If I’ve ever heard an Old Testament story, I’ve heard it ten thousand times. It comes from Isaiah 14.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you were brought down to the earth, that weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart: I will ascend to heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mountain of the congregation, on the north sides.
14 Above the heights of the clouds I will ascend; I will be like the Most High.
15 However, you will be thrown down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 Those who see you will look at you closely, and consider you, saying, Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms?
This story was THE proof that Satan used to be one of God’s good guys and suddenly one day he decided to take over and bring God down from His throne. The local boy goes wrong I guess. Well, Satan, whose term is never mentioned here, former Lightbringer, which is what Lucifer means, is now the Prince of Darkness and the rest is history.
What is really going on with this story? Did you know that you see this drama literally taking place on various mornings and afternoons of the year? Did you know that even to this day, this Lucifer is mistaken for UFOs or landing lights? Jesus said he saw Satan fall as lightning from heaven as millions did then and billions today if you know where to look. It is a very old story based on a very real observation of humans who made up a story about what they did not understand at the time.
First, let’s understand that Isaiah 14 is not really about a Satan the Devil as it has evolved throughout the history of the Church. A scripture can never mean what it never did, and this principle applies to Isaiah 14 for sure. In the original Hebrew text, Isaiah chapter 14 is not about a fallen angel, but about a fallen Babylonian king, who had persecuted the children of Israel. Later in the context we see that it was a man who died. Now we often hear that this was a “guy”, but that it is mostly slippery ground. Maybe a metaphor, but not a type, where we can change a man into Lucifer and then Lucifer into Satan, never mentioned, and then all about how Satan came to be the God of this world, so send your tithes and be safe. with us. “In the Hebrew text, the expression used to describe the Babylonian king before his death is” Helal, son of Shahar “, which can best be translated as” Star of the day, son of the dawn. “The name evokes the golden glow of a proud dress and court of the king (as much as his personal splendor earned King Louis XIV of France the nickname “The Sun King”).
{Craig Lyons-Bet Emet Ministries.} The King here was a man, plain and simple, and because of his arrogant attitude, he died like everyone else.
Lucifer means “Bearer of Light” and is a term used by Roman astronomers to describe the planet Venus. Venus has always been the bearer of light, as it always precedes the morning sun. It is very bright and highly noticeable, so it has been mistaken, as noted, for non-existent aircraft landing lights. It is bright, but not as bright as the sun, of course. In mythology, humans noticed this “god” that preceded the sun and seemed to be running towards the zenith, which in astrotheology is called the place of the “Most High” or clearly stated for us today, NOON! Noon is the throne of God in astrotheology. In Isaiah, this “Illuminator” was before God, the Most High, the SUN. The highest point in the sky where the sun or anything that shines off the planet can rise, from our perspective. When mythology and even the Bible speak of God as “the Most High”, one can see the deeper meaning that Sun worship hints at. The Bible promotes a similar but different form of Sun / Son worship, but which has been lost. in most Christians today.
The planet Venus turned out to be an enigma for humanity. His job seemed to be to go before the morning sun and announce, if you will, that he is coming out. But then, brilliant as it was and still is, it falls from the sky and descends to the ground, or in mythology, it appears to be knocked down. Strange! Not knowing that Venus was an inner planet and that all the inner planets that revolve with the earth around the sun can never pass over us, from east to west like the outer planets and stars do, they had to explain it. Thus, we have the “fact” that this light bearer, this Lucifer will soon be called Satan, MUST be unhappy just announcing the Sun God, so he MUST have said in his heart: “I will become the HIGHEST “. Well that was it for him! The Most High, unwilling to give up his throne to this usurper, simply threw him back to earth, or apparently so at least as we gaze on the horizon. After that rather unsuccessful effort, the dethronement of the Most High God, we were trapped with him as Satan, compliment of the Church, which embellished history and ta ta! … It explains the mess in the world and it is not humanity’s fault for the most part. Forever, we can say, “Satan made me do it.” You know, the bright morning star that tried to become God but got lost.
It was mainly the Catholic Saint Jerome in the 4th century who mistranslated the Hebraic metaphor, “star of the day, son of the dawn”, as “Lucifer”, and over the centuries an evolution of ideas took place. Lucifer, the morning star, became a disobedient angel, thrown from heaven to rule eternally in hell, mostly waiting for all non-Catholics, but later all non-Protestants as well. Now the Church had its Prince of the Power of Air, the Prince of Darkness, the God of this world, The Roaring Lion, the Fallen Angel, the former Star of Day (because if you know where to look, Venus can even be seen during the day) … went wrong.
It’s quite interesting that even Jesus, well the Jesus of Revelation who doesn’t look like the Jesus of the Gospels, identifies himself as the morning star, a term used as a central theme in many Christian sermons. Jesus refers to himself as the morning star in Revelation 22:16: “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you of these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the star resplendent and morning “.
So here we have it. Humans were never able to explain why this bright “star”, which we know as the planet Venus, preceded the morning Sun as if announcing its arrival, but then crashed into Earth. Very strange! Let’s make a story! This bright light, an angel, the Bringer of light and a lesser deity compared to the SUN, really went wrong and decided to knock the SUN GOD, and later the SON of GOD, off the throne, which is where the sun rises. SUN when it becomes HIGHEST AT NOON. God, without enduring that, simply threw Lucifer, now Satan or the Destroyer, back to the earth where he belongs and humans can remain trapped with him until the SON of the SUN God returns to destroy the works of the Lightbringer now. darkened. Great story! In Isaiah 14, this haughty king was acting like this thinking that he could get Israel out of the picture, he lost, was knocked down and died, just like the planet Venus every morning. So don’t mess with God’s chosen ones! 19 But you are thrown out of your grave like an abominable branch, and like the clothing of the dead, pierced by the sword, descending to the stones of the pit; like a trampled corpse.
In the true story of the royal human king of Isaiah 14, we see that he dies like all mortal men and is not well thought out for thinking that he could challenge Israel. In verse 19 we read: “But you are thrown out of your grave like an abominable branch, and like the clothing of the dead, pierced by the sword, descending to the stones of the pit; like a trodden corpse. 20 You shall not join them in the grave. , because you destroyed your land and killed your people: the offspring of evildoers will never be famous. Tombs, corpses, graves, burials and oblivion are characteristics of what happens to humans, not angels or mini gods .
It’s interesting, Venus also rises wonderfully at night after the sun sets, and then falls back to earth as well. Perhaps Satan has just come out of the underworld of darkness in search of a peak and to let us know that he still rules it before returning an hour later after “Sun Set”, where even the Highest Sun goes every night, in the Eqyptian story to challenge. “SET” God of the underworld. It makes you think of stories about the Children of the Sun preaching to the spirits in “prison”. But that is another story.
So when you see Venus early in the morning when you drive to work and think that a train if it is low enough or a plane looking for a place to land is approaching YOU, know that it is only the Light Bringer, Lucifer, later his arch enemy Satan. , announcing: “But to you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will rise, with healing on its wings; and you will go out and grow like calves of the herd” Malachi 4: 2. Notice that it does not say “Son”. Think of wings more like lightning bolts and you will get the picture. That beautiful planet Vensus is explaining a phenomenon we have long taken for granted to humans who feared such things and simply had to come up with a theology to explain it. Now you can say that you also saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven … how cool is that!