The Hebrew word for "evil" in the KJV verse Isa.45:7 can be translated many different ways. So that's yet another marker of those with the agenda to assign the origin of evil to God as if He is to blame.
Certain descriptions God gave in Isaiah 14, 30, Ezekiel 28 & 31 CANNOT be applied to flesh kings, but to Satan only. And, it's clear as butter: So those who have never considered this matter before that want to learn about have come to the right place today, because I'm going to cover it, and pull out all... the stops. Understanding this is very important in helping to understand Christ's Revelation about the mystery Babylon idea, so this is "strong meat" for the endtimes folks.
Here's Isaiah 14 first --
Isa 14:4-27
4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
What's a "proverb"? It's the Hebrew word 'mashal', and means an maxim, metaphor, or simile. It's about describing one thing and using it as a comparison for something else. People do this in all languages all the time, so it's not something unfamiliar to any of us. And that's how our Heavenly Father teaches, using something that we're all familiar with.
God mentions "the king of Babylon" of history, like king Nebuchadnezzar for one. But because He tied this with that "proverb" idea, He's saying to listen up, that He's going to reveal more with this MESSAGE than just things about the flesh king of Babylon. It's prepping us to be ready to look for that other comparison He points us to.
Isa.14:5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
Ask yourself if that has all come to pass even for today. It hasn't, not yet, but will, when Christ returns to take rule over all... nations upon this earth, in Person. That's to be when His servants will rule the nations with "a rod of iron" He promised them per Revelation. That's why verse 7 declares the time when the whole... earth is at rest and quiet, and they break forth in singing.
Now someone who thinks to claim this world since Adam and Eve has ever... been wholly at rest with the staff of the wicked finally broken by God definitely has issues of euphoria, dimentia, or any other of a variety of mental disorders.
What is this "staff" of the wicked God mentions He will have broken in that future time? Back in Isa.10 God called "the Assyrian" the rod of His anger. A rod in that case means a punishing rod. The Hebrew for that "staff" can also be translated as 'branch'. Later in this same Isa.14 chapter God uses the idea of an 'abominable branch' about the one He's going to destroy in everlasting fire. God covers this point again later in Isa.25 about this false branch. It's also important to note that Christ is referred to as the True "BRANCH" (Zech.3, 6; Jer.23, 33, etc.). So just as there is a fake 'rock' (Satan), and a True Rock (God), likewise there's a fake branch (Satan) and a True Branch (Christ Jesus). Satan wants to be The Rock, and The Branch, which is what God's Message here is especially about.
Once going through this chapter and re-reading this Isa.14:5 verse again about that "staff" reveals even more, as it points to Satan's ultimate end and then God's new heavens and a new earth time.
So already, God has gone pretty deep here with symbols to let us know who He's really talking about, i.e., Satan, and not just a literal flesh king of history. And the comparisons has already gone deep to the idea of a fake 'branch' (staff) to be destroyed, and Christ Who is The True Branch per Scripture.
Isa.14:8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us."
This fir trees and cedars of Lebanon idea is another link to this same type of Message in the Ezekiel chapters, especially Ezekiel 31. The cedars of Lebanon God used as a symbol for royalty (like Ezek.17).
This Isa.14:8 verse is still of the same timing of the previous verses, during Christ's future "thousand years" reign when Satan and his host will be cast in the pit prison, and locked up for that thousand years. These "fir trees" rejoice because they see this 'staff' or wicked branch, is powerless ("laid down"), and his followers have no power to do wickedness in that future time.
Isa.14:9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Now there's an undeniable direct pointer to Satan himself, for God's children to understand. Why? Well who did God prepare the abode of hell ultimately for? Satan and his angels, as it is going to go into the "lake of fire" in final. This word "dead" in the Hebrew does not mean our loved ones that have already died either. It's one of the places in the KJV where the translators should have carried it into the English as proper name, that of 'Rephaim'. The Rephaims were the 'giants' of the Book of Genesis.
So make no mistake about this abode of "hell" God is pointing to here. It is not just some simple hole in the ground that Satan's servants want us to think because they don't like God's concept of this "hell", a holding place for wicked.
Once again, this Isa.14:9 verse is in the same time flow as the previous verses, which was for what time? Christ's future Millennium reign with His elect priests and kings on earth. Satan and his hosts will be locked in that 'pit' of "hell" all during that future "thousand years" reign. When the first day of that starts with Christ's return, the wicked chief ones of the earth are going to be stirred up to meet their 'worshipful master', Satan himself. God The Creator is going to see to it. We'll see how much they like worshipping Lucifer then.
Isa.14:10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, "Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?"
All those chief ones of the earth in "hell" in that time are going to look over at Satan and marvel; "Art thou also become weak as we? are thou become like unto us?"
Isa.14:11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Satan's rebelliousness ("pomp") will be brought down to the... "grave"? Wait a minute. That "grave" is the same Hebrew word 'sheowl' translated as "Hell" back in the previous Isa.14:9 verse. The KJV translators used the idea of a 'grave' in the ground here because of the last phrase comparisons of the worms. But God is only giving that as an expression for how man's flesh goes through decay at burial, and applying it to Satan himself locked in his pit prison of hell. By God saying that about him, it's a deep insult to Satan, because Satan is still a heavenly cherub and not a flesh man. Yet, God is mocking him by referring to him as man's flesh that goes through decay of burial.
Isa.14:12 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!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, "I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High."
