First - So in your view, then, was Adam and Eve's fall the first "fall" that occurred in all of existence? No angels fell until after humanity fell, so humanity's fall was absolutely the first, and thereby set a precedent for the concept of falling out of what one was created for?
Yes, I believe the first fall was by Eve and the serpent. Yes, the serpent in the garden was jealous of mankind. Mankind was to earn positions greater then the angels. Now Yah didn't cast out the Serpent but named a punishment for it as well as Adam and Eve. Angels that fall into error get punishments. Now who we know of as Satan was a murderer from the beginning. That was his first sin, not lying or deceit.
Second - All right, I'm not sure how to phrase this. Based on what you have said about the "enemy" being essentially the spirits of Nephilim from the tower of Babel, that narrows evil spirits down to a very small margin.
If such spirits from that particular time and place were all in league, with all of the Bible pointing to that specific group as the enemy, then what about the spirits of the rest of the Nephilim and their offspring that would have perished in the flood?
It stands to reason that if the Babel group are around in spirit that, likewise, the pre-flood group would also be around. And there is no reason to think that they would not also have their own agendas, probably not even like the Babel group because they came after (viewing them as usurpers, basically) and running around working toward their own ends.
Oh, you misunderstand. The unholy trinity our 'primary enemy' are 3 of the spirits of Nephilim from the period of Babel. Other lesser principalities are of the other Nephilim spirits and even human spirits. The ones at Babel were the Greatest of them. Their father was an angel of far greater status then those pre-flood watchers. The four angels that fell into the same error after the flood were they mighty cherubim that guarded Eden before the flood assigned by Yah to the earth.
Now one of the ways Heylel took ultimate authority was by setting up a time-sharing basis of authority based on the greatness of the individual. For example the signs of the zodiac are seasonal changes in major ruling principalities. Sun god worship is all about time measurement.
So my point is, the other 'evil spirits' can be from any Nephilim spirits. Now the post flood Nephilim bloodlines exist even today. They are the tares sown in 'the earth/field' that is among the wheat until the final harvest. The flood ended any of the older Nephilim bloodlines and a parent has authority over all their offspring. The initial post flood Nephilim have many more spirits under their direct authority.
Now Asherah was 100% human. She is an ancestral spirit that is worshiped as a goddess, ie 'mother earth'. She is a lesser fourth member of the Baalim. She was not divine as herself but the mother of Nephilim that honor her as their mother and given a position of authority in the spiritual realm. She rules over purely human spirits that are descent from her just as the region of Sheol called Abraham's bosom was the righteous spirits descent from Abraham. Asherah as Na'amah, the wife of Noah, is the female progenitor of all living mankind.
The enemy unholy trinity is a copy of the heavenly trinity. The primary four are a copy of the four beasts around the throne that also had four mighty angels appointed over the earth as Yah's direct representatives here. When they fell into sin and Yah had given domain of the earth to mankind, the enemy demanded that right of succession. The original four on earth were 3 males and one lesser female in authority. The enemy replaced them with 3 of Nephilim descent and 1 of purely human descent.
Ps 82 is about spirits put in authority over the nations that are not doing right according to Yah. They 'die like men'. These are the national 'Els', the fathers of the 70 nations but of course all of them are sons/grandsons of Asherah. Scripture equates the great spirits under Asherah 'as earth' as 'moutains', ie the 'great spirits of earth'. It even states that the reason these 'elohyim' are in error is because the 'foundations of the earth are off'.
Now female progenitors is associated with land/earth in Hebrew. Eve before she was named was Adamah, ie feminine form of Adam. Adamah means 'land in Hebrew'. Now the 2nd Eve, ie Noah's wife got the nickname 'erets', ie 'earth'. A field in Hebrew is an idiom to a womb for example.
Now Sheol was the domain of ALL spirits of the dead before Yeshua, both evil and righteous. It is NOT a domain of angels, fallen or otherwise. All fallen angels are in prison. Sheol went through a major change when Yeshua led out the righteous dead. Basically now those that remained generally serve the enemy.
Three - Do you think that ALL ancient pagan sun gods are actually a reference to the same being, who we now call Satan?
Generally yes. That paganism spread from Babel when the languages were split and mankind scattered. Oh, there are different people's that aligned themselves with lesser deities or ancestral spirits of their own. My studies have shown that the sun god worship went as far as the orient and Japan. As a matter of fact the different oriental people's aligned themselves with different individual deities from Babel. The same is true of the paganism in South America.
Now Egypt is kind of an odd ball. They were descent from Ham and other members of his family also hold positions as gods but Rah (meaning 'evil' in Hebrew) took over the supreme position later. Now Rah originally was a reference to Noah as 'heavens' in the Egyptian book of the dead. He was a VERY old man. Now you had different peoples that settled different cities and their religions merged over time.
