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Yahweh Worshipers
Lesson 8
Lucifer the Father of Lies Part 1
by Lawrence DeMetrius
While Lucifer is well noted in the Holy Bible, the earliest documentation of him is in Enoch 1, the Ethiopian Book of Enoch, where he is known as Gadreel the Archangel of War and Death, and one of five angelic beings classified as satans. Enoch writes,
And the third <satan> was named Gadreel: he it is who showed the children of men all the blows of death, and he led astray Eve, and showed the weapons of death to the sons of men, the shield and the coat of mail, and the sword for battle, and all the weapons of death to the children of men.
And from his hand they <satanic forces> have proceeded against those who dwell on the earth from that day and forevermore.
[Eno 69:7-8]
Lucifer foolishly misused his delegated influence for which he was cast from his heavenly estate. First, he desired and tried to usurp praise that only belongs to Yahweh. Second, He hated the idea of angelic powers being of service to mortals. He believes that mortals should be subservient to and worship angelic powers. His conviction of this is so strong, that he set out to prove mortals unworthy of Yahweh’s favor. Lucifer is classified as a cherub angel, which are the second order of angelic hosts who reside in the realm of the air. They are often depicted as beautiful and innocent rosy-cheeked children with wings. These angels serve as covering or guardians over specific locations on earth. They have the ability to shape-shift into whatever form necessary to accomplish their tasks. However, no angelic being was created to appear as beautiful as Lucifer, who was initially appointed to serve as covering cherub over a mountain that was designated as a most sacred place of worship unto Yahweh for the nation of Israel. Prophet Ezekiel writes,
For in Mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith The Lord God there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve Me. There will I accept them, and their will I require your offerings, and the first fruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
[Eze 20:40]
Thou Art the ANOINTED CHERUB that COVERETH; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Thou wast PERFECT in thy WAYS from the day that thou was CREATED, till iniquity was found in thee.
By the multitude of thy merchandise, they <Lucifer's worshipers> have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore, I will cast thee as PROFANE out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O COVERING CHERUB, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore, will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: Thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be anymore.
[Eze 28:14-19]
Prophet Isaiah writes,
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!
For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend unto heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars <angels> of God: 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 thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
[Isa 14:12-15]
The Holy Bible notes many occasions where mortals encounter angelic beings in some form or another, be they good or evil. Eve was the first mortal to encounter the evil cherub Lucifer, who presented himself to her through or in the form of a serpent.
Eve did not realize that she was being engaged by an evil entity because serpents were known for their wisdom and like all creatures of her time, was considered good. Moses writes,
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which The Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest you die.
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
For God doth know that in the day that you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof<touched it>, and did eat <consumed it>, and gave also unto her husband with her <wickedly seduced him>, and he did eat <disobeyed God>
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
[Gen 3:1-7]
Certain angelic beings can also manifest as non-tangible situations. As noted in the Old Testament account of an angel who became a lying spirit in the mouths of false prophets, to accomplish the task of persuading King Ahab. Per this occasion, King Jehoshaphat said to King Ahab,
Hear thou therefore the word of The Lord: I saw The Lord sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right hand and on His left.
And The Lord said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.
And there came forth a spirit, and stood before The Lord, and said, I will persuade him.
And The Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And He said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
Now therefore behold, The Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and The Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee.
[I King 22:19-23]
It is the cherub angel that Yahweh appointed to guard the way into the Garden of Eden after HE expelled Adam therefrom with his wife. Moses writes,
And The Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of Us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever:
Therefore, The Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
[Gen 3:22-24]
In The Book of Jasher, Lucifer transforms himself into the likeness of an old contrite man, a likable young man, and then a raging brook of water in effort to keep righteous people from fulfilling their vow of sacrifice to Yahweh. Jasher writes,
And whilst Abraham was proceeding with his son Isaac along the road, Satan came and appeared to Abraham in the figure of a very aged man, humble and of contrite spirit, and he approached Abraham and said to him, Art thou silly or brutish, that thou goest to do this thing this day to thine only son?
And Satan returned and came to Isaac; and he appeared unto Isaac in the figure of a young man comely and well favored.
