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January 23, 2019May 18, 2023

From Lucifer to Satan

As Christians, we have been taught from a young age that Lucifer and Satan are one being. Lucifer was the choir director in Heaven. Throughout his body were musical pipes, but then pride was found in him, due to miraculous beauty. Lucifer was then thrown down to the Earth before the Earth was even formed, which resulted in the Earth being left in Chaos.

Once thrown down, he became known as the Devil and Satan, vowing to destroy all of mankind. But is this the true origin of Satan? Did he really fall before the Earth was even formed? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to find the truth.

Ezekiel 28:12-14
Isaiah 14:12
Revelation 12:9
Ezekiel 10:14
Ezekiel 10:20-22
Genesis 1:16
Revelation 9:1
Ezekiel 28:15
John 8:44
Isaiah 14:13-14
Revelation 12:4-6
Ephesians 5:22-27
Revelation 19:13-16
John 1:14
Matthew 2:13-15
Ezekiel 28:18-19
1 Peter 5:8
Isaiah 14:15
Revelation 20:3

Verses on Lucifer and Satan

Lucifer

His Sin

¹²How 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! ¹³You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; ¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’
Isaiah 14:12-14

His Punishment

¹⁵But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.
Isaiah 14:15

Lucifer’s sin was that he desired to be like God, whereas Satan’s sin was that he tried to kill God.

Satan

His Sin

¹ And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. ²She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. ³And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. ⁴His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.
⁵She gave birth to a male child, one who is to ruleall the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, ⁶and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days. ⁷Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back,
Revelation 12:1-7

His Punishment

⁸but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. ⁹And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
Revelation 12:8-9

The Anointed Guardian Cherub

The Sin

¹⁴You were an anointed guardian cherub. I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked. ¹⁵You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you. ¹⁶In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. ¹⁷Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.
Ezekiel 28:14-17

The Punishment

¹⁸By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought fire out from your midst; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all who saw you.
Ezekiel 28:18

Lucifer, Satan, and the Anointed Guardian Cherub Table

Lucifer, Satan, and the Anointed Guardian Cherub are three different beings for several reasons, but specifically, because their sins and their punishments were very different. One was thrown to earth, another to the pit, and the last was destroyed (turned to ash).

Picture describing difference between Lucifer, Satan, and Anointed Guardian Cherub

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Sheol

We’ve often heard that the dead go to a special place, but what exactly is that place? When Jesus died and went into the belly of the Earth, was that place Hell? What is the difference between Hell and this Old Testament term, Sheol? Is there even a difference? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through both Old Testament and New Testament to find the answers, in her video Sheol.

Acts 17:11
Matthew 5:22
Genesis 37:35
2 Corinthians 5:8
Luke 16:22-23
Luke 16:25-28
Mark 9:43-48
Revelation 19:20
Revelation 20:14
Matthew 12:40
Revelation 20:11-15
Ephesians 4:8
Revelation 6:9-11
2 Corinthians 5:8
Matthew 16:25
John 14:1-4

Sheol

⁸If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
Psalms 139:8

³⁹But He answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. ⁴⁰For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. ⁴¹The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.”
Matthew 12:39-41

²²The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s [bosom]. The rich man also died and was buried, ²³and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. ²⁴And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’
Luke 16:22-24

¹³And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. ¹⁴Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. ¹⁵And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:13-15

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Thou Shall Not Judge

“Judge not, that you be not judged. ” Matthew 7:1. This is one of the most quoted scriptures in our time. It’s usually quoted when someone is being corrected for doing something that they believe they should be able to do. “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” John 8:7b is the other verse we love to quote after being corrected. Which leaves us all asking the question, can Christians judge? Or is it ‘Thou Shall Not Judge’?

Are Christians allowed to judge? Is that morally, right? Many believe that it is, while others believe that it is morally wrong and sinful. We love to say Jesus never judged. Jesus only showed love. So where does that leave us? Watch the video below, check the evidence presented, and you decide what the Bible deems is morally right.

Jonah 1:4-6
Matthew 26:40
1 Samuel 26:12
John 15:4
John 15:6
John 15:10
Matthew 10:28
Matthew 7:1
Galatians 5:24
1 Corinthians 9:25-27
Proverbs 12:1
Matthew 7:5
Matthew 7:15-16
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Galatians 5:19-21
Matthew 7:17-20

Thou Shall Not Judge

We often quote Matthew 7 but never read the verse in its entirety.

¹ Judge not, that you be not judged. ²For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. ³Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? ⁴Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? ⁵You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
⁶Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.
Matthew 7:1-6

Jesus isn’t saying ‘do not judge’. He’s saying judge righteously. Look at God’s warning to Elijah.

¹⁸If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. ¹⁹But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.
Ezekiel 3:18-19

We are to judge righteously by calling sin sin, and living a righteous life by following Christ.

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