The same thing happened among who we call the Greeks. They were many different peoples, with different legends that got intermigled and merged over time. For example the Spartans verses the Athenians were very different. The Spartans were descent from Ares.
Now Greece is not that far removed from where Noah landed in what is now Turkey. Now later that region even as different people followed the same gods ad Greece. The Trojans were not Greek but followed the same gods. As a matter of fact, the Trojans were primarily followers of Apollo.
Things like the sun, the moon, the stars, the sea... Concepts and archetypes built around human understanding of the visible world around us... are there for everyone to see.
Hebrew if full of word pictures. Hebrew has a very limited vocabulary compared to English so word pictures were needed to cover concepts. The paleo-hebrew is based on word pictures to provide meaning.
Now the enemy realm associated themselves with those symbols. For example Yah created the sun as the greater light by day and the moon as the lesser light by night. The twins took on those symbols as their own as sun god and moon goddess. Now the moon has influence over the sea via tides. The sea became the 'spiritual realm' of the moon goddess in the word pictures. Scripture like 'the wicked are like the troubled sea' or references to 'proud waves of the sea' are references to those under her influence.
Meaning, why does Apollo have to be the same dude? Greek culture was from a different geographical area, and there was enough time interlapsed that the idea of Apollo and Artemis or any of those pantheon could easily be just made up stories that only vaguely mimic human memory of the time.
Why associate Zeus with a fallen angel bound at the Euphrates, simply because his attributes are thunder and lightning?
The time period of the golden age of the gods was the time period of man after the flood, before Babel when the gods directly interacted with mankind.
I suggest you do a translation of all the pagan deities names given in scripture and study them out. They are generally titles that have the same meanings in different languages. You can correlate who is who by those attributes that reference them. It isn't always easy to see but MANY of them are. First off Apollo means 'destroyer' while Satan is 'the destroyer'. He was a destroyer by insect/rodent plague hence his title Baalzebub to the Philistines for example. Molech in scripture not only had children but mice and locust in offerings to him.
Oh there are many other scriptural clues. Here is one for example, the 'seat of Satan' in the city of Pergamos is a reference to the alter of Zeus that is now in a Berlin museum. Google it. Pergamos was a major pagan religious center in Lydia, a region in Turkey. Now Lydia was another name/reference to Asherah.
Now Euphrates is one of the names of who the Greeks called Zeus. The four 'rivers' of Eden were the four mighty cherubim that Yah assigned to the garden. The Greeks called them Zeus, Poseidon, Hades and Hera. They were in charge of different spiritual forces on the earth but were displaced by the enemy when they were imprisoned. Waters are a picture of physical individuals in Hebrew. For example 'king' means 'hand of authority over the waters' in the paleo-hebrew word picture. Rivers are 'mighty waters'.
Another good study is translate the name meaning of every place name listed in Joshua. There is all kinds of information about the pagan gods in place names dedicated to them.
I have seen different people come up with very similar ideas completely separate from each other, neither one knowing that the other was working on the same thing. So, likewise, why couldn't a couple of different Nephilim show up and be like, "Hey folks! I'm the sun, aren't I special?" without any actual connection to each other?
Oh, the ancient paganism is full of individuals that got displaced by other individuals. The original moon deity for example was male.
Now the high priestess of Ashtoreth I knew, knew exactly who her goddess was. She stepped in and took over other covens led by individuals that followed different goddesses. For example, two of the covens she took over and merged were followers of Diana and Isis. Ashtoreth appeared to the other covens and showed her different forms before they submitted to Ellen as an authority over them. When Ellen tried to take over a Wiccan coven, it didn't work as well. Even when Ashtoreth appeared, that other high priestess still refused to submit because it wasn't her goddess until they summoned Asherah to get her help in the conflict against me.
Now whether or not you believe my experiences and study or not, that is up to you. I suggest you study it out for yourself and let the Holy Spirit guide you if you are so inclined.
This understanding has no real baring on salvation. By all means study out milk before you get into 'strong meat' and mysteries. My understanding just provides a better understanding of who and what the enemy realm consists of and how the enemy is NOT as powerful as most are deceived into believing. We have authority over the enemy realm as Christians. If nothing else understand that and the ancient pagan gods of biblical times are the enemies of Yah that got people off course from the righteousness of Noah. Yah had to separate out His own nation of man to lead people to Him because of the corruption led by the enemy.
The enemy many times corrupted Israel just as the enemy is actively at work spreading corruption and false doctrines in the churches. If you understand the ancient pagan doctrines spread into Judaism, you can recognize the same evil being spread in the churches today.
Just keep in mind the possibilities I have presented as you read scripture and see if the Holy Spirit doesn't start showing you references that give you more insight now.
By all means TEST any teaching you get and weight it against scripture and your discernment from the Holy Spirit. Just because a doctrine is the most common interpretation doesn't make it truth. The enemy is good at deception. The majority can still be deceived just as the world believed that the earth was flat.