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NASB | Isaiah 14:12 "How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, You who have weakened the nations! |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Isaiah 14:12 "How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning [light-bringer], son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, You who have weakened the nations [king of Babylon]! |
Subject: lucifer |
Bible Note: Excellent question, Norrie! Here are some verses dealing with the creation of the angels: Genesis 2:1, Nehemiah 9:6 and Colossians 1:16.. Genesis 2:1 "Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts." Angels are immortal (Luke 20:36), elect (1 Tim. 5:21), and interested in earthly affairs (Matt. 24:36; Luke 9:31; 15:7,10; 1 Peter 1:12). God created heaven on the second day (Gen. 1:8), so angels could have been created and active from this point forward. We do know that Satan was directly responsible for the temptation of man, which resulted in the fall of man (Genesis 3). So the fall of Satan himself (and his angels) had to happen at an earlier point (before the fall of man), or at the latest, this point (the fall of man). It is quite possible that the fall of man coincided with the fall of Satan, since Ezekiel 28:13 (which has long been thought to describe the fall of Satan as well as the fall of the King of Tyre) mentions that he was in Eden, the garden of God. But of course, the Bible does not exactly state this in the way that we would find sufficient to quell all speculation surrounding this subject.. Also, we do not know (nor ever will know) the exact amount of time that Adam and Eve spent with God before the fall of humanity occurred. Therefore, the fall of Satan and his angels (Rev. 12) could have happened at any point before the fall of man, and it possibly could have happened even during the occurrence of the fall of man, actually coinciding with the fall of humanity. I hope that you have found this to be a sensible answer! :-) Blessings to you, Nolan |