Satan, Lucifer, or the Devil:


Descriptions from the Old Testament

From Isaiah

  • 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. 14:10
  • Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, [and] the noise of thy viols:14:11
  • the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. 11
  • fallen from heaven
  • Named Lucifer, Son of the morning,
  • cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! Isaiah 14:12
  • Utter Hubris: For thou hast said in thine heart, I will (1)ascend into heaven,
    (2) I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
    (3) I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north Is 14:13
  • Tries to Emulate or even Dethrone God, His Creator: "I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 14:14"
  • this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms 14:16
  • made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof;
  • Kept prisoners captive 14:16
  • 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 17
  • Unburied: Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, [and] slain thy people: 14:20
  • Seed not reknown "seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. "
  • Equated with the Assyrian

    From Ezekiel

  • full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Ez 28:12
  • Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God 13
  • 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
  • the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created 28-13
  • the anointed cherub that covereth 28:13; covering cherub 28:16
  • wast upon the holy mountain of God
  • thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 28:14
  • perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. 28:15
  • profane out of the mountain of God 28:16
  • heart was lifted up because of thy beauty
  • corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness:
  • defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick 17
  • All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never [shalt] thou [be] any more. 19

    New Testament: Revelation & the Account of the Messiah

    The Curses of God on and to be performed against Satan

  • : I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee 28:17
  • I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, Ez 28:18
  • Equated with or as King of Tyrus
  • I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee ez28:18 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never [shalt] thou [be] any more. Ez 28:19
  • Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.