I am asking this question because if satan was in heaven how could he be envious and demonstrate jealousy while in Heaven?
So I pose the question did satan have free will in heaven?
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Well since all sentient life has free will I would say he had to have free will.
But which Satan are you referring to? Satan isn't a name but a descriptive title. It is like the court prosecutor in the divine counsel that is allowed to bring condemnation for wrong doing before the throne. That does not imply that the same individual has always held that office.
By my understanding the serpent in the garden was not the current Satan. That individual would have been locked up with all the other angels that fell into error at the time of the flood. Jude and 2 Pet 2 are clear that the angels that fell into error are in prison. It would be foolish of Yah to allow fallen angels to corrupt the world only to destroy it but leave the angels free to do so again.
I see the individual referenced as the cockatrice (whose offspring are vipers) as the 2nd Satan that filled that role from the flood until the tower of Babel when he was imprisoned with his followers.
The current HaSatan has held that position since Babel and was the son of the prior angel that held that position. Who we call Lucifer (in the Latin) is that son of the former Satan. It is by his status of being born on earth that he can hold authority because Yah gave dominion over the earth to man.
People misunderstand a reference in Eze 28 to equate the 'king of Tyre' with being the serpent in the garden just because Eden is mentioned. The problem is where is the tree of life now located? There was an earthly Eden but there is still a heavenly Eden. Which Eden did he walk in? We know he has access to walk in the heavenly realm now to bring accusations before the throne just as he did to Job. He walks in the heavenly realm as well as among the stones of fire. That doesn't prove he is the serpent in Eden. Another point about Eze 28 is it references him as a 'covering cherub'. The angels about the throne had 3 sets of wings. One set was to 'cover the body'. A covering cherub would be an individual with the feathered arms, not the flying wings on the back. As a Nephilim he could easily have been born with those. Much of the ancient pagan gods are depicted with such feathered arms. Even the Greek god Hermes had the wings for covering the feet, one of the 3 sets that the beings about the throne have.
Another problem is Eze 28 is a reference to Melqart ('king of the city') a title of Molech the primary deity in Tyre. Molech was the child of one of the other pagan deities. Shachar is also the name of one of those Canaanite deities and Lucifer (Heylel ben Shachar) is specifically stated as being the son of Shachar. Now Shachar is referenced in Job 38 as being the individual that Yah assigned to shake the wicked out of the skirts of 'the earth'. In the ancient paganism there are many references to an individual from the heavens whose consort was called 'the earth' and that union brought about the other pagan god offspring. In the Sumerian pantheon that would be Anu as heavens that had Ki ('earth') and Nammu/Namma (Na'amah in the Hebrew) as consorts. They were the same woman with ki being a nickname. The Anunaki were the children of Anu and Ki. Molech isn't even a name but another title. He was the ancient pagan sun god. In the Greek pantheon, he is the Greek god Pheobus Apollo while Pheobus is an epitaph of the sun god meaning 'shining one' or 'light bringer'. Sound familiar? It is what Heylel means in the Hebrew which gets used as a proper name in the English translations.
We also have the 'king of the Abyss' named in Revelation as Apollyon in the Greek. Scripture specifically states the ruler of hell is called Apollo in the Greek. Apollyon is just an alternate spelling. Isa 57 specifically ties worship of Molech as 'debasing thyself unto Sheol'. It ties Molech worship with Satan worship.
The parallels are all over scripture with the enemy being the pagan sun god. The sun god uses his flaming arrows or 'arrows of the sun' while Satan sends his 'fiery darts' for example.
The passage in Revelation about 1/3 of the stars being pulled down by the dragon gets interpreted as some mythical pre-adamic rebellion of 1/3 of the angels when it is an event in the tribulation that pulls down 1/3 of the principalities of the 2nd heaven. It hasn't even happened yet.
People take the passage in Isa 14 and pull like 3 verses totally out of context, don't understand half the references even in those verses and build entire doctrines out of it. They should read the passage IN CONTEXT when it is written to the shameful king of Babel while Molech means 'shameful king'.
Then of course you have the reference to Satan falling as lightning. Which Satan is that? When did he fall? Now many societies had an ancient pagan god that was the god of lightning and thunder like Hadad, the thunderer of the Syrians or Zeus of the Greeks. Now IMO the Satan that fell as lightning is a reference to who we would call Zeus being cast down and imprisoned for the error he caused and the problems his children caused at Babel setting themselves up as gods to be worshiped.
We know in Revelation that four angels are bound at the Euphrates and let back loose. We also have the dragon appear at that time who pulls 1/3 of the principalities of the air under his authority. When did those four get bound? What sin got them bound? When other then at Babel or the flood did Yah send his angels to corrupt a major problem on the earth? Where was Babel? On the Euphrates river?
Now Augustine refused to believe that angels could cross with women. He spread the common doctrine that is now standard doctrine across most of Christianity with a handful of verses taken out of context and totally ignoring the rest of the clues in scripture.
That is just a handful of the clues I have found. There are many references to the sun god being in opposition to Yah all over the OT.
... one way of rightly dividing the Word ... yes ... the part about the third heaven isn't something i have knowledge of ... but, yes to the angels
