| If I ever heard an Old Testament story once, I have | | | | down to the earth, or apparently so at least as we |
| heard this one told ten thousand times. It comes | | | | look on the horizon. After that rather unsuccessful |
| from Isaiah 14.12 "How art thou fallen from heaven, | | | | endeavor the dethrone God Most High, we get stuck |
| O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut | | | | with him as Satan compliments of the Church, who |
| down to the ground, which didst weaken the | | | | embellished the story and ta ta!...The mess the world |
| nations!13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will | | | | in is explained and it isn't the fault of mankind for the |
| ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the | | | | most part. Forever more, we can say, "Satan made |
| stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the | | | | me do it." You know, the bright and morning star |
| congregation, in the sides of the north:14 I will ascend | | | | that tried to become God but lost.It was mostly the |
| above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the | | | | Catholic St. Jerome in the fourth century who |
| most High.15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, | | | | mistranslated the Hebraic metaphor, "Day star, son |
| to the sides of the pit.16 They that see thee shall | | | | of the Dawn," as "Lucifer," and over the centuries an |
| narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, | | | | evolution of ideas took place. Lucifer the morning star |
| Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that | | | | became a disobedient angel, cast out of heaven to |
| did shake kingdoms;"This story was THE proof that | | | | rule eternally in hell mostly waiting for all |
| Satan used to be one of God's good guys and then | | | | Non-Catholics, but later all Non-Protestants too. Now |
| all of a sudden, one day decided to be take over | | | | the Church had it's Prince of the Power of the Air, |
| everything and knock God off His throne. Local boy | | | | the Prince of Darkness, the God of this world, The |
| goes bad I guess. Well Satan, which term is never | | | | Roaring Lion, the Fallen Angel, the former Day star |
| mentioned here, former Light Bringer which is what | | | | (because if you know where to look, Venus can |
| Lucifer means, is now the Prince of Darkness and the | | | | even be seen in the daytime)...gone bad.Interesting |
| rest is history.What's really going on with this story. | | | | enough, even Jesus, well the Jesus of Revelation |
| Did you know that you see this drama literally take | | | | who bears no likeness to the Jesus of the Gospels, |
| place multiple mornings and evenings of the year. Did | | | | identifies himself as the morning star, a term used as |
| you know that even to this day, this Lucifer is | | | | a central theme in many Christian sermons. Jesus |
| mistaken for UFOs or landing lights! Jesus said he saw | | | | refers to himself as the morning star in Revelation |
| Satan fall as lightening from heaven as did millions | | | | 22:16: "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto |
| then and billions today if you know where to look. It's | | | | you these things in the churches. I am the root and |
| a very old story based on a very real observation by | | | | the offspring of David, and the bright and morning |
| humans who made up a story about what they did | | | | star."So here we have it. Humans could never quite |
| not understand at the time.First of all, let's understand | | | | explain why this bright "star" we know as the planet |
| that Isaiah 14 is really not about a Satan the Devil as | | | | Venus, preceeded the morning Sun as if to announce |
| he has evolved into over the history of the Church. | | | | it's arrival, but then crashed back to earth. Very |
| A scripture can never mean what it never meant, | | | | strange! Let's make up a story! This bright light, an |
| and this principle applies to Isaiah 14 for sure. In the | | | | Angel, the Lightbringer and minor deity compared to |
| original Hebrew text, the 14th chapter of Isaiah is not | | | | the SUN, really went bad and decided to knock the |
| about a fallen angel, but about a fallen Babylonian | | | | SUN GOD, and later the SON of GOD, off the |
| king, who had persecuted the children of Israel. Later | | | | throne, which is where the SUN rises to when it |
| in the context we see he was a man, who died. Now | | | | becomes the MOST HIGH at NOON. God, not putting |
| we often hear that this was a "type" but that's | | | | up with that, simply threw Lucifer, now Satan or the |
| slippery ground mostly. Metaphor maybe, but not a | | | | Destroyer, back down to earth where he belongs |
| type, where we can change a man into a Lucifer and | | | | and humans can get stuck with him until the SON of |
| then Lucifer into Satan, never mentioned, and then | | | | the SUN God comes back to destroy the works of |
| the whole thing into how Satan came to be the God | | | | the Light Bringer now gone dark. Great story! In |
| of this world so send in your tithes and be safe with | | | | Isaiah 14, this haughty king was acting just like that in |
