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Jesus declares in Luke 10:18 "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven" but he doesn't say when this occurred. Most Christians believe the serpent in Genesis is Satan, and if so, Satan must have fallen (along with the other angels with him) before Adam and Eve were created. The Bible does not address this particular detail.
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No specific date is given in the Bible.
There is an indication in Genesis 1, that points to an indeterminate period of time between the first two verses of Genesis 1, that suggests something destructive happened between the time God created the heavens and the earth... and the time that the earth became "without form and void" (wasted, desolate, deserted, a vacuous ruin). It doesn't explain what happened in Genesis.
The description of the earth in verse two qualifies as the results of a war... especially if "spirit beings" were involved with the power of the elements (like atoms) and the created laws of nature at their fingertips to use as weapons. Not to mention our dead solar system with all of its space debris.
John wrote: "...there was war in heaven: Michael and his angesl fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels..." (Rev.12:7). But, it doesn't say when.
And Jesus said: "...I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." (Luke 10:18) But, He doesn't say when.
What kind of destruction results when a defeated army of angels, as lightning (a wall of meteors? an asteroid belt?), impacts a planet?
The time frame between the two verses in Genesis 1:1-2, remains undisclosed. Was it a million years? A billion years? Pick a number... any amount of time could have elapse between verses one and two of Genesis 1.
And since Satan didn't fall to earth since Adam's creation (he was already standing in the luxurious garden of Eden on the re-made earth)... it's almost a certainty that he had to fall sometime just before the earth became destroyed in Genesis 1:2. Like a hundred, billion, ka-jillion years ago? Pick a date.
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What was Satan's name before the fall?
Before his fall Satan was an angel called Lucifer.
In John Milton's Paradise Lost which book is The Fall of Satan in?
The Fall of Satan is Paradise Lost. There are 12 books in the poem.
Can Satan fall in love with a human being?
No. Satan has nothing but hatred for everyone & everything.
Did Satan have free will before the great fall?
Yes.
What is the Christian Bible Scripture that tells of Satan's fall from Heaven?
Isaiah 14:12-28 and Ezekiel 28 speak of the fall of Satan which Jesus was referring to here:Luke 10:18New King James Version (NKJV) 18 And He said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
Did Satan fall in India?
No record of this. So I won't claim it.
Who saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven?
Jesus
How is the fall of Adam and Eve connected to the fall of Satan and his cohorts in John Milton and Paradise Lost?
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How is the fall of Adam and eve connected to the fall of Satan and his cohorts in John Milton paradise lost?
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Who saw Satan fall as lighting from heaven?
To hear some of the Fudamentalist Biblical scholars teach it, they allege Satan fell in Genesis, chapter one somewhere between verses one and two, but I know of no scripture which alludes to this subjective input. Jesus, in the Gospel of Luke 10:18 says, "And I saw Satan fall as lightning from heaven." Jesus gives no time frame as to the Fall. Of course we know in modern times that lightning does not fall. The Fall of Satan is likely a metaphor toward those who refuse to be subservient to the Church and its teachings.
Would good fail to exist without evil?
Before the Fall of Satan, there was no evil.
Where did people go before Satan fell from Heaven?
According to Christianity, there were no people before Satan's so-called fall from heaven.
