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We saw that Job 38:1-41 described how the earth was created in a wonderful, beautiful condition, with great joy and singing on the part of the angels. All of creation was supremely happy. This means that there were not yet demons at the time of creation in Genesis 1:1, only faithful angels. Now read Genesis 1:2.

This verse is mistranslated and does not reflect the meaning of the original Hebrew. The King James Version of the Bible reads, “And the earth was without form, and void” (Gen. 1:2). Three key Hebrew words are all mistranslated here, thus obscuring, and actually hiding, the true meaning of the passage.

The word translated “was” is hayah. In Genesis 2:7, this word is correctly translated “became,” and in Genesis 9:15, “become.”

The words for “without form, and void” are tohu and bohu. Correctly translated, they mean “chaotic, in confusion, waste and empty.” In short, a perfectly created Earth (Gen. 1:1), “became chaotic and confused” (Gen. 1:2). Tohu and bohu are translated identically in Jeremiah 4:23. Isaiah 34:11, among other places, translates this phrase as “confusion and emptiness.”

Notice Isaiah 45:18, which clarifies how God did not create the earth: “For thus says the LORD that created the heavens; God Himself that formed the earth and made it; He has established it, He created it not in vain [tohu meaning chaotic or waste], He formed it to be inhabited.”

From this passage, it is clear that the earth became chaotic after God had created it—between the events described in Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. Thus, Gen 1:2 describes the RE-creation of the earth 6,000 years ago, and Gen 1:1 describes the original creation of the entire universe that, according to scientists, occurred as many as 17 billion years ago.

Psalm 104:30 states that God “renews the face of the earth.” The seven days of the creation week are when God renewed what had become a damaged, injured, flooded Earth, then completely covered with water (Gen. 1:2). But Acts 3:19-21 reveals that only the Return of Christ will bring the ultimate “restitution [the restoring] of all things.”

So we know what happened. But how did it happen? How did the surface of the planet go from being beautiful and perfect at creation to chaotic, confused, waste and empty? Since God is not the author of confusion (1 Cor. 14:33), we know that He did not destroy the earth. Then who or what caused this?

Lucifer’s Rebellion

Now, for some history. Where did Satan come from? How did he become the way he is? The Bible reveals many important facts about a subject if one reads all of the scriptures that pertain to it. With this in mind, let’s read about Lucifer after he had become Satan.

Isaiah 14:12-15 tells a remarkable story containing many clues about where Lucifer was once located, what he did and what happened to him. Read carefully, noticing the emphasized key phrases: “How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations! For you have said in your 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: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the Most High. Yet you shall be brought down to hell [the “grave”—Isa 14:9, 11], to the sides of the pit.”

The one called “Lucifer” could not possibly be a man. The things he did are impossible for any human being to do. Only the devil could “weaken” all nations, and could have said he would “ascend into heaven.” Certainly no man could be “cut down to the ground” in the way described here. Finally, no man has a throne that could be put above the “stars of heaven.”

God lives in the north part of the heavens or the “sides of the north.” Job sheds light on Lucifer’s attempt to overthrow God there: “He [God] stretched out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth upon nothing” (Job 26:7). The “empty place” in the “north” coincides with what astronomers have noticed is a significant and strange lack of stars in that region of space. It becomes evident that Satan attacked God in that direction when he sought to ascend from his own throne to take over God’s throne in the “sides of the north.” This is what the Bible reveals!

Satan had been trained at the very headquarters of God’s universe-ruling GOVERNMENT. He had been taught basic matters of ADMINISTRATION of God’s government on Earth. God appointed him to be, and calls him, a “king” over this earthly administration.

Ezekiel 28:12-17 parallels and reinforces Isaiah 14:1-32, and is equally important for study. This account describes one who some “scholars” claim was a human “king of Tyrus.” Careful reading shows this is impossible—and ridiculous.

This verse speaks of one who “seals up the sum, full of wisdom, perfect in beauty,” who had also “been in Eden the garden of God.” No human has ever been perfect, and it was the devil—the serpent—who beguiled Eve in the garden. Exo 28:13 states, “you were created,” and Satan is a created being. Exo 28:14 calls him “the cherub that covers.” (Exodus 25:17-20describes the remaining two faithful “cherubs that cover[ed]” God’s throne in the Old Testament tabernacle. Their wings cover the “mercy seat.”) No earthly king fits this description.

The latter part of Ezekiel 28:14 says that this “king” was “in the mountain of God” and “walked … in the midst of the stones of fire.” This describes the area around God’s throne! Exo 28:15 declares, “iniquity [lawlessness] was found in you” and Exo 28:16 refers to it as “sin.”

Exo 28:16 also describes this cherub as having been “cast … out of” heaven. God also said He would “destroy” (Hebrew: expel) Lucifer from heaven. Exo 28:17 reveals that his “heart was lifted up because of [his] beauty” and that his wisdom was “corrupted … by reason of [his] brightness.” The verse ends with God “casting him down to the ground,” where the kings of the earth would “behold him.”

Lucifer was a brilliant being—an “angel of light,” as are “his ministers” (2 Cor. 11:13-15). The word Lucifer means “the light bringer.” This once perfect being originally brought brilliant light to all that were around him. But he rebelled and sinned—thus becoming the “prince of darkness.” His rebellion turned him into a twisted, perverted being. While of great intelligence, he has literally become an insane fallen angel, no longer knowing right from wrong!

God originally created three archangels: Lucifer (who became Satan), Michael, and Gabriel. Each ruled one-third of hundreds of millions of angels (Rev. 5:11). Lucifer ruled the pre-Adamic world with his third. He, along with his angels, rebelled against the government of God, and today he leads these now fallen spirits, or demons, as the god of this world.

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