This sense of superiority led Lucifer to use his free will to scheme to be greater than God , and to assemble an army of angels to help him carry out that plot Ezekiel ; Isaiah ; Revelation , Revelation Pride tops the list of sins that God hates Proverbs Rather, pride in the Biblical sense refers to being so obsessed with yourself that your mind never turns to God and your heart never seeks Him Psalm As punishment for his disobedience and the grave dishonoring of his angelic post, God cast Lucifer out of heaven by hurling him and his army of fallen angels to Earth Isaiah ; Ezekiel ; Revelation and condemning them ultimately to hell Matthew Satan has been using his wisdom and wile to rob humanity of eternal salvation since his own fall from grace.
Demons are no less dangerous than Satan, as Scripture describes them as spiritual forces of evil Ephesians who can deceive, torment, and cause believers to do evil themselves 2 Corinthians ; 2 Corinthians ; Luke As believers, we know that Satan and his demons will ultimately be defeated and cast into the lake of fire for all eternity Matthew However, until the end times , Satan remains a powerful spiritual being whose sole aim is to deceive us into severing our relationship with God and with each other John ; Revelation It is by severing our relationship with God and with our brothers and sisters that Satan seeks to steal our peace and ultimately destroy our lives John One way that the devil devours our relationship with God and with one another is by tricking us into believing that what is right and wrong is relative.
Satan wants nothing more than for each of us to act as our own individual gods, casting stones at each other based on our own moral code and denying the authority and commandments of the only God of the Universe. There are two important passages in the Word of God concerning the origin and fall of Satan.
Willmington, p. Based upon information gleaned from a comparison of Ezekiel with Isaiah 14, Jude 6, and II Peter , and other passages, the following picture of Satan begins to emerge. Satan was created as one of the host of angelic beings. Sometime prior to the creation of the natural order, Satan became vain about his beauty and position, and his heart became rebellious against God. Apparently, he was able to secure a considerable following among the angels, resulting in their expulsion from Heaven Luke ; II Peter ; Jude 6; Revelation Since that day, Satan devotes himself to opposing the work of God in every way possible and to attempting to destroy all of the good that God has created in the natural order.
However, it may be that angels were created prior to the creation of the heavens and the earth. This involved all the angels rejoicing with God. Satan and his angels fell, then, sometime after the original creation of the heavens and the earth. It is certain that Satan had fallen before Genesis 3 where the temptation of Adam and Eve is recorded. Fred Dickason, p. Some commentators believe that this revolt of Satan towards God occurred after the creation week, but before the fall of man Genesis ; It appears that the Devil became the prince of this world when he led man Adam and Eve to sins against God and thus brought the ruler of earth under his domination Genesis ; John ; Colossians ; Acts Barackman, p.
There are at least six judgments associated with Satan:. There are other scholars who interpret this passage as referring only to the fall of Lucifer, with no reference whatsoever to a human king.
The argument here is that the description of this being is beyond humanness and hence could not refer to a mere mortal man.
There is a third view that I think is preferable to the two views above. This view sees Isaiah as having a dual reference. It may be that verses 4 through 11 deal with an actual king of Babylon. Then, in verses 12 through 17, we find a dual reference that includes not just the king of Babylon but a typological description of Lucifer as well.
If this passage contains a reference to the fall of Lucifer, then the pattern of this passage would seem to fit that of the Ezekiel 28 reference—that is, first a human leader is described, and then the dual reference is made to a human leader and Satan.
It is significant that the language used to describe this fitting other passages in the Bible that speak about Satan. As a result of this heinous sin against God, Lucifer was banished from living in heaven Isaiah His power became completely perverted Isaiah ,16, And his destiny, following the second coming of Christ, is to be bound in a pit during the year millennial kingdom over which Christ will rule Revelation , and eventually will be thrown into the lake of fire Matthew He holds Th.
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