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ROBERT - In studying the pre-existance, the creation and the fall, we learn that God's plan for us (the Plan of Salvation or the Plan of Happiness) is an eternal plan that has been used throughout the eternities. We know that that plan requires for lack of better terms an "antagonist" and a "protagonist" (to use movie/stage terms).
My question is if perhaps we could think of the Plan of Salvation as a stage production (say Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) where we might hear the announcer say something like "In tonight's production Donny Osmond will be playing the role of Joseph". Could we in similar manner think of Lucifer as playing the role of Satan and Jesus playing the role of our redeemer?
That is to say, was the plan already set and known and there just needed to be individuals from among Heavenly Father's children assigned to this earth willing to play each of the roles?
JOEL - The plan is eternal and set. Wherever children of a God exist, Good and evil and opposition in all things and the plan of salvation are eternal principles. Therefore if there are other inhabited universes that have existed in the past and will exist in the future, that will have their own God the Father, there also has to be someone who will act in the positions of Satan and Savior. Not that any one being is fated to assume those positions or be "assigned" to do them, because all have their agency. But there will have to be someone who will choose to act in those positions. Jesus and Lucifer were the ones who chose to do it in our universe.
This of course can only be considered speculation based on what little we know now, because we don't really have much latter-day revelation on this subject. It's best that we only concern ourselves with our own current God, universe, and plan of salvation.
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