And he approached Isaac and said unto him, Dost thou not know and understand that thy old silly father bringeth thee to the slaughter this day for naught?
And Abraham still rebuked Satan, and Satan went from them, and seeing he could not prevail over them he hid himself from them, and he went and passed before them in the road; and he transformed himself to a large brook of water in the road, and Abraham and Isaac and his two young men reached that place, and they saw a brook large and powerful as the mighty waters.
And they entered the brook and passed through it, and the waters at first reached their legs.
And they went deeper in the brook and the waters reached up to their necks, and they were all terrified on account of the water;
And whilst they were going over the brook Abraham recognized that place, and he knew that there was no water there before.
And Abraham said to his son Isaac, I know this place in which there was no brook nor water, now therefore it is this Satan who does all this to us, to draw us aside this day from the commands of God.
And Abraham rebuked him and said unto him, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan, begone from us for we go by the commands of God.
And Satan was terrified at the voice of Abraham, and he went away from them, and the place again became dry land as it was at first.
[Jasher 23:25, 29, 30, 34-39]
According to Enoch, the first official scribe of Yahweh, there were 200 children of heaven who willingly left their heavenly estates, to commit great violations on earth per Lucifer’s beguilement. Their transformations were such that they could copulate with and impregnate mortal women. These 200 angels are now confined with chains in darkness beneath the earth until the Final Day of Judgment. Apostle Jude writes,
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
[Jude verse 6]
Concerning their fate Enoch writes,
Go, bind Semjaza and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness.
And when their sons <the first giants> have slain one another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, until the day of their judgement and of their consummation, until the judgment that is forever and ever is consummated.
In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: and to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined forever.
And whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all generations.
[Eno 10:11-14]
Although they are not permitted to roam the earth, there are other fallen angels who are including Lucifer. Concerning the account of Job, the Old Testament notes,
And The Lord said unto Satan, Whence cometh thou? Then Satan answered The Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
[Job 1:7; 2:2]
Apostle Peter writes,
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour;
[I Pet 5:8]
It is likely that the third angelic host who fell from heaven, per Apostle John's account, were indeed cherubim. He writes,
And his <Lucifer's> tail drew the third part of the stars <angels of heaven in the air>, and did cast them to <the circumambient realm> of the earth.
[Rev 12:4]
These recorded accounts give credence to the idea, that fallen cherubim angels, also known as demons, initially endeavored to present themselves as entities of goodwill and not evil. This is very different from how they are depicted in man-made superstitions and Hollywood dramatizations. As previously mentioned, the Prophet Ezekiel provides information about Lucifer being the ANOINTED COVERING CHERUB. Let one consider the literal meaning of the ancient Hebrew words used in Prophet Ezekiel’s statement. He writes,
Thou art the ANOINTED CHERUB that COVERETH; and I have SET thee so: thou wast upon the holy MOUNTAIN of God; thou hast WALKED up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
[Eze 28:14]
*anointed Hb #4473 mimshach (mim-shakh) it means outspread and with outstretched wings
*covereth Hb #5526 sakak (saw-kawk) it means to entwine as a screen, fence in, cover over, and protect
*set Hb #5414 nathan (naw-than) it means to give, put and make
*mountain Hb #2022 har (har) it is a mountain or range of hills and figurative of a country
*walked Hb #1980 halak (haw-lak) it means to walk in a great variety of applications
HALAK is what Lucifer was capable of doing in the earthly realm, as an ANOINTED COVERING CHERUB in the midst of the STONES of fire.
*stones Hb #68 eben (eh-ben) it is a stone, especially a carbuncle gemstone
Here, EBEN or STONES are not figurative but tangible elements of the earth realm upon which Lucifer physically walked. This gives credence to the idea that angelic being, namely cherubim, have the ability to materialize in the earth realm. Prophet Ezekiel continues writing,
Thou wast PERFECT in thy WAYS from the day that thou wast CREATED, till INIQUITY was FOUND in thee.
