Lucifer, is the King James Version rendering of the Hebrew word הֵילֵל in Isaiah (Isaiah 14:12). The Vulgate translationuses the Latin word lucifer, but with a lower-case initial. The Hebrew word, transliterated Heilel, occurs once in the Hebrew Bible and according to the KJV-based Strong's Concordance means "shining one, light-bearer". The Septuagint renders הֵילֵל in Greek as ἑωσφόρος (heōsphoros), a name, literally "bringer of dawn", for the morning star. The word Lucifer is taken from the Latin Vulgate, which translates הֵילֵל as lucifer, meaning "the morning star, the planet Venus", or, as an adjective, "light-bringing".
Later Christian tradition came to use the Latin word for "morning star", Lucifer, as a proper name ("Lucifer") for the devil; as he was before his fall. As a result, "'Lucifer' has become a by-word for Satan / the Devil in the church and in popular literature", as in Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Joost van den Vondel's Lucifer and John Milton's Paradise Lost. However, the Latin word never came to be used almost exclusively, as in English, in this way, and was applied to others also, including Jesus. The image of a morning star fallen from the sky is generally believed among scholars to have a parallel in Canaanite mythology.
However, according to both Christian and Jewish exegesis, in the Book of Isaiah, chapter 14, the King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar II, conqueror of Jerusalem, is condemned in a prophetic vision by the prophet Isaiah and is called the "Morning Star" (planet Venus). In this chapter the Hebrew text says הֵילֵל בֶּן-שָׁחַר (Heilel ben Shakhar, "shining one, son of the morning"). "Heilel ben Shakhar" may refer to the Morning Star, but the text in Isaiah 14 gives no indication that Helel was a star or planet.
Lucifer Stands for the Devil in Christian Demonology[]
The latin word lucifer is also used to refer to the Morning Star, with no relation to the devil. However, in post-New Testament, this word has often been used as a name for the devil, primarily in fictional works. Lucifer is not the true name of the devil, but a misinterpretation of the holy bible. The bible states Lucifer (poor translation for bearer of light), and speaks of King Lucifer, a man that thought higher than God; not the devil. Isaiah 14:12- 17
A pagan myth of the fall of angels, associated with the Morning Star, was transferred to Satan, as seen in the Life of Adam and Eve and the Second Book of Enoch, which the Jewish Encyclopedia attributes to the first pre-Christian century: in these Satan-Satanael (sometimes identified with Samael) is described as having been one of the archangels. Because he contrived "to make his throne higher than the clouds over the earth and resemble 'My power' on high", Satan-Satanael was hurled down, with his hosts of angels, and since then he has been flying in the air continually above the abyss.
Lucifer was the first angel to be created by God, a thousand years before the creation of the world and man, the 350 thousand angels was commanded by Lucifer, being the primary consent of God, he was the most beautiful angel and beautiful of heaven, known with the morning star, covered in precious jewels, conductor as music minister also choir of angels.
The kindness Lucifer became the hatred and envy, when God created the paradise of Eden and man (as the image of God).
The beginning
Lucifer became the opposite of God, manipulating 200 thousand angels of various orders, to take possession of the throne of God and also destroy his creation, Lucifer did not want the angels were inferior to the man of God commanded Adam's fall along with Eva, to show the angels that followed him and start the plan to be the new God to the heavenly kingdom, which divided the angels in favor and against, from 200 thousand to 150 thousand angels were against Lucifer, Michael and Gabriel ordered the angels to defend the throne of God, resulting in the heavenly battle between good and evil.
Lucifer's fall.
God cast Lucifer out of Heaven and fell to the Earth, into Hell, and his allies, the 200 thousand angels pushing all the abyss of Mount Hermon. The body of these fallen angels became flesh and bone, lived on earth with the descendants of Adam and Eve, teaching well and also teach evil, where these fallen angels broke the guidance of God over men.
He used his children, the Nephilim giants terror on earth, God commands Michael as a new consent form to hunt 200 thousand fallen angels and throw all to hell with Lucifer, eternal prison by God. Gabriel, Raphael and Lauviah lead to Noah the news of God's destruction of the world by a flood, the children of the fallen angels, Nephilim 400 thousand perished to death, eliminating the body and their soul the dust.
