First I am not much of a typist. When I was in school girls took typing and home economics not boys so bare with me.
I am not so sure it was to minister to Satan as much as it was to used him as a tool to prove Jobs Fear of God, Because Satan's fate was already established long before was Job born therefore there would no need to minister to Satan what he already knew. Satan and the fallen Bene HaElohim knew and lived with God they know his Grace, Love and Mercy first hand before they chose to rebel. When we minister we are trying to help those we minister to and/or try to convince them to repent. Satan and the fallen Bene HaElohim have no such hope.
But this subject of Satan's fall plus the garden of Eden and creation has bugged me for a long time. A while back a very dear friend and I started studying this subject then her and her husband died a few years ago that really put a bump in my life we were very good friends for almost 30 years they were a VERY big part of my life right after I came to Christ. I learned a lot from them just by watching listening because my past was much different than most peoples and that was just what I needed. Recently I have started to re look at it all.
I know there is a "Gap theory out there somewhere" but I have not read about it besides it would not matter if I had. I don't hold anything any man says as fact/truth until it is proved as fact with Gods word.
Scripture does not tell us how long Adam and eve lived in the garden before the fall. So the possibility that Satan fell sometime during that period is possible but I have not found anything to even hints that.
Here are a few of the things that started this search.
Gen 1 God created the heavens and the Earth. That's a given but I have to ask myself if there was no heaven (space as we know it) then where was God before he created space for him to enter to create the sun moon and stars? That to me leads to one place a higher dimension Heaven Gods home is not in our Dimension he lives outside our Dimension (3rd Dimension) After he created space he stepped into it to create the sun, moon and Stars the 4th Dimension (Time). This is the only possible answer because if he didn't the creation of our universe would have been created right there where he lives in heaven he knew what was going to happen before he started the creation so he also knew he had to have some where to put us since sin and heaven can not mix.
God is not a second class carpenter EVERYTHING he does, he does to perfection everything he creates is created perfect. He never creates anything that is in chaos and works to perfect it. Adam was created a perfect full grown man. The heavens,Stars, Sun and Moon were all created perfect. Birds, Fish Beasts of the earth all created perfect.
Gen 1:2 We see a world in chaos and disarray. Needs to be put back together.
Gen 1:2- And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the waters.
Form/Void-nouns ˚hKät (“formlessness, emptiness”) and ˚h–»bμ (“emptiness”) appear together here as an idiom
to designate primeval chaos.
Genesis 1:28-And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
The Hebrew word here for replenish the earth is the same Hebrew word God uses in Gen 9:1 to Noah.
Genesis 9:1-And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
replenish - RE-fill, RE-ocupy, To bring back to the state it previously was.
There are scriptures all over the Bible when we read them we can blow right past them easily. If we don't stop and ask question are we REALLY looking carefully into the hidden things of God? No we are not we need to stop and ask question like this verse Isaiah 24:5
Can this verse have a duel purpose sure there are many that has that purpose.
Isaiah 24:5-The earth also deceiveth, because of the inhabitants thereof: for they transgressed the laws: they changed the ordinances, and brake the everlasting Covenant.
deceiveth-chaneph, defiled.
Notice things like "Transgressed" that's something that has already happened. Brake is shaba and means brake/brake into pieces.
So sometime past some people Had a Everlasting Covenant that they could break With God and they did just that. Who?When?where?How?
The term Everlasting Covenant is found some 15 or so times in the scriptures they all point to the following 3 Everlasting Covenants. None of which can be broken by man.
1. Covenant to Noah-God said he would never again destroy the earth by flood. Man can't break this because he has no power to Flood the earth again to such a degree.
2. Covenant with Abraham-I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant,
Can man stop the promises to Abraham and Abraham's seed?
3. New Covenant-The third everlasting covenant is established with the blood of Jesus. Gal. 3:15-17 directly states that Abraham’s seed is Jesus, No man can void the covenant for me or you, He can walk away and not accept Christ there by damming himself but only for himself not me or anyone else. Remember
By the time we get to the Garden Satan has already Fallen he is now the serpent, Deceiver, Liar, Accuser so on and so on. How,Where, When?
Some time before the serpent in the garden Satan's fall happened and the scriptures hold this story. We know why we don't know when.
I'll stop here or this is going to get long.