{"id":952,"date":"2012-08-04T07:01:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T07:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2012\/08\/04\/is-lucifer-a-name-that-the-bible-uses-for-satan\/"},"modified":"2012-08-04T07:01:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T07:01:37","slug":"is-lucifer-a-name-that-the-bible-uses-for-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/is-lucifer-a-name-that-the-bible-uses-for-satan\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Lucifer a name that the Bible uses for Satan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The name Lucifer occurs once in the Scriptures and only in some versions of the Bible. For example, the King James Version renders Isaiah 14:12: \u201cHow art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The Hebrew word translated \u201cLucifer\u201d means \u201cshining one.\u201d The Septuagint uses the Greek word that means \u201cbringer of dawn.\u201d Hence, some translations render the original Hebrew \u201cmorning star\u201d or \u201cDaystar.\u201d But Jerome\u2019s Latin Vulgate uses \u201cLucifer\u201d (light bearer), and this accounts for the appearance of that term in various versions of the Bible.<\/div>\n<p> <!--more--> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Who is this Lucifer? The expression \u201cshining one,\u201d or \u201cLucifer,\u201d is found in what Isaiah prophetically commanded the Israelites to pronounce as a \u201cproverbial saying against the king of Babylon.\u201d Thus, it is part of a saying primarily directed at the Babylonian dynasty. That the description \u201cshining one\u201d is given to a man and not to a spirit creature is further seen by the statement: \u201cDown to Sheol you will be brought.\u201d Sheol is the common grave of mankind\u2014not a place occupied by Satan the Devil. Moreover, those seeing Lucifer brought into this condition ask: \u201cIs this the man that was agitating the earth?\u201d Clearly, \u201cLucifer\u201d refers to a human, not to a spirit creature.\u2014Isaiah 14:4, 15, 16.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Why is such an eminent description given to the Babylonian dynasty? We must realize that the king of Babylon was to be called the shining one only after his fall and in a taunting way. (Isaiah 14:3) Selfish pride prompted Babylon\u2019s kings to elevate themselves above those around them. So great was the arrogance of the dynasty that it is portrayed as bragging: \u201cTo the heavens I shall go up. Above the stars of God I shall lift up my throne, and I shall sit down upon the mountain of meeting, in the remotest parts of the north. . . . I shall make myself resemble the Most High.\u201d\u2014Isaiah 14:13, 14.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThe stars of God\u201d are the kings of the royal line of David. (Numbers 24:17) From David onward, these \u201cstars\u201d ruled from Mount Zion. After Solomon built the temple in Jerusalem, the name Zion came to apply to the whole city. Under the Law covenant, all male Israelites were obliged to travel to Zion three times a year. Thus, it became \u201cthe mountain of meeting.\u201d By determining to subjugate the Judean kings and then remove them from that mountain, Nebuchadnezzar is declaring his intention to put himself above those \u201cstars.\u201d Instead of giving Jehovah credit for the victory over them, he arrogantly puts himself in Jehovah\u2019s place. So it is after being cut down to the earth that the Babylonian dynasty is mockingly referred to as the \u201cshining one.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The pride of the Babylonian rulers indeed reflected the attitude of \u201cthe god of this system of things\u201d\u2014Satan the Devil. (2 Corinthians 4:4) He too lusts for power and longs to place himself above Jehovah God. But Lucifer is not a name Scripturally given to Satan.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name Lucifer occurs once in the Scriptures and only in some versions of the Bible. 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