the dragons tail. August 18, 2013 at 10:54am THE DRAGON’S TAIL “And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth…” (Rev. 12:4). Some people who have never learned the nature of symbolic language try to imagine such a literal scene as the one here described and picture in their minds what an awful thing it would be to see the third part of the stars falling to the earth. But real stars that are fixed... or planetary never fall, and if they did, it would only take one to completely obliterate this planet and the rest of the “third” would have no earth to fall upon! But with a knowledge of the spiritual meaning of the symbols we can easily identify the “tail” of this dragon and the “stars” that are cast down. The idea propagated by the church systems is that our text is a reference to the fall of Lucifer from heaven along with one-third of the heavenly angels. The popular story asserts that away back before the worlds began some angels, one-third of the angels in heaven, in fact, led by the archangel Lucifer, rebelled against God and were cast out of heaven, whereupon the little vandals took over planet earth. God then created man in His image and likeness to show forth His love and righteousness to creation, but made the mistake of putting man on the same planet where the little devils were ruling. Soon Satan and his juvenile delinquents from heaven pulled a fast one on the man God had created and tricked him to fall under the power of sin and death. And that was Satan’s way of getting back at God for kicking him out of heaven! He paid God back by bringing ruin, chaos, and darkness upon the beautiful creation of earth and mankind. So God had to scramble around and quickly develop Plan B, and with this plan God was regrouping and devising a means by which to regain control back from the devil. Under this plan God sent Jesus into the world to regain control of the earth and mankind. But after two thousand years even this plan has not worked out too well, for the vast majority of the human race is still held in the clutches of the enemy. These thoughts are hidden in the teachings of the preachers and I do not hesitate to tell you they are error for they make a mockery of the wisdom, sovereignty, and omnipotence of God, making it appear that He is a fumbling, blundering old man who doesn’t know what in the world He’s doing! If we were making a law in reference to biblical interpretation surely a good one would be: “Thou shalt not establish doctrine on a word or phrase that occurs in only one passage in the Bible.” The popular doctrine of Lucifer is established on a word that occurs in the King James Version in Isaiah 14:2 and nowhere else. “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations.” How anybody, in their right spiritual mind, can take out of Isaiah chapter fourteen the concept that this refers to Satan is certainly possessed of an extraordinarily wild imagination. There is just no way one can read these verses, even with the greatest stretch of inventiveness or theological license, and derive from them that the prophet Isaiah is speaking of a so-called fallen angel named Lucifer. First of all there is no mention at all of angels, much less one-third of the angels, or an archangel. Then the prophet states plainly that the term “Lucifer” prophetically refers to a man! “Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. And they that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the MAN that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that openeth not the house of his prisoners?” (Isa. 14:15-17). The entire chapter is addressed to the king of Babylon. “Thou shalt take up this taunting parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the (tyrant) rulers, who smote the peoples in anger with incessant blows and trod down the nations in wrath with unrelenting persecution — until he who smote is persecuted and no one hinders anymore” (Isa. 14:4-6, KJV & Amplified). The whole section of the chapter about Lucifer follows these verses. Now look at what these verses say, along with the ones in the paragraph above, and you see exactly what the tyrannical king of Babylon did to all the nations he had conquered! And now God is revealing his judgment in highly symbolical and parabolic language. There is nothing in this chapter about the devil, my friend, it is all a taunting parable about the ancient king of Babylon! The fact is, furthermore, there is no name Lucifer. Lucifer is not a proper name. It is a term that the Catholic translator, Jerome, installed instead of the Hebrew word heylel which means “shining one.” Shining one is not a proper name in Hebrew any more than it is in English or any other language. It’s not a name! It’s not the name of an angel. It’s not even the name of the king of Babylon. The Hebrew word is a descriptive term, but its not the name of anything. “Lucifer” is a contrived, invented, concocted, fabricated, made-up so-called name. But it’s not a name! There is no creature in