Last week we looked into the fact that Lucifer wasn’t the praise and worship leader of Heaven. Lucifer’s goal wasn’t to be God to steal praise and worship, but how he really wanted to be a man. This week’s post we’ll dig deeper into Lucifer’s job and what he was really doing.
What really happened here is that Lucifer was walking back and forth in the fiery prophetic stones and saw a glimpse of the future. He saw the creation of the Earth, and how it was meant for Adam. Lucifer wasn’t residing in Heaven; his throne was most likely on the moon. Because of his great splendor and position as Jesus’ personal angel, he may have thought the Earth and all the inhabitants would always be beneath him in beauty and position. Don’t forget that the plant and animal kingdoms are beneath the angels. We see both trees and animals respond to the spiritual realm, such as in the instances when Balam’s donkey responded to an angel, and when a fig tree responded to Jesus’ words.
You might be thinking, “Did you just say Lucifer was Jesus’ personal angel?” The Bible says this in Isaiah 14:12NKJV,
“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
Angels are referred to as sons of God, and Jesus is referred to as the “Bright and Morning Star,” as we see in Revelations 22:16NKJV
“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”
Now, Jesus has a new personal angel. Obviously, Lucifer has been replaced. If it’s too wild of a notion to think such things as that Lucifer was Jesus’ personal angel, that he was not the praise and worship leader, and that he was looking into the prophetic, then let’s go back to Revelations 19:10NKJV. The ending of the verse confirms Jesus and prophecy are synonymous,
For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
In Greek, the word used for “testimony” is “marturia,” which means, “witness, evidence, testimony, reputation.”
Now we can see Lucifer felt his position was threatened by Adam, because Adam would be between him and Elohim (God in 3 parts) and particularly Jesus. Imagine for a moment that the company you worked for brings in a new person that knows absolutely nothing, while you know the exact operation of the company. To make matters worse, this new person is dressed head to toe in the company’s best and here you thought your company’s jacket was the absolute best. Icing on the cake, now they will be permanently above you. This is why demons passionately enjoy getting people offended over positions. This is why it’s important to act in love and never puff yourself up over position or be offended when you’re lowered in position. Putting all the scriptures together, we see the demons probably sided with Lucifer to gain what they thought was a better position as well. Perhaps maybe helping Lucifer rule over Earth. As for beauty, Lucifer probably emanated the glory of God only during the prophetic announcements while Adam was clothed in His glory.
Instead of Lucifer heading to the Earth and writing beautiful music to sing the prophecy to announce the creation of Adam, he decided to go “testify” to Yahweh in the court of Heaven. His complaint is recorded in Hebrews 2:5-8NKJV
5 For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels. 6 But one certain one/thing testified in a certain place, saying:
“What is man that You are mindful of him,
Or the son of man that You take care of him?
7 You have made him a little lower than the angels;
You have crowned him with glory and honor,
And set him over the works of Your hands.
8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet.”
David also picked up this “testimony” while spending time with the Lord and wrote about it in the Psalms. You might think, “No, the author of Hebrews means David when he said, ‘one testified.’” If the author of Hebrews was referring to David, he would have respectfully used David’s name or referred back to scripture with “It is written,” but he did not. The word “one” is tis in Greek, a definite pronoun, and is translated as someone, anyone, certain one, thing. The NASB translates tis 6 times as whatever and 4 times as whoever. This is clearly not a term of respect, especially if he was referring to David or Scripture. Remember the verse breaks and numbers weren’t added in until over a thousand years later. Read it again, “For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels. But one certain (angel) testified in a certain place,”
Are you still not fully convinced the author of Hebrews refers to Lucifer? The answer is in Psalm 8:4-6NKJV
4 What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels Elohim,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
“You have put all things under his feet.” David COULD NOT SAY THIS! This is not written in the past tense, as if David is saying this to the Lord. Elohim (God in 3 parts), put everything under Adam’s feet. He had dominion over all the Earth. When he sinned against God, he lost his dominion. We don’t see any dominion being given back to man until the disciples received some dominion from Jesus in Luke 10:19, when they exclaimed how the demons were subject unto them. We, as people, didn’t fully get dominion back until Jesus was seated at the right hand of the Father, and we were seated with Him. This is the reason why the Old Testament is full of war and bloodshed. They didn’t have spiritual dominion over enemies. Enemies had to be physically stopped. In the New Testament, we have spiritual dominion given back. That’s why Paul tells us not to war in the flesh, but in the spirit. The wars weren’t because of man’s inability to love like God. There was no authority over the enemy (Luke 10:19).
