The archangel Lucifer originated evil in the universe. We must go back to the beginning of this “movie” to understand events taking place today. Lucifer’s rebellion drastically changed the course of God’s master plan.
God sent Lucifer and a third of the angels (Revelation 12:4) to Earth to rule and to finish its creation. They failed because they hadn’t developed the character to properly administer God’s government. They proved that God couldn’t trust the angels to govern the Earth and later the universe, so God decided to re-create Himself in man! Only God Himself—including His spirit-born sons—is capable of completing such a massive mission.
Lucifer, whose name meant “light bringer,” rebelled and became Satan, meaning “adversary.” His decision permanently damaged the angels under his authority: “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day” (Jude 6). Satan led the angels astray. They have lost their universe-ruling potential! They are just “wandering stars” (verse 13), like planets out of orbit—all because they rejected God’s government. Everything fails when God’s government isn’t implemented.
The archangel Lucifer originated evil in the universe. We must go back to the beginning of this “movie” to understand events taking place today. Lucifer’s rebellion drastically changed the course of God’s master plan.
God sent Lucifer and a third of the angels (Revelation 12:4) to Earth to rule and to finish its creation. They failed because they hadn’t developed the character to properly administer God’s government. They proved that God couldn’t trust the angels to govern the Earth and later the universe, so God decided to re-create Himself in man! Only God Himself—including His spirit-born sons—is capable of completing such a massive mission.
Lucifer, whose name meant “light bringer,” rebelled and became Satan, meaning “adversary.” His decision permanently damaged the angels under his authority: “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day” (Jude 6). Satan led the angels astray. They have lost their universe-ruling potential! They are just “wandering stars” (verse 13), like planets out of orbit—all because they rejected God’s government. Everything fails when God’s government isn’t implemented.
The archangel Lucifer originated evil in the universe. We must go back to the beginning of this “movie” to understand events taking place today. Lucifer’s rebellion drastically changed the course of God’s master plan.
God sent Lucifer and a third of the angels (Revelation 12:4) to Earth to rule and to finish its creation. They failed because they hadn’t developed the character to properly administer God’s government. They proved that God couldn’t trust the angels to govern the Earth and later the universe, so God decided to re-create Himself in man! Only God Himself—including His spirit-born sons—is capable of completing such a massive mission.
Lucifer, whose name meant “light bringer,” rebelled and became Satan, meaning “adversary.” His decision permanently damaged the angels under his authority: “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day” (Jude 6). Satan led the angels astray. They have lost their universe-ruling potential! They are just “wandering stars” (verse 13), like planets out of orbit—all because they rejected God’s government. Everything fails when God’s government isn’t implemented.