Early Christian writers continued this identification of "Lucifer" with Satan. Tertullian ("Contra Marcionem," v. 11, 17), Origen ("Ezekiel Opera," iii. 356), and others, identify Lucifer with Satan, who also is represented as being "cast down from heaven" (Revelation 12:7-10; cf. Luke 10:18).
However, some contemporary exorcists and theologians such as Father Jose Antonio Fortea and Father Amorth in their experience and based on Biblical interpretations assert that Lucifer and Satan are different beings.
In the New Testament the Adversary has many names, but "Lucifer" is not among them. He is called "Satan" (Matt. 4:10; Mark 1:13, 4:15; Luke 10:18), "devil" (Matt. 4:1), "adversary" (1. Peter 5:8, ἀντίδικος; 1. Tim. 5:14, ἀντικείμενος), "enemy" (Matt. 13:39), "accuser" (Rev. 12:10), "old serpent" (Rev. 20:2), "great dragon" (Rev. 12:9), Beelzebul (Matt. 10:25, 12:24), and Belial (Samael). In Luke 10:18, John 12:31, 2. Cor. 6:16, and Rev. 12:9 the fall of Satan is mentioned. The devil is regarded as the author of all evil (Luke 10:19; Acts 5:3; 2. Cor. 11:3; Ephes. 2:2), who beguiled Eve (2. Cor. 11:3; Rev. 12:9). Because of Satan death came into this world, being ever the tempter (1. Cor. 7:5; 1. Thess. 3:5; 1. Peter 5:8), even as he tempted Jesus (Matt. 4). The Christian demonology and belief in the devil dominated subsequent periods. However, though the New Testament includes the conception that Satan fell from heaven "as lightning" (Luke 10:18; Rev. 12:7-10), it nowhere applies the name Lucifer to him.
The Jewish Encyclopedia states that in the apocalyptic literature, the conception of fallen angels is widespread. Throughout antiquity stars were commonly regarded as living celestial beings (Job 38:7). Indications of this belief in fallen angels, behind which probably lies the symbolizing of an astronomical phenomenon, the shooting stars, are found in Isaiah 14:12.
The Book of Isaiah has the following passage:
When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased! How his insolence has ceased! … How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit on the mount of assembly on the heights of Tzephon; I will ascend to the tops of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High." But you are brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the Pit. Those who see you will stare at you, and ponder over you: "Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who would not let his prisoners go home?
The passage refers to the king of Babylon, a man who seemed all-powerful, but who has been brought down to the abode of the dead ("Sheol"). Isaiah promises that the Israelites will be freed and will then be able to use in a taunting song against their oppressor the image of the Morning Star, which rises at dawn as the brightest of the stars, outshining Jupiter and Saturn, but lasting only until the sun appears. This image was used in an old popular Canaanite story that the Morning Star tried to rise high above the clouds and establish himself on the mountain where the gods assembled, in the far north, but was cast down into the underworld.
The phrase "O Day Star, son of Dawn" in the New Revised Standard Version translation given above corresponds to the Hebrew phrase "הילל בן־שׁחר" (Heilel Ben-Shakhar) in verse 12, meaning "morning star, son of dawn". As the Latin poets personified the Morning Star and the Dawn (Aurora), as well as the Sun and the Moon and other heavenly bodies, so in Canaanite mythology Morning Star and Dawn were pictured as two deities, the former being the son of the next.
In the Latin Vulgate, Jerome translated "הילל בן־שׁחר" (morning star, son of dawn) as "lucifer qui mane oriebaris" (morning star that used to rise early). Already, as early as the Christian writers Tertullian and Origen,[11] the whole passage had come to be applied to Satan. Satan began to be referred to as "Lucifer" (Morning Star), and finally the word "Lucifer" was treated as a proper name. The use of the word "Lucifer" in the 1611 King James Version instead of a word such as "Daystar" ensured its continued popularity among English speakers.
