Lucifer, other known as Satan and “morning star” was a beautiful angel who betrayed God. Heaven was no longer a paradise as Lucifer was chained up. He turned against God and all of his creation. The rise and fall of Satan began when he became proud and refused to repent. Not only did he cause pain than any other individual, but he lures on destruction and every person in it.
In Ezekiel 28:12-14, it states that Lucifer was a beautiful angel covered with jewels and gold. He and God spent a lot of time together, but over 6,000 years ago, Lucifer was not included in a meeting they had and that is where he became jealous (mark of the beast). Lucifer always believed he was more than he already was. He was proud because of his beauty and caused
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violence. In Ezekiel 28:11-19, is addressed to the King of Tyre, he was exposed to the kings in order to lay eyes on him, but he profaned the sanctuaries. It turned him into the ashes of the earth, which is close to the prophecy of Lucifer (All About). Many scholars believe that the ruler of Tyre was actually Satan. In Verse 14, it states that he was different than a man, his nature and position. His judgment was different which did not fit a normal human being (Rhodes 2015). In Ezekiel it also states that the “anointed cherub” is a statement applied to Lucifer. God says his created by the intelligence that he received is perfect in beauty. In terms of the Holy Trinity, he is considered as the highest being today. A cherub is a symbol of God’s Holy presence. It occupies to a certain position. An example would be in the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve were sent out and God placed a cherubim to protect the tree of life (All About). Another example is when Moses made the mercy seat. They covered the mercy seat with their wings, it dwelt with the cherubim. This shows that Satan was the cherub and his position was next to God. Not only was he the highest of the positions, but eventually he despised and lost it. God states that “Iniquity was found in you” (All About). The sin that Lucifer corrupted was because of his pride. This was the beginning of sin and the fall of Adam. It originated in the free will of Lucifer in which he rebelled against God (Rhodes 2015). Lucifer states “I will take over heaven, I will be God”. In Isaiah 14:12, Lucifer mentions that he will raise his throne and make himself the Most High. In this verse, he tends to use “I” a lot, which means he does not want to be under God’s authority. When Lucifer tempted Eve, he was trying to impersonate God (All About). When God threw Satan out, he was no longer accessed in heaven (Rhodes 2014). He was cast out of God’s government and his position of authority (Luke 10:18). When Lucifer left, he tried to persuade one-third of the angels to leave with him. The position that Lucifer left created a hole, it was not easily filled. He denounced his angels as slaves. He promised the angels that he would form a better government than they already had. Many accepted him as their leader. He saw this as a form of success (fall of Lucifer). He thought he was finally equal to God. Though, as he was warned about the consequences, the angels advised the followers of Lucifer to turn to God and confess their wrong doings. Many of Lucifer’s followers refused to do so. Satan’s plan was to destroy the kingdom of God. The war in heaven began. It was the highest crime to go against the kingdom of God. Satan made it known that he wanted to be equal to God (biblical Unitarian). In the Philippians 2:5-11, it states that one’s attitude should be the same as Christ.
Satan did not consider being equal to God. He exalted him and gave him the name above everyone else. The passage shows the humility in which Satan lacked (biblical Unitarian). He wanted to be in the same place as God. Though the Bible has little scriptures about the fall of Satan, many ask “How can a good angel sin?” The bible states that God created His angels but it did not mean they were incapable of sin. Satan wanted to find bliss rather than following God’s commands. Though the Bible does not state when Satan fell, he fell before he tempted Adam and Eve. I am assuming that the fall occurred between this time. Also, the only place where Lucifer is stated in the Bible is when they refer him as the morning star in Hebrew. Satan was understood as the fallen angel and use him as the personification of evil (belief net). As reading about Isaiah, the King of Babylon seemed to be interpreted as the fall of Satan. In Ezekiel 28, the verse states a double meaning. It has an imagery in which the description of Satan was corrupted. In 1 Timothy 3:6, it states the pride that caused Satan’s fall. This is considered as one of the verses in which is speaking directly about his fall (belief
net). Satan received this name after he was thrown out of heaven. He turned his followers from angels to demons. Just as how Satan was trying to persuade the angels to follow his authority, he tempts people on earth. There are many names in the bible in which Satan is referred to the dragon, serpent, Abaddon, and the devil. When he will be released into the world he will be called the beast. He will try to impersonate God and claim that he is God. His demons will come down to earth and appear as if they are angels from heaven. It is stated that he will be given three in a half years as God of this earth. He will try to convince every human being to worship him. After the three in a half years is over he will be placed in the bottomless pit for one thousand years. During that time, he will not be able to tempt any human being. In revelation 20:1-3, it discusses how Satan will reveal himself. When the one thousand years are over, Satan and God will have a war and God will bring fire from heaven and Satan will be cast onto the lake of fire. Until then, Satan will not be able to tempt anyone ever again. The earth will be free from sin and Satan (mark of the beast). This comes to show that people can be deceived as well. Sin is one of the most powerful things that can break someone. Pride was Satan’s downfall. Just as there is good there is evil, and he rebelled against God. As they say, Lucifer was once God’s best angels.