Back to Psalms, if the Lord says something, it’s as good as done. He said in Isaiah 55:11 that His Word doesn’t return void, and It will produce fruit. Lucifer saw it in the stones of fire, and he knew it was as good as done. So, apparently, Lucifer didn’t receive a satisfying response from God and decided to implement his own objective to thwart the Lord’s plan. Again, you may be taken back by these new thoughts on scripture. But there is something that we fail to understand with our modern western mindset, YOU DO NOT QUESTION THE KING. We see the Lord God of Heaven as our loving Father that we can speak with concerning whatever subject we like at any time. We have never been prohibited to question government or authority, matter of fact we are encouraged to question them. Our minds aren’t trained to think like the ancient world, or even in line with the Bible. Those of us living in the free world never see these scriptures as a problem. Matter of fact, we sing them in a song!
Isaiah 45:9-10 NKJV
9 … Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ Or shall your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’? 10 Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What are you begetting?’ …
Isaiah gives us an idea about these types of questions in the ancient world. When ancient readers with a middle eastern mindset read these verses, they more easily understood that the certain angel was protesting by questioning God. For us we need the dishonor pointed out, study the scriptures, weigh the situation, and pray over the thought. Truth be told, for most of us it doesn’t feel wrong to question our Maker.
Now that we see this was Lucifer’s protest, we can see he didn’t lack intelligence. The Bible tells us his wisdom was corrupted. Ezekiel 28:17NKJV says of him,
You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor;
Corrupted wisdom can make a person appear to be stupid, and we see here that angels are no exception.
Ezekiel 28:14NKJV
You were the anointed cherub who covers
Covering in this sense is like shade or a hat. What was Lucifer covering? The Earth. Once he walked in the fiery stones in Heaven and caught a glimpse of the future; he would go back to the moon or somewhere above the Earth. He would play his prophetic tambourine music and sing the prophetic announcement of what he had seen in the stones. When he played his instruments and sang the prophetic song outside the Earth, it would hit the firmament, the metallic-water canopy covering the Earth, and the sound would travel all the way around the Earth.
Instead, Lucifer convinced one-third of all the angels he could be like The Most High. He could have Adam’s position once he played the prophetic music and sang the song over himself. He most likely promised the other angels a place of position under him on Earth, with his new-found dominion. The “I will…” statements we read above was the song he sang over himself. Also, don’t forget Lucifer recently watched Elohim (Father, Jesus, and The Holy Spirit) create the Earth with Words, and it most likely was first seen by Lucifer in the fiery stones. He took part in the power of prophesy and prophetic music. That’s far worse than a praise and worship leader. I usually hear it taught, “Satan was the praise and worship leader in Heaven. He wants to steal your praise and worship for God and take it for himself.” No, that wouldn’t be bad at all. In this case, we can completely ignore Satan. What he has been implementing is far worse! You’ll see next post why Satan is perfectly happy that we think the ex-praise and worship leader of Haven is just after our worship.
After he plays his music and sings the song over himself, he falls to Earth like lightening. We see this issue brought up again when the Lord God has to sentence Adam, Eve, and Satan in the garden in Genesis 3:15NKJV
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”
We know “her Seed” is Jesus, and we know Satan’s seed is the prophecy he sang over himself. Satan taking the dominion from Adam is part of his musical prophecy.
I’m glad you made it through the first two parts the series. This was some deep thinking and possibly quite a bit of uprooting of what you normally hear. I occasionally still catch myself believing common interpretations that aren’t actually Biblical and need corrected. For this reason, I often pray for wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ.
The next two will be on music without lyrics, and we’ll take a look at what people with instruments are created to do and how music affects us. Be blessed with wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ.
Christi
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