Satan was God's CEO in charge of humans and the earth during most of the Old Testament. God was the chairman of the board and Satan was God's CEO in charge of day to day operations. This is inferred from Adam and Eve eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; law, which was the tree occupied by Satan. The symbolism of Satan in the tree of knowledge, shows a connection between law and Satan. Law, like Satan, is seductive promising so much, yet it fails to deliver as promised due to it's polarizing affect. Law, as was demonstrated by Adam and Eve, can also create temptation and violation of law. Law was buggy but chosen by Satan as his favorite tree.
The tree of life; instinct, was sealed after Adam and Eve ate, since you can't consciously make laws, to exist side-beside with natural instinct, and still keep instinct, natural. Law will alter instinct and make it unnatural. This is why the tree of life was removed, less instinct was perverted.
Law is one size fits all, while instinct is more flexible in terms of each unique scenario for each person when acting on instinct. Law can tell us all to eat at 12 noon, but instinct can tailor eating in a more flexible way, for each person. Death appears because law and Satan are too short sighted. Instinct has walked this way many times over the eons, and has evolved far sightedness.
Satan, although often associated with evil, is not thrown from Heaven until after the death of Jesus. Satan was welcome in heaven up to Revelations. He was the Lord of the Earth in the Old Testament and was often mistaken for God the Father. Nobody can come to the father, except through the son. Law and Satan was not the best way to reach the Father. It was more of a loop in of itself.
The best bible quotes to see this, occur after Jesus fasted for 40 days in the wilderness. Jesus was approached by Satan. At this time, Satan, as the Lord of the Earth, was still condoned in heaven. He tries to recruit Jesus through various signing bonuses. One such signing bonus was the promise he could have all the wealth and kingdoms of the earth. Jesus never denies Satan had this authority on earth, since he was the CEO. Rather Jesus respectfully refuses the offer.
Had Jesus accepted that offer, he would have become the Messiah, who was anticipated by the Jews; rich, powerful and could subdue all their enemies. By refusing the offer, Jesus became something better. This refusal to satisfy the old prophesies, triggers debate and then conflict in heaven, since Jesus did not follow the script set forth by Satan and law. Instead, Jesus made a move for Satan's job as CEO, to God the Father.
Had Jesus accepted Satan's offer of being the top dog king of all the humans, he would have become the anticipated Messiah of the Old Testament. However, he would also become the assistant to the Lord of the Earth; Satan. But Jesus altered the path of history. Conflict then occurs at the board of Director meeting in Heaven. Satan was strong and found allies in 1/3 of the board, but he is thrown from heaven. Jesus then becomes the new CEO, who sits at the right hand of Power. Nobody can come to the Father, except through his new CEO, son.
The Christian religions, after Revelations, evolve over time, due to the son being CEO. The Old Testament Religions get stuck in a time loop, based on former glory day prophesies under the old CEO, Satan. The conflict between saying God is good and all knowing and then pointing out suffering, is not due to the Chairman of the Board, God, but his CEO, Satan who runs operations in the field for the descendants of Adam and Eve. The new dispensation does not have law but rather is based on faith, which connects us back to instinct and inner voice; tree of life.
Where do you get that the Tree of Knowledge represents a connection between the laws set by God and Satan?
Where scripture says that?
The fruit of Tree of Knowledge was necessary for Eve and Adam to take if they were to get out the stagnation of limbo in which they would be damned by remaining in a state of innocence not knowing any better.
God warned that if they were to eat of the fruit they would surely die, but it was necessary for them to do it anyway and become subject to death for out of their misery they would also learn true happiness.
All it was shown in Genesis was that Satan wanted them to suffer anyways. There is no clear indication that Satan was doing the tempting by God’s request. Otherwise the account would have said so.
It is believed that Satan instead of being called by God to be his CEO Satan was actually let go by God to let Satan do what Satan wanted to do, and what Satan wanted was for humanity to be miserable just like he was.
Satan being let go had its limits and those limits were placed on Satan by God as a curse:
14 And the Lord God said unto the
serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou
art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed;
it shall
bruise thy head, and thou shalt
bruise his heel. Genesis 3:14 KJV
Also, how was Satan not cast out if Heaven until after the death of Jesus when Satan was tempting Jesus while on Earth during Jesus’s fasting? Also, what would be the point of Satan tempting Jesus if Satan was appointed by God to be his CEO and therefore was commanded by God to tempt Jesus?
Also, the fall of Lucifer was described by Isaiah as already having taken place by his time.
12 How art thou
fallen from
heaven, O
Lucifer, son of the morning!
how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the
nations!
Isaiah 14:12 KJV
Isaiah then goes into detail of what will become of Lucifer:
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to
hell, to the sides of the pit.
thee shall
narrowly look upon thee,
and consider thee,
saying, Isthis the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
17
That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof;
thatopened not the house of his prisoners?
Isaiah 14:15-17 KJV
How is the Law a one size fits all?
To every
thing there is a
season, and a
time to every purpose under the heaven:
time to be born, and a time to
die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up
that which is planted;
laugh; a time to
mourn, and a time to dance;
get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep
silence, and a time to speak;
hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 KJV
