Yes, you read that correctly. "Lucifer" is not another name for God's created adversary, Satan.
[Isa 14:12 KJV] How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
"Lucifer" isn't even a proper name. Lucifer was standard Latin poetic/astronomical terminology for the morning star (Venus), conveying the same sense of brilliance and dawn-rising as a Hebrew metaphor for the fallen pride of the king of Babylon.
Jerome’s note on Isaiah 14:12 in his Commentary on Isaiah (Book 5) highlights his Hebrew-based critique of the Septuagint (LXX) and Old Latin versions. He wrote in his commentary:
"In Hebraico, ut verbum exprimamus ad verbum, legitur: Quomodo cecidisti de cælo, ulula fili diluculi."
Translation:
("In the Hebrew, to express it word for word, it reads: How you have fallen from heaven, howl, son of the dawn.")
Isaiah 14 is a taunting of the Babylonian king and has nothing to do with Satan.
[Isa 14:4 KJV] That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Jerome chose the Latin word lucifer (lowercase in the original Vulgate text), which literally means "light-bringer" or "light-bearer" (from lux = light + ferre = to bear/bring).
Jerome used this word descriptively, not as a proper personal name. He employed lucifer elsewhere in the Vulgate (e.g., Job 11:17, Job 38:32, and 2 Peter 1:19 — the last referring positively to Christ as the "morning star" or "day star" arising in hearts).
Isaiah 14 is not a commentary on "Lucifer's fall from grace", or Satan in any respect. It is dealing with a pompous, self-righteous, king of Babylon.
[Isa 14:15-16 LSB] Nevertheless you [king of Babylon] will be brought down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit. [16] “Those who see you will gaze at you, They will carefully consider you, saying, ‘Is this the man [the adversary, Satan, is not a man] who made the earth tremble, Who caused kingdoms to quake,
It's the early church, once again, who inflicted their traditions into Scriptural doctrine. They were the creators of "Lucifer"... not Yahweh. Yahweh, however, did create Satan.
This fairy tale of a perfectly created angel who decided on his own to rebel against Yahweh is utter nonsense.
The adversary (Satan) didn't decide anything for himself. What the scholars, Theologians, preachers, teachers, etc. all want you to believe is that "Lucifer" decided all on his own to rebel against Yahweh. He decided that he didn't want to be the way that Yahweh had created him. In effect, Lucifer created himself as the adversary. That's what they want you to believe.
Surprise Yahweh! Bet You didn't see that coming, did you? You created a defective angel! How did you manage to slip up and miss that?!
Why do they want you to believe that?
So, that they can tell you that God never intended for sin to enter the world. It's not His fault that this earth is the way that it is. It's Eve's fault! It's Adam's fault for listening to Eve! No, wait! It's Satan's [שָׂטָן (śāṭān) = adversary] fault for deceiving Eve.
That's why there's so much death, sickness, pain, suffering, disease, evil, etc. in this world. These three bozo's completely screwed up Yahweh's plan! He created a perfect paradise, and dwelt among Adam and Eve. He never intended for any of this messed up world... it's not Yahweh's fault! All three of them have caused Yahweh's perfect creation to fail!
Are you buying into this?
God knew what He was doing and how things would turn out BEFORE He created anything... "Declaring the end from the beginning..." (Isa. 46:10).
Man is accountable for his sin, but Yahweh takes responsibility for their sin, and therefore had already provided them a Saviour BEFORE the foundation of the world.
Wait, what?
Yahweh provided a Saviour before the foundation of the world...
[1Pe 1:19-20 LSB] but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ. [20] He was foreknown before the foundation of the world...
[Rev 13:8 LITV] And all those dwelling in the earth will worship it, those of whom the names had not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb having been slain from the foundation of the world.
Why would a Saviour be needed before man was even created?
It was ALL created and Yahweh saw all of it and said:
[Gen 1:31 LSB] And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Everything was created, everything in it's place, and it was GOOD... VERY GOOD!
But before He created any of it, there was need of a Saviour?
If a Saviour was needed, then the adversary must have been needed also, right? He's the one who deceived Eve.
According to Christendom, Satan created himself. He was supposedly a perfect archangel, named Lucifer, and then changed himself into Satan. Is this Scripturally true? Who created Satan?
[Job 26:13 KJV] By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
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[Joh 8:44 LSB] “You are of your father the devil [the GREAT DRAGON, OLD SERPENT, the DEVIL, and SATAN {Hebrew for Adversary -- I Pet. 5:8} Rev. 12:9], and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth [from the beginning] because there is no truth in him [from the beginning]. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar [from the beginning] and the father [the beginner] of lies.
"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour [Greek: (lit. or fig.) gulp entirely, swallow up] 1 Pet 5:8). And he seeks to devour mankind who are "dust" of the earth ("...for dust thou art...." Gen. 3:19).
"Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that brings forth an instrument for His work, and I have CREATED THE WASTER TO DESTROY" (Isaiah 54:16).
["waster" -- Hebrew: shachath, decay, ruin, batter, cast off, corrupt, destroy, lose, mar, perish, spill spoil -- UTTERLY WASTE, #7843, p. 115, Strong's Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary].
God created the "WASTER," not the archangel who later became Satan, but from the BEGINNING God said He created "The WASTER" and He created him "TO DESTROY." Now then, WHOSE role is it to "destroy" the flesh of man so that the spirit may be saved?
"In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one UNTO SATAN for DESTRUCTION of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus" (1 Cor. 5:4-5).
It is Satan who was created from his very beginning to be "the WASTER to DESTROY" men's flesh (carnal mindedness) so that they learn not to blaspheme (I Tim. 1:20). Satan started with Adam and Eve and he isn't finished yet!
Christendom will tell you that the perfectly created angel called Lucifer transformed himself into Satan... which is the exact opposite of what Scripture tells us! It's Satan who transforms himself into an angel of light!
"And no marvel [Gk: to wonder with ASTONISHMENT]; for Satan himself is transformed [Gk: meta schematizo, transfigure -- to change the outward form or appearance, to make GLORIOUS] into an ANGEL OF LIGHT" (2 Cor. 11:14).
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded you, though you have not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there none beside Me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, AND CREATE EVIL: I the LORD do ALL [even the creation of evil and even the creation of Satan] THESE THINGS" (Isaiah 45:5-7).
Yahweh created evil and the adversary.
"He that commits sin is of the DEVIL [Gk: Adversary, Satan] for the Devil SINS FROM THE BEGINNING. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the WORKS of the Devil" (1 John 3:8).
So was it AFTER a supposed "Lucifer archangel" metamorphosed into Satan that he sinned, or did Satan the Adversary sin "from the BEGINNING?
Christendom must deny any Scripture that says that Yahweh introduced sin into this world. They must deny that Yahweh created evil or nothing fits into their hell-bent Theology. The origin of sin and evil must be placed on the creature rather than the Creator. This way the creature is completely responsible for everything and the Creator is responsible for nothing! That is how Christendom Theology explains the legitimacy of burning billions of people for all eternity in the lake of fire. They deserved it!
