what is the difference between satan and lucifer? how did he fall from heaven?
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Satan is a proper Hebrew word that means "adversary", and does not refer specifically to "the devil".  This is why it makes sense when Jesus refers to Peter as "you satan".\n\nLucifer refers to Venus and literally means "shining star".  It is a specific reference to Nebuchadnezzar, who was known by that moniker in his day.  It is not a reference to "the devil".  \n\nYou will not find the word "devil" anywhere in the Old Testament.
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Satan, the "Boss Fallen Angel",  is the prince of this world.  "This world" being the one in which we now live and breathe.  Therefore, to divide and conquer in this realm is irrelevant.  Satan's won.  This realm, however is but a fleeting moment.  The body that we now all exist in is also a fleeting effigy, a quite temporary outward housing for our eternal TRUE being.  Our soul goes on forever; that's who we truly are, not the physical mass that is our body.  That's why cancer, AIDS, murder, etc. can't destroy us.  Our bodies, our physical presences, are of clay.  Our spirits, our true beings, are of timeless substance.  I got precious little space, so her it is:  Accept the forgiveness won for us ALL by Christ on Calvary.  Acknowledge God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as your only hope from damnation.  Go out and live it, tell the story.  It didn't come cheap, but it's free.
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When God created Lucifer, the most beautiful angel, He created him and all the angels with free will (just like we all have). Lucifer wanted to be God, and he wanted to sit on God's throne and rule. He began to get other angels to follow him, and work at his will. God kept warning them against doing this, but they would not listen. They rebelled against God, so He kicked them out of Heaven. \n\nThese angels are so powerful that one of them can kill 185,000 men. That is a big ration of power that they have over people. But, they could only do this if God so allows. \n\nIf they, being so powerful, cannot take over God. Then you can NOT either. \n\nYou must repent of these blasphemous thoughts. Accept Jesus as the Son of God, and ask Him to be your Lord and Savior. He loves you very much, and He is waiting for you to love Him. You have nothing to lose for doing it, but you have an eternity in the kingdom of Jesus to gain, if you accept.
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Satan was kicked out of heaven and came down here on earth. \n\n2Cor. 4:3,4 says that he is the god of this system of things\nnotice it has a little g meaning it is not talking about the Almighty God\n\nJohn 12:31 says he is the ruler of the world. \n\nI mean if this world is bad because of satan not God.\n\nIf God were the ruler of this world then it wouldn't be the way it is now.
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Yes, it is. Lucifer is in an active state of hostilities against the entire world. I wouldn't call it a war, simply because God beat the snot out of him when Jesus died on the Cross. Lucifer can never win against God, because God knew before He created the universe that His creation would rebell against Him, so He decided to make Angels and Man much less powerful than He is. The only way Lucifer can win in your life is if you let him. But be wary of the consequences: an eternity in Hell, completely devoid of any and all hope and peace. The only things there are pain, suffering, regrets, and an extremely unquenchable thirst. Choose wisely, for you never know what tomorrow may bring.
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No, this is not a stupid question ... I wrestled with it for years.\n\nGod is love ... God gave Jesus ... Jesus is God ... Jesus forgives ...  God is the Holy Spirit ... Together they work for PURE LOVE.  Heaven is love ... Love is God ...\n\nLucifer is the absence of God ... Lucifer is the absence of love ... Lucifer is the absence of forgivness ... Lucifer is in hell ... hell simply is away from God.\n\nI would choose love and forgivness above all else!!!
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Wow, no offense but Satans got you right where he wants you. Satan is the father of lies, the prince of darkness, he's ready to kill and devour anything God will let him. Hell was created by God for the devil and his angels, not for people. Unfortunately some people end up there because they refuse God's forgiveness. Satans going to try and make himself appear harmless and when you least expect it he'll crush you and destroy your life. And half the time you won't even know it was him! He's that clever. Pray to Almighty God that Satan will not annihilate you.
