ok mostly speaking in metaphor.
This is the easiest way to describe the universe. Suppose Hollywood was all of reality. At the edge of Hollywood is a dense fog that is unpassible. Inside Hollywood the scene is still pretty much the same. Actors go to casting calls or get calls from their agents to get parts. But, on top of the highest hill that is unclimbable. At the top is gods huge palace of a house. The only way in normally is helocopter and god owns most of the helocopters. At the house is a huge security system that has most of the valley covered by digital cameras. Someone is watching them all the time, and sometimes when theres enough time, or if some agent is near the crime being committed then the person watching the monitors sends someone out to help. Theres a lot of people in the palace, some just stay in the house, some go down into the valley and come back and some spend most of their time in the valley. The people who are supposed to spend at least some of their time in the palace are actually emotionless androids. They are told something and that's the way it is. Put your grapes in a circle before you eat. God dosen't actually live in the house. God would be very very busy. The security system in place for the androids is good but it's not good enough for god. So he walks the streets, going everywhere you can get to. But because he's god he goes superfast. The flash and superman look like snails next to how fast God moves. God travels so fast he appears as if he's everywhere, and he pretty much is. Sometimes he calls the androids and tells them about problems or sometimes he takes care of it himself. God isn't usually visable because of this so most people decide not to believe in him. Sometimes God slows down asks people why they don't believe in him.
Back at the palace there was one android that God made as close to being like himself as he could. This android can move as quickly as God. He had a special job. His only job was to tempt people to do the wrong things and then turn them over to the cops or the androids or sometimes thrown to a big pit under the city. This android liked to stay in the palace and just watch the cameras. He would watch the screens and sometimes go down and tempt people. He got to hear people say a lot of things like "people want to do bad" "it'd be easier if someone ruled over us" and other such things alot. As an android he processed all these things and came up with a plan he thought would work. Rule over everyone and tell them what to do. He told a lot of people at the palace about this and a fair amount had experienced the same thing and just fell in line. Many more didn't. Did they fight? More then likely. But God eventually stepped in and took the Androids who wanted to just rule and cast them out of his house. Most have no way back in but the special android is able to go back whenever he wants, and still frequently sits in the meetings God sometimes has with the androids.
It should be obvious, but in case it's not i choose androids to represent angels because they both share that pesky no free will idea. I'll be adding and changing this around a bunch til i get the metaphor just right, in additional entries.