Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The lack of fear of God hinders wisdom, but he who fears the Lord, He takes pleasure in revealing His word. Job 32:1 "Then those three men ceased answering Job:
Because he was righteous in his own eyes". Despite Job's humiliation, in his suffering he did not deny his Lord, yet many times we are not revealed regarding the word of the Lord due to lack of humility, because the Lord is always ready to reveal His secrets to us. Religious Organizations (sects) are bound to the false teaching that the devil came from heaven, this teaching is from Babylon, it has cast so many false teachings, which the people called evangelical have embraced with all their heart. These religious sects teach that the devil came from heaven, that he was an angel of light, that he was regent of the choir in heaven, and so on.
We find no biblical basis for such teachings, we find instead in the Word of God that the devil was always a murderer (John 8:44).
Based on Ezekiel ch. 18, the sects think that the king of Tyre refers to the devil and that he was cast out of heaven because of his pride. In Ezekiel 28:2 we read: ... "I am God, I sit on the seat of God in the midst of the seas (though you are a man and not God).... "In verse 3 it says: "Behold, you are wiser than Daniel: ....."
In the first place: The devil was never wiser than Daniel, proof of this is that King Belshazzar called the astrologers, the Chaldeans and the diviners to interpret the writing on the plastered wall of the royal palace (Daniel 5:1 to 3). I ask: If the devil came from heaven, if the devil was wiser than Daniel, why did they not know the language of heaven or its interpretation?
In the second place: The devil has no beauty he is considered as the ancient serpent - the great dragon!.. .
In the third place: In his pride he will sit in the seat of God... (in his pride) and verse 2 says: You are a man and not God
In the fourth place: The text of Ezekiel 28 does not refer to the devil.
In the fifth place; In vs. 19 we read: "All who knew you among the peoples are appalled at you; you became a terror, and you shall be no more forever". Is the devil not? Does he no longer exist? It happens that this chapter refers to Adam and not to the devil. Adam, in his pride, said he was God and wanted to sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas. Note well: ... but you are a man, and not God,...The devil was never a man, there is the confusion: the religious ones say he was an angel, in Ezekiel it speaks of someone who was a man, and then?...
Ezekiel 28:8 "They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die the death of the slain in the midst of the seas. How will the devil die the death of the slain if he is spirit? Jesus predicts that Judas will betray him: And after the morsel, Satan entered into him. (John 13:27). This proves to us that the devil is spirit, enters and exits a body.
Ezekiel 28: 9 and 10 "You will say still before him who kills you: I am God? 'but you are a man, and not God, in the hand of him who pierces you. You will die the death of the uncircumcised .... Still:
..You were in Eden, the garden of God;...You were a cherub anointed to protect,..."
Adam was in Eden, the garden of God, he was a man wiser than Daniel, the wisest man in the world, was an anointed cherub, but he allowed himself to be elevated by evil (Ez. 28:6). He commercialized the entire human race; (that is why Paul exclaimed:
Wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from the death of this body?).
Ezekiel 28: 19 "....and you will be no more forever" Well, has the devil already been destroyed forever? No. If he had been destroyed, humanity would no longer be tempted. Isaiah 14; 12, 13 "How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn !."If these verses referred to the devil, how could he say: "And you fell from heaven", and: "I will ascend to heaven, above the stars of God..."How is this understood? Isaiah speaks of Adam and not of Satan. Adam was the first morning star, as through one man (first Adam) sin entered the world, through one man (second Adam), Jesus Christ, salvation entered.
Jesus is the resplendent morning star (Rev. 22:16). and the star of the dawn.
Isaiah 14:16 "... and they will say: Is this the man who made the earth tremble, and made the kingdoms shake? Well, the text says man, Satan was never a man. In John 8:44 Jesus speaks to the Jews that they had the devil as their father: "...and you want to satisfy the desires of your father: he was a murderer from the beginning, and did not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him; when he speaks a lie, he speaks what is his own, because he is a liar, and the father of lies".
The word "LUCIFER" means light-bearer, that has light. The biblical dictionary of John D. Davis, p. 366, in addition to this meaning informs us that the application of this name (title) to Satan has been made since the 3rd century, especially among poets, because of erroneous interpretation. (Luke 10:18 and Isaiah 14:12).
II Peter 2:4 "'For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, reserved for judgment; "- The angels here mean those who are called by God, and furthermore, Adam was considered an anointed cherub.
Jude v. 6 Refers to the angels. Job 4:18 Speaks of beings and angels. Rev. 1:20 "The mystery of the seven stars which you saw are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches".
a) . WHERE DID THE DEVIL COME FROM? WHO CREATED HIM? AND WHY?
God created the devil. Isaiah 54:16 "Behold, I have created the smith who blows the coals in the fire, and who produces a tool for his work; I have also created the destroyer to destroy".
The reader will ask: Why was such an evil being created? Simply he was created for the perfection of the saints; he was created to be in service to God. How is it in service to God? we only know if we are freed from our vices, from vanity, from prostitution, from iniquity, when we are tempted, or tested by the devil. The devil proves our faith and our faith proves to us that we are converted to Jesus and are freed from all evils.
God created the wicked for the day of evil (Prov. 16: 4), but also vessels for honor and vessels for dishonor. The apostle Paul asks a question: "Is there injustice on God's part'? By no means, His voice has been heard everywhere"
Part of the book:
WHAT IS A WORK IN RESTORATION ?
Author: Pastor Samuel Alves de Arruda
Maanaim Publishing House – 1995 – 1st ed.