Satan's Misguided Desire

Satan’s misguided Desire (Isaiah 14:12-14)

12 "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.”

Lucifer, the old devil, took a beating in the scrimmage for ruler ship of heaven. He aspired to be “king” of the universe. He believed he had the power and support sufficient to accomplish this task. Ezkiel 28:11-15 11 "Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.”

Satan said “I will. God said “you will not.’ Look who was right in His statement. Satan wanted to be God, and this monstrous pride became “the condemnation of the Slew Foot.” Already as close as close to the seat of God ans any other angel would ever be, Satan was not content. He was God’s “anointed most high angel of light.”

His greed and jealousy of God corrupted him so that he is now “fallen from heaven” and will soon be “brought down to hell” (Isaiah 14:12, 15 our opening reading).

Lucifer, came up short in qualifications. He was not the power that formed the universe and all that is in it. (Ezekiel 28:15). The force that he set his aim to dethrone was the creator of all that is or will ever be; even Satan. It would seem therefore that for him to rationalize himself to be like the most High, he must somehow persuade himself that God is a created being like himself, and thus can be defeated. If he only could have realized he was created by God he evidently chose not to believe God’s practiced superiority over all things seen and unseen. (just as do multitudes of men and women today).

Far too many “so called Christians” in this modern time called the “New Age” chose rather to believe that the eternal cosmos created all things by its own existence. The great creation would have had to make itself and then made all else. (Mother Nature, perhaps) has “created” spirit beings, as well as men and women, and all the worlds inhabited. How any mentally well person could be led to believe such an impossible creation is difficult to fathom.

We can say with out reservation or equivocation that the “Angel of Light” became the first evolutionist and original force of darkness. The great lie by which Lucifer deceived himself became the basis of his later deception of Eve and then of the founders of all the varied pantheistic religions of the world, as well as modern evolution and “New Age” philosophies. Nevertheless, God is still on His throne, and “the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings” (Revelation 17:14) Know God, know peace. Amen 06-4-2019 Bll