Lucifer: A fallen angle or a devil

 

Lucifer is the name of different legendary and strict figures related with the planet Venus. Because of the remarkable developments and irregular appearances of Venus in the sky, folklore encompassing these figures regularly included a tumble from the sky to earth or the hidden world. Understandings of a comparative term in the Hebrew Bible, deciphered in the King James Version as the correct name "Lucifer", prompted a Christian custom of applying the name Lucifer, and its related accounts of a tumble from paradise, to Satan, yet present day grant by and large interprets the term in the significant Bible entry, (Isaiah 14:12), as "morning star" or "sparkling one" as opposed to as an appropriate name, "Lucifer".

As a name for the Devil, the more normal significance in English, "Lucifer" is the delivering of the Hebrew word הֵילֵל‎ (literal interpretation: hêylêl; elocution: roughage lale)in (Isaiah 14:12) given in the King James Version of the Bible. The interpreters of this variant took the word from the Latin Vulgate, which deciphered הֵילֵל by the Latin word lucifer (capitalized), signifying "the morning star, the planet Venus", or, as a modifier, "light-bringing".

As a name for the planet in its morning angle, "Lucifer" (Light-Bringer) is a legitimate name and is promoted in English. In Greco-Roman development, it was regularly embodied and considered a god and in certain renditions thought about a child of Aurora (the Dawn).  A comparable name utilized by the Roman writer Catullus for the planet in its night perspective is "Noctifer" (Night-Bringer).

Lucifer turned out to be so intrigued with his own excellence, insight, force, and position that he started to want for himself the honor and wonder that had a place with God alone. This pride speaks to the genuine start of transgression known to man—going before the fall of the human Adam by a vague time.

The fall of Lucifer in the Bible

What is the reason for the end that these last refrains allude to the fall of Lucifer? While the initial ten sections in this part talk about the leader of Tire (who was sentenced for professing to be a divine being however he was only a man), the conversation moves to the lord of Tire beginning in stanza 11. Numerous researchers accept that however there was a human "ruler" of Tire, the genuine "lord" of Tire was Satan, for it was he who was at last grinding away in this enemy of God city and it was he who worked through the human leader of the city.

Some have recommended that these refrains may really be managing a human ruler of Tire who was engaged by Satan. Maybe the memorable lord of Tire was a device of Satan, perhaps even inhabited by him. In portraying this lord, Ezekiel additionally gives us looks at the superhuman animal, Satan, who was utilizing, if not inhabiting, him.

Presently, there are things that are valid for this "lord" that—in any event at last—can't be supposed to be valid for individuals. For instance, the lord is depicted as having an alternate nature from man (he is an angel, refrain 14); he had an alternate situation from man (he was irreproachable and blameless, stanza 15); he was in an alternate domain from man (the heavenly mount of God, stanzas 13,14); he got an alternate judgment from man (he was projected out of the pile of God and tossed to the earth, section 16); and the exemplifications used to portray him don't appear to fit that of a typical person ("loaded with intelligence," "flawless in magnificence," and having "the seal of flawlessness," section 12 NASB).

 

Who is Lucifer, Why did He Rebel?

Our content reveals to us that this lord was a made being and left the inventive hand of God in an ideal state (Ezekiel 28:12,15). Furthermore, he stayed impeccable in his ways until injustice was found in him (refrain 15b). What was this wrongdoing? We read in stanza 17, "Your heart got pleased by virtue of your excellence, and you ruined your insight on account of your quality." Lucifer evidently turned out to be so intrigued with his own magnificence, knowledge, force, and position that he started to want for himself the honor and brilliance that had a place with God alone. The transgression that debased Lucifer was self-produced pride.

Evidently, this speaks to the genuine start of transgression known to man—going before the fall of the human Adam by a vague time. Sin began in the unrestrained choice of Lucifer where—with full comprehension of the issues in question—he decided to oppose the Creator.

This powerful celestial being was legitimately decided by God: "I tossed you to the earth" (Ezekiel 28:18). This doesn't imply that Satan had no further admittance to paradise, for other Scripture refrains unmistakably demonstrate that Satan kept up this entrance even after his fall (Job 1:6-12; Zechariah 3:1,2). Nonetheless, Ezekiel 28:18 demonstrates that Satan was totally and totally cast out of God's great government and his place of power (Luke 10:18).

Isaiah 14:12-17 is another Old Testament section that may allude to the fall of Lucifer. We should be straight to the point in conceding that some Bible researchers see no reference at all to Lucifer in this section. It is contended that the being referenced in this refrain is alluded to as a man (Isaiah 14:16); is contrasted and different lords on the earth (section 18); and the words, "How you have tumbled from paradise" (stanza 12), is affirmed to allude to a tumble from incredible political statures.

There are different researchers who decipher this entry as alluding just to the fall of Lucifer, with no reference at all to a human lord. The contention here is that the portrayal of this being is past humanness and subsequently couldn't allude to a simple human man.

There is a third view that I believe is desirable over the two perspectives above. This view sees Isaiah 14:12-17 as having a double reference. It might be that stanzas 4 through 11 arrangement with a real ruler of Babylon. At that point, in sections 12 through 17, we locate a double reference that incorporates the lord of Babylon as well as a typological portrayal of Lucifer too.

In the event that this entry contains a reference to the fall of Lucifer, at that point the example of this section would appear to fit that of the Ezekiel 28 reference—that is, initial a human chief is portrayed, and afterward double reference is made to a human head and Satan.

It is critical that the language used to portray this being fits different sections in the Bible that talk about Satan. For instance, the five "I wills" in Isaiah 14 demonstrate a component of pride, which was additionally proven in Ezekiel 28:17 (cf. 1 Timothy 3:6 which makes reference to Satan's vanity).

Because of this egregious sin against God, Lucifer was ousted from living in paradise (Isaiah 14:12). He got degenerate, and his name changed from Lucifer ("morning star") to Satan ("enemy"). His capacity turned out to be totally debased (Isaiah 14:12,16,17). What's more, his predetermination, following the second happening to Christ, is to be bound in a pit during the 1000-year millennial realm over which Christ will control (Revelation 20:3), and inevitably will be tossed into the pool of fire (Matthew 25:41).