Featured ? - Gen 1:31

No, it is just a coincidence that Satan was cast out of Heaven at the beginning of creation, although God knew when He created Lucifer what would happen.

 

At this time, he was still blameless, walking in Eden the Garden of God. (Ezek. 28).

Satan fell in the Garden just before Adam. That's why the curse was given to him in Gen. 3, "Serpent......" and not millions of years prior.

 

The angels were creaded before the earth, Job 38:4-7, ". . . Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? . . . When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? . . ."

 

Which is why many see their creation on day 1 with the creation of light. Angels are often referred to as beings of light and seem to have an innate property of light.

Earth was created day 3 when God separated the sea from the earth. The pre-foundational earth was created day 1 (the formless void waters).

 

Gap theorists have tried for decades to move Satan's fall before Genesis 1:31. The biblical evidence is too great to overcome.

‘You were the seal of perfection,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13 You were in Eden, the garden of God;
Every precious stone was your covering:
The sardius, topaz, and diamond,
Beryl, onyx, and jasper,
Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold.
The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes
Was prepared for you on the day you were created.
14 “You were the anointed cherub who covers;
I established you;
You were on the holy mountain of God;
You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.
15 You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created,
Till iniquity was found in you.
16 “By the abundance of your trading
You became filled with violence within,
And you sinned;
Therefore I cast you as a profane thing
Out of the mountain of God;
And I destroyed you, O covering cherub,
From the midst of the fiery stones.
17 “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty;
You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor;
I cast you to the ground,
I laid you before kings,
That they might gaze at you.
18 “You defiled your sanctuaries
By the multitude of your iniquities,
By the iniquity of your trading;
Therefore I brought fire from your midst;
It devoured you,
And I turned you to ashes upon the earth
In the sight of all who saw you.
19 All who knew you among the peoples are astonished at you;
You have become a horror,
And shall be no more forever.” ’ ”​

Satan did not fall until after day 6, after Eden was created. He had liberty to move back and forth between Eden and the heavenliness, prior to his fall.

And it's very clear the symbolic curse on the serpent was, in reality, Satan's fall and curse.

Gen. 3:14 So the LORD God said to the serpent:
“Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And you shall eat dust
All the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”​

 

Where was Satan and what was his status? I don't know because the Bible doesn't tell us.
What I do know, because the Bible does tell us, is that on the sixth day of creation, God pronounced it very good, and that sin entered the world (Gk. kosmos) through one man, Adam (Romans 5:12).

 

It does. Very clearly. Ezek. 28, Gen. 3.

 

Earth was created as part of the beginning, Genesis 1:1. Most YEC, as I understand, interpet Genesis 1:1-2 as part of day one.

 

Which very moment? In Genesis 1:31, 2 days of Satan's existence had passed. Nothing had happened yet, God was still creating until the evening of day 6, 24 hours, after the beginning of day 6.

 

Your question should be: What was "very good" about God's creation? Does it mean suitable for God's purpose? If so you must endeavor to discern what was God's purpose in creation.

 

I can't believe that God does anything with out purpose.
MB

 

Which it was. The formless empty foundation-less of the earth was formed day 1. Then on day 3 the foundations were formed.

 

Very good actually means very good.

 

So you interpet day 3.

 

No interpretation necessary. You just have to read. "Then God called the dry land earth"

Earth in Scripture means land. That's a definition given from God himself. The formless void earth, therefore was the formless void land--the substance of the land that would be formed on day 3. Very simple. Just read the text literally.