Heaven's message throughout time

Chapter 8

What do you think of when you hear the word evil? I imagine a criminal-someone who has no regard for the rules in any setting. Someone hell-bent on doing everything the wrong way. In short, the woman I chose to be in my past.

What I found evil to mean biblically is identical to what I've always known. Those who choose to harm are criminals by the highest law there is. These are the laws for both heaven and earth. That means everyone is to obey them in both heaven and earth.

Instead of being called a criminal by breaking these laws, someone would be called a transgressor. To transgress these laws is another way of saying the person disobeyed. Everyone violates these laws. Bless Yahweh for His mercy.

While the Bible begins with the impression that humans are the first to break these laws, this is not true. It wasn't the snake either. Evil first manifested itself in an individual from the heavens. His name is Lucifer.

There is a storyline on Lucifer in the Bible. Like many things, it isn't where you can skip ahead and read-only about him. This info is scattered just like everything else.

I learned that Lucifer was once an anointed covering cherub. His name means bright morning star. He has four faces, one of a man, a lion, an eagle, and an ox. He has four wings and glowing brass colored skin, he has the hands of a man, and his feet are hooves.

While all cherubim share these physical traits, Lucifer wore jewels, and he shined brighter than the rest. He is nice to look at and is considered the most beautiful amongst his angel peers.

So forget the notion that he is some hideous creature. By both human and angelic standards, the devil is gorgeous. He isn't red either, but the bull face does give him horns.

The devil's brightness and beauty are what caused him to fall. It blinded him to Who made him that way. He has no grounds to believe that he made himself anything because he didn't.

Well, besides making himself everyone's enemy. Still, the question remains. Why did Lucifer betray Yahweh? Is it something Yahweh did?

According to scripture, satan is not content in his high position. He wants the most elevated position there is, to be Yahweh. It is Yahweh who is the supreme ruler over all that exists.

It is Yahweh's praise that is sung in the heavens continuously by all those in the heavenly courts. It is by Yahweh's power that everything is made, including Lucifer. It isn't enough for Lucifer to be alive and beautiful. He wants more; he is greedy.

In short, greed is the root of evil that grew in satan. Lucifer feels that he should be the one praised and worshipped. Not because he is good or kind, or anything worthy of praise.

He simply feels he's the better candidate by looks alone. His actions, on the other hand, are deplorable.
If his actions determined his appearance, then he would be the nastiest looking creature known to all life.

Many of his descriptions paint him in an ugly light. He is known as the father of lies. He's called a murderer. He's also explained to be our stumbling block and the deceiver. He's the original rebel. He's the tempter and enemy to the inhabitants of the universe. He's known as the leader of all the demons.

Let's not forget that he's called the lord of both the flies and of dung. He pretends to be an angel of light. He's the prince of the power of the air. In other words, our atmosphere through deceit and trickery. He's also the destroying spirit in Yahweh's wrath.

As if falling from grace on his own isn't bad enough. Lucifer seduced a third of his peers with his lies. Some chained in pits until judgment day. While other rebel angels are wreaking havoc on earth until the end, they do this by possessing and manipulating their unsuspecting victims.