Want to know Lucifer more?? (sa mga gusto lng magbasa)
Monday, December 31st, 2007
A. Lucifer God created many wonderful things before He created heavens and the earth. Among them were the angels - spirit beings whose purpose is to fulfill God’s will. Angels worship God and serve Him continually (Rev 5:11-14) However, when Lucifer, one of the great leading angels, understood about God’s plan to create man, he rebelled against God. He wanted to be above God’s Throne. He wanted the position and authority God had planned for mankind. He wanted to rule all creation from above God’s Throne in Heaven. When Lucifer rebelled, God cast him out of Heaven, At the same time, one-third of the angels joined his rebellion and were cast out with Lucifer (Rev 12:4) "How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star [Lucifer], son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! "You said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself the Most High" (Isa 14:12-14). Lucifer was cast to the earth, where he is now known as "Satan" or "The Devil". Separated from the glory of the Creator God, he lost his beauty and light he had once had (Eze 28:11-17) and became evil and full of darkness. The angels who fell with him also lost their glory and became evil spirits, in God’s newly created world. But Satan’s evil ambition did not change and so he set about with another plan to try and usurp (unlawfully take) God’s Throne … he went after the man God had created. D. The Result Through that one act of sin, man lost the glory and image of God and dominion over the Creation. Satan then took the throne vacated by Adam and Eve and exercised his dominion over the earth, and death filled the world (Heb 2:14,15) " …sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in his way death come to all men, because [in Adam] all sinned.." (Rom 5:12). All the generations following Adam and Eve have inherited their fallen nature. All have come under the power and dominion of Satan. "As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. "All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath" ( Eph 2:1-3). People’s hearts, everywhere, are now filled with: 1. Idolatry " For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave their thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. "Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles " (Rom 1:21-23) 2. Immorality "Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. "They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator - who is forever praised. Amen. " Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. "Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion (Rom 1:24-27) 3. All Kinds of Wickedness "Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. "They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless,faithless, heartless, ruthless. "Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to dothese very things , but also approve of those who practice them" (Rom 1:28-32) E. God’s Great Plan To Restore God did not give up man because of his sin. No! Instead, He put into action another great plan-the plan to save mankind from Satan’s power and to restore him to His original plan of being His sons and sharing His Throne. He began to prepare the world for the coming of the Saviour-Jesus. "For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive" (1 Cor 15:22). The New testament records the story of Christ, the One Who would come to save us from our sins.
*this is from the book that I’ve just red " The Shepherd’s Staff" but it is truly based from the Bible.