heaven above, in the earth beneath, or under the earth that bears that name. Gabriel — that’s a name. Michael — that’s a name. Lucifer — not a name. You only find it once in the whole Bible. If you look in the original Hebrew text you will never find Lucifer. If you look in the Hebrew dictionary you will not find Lucifer. There is no Hebrew word nor any Hebrew name Lucifer. It’s made up! It is the Hebrew term for “shining one,” and it’s not a name. It was brought over into English from the Latin and transliterated as a name. The “name” Lucifer has been given to us by religious superstition, folklore, myth, and fairy tales! Orthodoxy has long taught that Lucifer was, in the beginning, a high and beautiful archangel in heaven. The theologians and preachers recite over and over how Lucifer was “the anointed cherub that covereth…the most beautiful and wise of all God’s creation!” This being was, so they say, the ruler and leader of the angelic beings and apparently led them in their praise of God and shouts of joy…the greatest being God ever created, one who had unequaled strength, wisdom, beauty, privilege, and authority, and was next to God Himself. This blameless, perfect one, named Lucifer, was created without any form of evil and with the greatest intelligence of any created being. Then, we are told, this Lucifer, suddenly realizing how beautiful and intelligent he was, became inflated with power and pride and his heart was lifted up in rebellion against God. According to the story, Lucifer gathered one-third of the heavenly angels to his cause, mustering an army with which he planned to knock God off His throne and supplant himself as king and god of the universe — and there was war in heaven! Luckily, God won, cast Lucifer out of heaven and he became, instead of an holy angel, the devil that he is today. It is nothing short of amazing that such a doctrine could have enjoyed such widespread acceptance in the light of the plain teachings of the scriptures on this subject. Man says that Satan in the beginning was holy, but later fell from that estate. JESUS said of Satan, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer (not an angel) from the BEGINNING, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and the father of it” (Jn. 8:44). This verse states that Satan “abode not” in the truth. In the Greek text the verb “abode not” is in the imperfect tense meaning that as far back as this personality existed HE WAS NOT TRUE. Dr. Robert Young, in his Literal Translation of the Bible, renders this verse: “He was a manslayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him.” The Rotherham version reads: “He was a murderer from the beginning, and in the truth he stood not; because the truth was not in him.” J. B. Phillips gives the plainest and most accurate translation: “He always was a murderer, and hasnever dealt with the truth, since the truth will have nothing to do with him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” Furthermore, there is no mention in the whole Bible of “Lucifer” or “Satan” drawing a third of the angels of heaven into rebellion against God. The only place in all of scripture where “one third” is mentioned as being cast down from heaven to earth is here in our text in the book of Revelation. Here, the great red dragon (not Lucifer the bright, shining leader of the choir of heaven!) who is also identified as “that ancient serpent, called the devil and Satan,” draws a third part of the stars of heaven with his tail and he casts them into the earth. The problem with using this reference to prove Satan drew a third part of the angels into rebellion is threefold. First, it is found in chapter twelve of the book of Revelation, which was written to reveal to the saints those things which “must shortly come to pass,” not things that already came to pass away back before the world began. Second, it is associated with the birth of the manchild and his ascension to the throne, and that certainly didn’t take place before Adam was placed inEden! Third, almost all commentators completely miss the fact that it is the great red dragon who casts the third part of the stars down to the earth — not GOD! The preachers tell us that GOD kicked the devil and his angels out of heaven, but the only record we have in the Bible of “one-third” being cast down from heaven to earth tells us that the dragon casts them down! “And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth.” This is before the birth of the manchild! Yet, it is after the birth of the manchild and his ascension to the throne that Michael and his angels cast the great dragon into the earth! So the dragon casts the stars to the earth and Michael and his angels cast the dragon to the earth — the former takes place before the birth of the manchild and the latter happensafter the manchild is born. We have certainly been told a lot of fairy tales! The notion that any of this can have anything to do with “Lucifer” is an absurdity of enormous proportions! THE