The Rebellion
Read Isaiah 14:12-17 Ezekiel 28:12-19 Habakkuk 1:13 John 8:44 Luke 10:18 Revelation 20:10
II Thessalonians 2:7 Revelation 17:5 Matthew 25:41 (KJV)
God created Lucifer to be a beautiful cherub of light. God created Lucifer to be a cherub whose wings would cover God's mercy seat in heaven. Thus, because Lucifer would be very close to the heart of God, God created him to be extremely beautiful and full of light.
Then one day, as Ezekiel 28:15 relates, "iniquity was found" in Lucifer. The Word of God does not tell us where this iniquity came from or how it was formed. The Word of God does not relate that this iniquity appeared outwardly immediately. It simply relates that "iniquity was found in thee."
The Word of God does not state that Lucifer was perfect, but only that he was "perfect in thy ways." God created him to produce only good and beautiful creations but something went terribly wrong inside of him. The iniquity that was found in him began to change his ways. Lucifer began to invent false combinations of God's true Ideas that had destructive effects. Lucifer rebelled against God, attempted to destroy Him, and tried to put himself in God's place.
In II Thessalonians 2:7 and Revelation 17:5, the Bible relates that iniquity is a mystery. The Bible means by this statement that iniquity is a mystery even to God. God does not know what it is or where it came from. God knows that it exists because of its destructive effects, but He has no idea of what it is or where it came from. Habakkuk 1:13 relates that God knows that iniquity exists, but also that He is too pure and holy to have any interest in studying what it is or where it came from. This fact does not diminish God's omniscience in the least. God still possesses an Infinite knowledge of His Infinite Set of Ideas and Plans which can be used for an infinity of creations. A destructive effect always reduces toward nothingness. Because of its destructive effects, iniquity pertains to nothingness and nothingness can only be known as an idea. Because nothing can never diminish something, then God's Infinite Knowledge cannot be reduced by nothingness.
When God discovered this iniquity inside of Lucifer, He found that Lucifer had become able, for reasons unknown even to God, to invent false combinations of God's Ideas that proved to be destructive and inclined toward nothingness. These false combinations were not true and not real. In short, these were lies that were intended to destroy God's true combinations of Ideas, and to bring God Himself down to absolute nothingness which is chaos. For these reasons, Jesus said of Satan in John 8:44 that he was a "murderer" and a "father of lies." In addition, Jesus taught in Mark 7:20-23 that man's outward sins come from a heart already defiled by sin. Jesus knew this because He, as God in heaven, had already seen the iniquity that was inside of Lucifer before he rebelled.
God had always known about the idea of nothing but God had always used it in creative ways. God had been too innocent to ever realize that false combinations of His creative Ideas could be invented which would have destructive effects tending toward a nothingness that, in turn, would both cover up and indicate an absolute nothingness. This was Lucifer's plan. He would invent false combinations of God's Ideas to be used in an attempt to destroy God and the Infinity of His Ideas absolutely, so that Lucifer could replace God with his own systems of false combinations, making himself a god. God had never imagined any other way of using His Ideas except in creative combinations. God is the absolute artist, scientist, lawyer and mathematician.
Because God had created Lucifer, He knew all there was to know about his creative potential. God had so much confidence in Lucifer that He even gave him free will to create whatsoever he desired. This generosity shows that one of God's greatest Ideas is called "innocence." Because of His Innocence, God could not imagine that iniquity could ever exist. Lucifer evidently came to believe that God's Innocence was a weakness that he could exploit by the use of his false combinations. Little did he know that God's Innocence was one of His greatest strengths. Innocence, like Love itself, can never be destroyed. Another name for God's Innocence is "The Lamb of God."
Lucifer found that he could use the free will that God had given him to invent false combinations that he could use in his coming attacks on God. No doubt, God was quite shocked when He discovered this iniquity inside of Lucifer. God had never seen this before and had no idea that such a thing as iniquity could exist. "Shock" is one of God's creative Emotions and Ideas which proved quite useful when God discovered this iniquity in Lucifer.
Perhaps one of the first false combinations that God could have found in Lucifer might have been this thought: "I might be able to kill God." Each one of these basic ideas and true combinations, taken by itself, is a true and useful idea or combination, but as used in this false combination it is meant to be destructive, reducing toward a nothingness which covers an absolute nothingness. Absolute nothingness is the opposite of God's Infinite Reality. God's Infinite Reality encompasses a complete creative order, but absolute nothingness is a mere chaos. Even the idea called "kill" is a true and useful idea. In God's use of this idea, it means "to eliminate." Whenever God creates a particular useful combination of ideas, He must eliminate all other ideas from participation in this particular system in order to make it effective in the way He desires. For instance, should God create a particular system called "beautiful," He must eliminate all ideas that pertain to "ugliness." In order to do this, He must use the idea of nothing in a creative way. He must consider all ideas that pertain to "ugliness" to be equal to nothing as far as His creation of His system called "beautiful" is concerned. In a sense, He "kills" the ideas of ugliness. He does not destroy the ideas of "ugliness." These ideas can be used in other creative combinations. He simply considers them to be equal to nothing as far as His creation of something "beautiful" is concerned. God uses the idea of nothing in creative ways but Lucifer used this same idea in destructive ways.
When Lucifer used the true idea "kill" in his false combination, he meant to use this idea to eliminate God from His own heaven so that Lucifer could take over. This demonstrates the essence of the criminal mind. The criminal uses even the kindness and generosity of those who try to help him against them, and uses the advantage thus gained to hurt the very people who are trying to help him. No one knows why criminals do this. It is a mystery even today.
When Lucifer realized that God had found iniquity in him, he knew that he had no other choice but to lead a revolt of a third of God's angels against Him. Lucifer knew that God would never allow falsity to remain in His heaven. God and His faithful angels won the war, and God threw Lucifer and the fallen angels down to earth where he became Satan, the god of this world.
Satan became the author of all sin in the world. Sin is more than just a disobedience of God's rules. Sin constitutes no less that a violation of the very Being of God Himself because sin takes God's eternal and infinite Ideas and combines them in vain and destructive ways. Satan has been very clever in his inventions of some of these systems. He has attached an intensified pleasure, and even bliss, to some of these false combinations so that when a human takes the bait, he will become hooked into a destructive effect that he does not fully realize is coming. The source of all sin is Satan's egotistical pride; his self-centered desire to rule the universe. Pride is far more addictive that any drug. Pride often causes humans to cling fiercely to their sin, refusing to give it up even when they know it will eventually destroy them. There exists some strange connection between pride and vanity which leads to self-destruction and absolute nothingness.
God will never allow Satan to repent, even if he should ever want to. Because of Satan's great power, God can simply never trust him again. He is just too dangerous and too clever. For this reason, God prepared hell for the Devil and his angels. Someday, at God's final judgment, He will cast Satan and all fallen angels into a lake of fire where they will be tormented forever. God's reason for doing this is because God knows that anyone in excruciating pain can think of nothing except his pain. Satan's mind and his ability to invent false systems will be forever muted by this tormenting flame. In this way, God will forever eliminate all sin and falsity from His universe, and then will be clear to recreate heaven and earth as places that are purely righteous and holy. Even though heaven is free of sin now, it was tainted by sin in the past when Satan rebelled. Therefore, God will create a new heaven and earth where there will exist no possibility of sin and falsity forever.
Satan knows all this and so he has no choice but to persist in his rebellion. Persistence is not a virtue with Satan. It is a necessity. He has no other choice but desperately to do everything in his power to try to stay out of the lake of fire.
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