{Lucifer (1)}[14th March 1988]

[Redbook5:61-62][19880314:1600]{Lucifer (1)}[14th March 1988]

19880314.1600

It is unfortunate that the New Agers chose Lucifer as their guiding light. However, it does reveal an inconsistency in the Fundamentalists' approach, which is unsurprisingly highly condemnatory of the emphasis on Lucifer. Fundamentalists' general case is based explicitly on Scripture: but Lucifer occurs only once in the Bible,* according to the Encylopaedia Biblica, with reference to the hubris of the King of Babylon, ** and is now generally translated (e.g.) 'Daystar' (NJB)*** or 'Bright Morning Star' (GNB)****. The attribution to Satan's fall from Heaven was apparently by St. Jerome# and the Early Church Fathers.#* Compare: 'Arise Oh Morning Star! Arise, and never set'.#**

*(Isaiah 14.12-15)

['12 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! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. (Authorised / King James Version)']

**cp. Ezek[iel].28:11-19. <880812>

['11 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14 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. 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. 16 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. 17 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. 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; 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. 19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more. (Authorised / King James Version)']

***[New Jerusalem Bible]

['12 How did you come to fall from the heavens, Daystar, son of Dawn? How did you come to be thrown to the ground, conqueror of nations? 13 You who used to think to yourself: I shall scale the heavens; higher than the stars of God I shall set my throne. I shall sit on the Mount of Assembly far away to the north. 14 I shall climb high above the clouds, I shall rival the Most High." 15 Now you have been flung down to Sheol, into the depths of the abyss!']

****[Good News Bible]

['12 King of Babylon, bright morning star, you have fallen from heaven! In the past you conquered nations, but now you have been thrown to the ground. 13 You were determined to climb up to heaven and to place your throne above the highest stars. You thought you would sit like a king on that mountain in the north where the gods assemble. 14 You said you would climb to the tops of the clouds and be like the Almighty. 15 But instead, you have been brought down to the deepest part of the world of the dead. (Good News Translation)']

#[Jerome (/dʒəˈroʊm/; Latin: Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; Greek: Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; c. 27 March 347 – 30 September 420) was a priest, confessor, theologian, and historian. He was born at Stridon, a village near Emona on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia.[2][3][4] He is best known for his translation of most of the Bible into Latin (the translation that became known as the Vulgate), and his commentaries on the Gospels. (Wikipaedia)]

#*[The Church Fathers, Early Church Fathers, Christian Fathers, or Fathers of the Church are ancient and generally influential Christian theologians, some of whom were eminent teachers and great bishops. The term is used of writers or teachers of the Church not necessarily ordained and not necessarily "saints"—Origen Adamantius and Tertullian are often considered Church Fathers, but are not saints, owing to their views later being deemed heretical. Most Church Fathers are honored as saints in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Church of the East, Anglicanism and Lutheranism, as well as other churches and groups. The era of these scholars who set the theological and scholarly foundations of Christianity largely ended by 700 AD. (Wikipaedia)]

#**[1 Thy kingdom come, O God,

Thy reign, O Christ, begin;

Break with Thine iron rod

The tyrannies of sin.

2 Where is Thy rule of peace

And purity, and love?

When shall all hatred cease,

As in the realms above?

3 When comes the promised time

That war shall be no more,

Oppression, lust, and crime

Shall flee Thy face before?

4 We pray Thee, Lord, arise,

And come in Thy great might;

Revive our longing eyes,

Which languish for Thy sight.

5 Men scorn Thy sacred name,

And wolves devour Thy fold;

By many deeds of shame

We learn that love grows cold.

6 O'er heathen lands afar

Thick darkness broodeth yet:

Arise, O morning Star,

Arise, and never set.

(Hensley, Lewis, 1824-1905)]

{cp. Also 2 Peter [1.]19: '…until the dawn comes and the morning star arises in your minds'. (NJB)}

[So we have confirmation of the words of the prophets; and you will be right to pay attention to it as to a lamp for lighting a way through the dark, until the dawn comes and the morning star rises in your minds.]

[19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: (Authorised / King James Version)]

[cf. [Redbook4:137][19871019:0925h]{Angelic Hierarchies [continued (11): Note on Cherubim]}[19th October 1987].]

[& see [Redbook5:83-84][19880317:2250{Lucifer (2)}[17th March 1988].]

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