When did Satan fall?

[TonyChanYT]

Genesis 3:

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”

I think the serpent was a manifestation of Satan. He tempted/tested people on earth. When he was not, he accused people in heaven before God, face to face. Satan spoke to God in Job 1:

6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them. 7 The LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”

Strong's Hebrew: 7854. שָׂטָן (satan) — 27 Occurrences

The word means adversary. He accused Job of unrighteousness before the LORD:

11 "But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.”

The devil/Satan was a bad guy from the beginning of Adam and Eve. John 8:

44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Strong's Greek: 1228. διάβολος (diabolos) — 38 Occurrences

HELPS Word-studies:

1228 diábolos (from 1225 /diabállō, "to slander, accuse, defame") – properly, a slanderer; a false accuser; unjustly criticizing to hurt (malign) and condemn to sever a relationship.

When did Satan fall?

By Satan falling from heaven, I mean Satan no longer had face-to-face access to the LORD in heaven.

Revelation 12:

9 And the great dragon was hurled down--that ancient serpent called the devil [G1228] and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

I define these four characters as different manifestations of the same personality the satan.

The devil/Satan slandered and accused people before God, face to face. After he fell, he could no longer accuse people before God. However, he continued to tempt people on earth.

When did the satan lose his access to God?

It was prophecied in Isaiah 14:

12 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! 13 You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’

The satan wants to replace the Most High God. He would be thrown out of heaven for this pride/ambition.

Jesus affirmed that in Luke 10:

18 And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Luke 22:

31 “Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat."

Satan asked God, presumably in heaven, face to face.

Satan probably lost his access to God when Jesus died on the Cross before Jesus ascended to the right hand of God (Mark 16:19).

 

[Jay Ross]

Would you consider that the Rev 12 chapter which tells us that Satan was kicked out of Heaven, is around 20-25 years into our future.

Isiaih 24:21-22 gives an indication of when it will happen.

Happy Days

 

[TonyChanYT]

Would you consider that the Rev 12 chapter which tells us that Satan was kicked out of Heaven, is around 20-25 years into our future.

I would consider anything and weigh it

 

[Nancy]

Agreed Scott

"And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited." Isaiah 22

Do you see v22 connected to the "little while" in Rev. 20:1-3?

Revelation 20:1-3​

1 "Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. 2 And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while."