Chapter 306: Who is Satan?
And when it comes to the name Satan, I have to mention it, Jian Yi also thought that Satan was Lucifer, and Lucifer was also Satan. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
However, Jian Yi later found that this perception was obviously wrong, and later Jian Yi believed that Satan was a fallen angel before, and Lucifer was a fallen angel who rebelled against heaven after him.
In this way, many mysteries can be explained, but it is not absolute, Jian Yi has asked Alice if Satan and Lucifer are the same demon.
However, Alice said that she did not know about it, after all, it was too long ago for those things to happen.
And it seems that the demon world also intends to hide these things, so no one knows whether Satan and Lucifer are the same demon now, and the demons who know about it are silent about these things.
There is no way, Jian Yi can only make a rough guess by himself, after all, to be honest, Jian Yi still has a lot of curiosity about Lucifer's true identity.
First of all, the name Satan is written in English as Satan, and in the Bible it is called the devil or Satan the devil.
He was a fallen angel who rebelled against Jehovah, who was once the seraphim before the throne of God and was responsible for placing temptations on earth, and then he fell into the devil and was seen as a source of evil and darkness as opposed to the power of light.
"Satan" originally means "adversary" in Hebrew, and is also mentioned in certain religious texts.
There is a theory that Satan is the fallen angel Lucifer.
For in the Old Testament there is a description of Satan as follows:
"Son of man, write a lament for the king of Tyre, saying, Thus saith the Sovereign LORD: Thou art all prepared, and thou art full of wisdom, and thou art all beautiful."
"Thou hast worn all kinds of precious stones in the garden of the God of Eden: rubies, rubelles, diamonds, azurasses, agate, jasper,
Sapphires, emeralds, rubies, and gold. ”
"And there are beautiful trumpets and flutes with thee, all prepared in the day of thy creation."
"Thou art the cherubim who was anointed to cover the ark of the covenant; I have placed you on the holy mountain of God; You go back and forth among the gems that glow like fire. ”
"All that you have done from the day of creation is perfect, and later you have found unrighteousness in your midst."
"Because you trade so much, you have been filled with violence and violence, that you have sinned: therefore I have banished you from the mountain of God because of your desecration of the holy place."
"Thou hast haughtt in heart because of beauty, and thy wisdom haught because of thy glory: I have cast thee to the ground, and hast fallen thee before kings, that they may see thee."
"Because of your iniquity and the injustice of your trade, you have desecrated your sanctuary there. Therefore I send fire out of thee and devour thee. ”
"That you may be turned ashes to the ground in the sight of all who watch."
If we look at this part of the Bible, there is indeed an overlap between the identities of Satan and Lucifer.
However, there are still a few big problems, first of all, let's establish a few basic concepts:
(1) "Satan", in Hebrew, is the enemy and the shining messenger of poison...... etc.
(2) The name "Satan" is used in the Tanakh and Old Testament of Judaism, and in the New Testament it becomes a code name.
(3) The word "Satan" means "the worst" and is a noun incarnated by adjectives.
Satan the Devil is a popular misconception, with Christianity and so on deliberately misleading.
Jian Yi remembers his original image in the Tanakh Sutra, which is closer to an angel who tests the faith of mankind.
He was instructed by God to bring calamity and temptation to the world. The demons of Hell will lead humanity into sin and bring those who commit to Hell into it.
He also has the dual image of "seductre" and "informer", and is not only responsible for seducing human beings who are not firm in their beliefs. At the end of the world, he will denounce the sins of mankind to God.
However, after the rise of Christianity, his image began to be replaced by Lucifer, and the actions that originally belonged to him became Lucifer's actions.
THE NAME "SATAN" HAS ALSO CHANGED FROM REFERRING SPECIFICALLY TO SATAN HIMSELF TO A CODE NAME.
Moreover, according to the New Testament and later Christianity-related literature, there are almost four people who are generally referred to as "Satan":
1. "Morning Star" Lucifer
2. "Ancient Serpent" Samael
3. The Six Kings of Hell
4. Satan leaves
So who is Samael? Some people may ask this question, Jian Yi has also wondered about this question before. At the same time, isn't the "ancient serpent" also Lucifer? The answer is no.
Everyone knows that there is a very important timeline in heaven – that is, there have been two similar rebellions in heaven.