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Jesus is our older spirit brother(we believe that everyone, with out exceptions, are sons and daughters of God)(good example of Jesus being our older spirit brother can be found in Revelations 3:14 where he says that he is the beginning of the creation of God), Satan(also known as Lucifer or the Son of the Morning) was also a spirit child of God(read Isaiah 14:12-15 also read Luke 10:18) who because of his pride and his own ambitions, sought to over throw the throne of God and take it for himself, causing him and his followers to be cast from heaven. Also, Revelations Chapter 12, thats a great chapter that talks about how 1/3 of the inhabitants of heaven were cast down to the earth with Satan.\n\n\nIn light of a question that was emailed to me, here are some more referances to the scriptures and a question posed at the bottom....\nNum. 16:22,  Ecc. 12:7, Isa. 42:5, Acts 17:29, Heb. 12:9\nThose scriptures talk about how we are spirit children of God. Where did we reside before? Heaven. Who resides in heaven? The spirit children of God. Who got expelled from heaven(according to Revelations 12:4,7-8, Isa. 14:12, Luke 10:18)? Satan(Lucifer). How was Lucifer created and how did he get into heaven(I dont think you can "pull the wool" over God's eyes and trick Him into letting something evil reside in heaven. Something could start good and then go bad....getting expelled.....)\nOh, also, as read in Rev. 3:14, it talks about the great Amen(Jesus Christ) being the First(hence, Jesus is our spiritual older brother)of the creations of God(why would the bible talk about the great Amen and then in the same sentance say that the Amen is the first creation of God if they are both the same person). LDS doctrine believes that God created ALL the spirits, Including Jesus and Lucifer and yours and mine and everyone elses, they also believe that Jesus helped God create the universe(not the spirits, that was God's job).
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Satan is very subtle.  He doesn't even want people to believe he exists.  Anything that causes people to doubt God and Jesus' divinity certainly helps Satan.  The world is a spiritual battleground, and most people aren't even aware of it.
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Lucifer...Satan...Devil... \n\nThey all mean the same thing.
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Lucifer-erroneously equated with the fallen angel Satan due to a misreading of Isaiah 14:12: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning," an apostrophe which applied to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. It should be pointed out that the authors of the books of the OT knew nothing go fallen or evil angels.  The name Lucifer was applied to Satan by St. Jerome and other church fathers. Lucifer connotes star, and applies (or originally mean  to apply to) the morning or evening star-Venus.
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Satan Cast Out of Heaven\n\nIn the early part of our century, there was a war in heaven. The Bible book of Revelation describes what happened: “And war broke out in heaven: Michael  and his [good] angels battled with the dragon [Satan], and the dragon and its [bad] angels battled but it did not prevail, neither was a place found for them any longer in heaven. So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his [bad] angels were hurled down with him.”\n\nWhat was the result? The account continues: “On this account be glad, you heavens and you who reside in them!” The good angels could be glad because Satan and the bad angels, or spirits, were no longer in heaven. But what about people on earth? The Bible says: “Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing he has a short period of time.”—Revelation 12:7-9, 12.\n\nYes, Satan and his wicked companions mislead and cause great woe for people on earth. These wicked angels are called demons. They are enemies of God. All of them are evil.
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In modern and late Medieval Christian thought, Lucifer is a fallen angel commonly associated with Satan, the embodiment of evil and enemy of God. Lucifer is generally considered, based on the influence of Christian literature and legend, to have been a prominent archangel in heaven (although some contexts say he was a cherub or a seraph), prior to having been motivated by pride to rebel against God. When the rebellion failed, Lucifer was cast out of heaven, along with a third of the heavenly host, and came to reside on the world.\n\nLucifer is a Latin word meaning "light-bearer" (from lux, "light", and ferre, "to bear, bring"), a Roman astrological term for the "Morning Star", the planet Venus. The word Lucifer was the direct translation of the Greek eosphorus ("dawn-bearer"; cf. Greek phosphorus, "light-bearer") used by Jerome in the Vulgate, having mythologically same meaning as Prometheus which bring the light to the man. In that passage, Isaiah 14:12, it referred to one of the popular honorific titles of a Babylonian king; however, later interpretations of the text, and the influence of embellishments in works such as Dante's The Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost, led to the common idea in Christian mythology and folklore that Lucifer was a poetic appellation of Satan.
