Lucifer's dazzling attractiveness

A question people have is, “Why would Lucifer think he could be like the Most High God?”

“He thought, ‘Well, God created me to be like Him,’ ” says preacher Alex Kurz. “You see what’s going on in his mind? Was he not ‘the sum of all wisdom and beauty’? Lucifer’s looking in the mirror and he’s saying, ‘Why else would God make ME the principal anointed cherub?! Why would God make me wiser than any other creature?! Why would God make me beautiful?! Why would God make me the object of adoration and esteem?!’

“In Lucifer’s thinking, his only conclusion was, ‘If I want to be like you, why would you be upset? You made me to be like you.’

“You see how he’s justifying what’s going on? And you know what, humanity is nothing more than a reflection of that heart of arrogance that possesses Satan and that’s why Romans says what it says and people think, ‘God is no better and no different than me.’

“Paul says they ‘took the glory of God’ and what did they do? They made him into an image of men and four-footed beasts and what? Creeping things. Men reflect the heart attitude of Satan—he’s the king of pride. They say, ‘We’re equal with God.’ That’s what Lucifer thought!

“In Lucifer’s distorted, corrupted thinking, he probably was surprised that God would be all upset with him. That’s what sin does, right? It’s, ‘Why are you mad at me? You made me a sinner?!’

“You ever heard that argument? ‘How can God punish me? I am what God made me and if I do what I do . . .’ You see, it’s all diversionary tactics to avoid accountability before a just God.”

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For his clothing, Lucifer was covered in “every precious stone.” The way Ezekiel 28 describes it, “every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold . . .”

“Obviously gold is not a stone, and people will say, 'See, your Bible’s got a big mistake there!' but it isn’t a mistake," explains Jordan, pointing to Exodus 28:17-20:

“And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.
[18] And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
[19] And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
[20] And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.”

 

“Gold is the setting used for stones, just like with a woman’s wedding ring, etc. When God gave Moses the pattern for the tabernacle, He gave him the breastplate as the covering for the high priest, and on that breastplate were stones. There were twelve stones, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel. Nine of those stones are found in Ezekiel 28 (describing Lucifer).

“Three of them that are on the breastplate of the high priest in Israel were not in the list in Ezekiel 28. Now, there’s a whole evening’s worth of studies about the stones and why there are 12 here and three of them are left out, but if you look at Exodus 28:19 and then Ezekiel 28, you’ll see there are three stones missing in Ezekiel 28.

“These three--beryl, onyx and jasper--were not in the original breastplate and they’re set in gold. That’s how they were held there. Imagine that breastplate with the settings of gold with all these jewels in them.

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“In his covering, Lucifer was given a spectacularly dazzling attractiveness that reflected the dazzling display of God Himself.

“He had the original ‘coat of many colors. If you look down at end of verse 14 (in Ezekiel 28), it says, ‘thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.’

“Fire is light, and if you take these jewels and hold them up to the sparkling of a fire, it’s going to make them glow and sparkle. Stones of fire represent justice and judgment in the Scripture, but just for the physical appearance, they would be causing the stones to glimmer, to glisten, and each one of them has a different color.

“And what he’s doing . . .  just like Adam was given this garment of light, but the light Adam had wasn’t just this blazing white light coming off of him—‘Hold it back, I can’t see him!’

“In Ezekiel 1, when you see the appearance of the glory of God, it’s described as a rainbow. And you know what a rainbow is? The word is ‘refracted.’ Not reflected, but refracted. It’s bent light so that the colors of the light spectrum are seen.

“Literally, the throne of God in the ‘third heaven,’ when you see it, the light that comes around it is like a rainbow. It’s this dazzling array of light. God Himself lives in the ‘coat of many colors,’ as it were, and He gave it to His representatives in the earth—those special people who were loved and represented Him—and Lucifer had that! In other words, Lucifer in his person was bearing God’s light! And those stones represented that.

 

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“From Ezekiel 28:14, we know Lucifer ‘wast upon the holy mountain of God,’ and that that’s a reference to the ‘third heaven.’ That’s not the mountain on the earth. Not Mount Zion in Jerusalem. That’s in the heavenly Jerusalem.

“When it says Lucifer ‘walkest up and down in the midst of the stones of fire,’ scripturally when anyone walks up and down in something, it means they have possession of it. Lucifer has the possession; the right. He’s living in and possesses the right to carry the light.

“As the passage goes on to explain, ‘By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.’

“So Lucifer sinned. Now sin and iniquity are two different things in the context. The iniquity was the plan he developed. His sin (I Timothy 3:6) was pride. Didn’t it say over and over in Ezekiel 28 that he was ‘lifted up’? God says, ‘You lifted up your heart.’ What did that? Pride.

“Pride was the sin. Pride was the thing that got him, and it made him think he was as God. It was his beauty, looking at himself . . . You look at verse 17 and it says he was ‘lifted up because of thy beauty.’

 

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“If you study the passages about where Lucifer's at, on the holy mountain of God, and that he’s ‘the anointed cherub that covereth,’ if you think about that . . .

 

"Here’s the throne of God, and here’s a cherubim over here and a cherubim over there, and there’s this sea of glass that the throne of God rests on. Here’s Lucifer up overhead as the anointed cherub that covers and he’s up there looking down.

“He looks down at these stones of fire in this sea of glass that’s like crystal. Well, what happens when you look at glass and you’re all lit up? Window-shopping. Look at yourself when you’re inside a shopping mall. You suck it in, you stick it out, you try to make it look as good as you can, but that’s all you’re doing.

“Instead of focusing here (atop God’s throne), he begins to focus on his reflection down there, and focusing on himself produces self-aggrandizement: ‘I ought to be God!’ He set his heart as the heart of God. He reasoned, ‘That ought to be me on that throne! Look at how beautiful I am, how wise I am, how exalted I am! Look at the wisdom I’ve got!’

“And what he did through being ‘lifted up by pride’ is he developed this ‘beautiful plan.’ God calls it iniquity, which means something that’s crooked, warped, twisted.

“The sin, the rebellion, the independence from God’s will—that self-will and self-worship—was introduced into the universe by Lucifer. That’s how he became Satan.

 

"It’s the sin of idolatry, and the way he did it is he got stuck on himself and decided he knew how to run creation better than God, and that he ought to be God.”