Satan's spiritual structure
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For you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God (Exodus 34:14)
What do you think this means?
He protects and guards what is His, will effect justice for the sake of His own. Jealous, not envious. It is in His nature
But everything is His since He created everything ex nihilo and His divine mind grounds all existence. There's no notion of possession for God. He has no needs or desires (in a human way) which jealousy presupposes.
What it means is that God doesn't commands His people not to have other gods and idols so He calls Himself jealous so that we can understand this through our human sensibilities. It's an analogy - God is not literally jealous. This seems like a problem of anthropomorphizing God, but His divine nature is nothing like our human nature.
We aren't created ex nihilo, but out of the dust of the earth, combined with a an organized intelligence, and born to human parents; however we're told be repent, be remade and reborn sons and daughters of God. Even the dust obeys gods laws. Jesus the Anointed has ransomed us each with his living blood. So he has claim on us, if we'll repent and do His will then he'll be our Father and we'll not serve other gods or serve sin, or self, or Babylon's king.
He would have us be free to do so, and not remain captive, but receive deliverance from unholy alliances we've entered into. God is jealous to claim us his in the face of other spirits who try to infect our minds and demand our loyalty, devotion. He gave us an Exemplar and Redeemer to show us to serve him freely, by loving others as ourselves. God is not envious, but feels lovingly protective and in fear of losing us. He is the god of healing of forgiveness and freedom and of truth and charity. The jealous husband doesn't want another suitor catching the attention of his wife, does he?