Ronald David Bruno
Well-Known Member
Do you know when Lucifer fell? He was the most beautiful angel in heaven, then He sinned and he changed into Satan, the dragon/serpent. I believe when God made man, Lucifer became jealous, envious, angry, rebellious. Where did that come from? It had to have already existed, just had to be tapped into.How would God's angels be classified not having experienced evil? I wonder if they know what is good!
"...You were the seal of perfection,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
You were in Eden, the garden of God;
...
“You were the anointed cherub who covers;
I established you;
You were on the holy mountain of God;
You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created,
Till iniquity was found in you." Ezek. 28:12-15
The Bible describes Lucifer, a cherub as beautiful, however, the Serpent in the Garden was not. Lucifer fell before Adam and Eve did. Proof of this is in Gen. 3. The Serpent was cunning, tempted Eve, put doubts in her head and basically deceived her. But how does he deceive? Is it all lies we are fed? No, it's mixed with some truth, half-truths, a little here and there to manipulate and draw you in. Liars always embellish the truth, distort it, tell you something true that you grab onto to get your trust - then they got you, hit you with lies. False religions contain truths that grab you and pull you in. So you see some light in the beggining, move towards it but then it gets dimmer, is distorted little by little, then darkness comes ... you realize you've been had and sometimes not. He will use something that is good, feels good, looks good and tell you it is good for you.
God knows what Satan thinks and what he is going to do. Remember even in this state, Satan, the accuser, who tries to defeat us, by setting traps, must get permission to do so as he did with Job. God is omniscient, so knew what Satan would do and allowed it for His purpose. Otherwise He would have not allowed a cunning serpent in the Garden at all if His intentions were different. God's plan is perfect, He is sovereign.
All of a sudden Adam and Eve felt guilt, they were naked and ashamed and they knew the Serpent deceived Eve. The first lesson of the knowledge of Good and Evil was a hard one. They hid themselves, they felt fear. All these things for the first time. They were punished, kicked out of the Garden. So now they knew what they once had was good, because they did not have it anymore. They learned to appreciate what good is because of what happened.
Nothing more I can say to you. You don't see it that way, see it your way!