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Who Is Lucifer?
Is it Satan or someone else?
Isaiah 14.12
Don Ruhl • Savage Street, Grants Pass, Oregon • November 13, In the year of our Lord, 2013
- Isaiah 14.12–15 uses the term Lucifer to speak of someone and his downfall.
- Who do men say Lucifer is?
- Some say he is Satan, and
- that Ezekiel 28.13–19 also allegedly speaks of Lucifer or Satan also.
- Why do people say these passages speak of Satan?
- They seem to speak of him, because
- he was in the Garden of Eden as the serpent, and
- he was exalted at one time based on these passages:
- 1Ti 3.6
- Jude 8–9
- Isolated from the context, Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 might seem to be about Satan.
- They seem to speak of him, because
- I have sat down with people and
- showed them the context of both Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, and
- as you will see the prophets identified of whom they spoke.
- Yet, with the words of Scripture right before their eyes,
- people have denied what Isaiah and Ezekiel said, and
- refused to budge from their preconceived idea
- that both passages speak of Satan and his fall.
- The Bible does address the fall of Satan, but
- not in these passages.
- Why do people say these passages speak of Satan?
- Who do you say Lucifer is?
- Who does the Bible say Lucifer is?
- Remember the most important rule of hermeneutics or interpretation:
- The context,
- what does the context say?
- Do not go to other passages first, but
- see what Isaiah wrote in the context.
- Isaiah 13 begins a message against whom?
- Isaiah 14.1–2 directs a short message to whom?
- Isaiah 14.3–23 again addresses whom?
- Isaiah 14.16 identifies Lucifer as a what?
- Isaiah 14.23 identifies what entity?
- Remember the most important rule of hermeneutics or interpretation:
- Whom does the Bible denounce in Ezekiel 28?
- Why does the Bible use such high sounding terminology for these two kings?
- Isaiah 14 revealed what the king of Babylon thought,
- whether the king meant it literally or figuratively.
- Ezekiel 28 reveals both how
- the king thought and
- what God thought.
- The Spirit used figurative language to show
- how exalted the king had become.
- This is not unusual.
- Genesis 13.10
- Joel 2.3
- Isaiah 14 revealed what the king of Babylon thought,
- Use Ezekiel 31
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