The first time was when God created the world, when Adam and Eve were born in the Garden of Eden. The second time is before the birth of Jesus, the Son of God, in heaven, about the zero year of the modern "AD".
Satan, the fallen king. Although some of his deeds coincide with Lucifer's in the Bible, they do not explicitly mention Satan as Lucifer.
The Bible says that Satan was originally the archangel of the highest among the angels, who later led a rebellion against one-third of the angels in the heavenly realm, and was finally defeated and thrown into the bottomless pit of eternal calamity, Abyss.
All the other angels who followed him were transformed into ugly figures. It is said that only Lucifer still retains the six-winged image of the angel's radiance, but there is no clear mention in the Bible that Satan is Lucifer.
In Revelation 12, Satan's war with the heavenly realm is recounted, but the name Lucifer is not mentioned.
Most of the later disputes and confusions are related to later generations of literary creators, such as "Paradise Lost".
However, people who only know the surface of angelology, such as Jian Yi before, were misunderstood by later literary creations, thinking that Lucifer was Satan, that he bewitched Eve, that he was called the "ancient serpent", that he did not surrender to Jesus, and that it was he who took away one-third of the angels in heaven.
But don't you think it's strange? A big question arises, Lucifer rebelled twice, and at a completely different point in time? Just thinking about it feels a little unlikely.
Samael, the first rebellious angel, is said to be the archangel Sammael at the beginning of God's creation of the world;
There are also rumors in the Chronicle that he was a shining messenger with twelve wings, but it is not known whether Samael actually possessed twelve wings.
He is an angel who has been "forbidden" by heaven, and all information is also blocked at the same time, leaving it for future generations to peel off and speculate.
It was Samael who refused to bow down before Adam and said:
"Why do you want me, an angel born of holy fire, to bow down to a body made of dust and sand?" Rebellious words?
Was Samael robbed of his name and became the forbidden angel who called only the Serpent? Did Samael sneak into the Garden of Eden in the form of a serpent and bewitch Eve?
Is Samael rebuked as the worst of satans?
It is impossible to know any of this, after all, Samael has not been seen since then.
And the second rebellious angel is the well-known Lucifer, so more than 2,000 years ago, on the eve of Jesus' birth, he refused to bow down to Lucifer of Jesus.
Was it Lucifer who started the famous Angel War? Did Lucifer take away a third of the angels in heaven?
Was it Lucifer who was knocked down from hell, a symbol of the "prison of angels"?
Was "Lucifer" taken the name of the Morning Star by Jesus? But even in ********, Lucifer still had the name of the "wise man".
Was Lucifer "Satan" or not, and was it Samael or Lucifer who was called "Satan"?
What about the Six Kings of Hell? Some people believe that the name of Satan does not refer to any one person, but to six people who rule together in Hell, including Lucifer.
Satan is a symbol of hellish authority, and each of these six people can be called Satan.
Although this view of friends is better than the general mistaken belief that Lucifer is Satan, it is also derived from the misconception that Lucifer was the greatest rebel, and also forgets that the ancient serpent Samael was the first rebellious angel.
And the Satan leaf is probably the biggest misunderstanding and the biggest joke of all time. Let's look at all the names of the archangels, most of them end with the sound of "-iel", which symbolizes the chief heavenly monarch under the absolute light.
Lucifiel lost his name after being beaten, and the "-iel" sound was taken away and became Lucifer.
So, before "Satan" is knocked down, shouldn't this end note be added back? Satan+-iel(-il) = Sataniel or Satanil Satanic Leaf.
The myth of "Helal" sonof "Shahar" ("Dawn") in the area of Palestine has the following passage. “Isaiah14:12Howartthoufallenfromheaven,OLucifer,sonofthemorning!howartthoucutdowntotheground,whichdidstweakenthenations!”
It is this passage that makes the identities of Satan and Lucifer even more ambiguous. But in fact this passage is used to rebuke the Politically (King of Babylon). So much so that when Milton wrote Paradise Lost, it was natural to use Lucifer. Again, a large part of Paradise Lost is Milton's own literary creation, and cannot be regarded as a "commentary" of the Bible.
Today's popular "demonology" is the product of confusing the two, but there is really no basis for arguments.
Isaiah chapter 14 reads:
"O bright star, son of the morning, why hast thou fallen from heaven, and thou that conquered the nations, hath thou cut down to the earth?"
