Lucifer
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
The Star of the Morning. The greatest, most beautiful, and proudest of the Christian God's creations. In accepted Christian mythology, Lucifer was the greatest and most powerful of the archangels, the Captain of the Hosts of Heaven. According to most sources, including the Holy Bible, Lucifer rebelled against the Throne and became the Adversary. The first and greatest War pitted Lucifer and the angels who had flocked to his banner against those who remained loyal to the Throne. The ethereal planes were chaotic with battle. Finally, in a showdown with the archangel Michael, who is set over chaos, Lucifer was defeated. God cast the rebels down into the vast and terrible realm that is Heaven's shadow.
This was long ago. Lucifer rules still in Hell. One day, his son, the Antichrist, will emerge upon the earth, and Armageddon, the war for both Heaven and Earth will begin.
Matters of conjecture have advanced the possibility that God Himself may have been responsible for the Fall. That Lucifer Morningstar was merely fulfilling another facet of God's great and all-encompassing Plan. Exactly how God accomplished the precipitation of the greatest and most profound fall from Grace in the history of Creation is unknown, but it is merely a matter of hearsay.
The poet Milton advanced Lucifer as a tragic figure, a victim of God's Plan. Perhaps it is so.
This was long ago. Lucifer rules still in Hell. One day, his son, the Antichrist, will emerge upon the earth, and Armageddon, the war for both Heaven and Earth will begin.
Matters of conjecture have advanced the possibility that God Himself may have been responsible for the Fall. That Lucifer Morningstar was merely fulfilling another facet of God's great and all-encompassing Plan. Exactly how God accomplished the precipitation of the greatest and most profound fall from Grace in the history of Creation is unknown, but it is merely a matter of hearsay.
The poet Milton advanced Lucifer as a tragic figure, a victim of God's Plan. Perhaps it is so.
