I tend to think of Jesus as God’s replacement for Lucifer. Lucifer messed it all up and Jesus had come fix it. Not like Obama making it worse, but actually fixing it.
Jesus was there from the beginning of the world and before. God didnt need bench strength. God and Jesus knew the moment creation happened that Jesus was going to have to bridge the gap, and God chose you and I in a trade over his perfect son. And he still thinks he got the best end of the deal... Now THAT is the good news.
The thing is that Jesus was/is God, Lucifer was just a created being...
hence Jesus/God could not have been a replacement for a created being