| us. "In the Hebrew text the expression used to | | | | thinking he could knock Israel out of the picture, he |
| describe the Babylonian king before his death is "Helal, | | | | lost, was thrown down and died, just like that planet |
| son of Shahar", which can best be translated as "Day | | | | Venus every morning. So don't mess with God's |
| star, son of the Dawn." The name evokes the golden | | | | chosen ones!19 But thou art cast out of thy grave |
| glitter of a proud king's dress and court (much as his | | | | like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of |
| personal splendor earned for King Louis XIV of | | | | those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, |
| France the appellation, "The Sun King"). | | | | that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase |
| {Craig Lyons-Bet Emet Ministries.} The King here | | | | trodden under feet.In the real story of the real |
| was a man, plain and simple, and for his cocky | | | | human king of Isaiah 14, we see he dies like all mortal |
| attitude, he got to die like everyone else.Lucifer | | | | men and is not well thought of for thinking he could |
| means "Light Bringer" and is a term used by Roman | | | | challenge Israel. In verse 19 we read, "But thou art |
| astronomers to describe the planet Venus. Venus has | | | | cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and |
| always been the light bringer as it always precedes | | | | as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through |
| the early morning sun. It is very bright and very | | | | with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; |
| noticeable, such that it has been confused, as noted, | | | | as a carcass trodden under feet. 20 Thou shalt not |
| for the landing lights of non-existent airplanes. It is | | | | be joined with them in burial, because thou hast |
| bright, but not as bright as the sun of course. In | | | | destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of |
| mythology, humans noted this 'god" that preceeded | | | | evildoers shall never be renowned." Graves, |
| the sun and seemed to be racing to the zenith, which | | | | carcasses, pits, burials and oblivion are all features of |
| in astrotheology is called the place of the "Most High" | | | | what happens to humans, not Angels or mini-gods.It's |
| or plainly put for us today, NOON! Noon is God's | | | | interesting, Venus also rises evenings wonderfully |
| throne in astrotheological terms. In Isaiah, this | | | | bright after the sun sets, and then falls back to earth |
| "Lightbringer" went before God, the Most High-The | | | | too. Perhaps Satan just coming out from the |
| SUN. The highest point in the sky where the sun or | | | | underworld of darkness for a peak and to let us |
| anything that shines outside the planet can rise, from | | | | know he still rules it before going back an hour or so |
| our perspective. When mythology and even the Bible | | | | later after "Sun Set" where even the Most High Sun |
| speaks of God as "the most High", one can see the | | | | goes every night, in Eqyptian history to challenge |
| deeper meaning that hints at sun worship. The Bible | | | | "SET" God of the Underworld. Makes you wonder |
| promotes a similar yet different form of Sun/Son | | | | about stories about Sons of the Sun preaching to |
| worship but that has been lost on most Christians | | | | spirits in "prison." But that's another story.So when |
| today.The planet Venus proved to be an enigma for | | | | you see Venus early in the morning when you drive |
| mankind. It's job seemed to be to go before the | | | | to work and think either a train if low enough or a |
| morning sun and announce, if you would, it's coming | | | | plane looking for place to land is coming right at YOU, |
| forth. But then, bright as it was and still is, it falls | | | | know that's only the Light Bringer, Lucifer, later your |
| from the sky and descends into the ground, or in | | | | arch nemesis Satan, announcing "But unto you that |
| mythology, seems to be thrown down. Strange! Not | | | | fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise |
| knowing that Venus was an inner planet and all inner | | | | with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and |
| planets that rotate with the earth around the sun can | | | | grow up as calves of the stall" Malachi 4:2. Notice it |
| never pass over us, east to west as do the outer | | | | doesn't say "Son". Think of wings more like rays and |
| planets and stars, they had to explain it. Thus we | | | | you'll get the picture. That planet Vensus, so beautiful |
| have the the "fact" that this lightbringer, this Lucifer | | | | is explaining a phenomenon that we take for granted |
| soon be called Satan, MUST have become discontend | | | | to human beings long ago who feared such things |
| with just announcing the Sun God, so MUST have | | | | and simply had to come up with a theology to explain |
| said in his heart, "I will become the MOST HIGH." Well | | | | it. Now you can say you saw Satan fall as lightening |
| that was it for him! The Most High, not willing to give | | | | from heaven too...how cool is that! |
| up his throne to this usurper, simply threw him back | | | | |