[Eze 28:15]
*perfect Hb #8549 tamiym (taw-meem) it means literally, figuratively and morally entire, without blemish, complete, sincere, sound and also integrity and truth
While it is challenging to fathom, it is true that Lucifer was once TAMIYM or PERFECT and all his WAYS before THE LORD.
*ways Hb #1870 derek (deh-rek) it is a road as trodden, a course of life or a mode of action
Again, in the day Lucifer was CREATED, he was PERFECT in all his DEREK or WAYS before Yahweh.
*created Hb #1254 bara (baw-raw) it means to…
1. create absolutely
2. qualified to cut down (a wood) select and feed as formative process
3. choose, dispatch and make fat
Lucifer was absolutely CREATED, QUALIFIED, and SELECTED by Yahweh to serve in the office of an ANOINTED CHERUB ANGEL, in which he did well until INIQUITY was found in his heart.
*iniquity Hb #5766 evel (eh-vel) it is moral evil
• moral (adj) means…
o of, relating to or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong
o ethical, expressing or conveying truths or counsel as to right
o conduct founded on the fundamental principles of right conduct rather than on legalities, enactment or custom
• evil (noun) means…
o the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin
o the wicked or immoral part of someone or something
o is harm, mischief and misfortune
o anything causing injury or harm
o a harmful effect, affect or consequence
o diseased, evil quality, intention or conduct
o that which is evil
EVIL or INIQUITY is what Lucifer harbored, exhumed and expressed when he was dismissed from his heavenly estate. It is the substance and quality that was at some point FOUND in his heart by Yahweh.
*found Hb #4672 matsa (maw-tsaw) it means to…
1. come forth i.e., appear and exist
2. attain, find or acquire
As Yahweh did the children of earth, HE also created the children of heaven with freewill. One major difference is that the children of earth were initially created with the pure single-minded nature, whereby they could only perform in a manner that supported their well-being and purpose. However, this nature was corrupted to death, when it was infected with forbidden knowledge. Prophet Ezekiel continues writing,
By the multitude of thy MERCHANDISE, they have filled the midst of thee with VIOLENCE, and thou hast sinned: therefore, I will cast thee as PROFANE out of the MOUNTAIN of God: and I will destroy thee, O COVERING CHERUB from the MIDST of the STONES of fire.
[Eze 28:16]
*merchandise Hb #7404 rekullah (rek-oo-law) it is trade as peddled
• trade (noun) is…
o the act or process of buying, selling or exchanging commodities, stocks, bonds or currency
o a purchase, sale, business deal, transaction or exchange of items
o any occupation pursued as a business or livelihood
o a line of skilled, manual or mechanical work or craft
o people engaged in a particular line of business or trade
o a market or field of business activity and the customers thereof
• peddle is to…
o carry small articles, goods and wears from place to place for sale at retail
o deal out, distribute or dispense in small quantities
o illicitly sell harmful products, such as illegal drugs
REKULLAH or MERCHANDISE in this sense is not just TRADE, but TRADE that is already marketed and sold. This is what Lucifer did with forbidden knowledge per the iniquity of his heart.
*midst Hb #8432 tavek (taw-vek) it is a bisection or center
As cherubim are able to transform themselves into whatever tangible or intangible form they need to accomplish their tasks, Lucifer has the ability to manifest himself as an environment, wherein certain activities are conducted, such as a marketplace. As an ANOINTED COVERING CHERUB, he was once a PERFECT SANCTUARY who later transformed into a PLACE OF VIOLENCE.
*violence Hb #2555 chamac (khaw-mawce) it is violence, wrong and unjust gain
*profane Hb #2490 chalal (khaw-lal) it means to…
1. bore, wound, defile, pollute, take inheritance
2. dissolve and break one's word, self-prostitute
3. play the flute or other instrument
KAMAZ or VIOLENCE describes the MERCHANDISE that Lucifer began to PEDDLE in his midst. Because he DEFILED himself as a SANCTUARY and became a CENTER OF VIOLENCE, Yahweh dismissed him as PROFANE from his heavenly estate and position as COVERING CHERUB ANGEL over HIS holy MOUNTAIN, then DESTROYED him.
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