Hey Pastor John,
What a good read this is!
I have been chewing on this for a couple of days now, especially this verse: “How you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning…” “… who opened not the house of his prisoners?” (Isa. 14:12, 17b). For Satan to be called “son of the morning” kind of struck me. Is that a term of endearment for Satan? I wonder…new thought for me…if Satan being thrown out of heaven was anything like how Adam was thrown out of the garden. I wonder if God still loves Satan, even after having to throw Satan out of heaven?
Elizabeth D.
In verse 17b, “who opened not the house of his prisoners?”
Still chewing on this.
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Hi Beth.
No, God does not love Satan as He loved Adam. He may have loved him when He first created him, but that didn’t last long. “Whom the Lord loves, He chastens”, but He refused to chasten Satan when he became proud of his great beauty (Ezek 28:17).
The phrase “son of the morning” means something like Paul’s description as a “messenger of light”. Satan puffs people up with information they do not have, but he and his ministers cannot teach people the way Jesus and his ministers can. The knowledge Jesus gives keeps God’s children humble; it does not puff them up.
I am glad you are thinking on these things. We are not prisoners to fear any longer. We are free to think the next thought and ask the next question. So, keep it up!
Pastor John
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