DRAGON’S TAIL “And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth…” (Rev. 12:4). Some people who have never learned the nature of symbolic language try to imagine such a literal scene as the one here described and picture in their minds what an awful thing it would be to see the third part of the stars falling to the earth. But real stars that are fixed... or planetary never fall, and if they did, it would only take one to completely obliterate this planet and the rest of the “third” would have no earth to fall upon! But with a knowledge of the spiritual meaning of the symbols we can easily identify the “tail” of this dragon and the “stars” that are cast down. The idea propagated by the church systems is that our text is a reference to the fall of Lucifer from heaven along with one-third of the heavenly angels. The popular story asserts that away back before the worlds began some angels, one-third of the angels in heaven, in fact, led by the archangel Lucifer, rebelled against God and were cast out of heaven, whereupon the little vandals took over planet earth. God then created man in His image and likeness to show forth His love and righteousness to creation, but made the mistake of putting man on the same planet where the little devils were ruling. Soon Satan and his juvenile delinquents from heaven pulled a fast one on the man God had created and tricked him to fall under the power of sin and death. And that was Satan’s way of getting back at God for kicking him out of heaven! He paid God back by bringing ruin, chaos, and darkness upon the beautiful creation of earth and mankind. So God had to scramble around and quickly develop Plan B, and with this plan God was regrouping and devising a means by which to regain control back from the devil. Under this plan God sent Jesus into the world to regain control of the earth and mankind. But after two thousand years even this plan has not worked out too well, for the vast majority of the human race is still held in the clutches of the enemy. These thoughts are hidden in the teachings of the preachers and I do not hesitate to tell you they are error for they make a mockery of the wisdom, sovereignty, and omnipotence of God, making it appear that He is a fumbling, blundering old man who doesn’t know what in the world He’s doing! If we were making a law in reference to biblical interpretation surely a good one would be: “Thou shalt not establish doctrine on a word or phrase that occurs in only one passage in the Bible.” The popular doctrine of Lucifer is established on a word that occurs in the King James Version in Isaiah 14:2 and nowhere else. “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations.” How anybody, in their right spiritual mind, can take out of Isaiah chapter fourteen the concept that this refers to Satan is certainly possessed of an extraordinarily wild imagination. There is just no way one can read these verses, even with the greatest stretch of inventiveness or theological license, and derive from them that the prophet Isaiah is speaking of a so-called fallen angel named Lucifer. First of all there is no mention at all of angels, much less one-third of the angels, or an archangel. Then the prophet states plainly that the term “Lucifer” prophetically refers to a man! “Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. And they that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the MAN that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that openeth not the house of his prisoners?” (Isa. 14:15-17). The entire chapter is addressed to the king of Babylon. “Thou shalt take up this taunting parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the (tyrant) rulers, who smote the peoples in anger with incessant blows and trod down the nations in wrath with unrelenting persecution — until he who smote is persecuted and no one hinders anymore” (Isa. 14:4-6, KJV & Amplified). The whole section of the chapter about Lucifer follows these verses. Now look at what these verses say, along with the ones in the paragraph above, and you see exactly what the tyrannical king of Babylon did to all the nations he had conquered! And now God is revealing his judgment in highly symbolical and parabolic language. There is nothing in this chapter about the devil, my friend, it is all a taunting parable about the ancient king of Babylon! The fact is, furthermore, there is no name Lucifer. Lucifer is not a proper name. It is a term that the Catholic translator, Jerome, installed instead of the Hebrew word heylel which means “shining one.” Shining one is not a proper name in Hebrew any more than it is in English or any other language. It’s not a name! It’s not the name of an angel. It’s not even the name of the king of Babylon. The Hebrew word is a descriptive term, but its not the name of anything. “Lucifer” is a contrived, invented, concocted, fabricated, made-up so-called name. But it’s not a name! There is no creature in heaven above, in the earth beneath, or under the