Most modern English versions (including the NIV, NRSV, NASB, NJB and ESV) render the Hebrew word as "day star", "morning star" or something similar, and never as "Lucifer", a word that in English is now very rarely used in the sense of the original word in Hebrew (Morning Star), though in Latin "Lucifer" was a literal translation.
A passage quite similar to that in Isaiah is found in Ezekiel 28:1-19, which is expressly directed against the king of Tyre, a city on an island that had grown rich by trade, factors alluded to in the text.[14] In Christian tradition, it too has been applied to Lucifer, because of some of the expressions contained in it. But, since it does not contain the image of the Morning Star, discussion of it belongs rather to the article on Satan than to that on Lucifer.
The same holds for the Christian depiction of Satan in other books of the Old Testament as, for instance, in the Book of Job, where Satan, who has been wandering the earth, has a discussion with God and makes a deal with him to test Job.
The Tyndale Bible Dictionary states that there are many who believe the expression "Lucifer" and the surrounding context in Isaiah 14 refer to Satan: they believe the similarities among Isaiah 14:12, Luke 10:18, and Revelation 12:7-10 warrant this conclusion. But it points out that the context of the Isaiah passage is about the accomplished defeat of the king of Babylon, while the New Testament passages speak of Satan.
The story of Lucifer falling from Heaven is also portrayed in an epic poem named "Paradise Lost" by John Milton. It is written over twelve books and portrays the revolt in heaven, the fall of Lucifer and the story of Adam and Eve.
Abilities[]
Biokinesis: Can manipulate the anatomy of any being, even converting a mortal man into a high-ranking angel.
Conversion: Can turn one object into another.
Disintegration: Can cause lower beings to explode or molecularly disintegrate objects.
Energy Manipulation: Can manipulate angelic energy and create energy from his fingertips.
Existence Erasure: Can erase other beings from existence.
Flight: Possesses six wings and can fly through different dimensions.
Hydrokinesis: Can manipulate water and create natural phenomena like tsunamis.
Incorporeality: True form is completely incorporeal, exempt from physical and supernatural harm.
Matter Manipulation: Can manipulate matter, deconstruct objects, and create matter from virtual nothingness.
Mind Manipulation: Can manipulate the minds of beings.
Near-Indestructibility: Body is indestructible and immune to conventional harm.
Nigh-Omnipotence: Has near-omnipotent power, surpassing other archangels.
Nigh-Omniscient: Possesses extensive knowledge, close to being omniscient.
Omni (Absolute) Senses: Senses infinitely transcend those of humans.
Pyrokinesis: Can manipulate fire, including supernatural holy fire.
Reality Warping: Can warp reality at a near-omnipotent level.
Resurrection: Can resurrect any being from the dead..
Superhuman Strength and Speed: Possesses superhuman strength and speed far surpassing mortal and angelic beings.
Telekinesis: Can move objects with kinetic energy.
Power Granting and Negating: Can grant or strip beings of their powers.
Transcendental Existence: Is above every primal and platonic concept or primordial power.
Teleportation: Can teleport anywhere in existence.
Terrakinesis: Can control the Earth and cause earthquakes.
Weather Manipulation: Theoretically can change the weather.
Virtue Inducement: Can inspire good in people.
Chaos Manipulation: Can control the power over disharmony, confusion, disorder, and destructiveness in their most pure and vivid forms.
Spatial Manipulation: warp, bend, flip, crush, and control space.
Darkness Manipulation: can create, shape and manipulate darkness and shadows.
Shapeshifting:power to transform and reshape the form of one's body.
Fear Manipulation:inflict a level of "fear" on the target using supernatural means.
| Angelology | |
|---|---|
| Characters | God | Michael | Gabriel | Raphael | Uriel | Lucifer |
| Species | Angels | Deities | Humans | Demons | Saints |
| Ranks | Angel | Archangel | Cherubim | Erelim | Guardian Angel | Hashmallim | Hayot Ha Kodesh | Heavenly host | Ishim | Ophanim | Powers | Seraphim | Thrones | Watcher |
| Locations | Earth | Heaven | Hell |
| Topics | War in Heaven |