...otent his throne was still shook by Lucifer’s attempt at the throne. Lucifer and God are both alone in power once they were close, Lucifer more powerful than all other angels rose in the chain to be just under God. Now however he was just above the humans, trapped in Hell, mentally, he could never forget Heaven and the joy he felt that he could no longer experience.
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Milton prompts the reader to understand God’s grace as the most almighty and powerful aspect within the first twenty-six lines. God is a powerful ruler who bestows blessings if his policies are followed and eternal damnation if not. The first two books of Paradise Lost portray Satan as a confused, resentful man who feels the need to rebel against God. Since Satan rebelled against God, he was banished from heaven and summoned into an eternal hell. While in hell, Satan gathered his fallen angels for a pep talk and exclaimed to them, “Farewell, happy fields, where joy forever dwell; in my choice to reign is worth ambition though in Hell” (Book 1, Line 1). In this exclamation Satan bids adieu to the pleasure and blissful surroundings of paradise and greets the gloom and dreadfulness that now surround him with open arms. The reader can conclude that Milton relays Satan’s speech as remorseful and full of regret at the penalty of his rebellious actions, but accepts what he has done and is ready to rule the underworld. The reader can also note one difference between Satan and God in this passage because unlike God, Satan chose to speak to all who follow him and wanted their feedback for his rebellious plans. Satan continues his speech by adding, “Receive thy new possessor. Not to be changed by place or time” (Book 1, Line 1). Satan is regulating his mental perception as he greets Hell. He portrays himself as equipped and ready for Hell to receive him as the leader. Like God, Satan brought his autonomous mentality, free of time or location, to Hell. As the new supreme leader of the underworld, with his independent mind, Satan boldly compares himself to God through the element of
Satan is an allegorical representation of God the Father. Both Satan and God are seen as Father figures; God as the Father of all that is virtuous, and Satan as the Father of all that is wicked. Just as God is the King of heaven, Satan claims himself King of Hell. God is the originator of Goodness, as Satan is the originator of Evilness. All in all, Satan is a perverse representation of God.
Milton’s Satan in Paradise Lost is a complex character meant to be the evil figure in the epic poem. Whenever possible Satan attempts to undermine God and the Son of God who is the true hero of the story. Throughout the story Milton tells the readers that Satan is an evil character, he is meant not to have any redeeming qualities, and to be shown completely as an unsympathetic figure. Satan’s greatest sins are pride and vanity in thinking he can overthrow God, and in the early part of the poem he is portrayed as selfish while in Heaven where all of God’s angels are loved and happy. Satan’s journey starts out as a fallen angel with great stature, has the ability to reason and argue, but by Book X the anguish and pain he goes through is more reason for him to follow an evil path instead. Even so, Milton uses literal and figurative imagery in the description of Satan’s character to manipulate the reader’s response to the possibility that Satan may actually be a heroic figure. As the plot of the story unfolds there are moments where the reader can identify with Satan’s desires and relate to his disappointments.
...oing so let to his realization of what he did – a punishment worse than death in that he has to live in the sin he created for himself. Satan, another notable figure controlled by a consuming pride, desired to be God, not to be a servant of God. In reluctance to serve Him, Satan was pushed from heaven.
Satan is very easy to sympathize because he is more like man than god is, he has more characteristics and feelings that god does not have. He has jealousy, fear, pride and he makes mistakes like we all do. His pride is what got him where he is today, thinking he could take over heaven for the better of the angels. But when has god ever made a mistake? He doesn’t because he’s so perfect. When one looks around it is clear every human around you is not perfect. We all make mistakes, regrets, but that does not mean we should be thrown away from earth. The way Satan thinks, feels, and acts is all very human and that’s one reason we can sympathize with him, because we’ve all been there at one point in time. At an all-time low, that’s we he ends up embracing his future like he should.