earth that bears that name. Gabriel — that’s a name. Michael — that’s a name. Lucifer — not a name. You only find it once in the whole Bible. If you look in the original Hebrew text you will never find Lucifer. If you look in the Hebrew dictionary you will not find Lucifer. There is no Hebrew word nor any Hebrew name Lucifer. It’s made up! It is the Hebrew term for “shining one,” and it’s not a name. It was brought over into English from the Latin and transliterated as a name. The “name” Lucifer has been given to us by religious superstition, folklore, myth, and fairy tales! Orthodoxy has long taught that Lucifer was, in the beginning, a high and beautiful archangel in heaven. The theologians and preachers recite over and over how Lucifer was “the anointed cherub that covereth…the most beautiful and wise of all God’s creation!” This being was, so they say, the ruler and leader of the angelic beings and apparently led them in their praise of God and shouts of joy…the greatest being God ever created, one who had unequaled strength, wisdom, beauty, privilege, and authority, and was next to God Himself. This blameless, perfect one, named Lucifer, was created without any form of evil and with the greatest intelligence of any created being. Then, we are told, this Lucifer, suddenly realizing how beautiful and intelligent he was, became inflated with power and pride and his heart was lifted up in rebellion against God. According to the story, Lucifer gathered one-third of the heavenly angels to his cause, mustering an army with which he planned to knock God off His throne and supplant himself as king and god of the universe — and there was war in heaven! Luckily, God won, cast Lucifer out of heaven and he became, instead of an holy angel, the devil that he is today. It is nothing short of amazing that such a doctrine could have enjoyed such widespread acceptance in the light of the plain teachings of the scriptures on this subject. Man says that Satan in the beginning was holy, but later fell from that estate. JESUS said of Satan, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer (not an angel) from the BEGINNING, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and the father of it” (Jn. 8:44). This verse states that Satan “abode not” in the truth. In the Greek text the verb “abode not” is in the imperfect tense meaning that as far back as this personality existed HE WAS NOT TRUE. Dr. Robert Young, in his Literal Translation of the Bible, renders this verse: “He was a manslayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him.” The Rotherham version reads: “He was a murderer from the beginning, and in the truth he stood not; because the truth was not in him.” J. B. Phillips gives the plainest and most accurate translation: “He always was a murderer, and hasnever dealt with the truth, since the truth will have nothing to do with him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”Furthermore, there is no mention in the whole Bible of “Lucifer” or “Satan” drawing a third of the angels of heaven into rebellion against God. The only place in all of scripture where “one third” is mentioned as being cast down from heaven to earth is here in our text in the book of Revelation. Here, the great red dragon (not Lucifer the bright, shining leader of the choir of heaven!) who is also identified as “that ancient serpent, called the devil and Satan,” draws a third part of the stars of heaven with his tail and he casts them into the earth. The problem with using this reference to prove Satan drew a third part of the angels into rebellion is threefold. First, it is found in chapter twelve of the book of Revelation, which was written to reveal to the saints those things which “must shortly come to pass,” not things that already came to pass away back before the world began. Second, it is associated with the birth of the manchild and his ascension to the throne, and that certainly didn’t take place before Adam was placed inEden! Third, almost all commentators completely miss the fact that it is the great red dragon who casts the third part of the stars down to the earth — not GOD! The preachers tell us that GOD kicked the devil and his angels out of heaven, but the only record we have in the Bible of “one-third” being cast down from heaven to earth tells us that the dragon casts them down! “And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth.” This is before the birth of the manchild! Yet, it is after the birth of the manchild and his ascension to the throne that Michael and his angels cast the great dragon into the earth! So the dragon casts the stars to the earth and Michael and his angels cast the dragon to the earth — the former takes place before the birth of the manchild and the latter happensafter the manchild is born. We have certainly been told a lot of fairy tales! The notion that any of this can have anything to do with “Lucifer” is an absurdity of enormous proportions!
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