Thursday, June 18, 2015

Isaiah 14

“How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!...You will not be joined with them in burial,
Because you have destroyed your land
And slain your people.
The brood of evildoers shall never be named."  v.12,20


Read chapter 14.
Everyone know's one of Satan's names is Lucifer and here is where it appears in the Bible. Lucifer means "Morning-Star," a bright start that ushers in the morning, a Babylonian god worshiping as male at sunrise and female at sunset.  Something of beauty yet fallen from heaven.  In Revelation 22:16 Jesus is refereed to as the bright and morning star.  So why the same with Satan?  "The idea of a “bright morning star” is a star that outshines all the others. Satan, as perhaps the most beautiful creation of God, probably the most powerful of all the angels, was a bright morning star. Jesus, as God incarnate, the Lord of the universe, is THE bright and morning star. Jesus is the most holy and powerful “light” in all the universe. So, while both Jesus and Satan can be described as “bright morning stars,” in no sense is this equating Jesus and Satan. Satan is a created being. His light only exists to the extent that God created it. Jesus is the light of the world (John 9:5). Only Jesus’ light is self-existent. Satan may be a bright morning star, but he is only a poor imitation of the one true bright morning star, Jesus Christ, the light of the world."  How else do you see Satan try to be so similar to God?
Also notice that it says YOUR people when talking about Satan's destruction after his big rebellion in the tribulation.  We know the Israelites, those in Jerusalem will face the front-line affects during that time and be martyred.  This seems to show that the antichrist in that time is from Israel as his people.  When verse 20 says he shall never be named it reminds me of the Harry Potter series how they never say the name of the wicked one, Voldemort.   

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