No mistaking who God's talking about now. The KJV translators put the name "Lucifer" here to better reveal how God is pointing to the devil with this Message. They put 'O day starre' in the margin of their 1st edition 1611 KJV Bible to let us know this. Day star, or morning star, is what the Hebrew word 'heylel' actually means, and many later Bible translations has it as such, having removed the word "Lucifer". The KJV translators got the name Lucifer from the Latin name for the planet Venus, because it was a well-known moniker for Satan.
So what's God's Message with that verse? God is using Satan's own... words against him, for God is repeating just what Satan has claimed he's going to do against God; i.e., basically try to steal God's Throne. Satan even said he intends to sit upon the mount of the congregation, so what's that? That's God's Place in relation to His people Israel! That's a pointer to Satan wanting to be WORSHIPED by us in God's Place!
The willingly ignorant will still try to bring up the false notion that all this is only about the flesh king of Babylon that died long ago per history. Well, the very start of these Isa.14 verses ended that notion a long time ago, for the time setting of these verses when the firs rejoice because God has broken the staff of the wicked are STILL FUTURE TO US EVEN. And the flesh king of Babylon has been dead and buried for how long now???
Isa.14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
16 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;
17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?"
Once again, this may sound like a funeral for the historical king of Babylon who died long ago, but it's an actual pointer to Satan himself being locked in his pit prison during Christ's future "thousand years" reign (Rev.20). Satan has the image of man also, for that's the type of Image our Heavenly Father also has. This is why the fallen angels of Genesis 6 and the Book of Job are also called "sons of God", and why Archangel Gabriel's name means 'man of God'.
Isa.14:18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
Think about it. Is this just the flesh king of Babylon being spoken of here? Not if one heeds what God said with the idea of a "proverb" for this back at the Isa.14:4 verse. Once gain, because Satan has claimed he will be God, and raise himself up to sit in God's Throne, God is going to show him, and us, and Satan's servants, that he is nothing, but just like a flesh man, with no power at all. God is using Satan as a punishing rod upon the wicked and nothing more. He's treating Satan like a switch broken off a tree to use for whipping. And when He's done, He's going to cast that stick in the fire, like "an abominable branch."
This is why those of you who stand in Christ Jesus don't have to worry about Satan and his hosts, nor his little nothings here on earth that serve and worship him. The ONLY control Satan and his little children have in the world is to try... and lead you into doing wickedness and evil. They cannot make... you do it, you have to choose to do it for them to have any influence over you. That's why there exists so many different kinds of temptation in this present world, to try and get you to follow them. Stay in Christ's Grace and you will be under God's Protection, as He promised.
Isa.14:20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
That's right, Satan is not going to even get a descent funeral and burial like the flesh kings of history did. That's another pointer that God is pointing to Satan here, and not just the king of Babylon.
Isa.14:21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
We all know Satan has followers still today who literally worship him in place of our Heavenly Father through His Son. We also know they are mixed among us, like "wolves in sheep's clothing", looking for whom they can devour next. For those truely wicked, their time of slaughter is soon coming when Christ returns and the later "lake of fire" event comes.
Isa.14:22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
Now God is definitely... speaking of historical Babylon with these verses. But historical Babylon only? Not if you recognized Christ using the name Babylon again in His Book of Revelation given through His Apostle John. Why would Christ use that name Babylon again? It's because the area of Babylon is where the first pagan false idol worship of the devil began. Sargon in ancient Sumer was the first Baal worshipper, and it then spread to other nations to create 'confusion' against God. That's the meaning of the root word for Babylon, it points to the idea of 'confusion', which is also the meaning of Hebrew tohuw used for when the earth was "without form" in Gen.1:2 and Jer.4:23. That's when Satan caused the 'confusion' to come by his original rebellion in wanting to be GOD.
Thus the word Babylon is a unique identifier for the whole reason of rebellion on this earth, from Satan's start of it all the way to its end. The Babylon harlot symbol for a certain city in our Lord's Book of Revelation is to point to this very idea of Satan coveting God's Throne, and Satan trying to establish that upon this earth, to prepare himself a place to sit upon Zion in today's Jerusalem. Mount Zion in Jerusalem is where has proclaimed He will dwell forever, and that SPECIFICALLY is the place on earth that Satan most wants for his very own. Will you join in with Satan's children to worship him when he tries to do that in the Jerusalem of our near future? The mystery is, that Satan is coming to try and play The Christ, Messiah, the one today's Jews are still waiting for since they rejected Jesus of Nazareth The Christ.
Isa.14:24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
25 That I will break the Assyrian in My land, and upon My mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and His hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
(KJV)
What's God doing with bringing up "the Assyrian" in this? I thought He was taking about the king of Babylon since verse 4, didn't you? This is another direct pointer to how God is giving a lot more information here than just some flesh king of history. His connecting the Assyrian king with this further proves how He uses the flesh kings as 'types' for Satan himself. So when you read Scripture about the king of Babylon or the Assyrian, consider if it would have connection to Satan himself, and most often a lot more understanding will come forth about Satan himself.
Here's another example of how I know God is giving us this...
Isa 30:31-33
31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; He hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
(KJV)
There's that Assyrian in connection with a punishing rod again (fake branch idea per Isa.14). Is that about the flesh king of Assyria, or about someone else? Isa.30:33 reveals it's about Satan, for Tophet is put as a symbol for the "lake of fire" of Rev.20. That fire has specifically been ordained for Satan and his angels. They only as of today, have already been judged and sentenced to perish in that fire. No one else has of yet, not until God's Great White Throne Judgment at the end of Rev.20.
Likewise with the Ezekiel 28 & 31 chapters, God gives this kind dual comparison thing.