Blog   Lucifer
Satan before he rebelled    
The Latin word corresponding to Greek Phosphoros is Lucifer.   

The Greek word phosphoros (Φωσφόρος) means "bringer of light" or "light-bearing".   

Lucifer was a covering cherub.   He was beautiful and musical.   

Because he was studded with all sorts of precious stones he reflected the glory of God.   

God gave man something Lucifer never had - authority.   God gave dominion over the earth to man.   

Lucifer saw what God had given man and coveted it.   God was making mankind not just His creation but He was making them His children.   This was a place of elevation Lucifer could never attain.   

Lucifer`s lust for the authority that God had given man caused him to deceive Eve and then Adam into taking his advice rather than God`s.   He became ruler of this world by man`s abdication and deference to him.   

When Christ Jesus revealed the True and Living God and His desire to impart Himself into man Lucifer's jealousy exploded.   

Lucifer became Satan.   
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say unto him, Thus says the Lord; You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
The king of Tyre was obviously a proud man who was very successful and self-assured.     

The Lord uses him as a vehicle for giving us some insight into our enemy, Satan, who was known as Lucifer in the beginning.

You have been in Eden the garden of the Lord; every precious stone was your 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 your tabrets and of your pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were created.
Lucifer had to be an amazingly glorious being to look upon.     It is assumed that the 'pipes' are musical outlets in the same vane that a vocalist can be said to 'have a great set of pipes'.

You are the anointed cherub that covers; and I have set you so: you were upon the holy mountain of the Lord; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, till iniquity was found in you.

For the Lord will have kindness on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage wherein you were made to serve,

That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased!     the golden city ceased!

The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hinders.

The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

Yes, the fir trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you are laid down, no feller is come up against us.

Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

All they shall speak and say unto you, Art you also become weak as we?     art you become like unto us?

Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you.

How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!     how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!
Lucifer becomes Satan in his rebellion and is ultimately cast into the earth.

For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of the Lord: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

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

Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

They that see you shall narrowly look upon you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;