Milton's introduction of Satan shows the reader how significant Satan is to Paradise Lost. He uses Satan's heroic qualities to his followers, and his ability to corrupt to show the thin line between good and evil. Satan was one of the highest angels in Heaven and was know as Lucifer, meaning, light bearer. This shows he was once a good angel. Milton makes the reader see him as a leader and a strong influence to all in his presence. He best describes Satan's ways when stating, "His pride/ had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host. / Of rebel angels, by whose aspiring/ To set himself in glory above his peers" (Milton Book I). Satan's pride was the main reason that God banned him from heaven. Satan always tried to be number one and a leader, instead of following in God's shadow. He would of lived a life in Paradise forever, but he had to follow his feelings as he states, "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven" (Milton 31). This shows how strongly he felt about not being above everybody else.
Throughout Paradise Lost Lucifer/Satan is seen as the main character, full of development and subtle changes, and he is easily comparable to any ...
Just like Faustus, Lucifer has extensive knowledge of the power of God, as he is described by Mephastophilis as “a most dearly loved of God” (Marlowe 3.95). Lucifer’s goal in Paradise Lost is to become greater than God as he knew how big God’s power was. However, the difference between Faustus and Lucifer is that Lucifer becomes temptation itself as he starts to recruit more of God’s angels to go against him to “have equal’d the most High.” Milton writes that when Lucifer was thrown out of heaven, all his “Host Of Rebel Angels,” were thrown out with him (1.37-40). Thus, Lucifer’s pride not only lead him to rebel against God but to become the source through which more angels would rebel and wage war against God. Lucifer’s conceit is what created the mother of all evil, which is
Ask anyone to draw Satan and you 'll get a red snake-like figure with horns and a pitchfork. Satan, as introduced in the Hebrew bible is an unworthy adversary of God. His longing to be like God is quickly recognized and dealt with. God banishes him from Heaven and sends him to Hell. That 's the last we see of him until he talks with God about his faithful servant Job. In each interaction we see Satan in, we get only a glimpse of who he really is. Satan 's motive is not developed and we assume he does evil simply because he is evil
Before any of this happens, Satan is kicked out of heaven. Satan betrays God by raising up an army against Him and Satan is gone. This is an indication of Satan’s bad temper, jealousy, and envy. Satan had been put in charge of so much, but he was always coveting the top position. It was the position with all the power and he wanted it. The day that Satan was kicked out of heaven was the true beginning of the fall that would ruin God’s creation forever. Satan revolted from God and created his own army of ...
Helen Gardner addresses this notion, claiming how “Satan is, of course, a character in an epic, and he is in no sense the hero of the epic as a whole. But he is a figure of heroic magnitude and heroic energy, and he is developed by Milton with dramatic emphasis and dramatic intensity” (Baker/Helen, 208). Satan is without a doubt the antichrist, or “villain” in the biblical scriptures, however one must take into consideration his alternative and more ambiguous portrayal in Paradise Lost. In this paper, I will analyze Satan’s actions, physical portrayal and speeches in Book I of Paradise Lost, and argue that from the textual evidence, these aspects of Satan are ultimately ambivalent, thus Satan cannot be categorized as either the extreme hero or the extreme villain, but rather as a dramatic figure with both heroic and villainous characteristics. The preliminary depiction of Satan’s actions in Paradise Lost appears after Milton describes God, his kingdom of heaven, and his children Adam and Eve.... ...
Milton shows that the potential for evil was innate in these beings and was not the result of corruption from an external force. Lucifer believes himself to be God’s equal and desires omnipotence for himself. Lucifer’s pride is his undoing, and he is cast into hell where he becomes Satan. The pride is intrinsic to Lucifer’s nature and results from God giving angels free will. Indeed, Satan later considers repenting and seeking God’s forgiveness upon seeing Earth and all of God’s creation and being overwhelmed by emotion. However, he realizes that even if he did receive forgiveness, he would grow dissatisfied with his position in heaven once again and fall a second time “book four quote “ . This establishes evil as being a constant part of Satan; the evil could not exist without the good, but it is an inherent part of
Satan proves his leadership by managing to cause the fall of other angels as well. He has a legion of rebel angels that he has somehow convinced to join him in his revolt against God. The angels and he mistakenly believe him to be just as powerful as God (line 40). Perhaps his futile attempts to win are what attract the sympathy and understanding of human beings, for mankind is constantly trying to change things they will never be abl...