This question was posed and is a great discussion starter. "Why was the serpent allowed to tempt eve in the garden? Do I assume that Satan must've been so at that point? But...that's not in Genesis"
Revelation 12:9, and 20:2 both describe Satan as the ancient serpent, so I would say we are okay to presume, this was the beast or the form that Satan used to speak to Eve.
Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 have double meanings associated with them, both an earthly king an enemy of Israel and Lucifer/Satan. Ezekiel 28:13-15
"Thou hast been in
Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the
sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper,
the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship
of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that
thou wast created.
14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee."
Satan is a created being, an amazing angel who seems to have been the one assigned to cover. Was humanity what he was supposed to/ designed to cover, and when he fell did he switch to being our accuser? That would be my take on the situation.
Free will implies a choice between at least two masters, and through appealing to desire in human nature mankind made the choice to listen to Satan and not to God. The bottom line of all this is, we serve a God of truly amazing love who would not leave us in a state of fallen, but suffered and died as the way to bring us up and out. So Satan was allowed to tempt because God knew that ultimately He would redeem mankind and make us vessels of mercy.
Any feedback would be appreciated. This is one of the Big Questions, for sure.
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