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I'm not sure how I'm gonna answer this, but here goes.\nLet's see: God created Lucifer (now known as Satan) as His second in command. Lucifer then saw how much better than all the other angels he was and thought to himself, "If I'm so much better than them, why can't I be better than God himself?" No one knows where this thought came from, seeing how God only makes perfect creations. The only logical place that it could have came from is freedom of choice that God gave them when He created the Angels. This freedom also explains why 1/3 of the Angels chose to follow Lucifer in his rebellion against God. After Lucifer and his demons (fallen angels) were cast out of Heaven, God seperated His angels so far away from Lucifer's that the demons know that they can never get back. Lucifer is free to come and go as he pleases in God's throneroom (as evidenced in the first chapter of Job), but he can never return to what he once was. This fact has angered him so much over the millenia that he's esentially declared war on humanity, God's most prized creation. The first battle in this war was waged on the day of Adam and Eve's temptation and fall away from God when Satan successfully decieved them to eat of the tree that God explicitly said not to eat from. The victory was prophesied not even a day later when the Spirit of the Lord walked through the Garden looking for Adam and Eve to felowship with them as He normally did, only to find them hiding from them, dressed in fig leaves. God asked them why they were ashamed of themselves, and then they went through the whole "it's his/her fault" routine, blaming each other for what one did. When the truth finally did come out (not like God didn't already know), God pronounced consequences on humanity (a series of hardships which can be read in Genesis 3), and cursed the serpent (as this was the creature Satan used to decieve Adam and Eve). The curse on the serpent also held hope for the redemption of Mankind, as it fortold of the defeat of Satan through the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The war was over before it begun! \n\nSo, to answer your question: Yes, Satan invented the concept of sin. He then successfully marketed this concept to himself, his demons, and ultimately to humanity. He even tried to get Jesus to sin, but since Jesus is God in the flesh (and God is perfect), he couldn't do it. Jesus was the only man who ever lived here on earth that lead a perfect life, one completely without sinning.
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God created all things, yes including Satan. He made everything perfect and beautiful. Because He wanted to love and be loved He gave all His creation free will. A beautiful angel Lucifer began to feel pride. He thought that he should be equal to God. Because of this sin that had entered him he was ejected from God's presence and cast onto the earth, he became Satan. Jim
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Ezekiel 28 does not "suggest" lucifer had a kingdom,..but it does tell alot of him and the many roles he plays...and how he will be turned to ASHES.\nThere was NO lucifer kingdom,,,,at all.  During the time(1st AGE) before lucifer got the big head and tried to take Gods mercy seat, WE were ALL souls/stars/children with God.  lucifer took with him 1/3 of Gods stars in his rebellion.  In Gen 1:2, the word "was" translates BECAME....;the earth BECAME void.  God never creates anything void.  Before lucifers fall, I believe we were happy with God(the stars sang in the heavens) and the earth and the universe were ours to explore.  That's also the time when there were dinosaurs on the earth.  When lucifer took those 1/3, it angered God and He SHOOK this earth,...thus the end of the dinos.  IF God had wanted to He could have wiped everything out,..but He loves His children so much He made His plan to make man FLESH.(2nd AGE)  He made the earth habitable for us and made man and woman(Gen 1:27) This was the creation of mankind, the races.  Gen 2:7, this man Adam means ruddy complected, to see blush in the face.  For this particular man God made a woman from the rib,...meaning curve.  Today we call the helix's curve DNA.  Adam said the woman was bone of his bone , flesh of his flesh;..same DNA.....Anyway,..a little more than you ask...and the 3rd AGE is to come.....(ETERNITY)
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Well Satan is throughout the bible,Devil is throughout the bible. Shining one son of the dawn Isaiah 14:12. "the god of this system of things" is in 2 Corinthians 4:3,4\n"the ruler of the world" is in John 12:31