"Thou hast said in thy heart, I will ascend to heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit on the mountain where I meet, in the uttermost part of the north, I will ascend above the clouds, and I will be equal to the Most High. But thou shalt go down into hell, to the deepest part of the pit. ”
Lucifer was named "Lucifiel" when he was Seraphim. In the Christian tradition, Lucifer was allowed to accompany the right hand of God and was a trusted angel. He is dazzling, has the beauty and courage to surpass the angels around him, and has six pairs of wings.
I once saw another theory in the "Bible Interpretation" written by an American: the reason why Lucihua became a fallen angel was not that he tried to be stronger than God, but that God was afraid that he was stronger than himself; So send him to hell to prevent future troubles! ……
Dante's "Divine Comedy" and Milton's "Paradise Lost" both say that Lucifer led one-third of the angels of the heavens to raise a flag of rebellion in the north of the heavenly realm because he refused to surrender to His Son Christ.
After three more days of celestial warfare, Lucifer's rebels were finally routed by Christ, and fell in the chaos for nine mornings and dusks before falling to hell.
After God created the new world and human beings, Lucifer took revenge and seized the new world, so he turned into a serpent and infiltrated the Garden of Eden, lured Eve to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree of knowledge, and then used her to tempt Adam to also commit this sin of disobedience.
So Lucifer did so that God's new creatures fell together, and opened the door to this new world for the demon gods, and since then sin, sickness, and death have finally spread all over the earth.
But these are clearly Lucifer's names, which are rationalized by the ambiguous narrative of Satan in the Bible.
In addition, Jian Yi remembered that Lucifer had another identity. It was the god of ancient Rome, in the form of a god with a torch. The first name to make Lucifer the name before the Devil Falls, is said to be the early godfather before the Middle Ages.
This usage is so common that when Milton wrote Paradise Lost, it was natural to use Lucifer. The real "dawn star" Lucifer should be a derivative of Middle Eastern folk mythology.
There are similar legends in Canaan, Egypt, and Persia. The Canaanites believed that the dawn star was called Shalem, and the twilight star was called Shahem, because they were jealous of the sun god, who was far more glorious than the sun.
Shahem rebelled, which ended in a crushing defeat and was thrown from the sky. Rather outrageous legends.
So, in the final analysis, Satan is certainly not Lucifer, and as for who is the real Satan, it is estimated that maybe if you have the opportunity in the future, you can go to heaven and ask Jehovah his old man.
Well, but only if you can get to heaven, and even if you do go to heaven, will Jehovah communicate these things with such an unknown little person?
However, although the true identity of Satan has not been clarified, some of Satan's habits are still certain after all.
The Bible mentions that he had three main qualities.
The first type of Satan is wise, he has a plan; His deeds are full of deceit.
Satan's deceitful deeds prove that he is capable of thinking and making a series of plans; It is possible to deceive people.
His familiarity with the Bible revealed his wisdom.
The second type of Satan is emotional, and he wants to elevate himself above God's rule, which proves that he has desires.
Satan seduces the new believers with trickery; He was exceedingly angry when he knew that his days on earth were numbered.
The third type of Satan also has a will, because he tries to tempt Christ to sin. Satan's desire to resemble God is a reflection of his will.
In addition, Satan has a manifest personality behavior, and Satan speaks, tempts Christ, and sets schemes. and accuse believers.
In addition to this, Satan is also deceitful, and he is determined to defeat the Christians. His schemes and his hostility to believers were strong.
Satan is depicted as a lion, parading around in search of someone to devour. He kept accusing Christians. He devised a plan to cause the apostles to fall.
All of these qualities show that Satan is a person.
Satan's original condition: Ezekiel 28:12-15 describes the state before the Fall. He has a high standing before God; The good things of heaven surround him.
He was called "the anointed one who covered the ark of the covenant," and he had the highest honor before God.
Isaiah mentions that he is the supreme angel called "the bright star and the son of the morning."
But when he became God's greatest enemy, he no longer had these honorable titles. But Satan before the Fall was full of wisdom and beauty, and he was without blemish.
Satan ultimately fell into the fall of Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14, both of which describe Satan's fall.
Because of the sins he committed, Satan was cast out of God's face. The cause of Satan's fall is pride; He was exalted in his heart because of his beauty, and he was corrupted by his wisdom. (To be continued.) )