@One Eyed Mind,
The easiest way to settle this is to point out that Spirit creatures have no gender. That said, the demons pre-flood were recorded as taking wives for themselves, namely any who they chose (Genesis 6) so these spirit creatures materialised as males.
The Devil is spoken of in male terms on numerous occasions, to list a few
"
father" John 8:44
"
prince" Mat 12:24 , Eph 2:1,2
"
his angels were cast down with
him" Rev 12:9
"they have over them a
king, the angel of the abyss,
his name is abaddon" Rev 9:11
but that is not to say that he never used a females form, merely that there is no scriptural record of him doing so to my knowledge.
In the story of the burning bush, while one of Gods angel is placed at the scene, I have not seen any scriptural data to identify that angel as Lucifer, and after the rebellion in the garden of Eden, it is hard placed in my mind that God would utilise his opposer as part of the reclaiming of a people for his self, the commission he gave Moses in this instance.
I would challenge that the mainstream view of Lucifer as a hell placed punisher is not a scriptural view but rather the birth child of heavy Platonic influence upon the early Christian congregations. Where you find the word hell in your bible, the words Sheol (OT)/Hades (NT), Gehenna and Tartarus have been replaced. the following is taken from the wiki so you can find the references if needed
Quote:These three terms have different meanings and must be recognized.
Hades has similarities to the Old Testament term, Sheol as "the place of the dead". Thus, it is used in reference to both the righteous and the wicked, since both wind up there eventually.[28]
Gehenna refers to the "Valley of Hinnon", which was a garbage dump outside of Jerusalem. It was a place where people burned their garbage and thus there was always a fire burning there. Bodies of those deemed to have died in sin without hope of salvation (such as people who committed suicide) were thrown there to be destroyed.[29] Gehenna is used in the New Testament as a metaphor for the final place of punishment for the wicked after the resurrection.[30]
Tartaro (the verb "throw to Tartarus") occurs only once in the New Testament in II Peter 2:4, where it is parallel to the use of the noun form in 1 Enoch as the place of incarceration of 200 fallen angels. It mentions nothing about human souls being sent there in the afterlife.
Was the devil the serpent or did he use the serpent for its particular attributes?
and just for fun...Male figures that are also associated with snakes
Jafar
Jake "the Snake" Roberts
Sir Hiss from Robin Hood
Asmodeus of Redwall