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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]! |
Bible Question:
What about Luke 10:18? And He said to them, "I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning. . ." Do you understand this reference Jesus makes? It is in the NT. |
Bible Answer: Looks like Luke 10:14,15 is the answer to your question: 14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you. 15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell. The power of casting out devils was bestowed by Christ while on earth upon the apostles, Matt. 10:8, and the seventy disciples, Luke 10:17-19, It is referenced by: Mark 5:8 Acts 19:13 and Matt 12:27,28 8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. Demoniacs. This word is frequently used in the New Testament, and applied to persons suffering under the possession of a demon or evil spirit, such possession generally showing itself visibly in bodily disease or mental derangement.We are led, therefore, to the ordinary and literal interpretation of these passages, that there are evil spirits, who, in the days of the Lord himself and his apostles especially, were permitted by God to exercise a direct influence over the souls and bodies of certain men. The good Samaritan, Luke 10, etc. 3. Toward the close of our Lord’s ministry the parables are again theocratic, but the phase of the divine kingdom on which they chiefly dwell is that of its final consummation. In interpreting parables note—(1) The analogies must be real, not arbitrary; (2) The parables are to be considered as parts of a whole, and the interpretation of one is not to override or encroach upon the lessons taught by others; (3) The direct teaching of Christ presents the standard to which all our interpretations are to be referred, and by which they are to be measured. William Smith; revised and edited by F.N. and M.A. Peloubet, Smith’s Bible dictionary , electronic ed., Logos Library System, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson) 1997. The King James Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769. |