God. They can only do what He lets them, just like their father.
>satan's works of undoing the fall.
Undoing? You evidently don't even understand the extent of the effects of the cross if you think Jesus's sacrifice merely "undid" the effects of Adam's sin in the garden. It went so far beyond that… More to the point, Satan was a tool. He was defeated and cast down to the earth, somewhere around the time of when Jesus incarnated and started working, where he was used by God to bring about His plan. I'm certain that Satan didn't even realize what he was doing until it was too late. He's probably kicking himself now for being made such a fool of.