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What is the True Story about the Lucifer Rebellion and how did it affect the Angels and people living on Earth.

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    What is the true story of Lucifer and the fallen angels?

    The first part of James Wallen, answer is the simple explanation to the question.

    Photo: Eleonora of Panoptia

A deeper understanding of these tragic events and their repercussions in the unfolding of the divine plans for this world require a deeper study of the insurrection. This battle was fought on the terms of eternal life or extinction. Here is the contemporary news about this great upheaval in Heaven and on earth. This puts many of the legends and myths surrounding this rebellion into the clear light of understanding truth. But before I post this information you should have a clear understanding of the relationship between good and evil.

                              Urantia paper 53 pt 1


When a young Indian lad asked Jesus “How can God, if he is infinitely good, permit us to suffer the sorrows of evil; after all, who creates evil?”

Jesus answered this young lad.  “My brother, God is love; therefore, he must be good, and his goodness is so great and real that it cannot contain the small and unreal things of evil. God is so positively good that there is absolutely no place in him for negative evil. Evil is the immature choosing and the unthinking misstep of those who are resistant to goodness, rejectful of beauty, and disloyal to truth. Evil is only the misadaptation of immaturity or the disruptive and distorting influence of ignorance. Evil is the inevitable darkness which follows upon the heels of the unwise rejection of light. Evil is that which is dark and untrue, and which, when consciously embraced and willfully endorsed, becomes sin".

“Your Father in heaven, by endowing you with the power to choose between truth and error, created the potential negative of the positive way of light and life; but such errors of evil are really nonexistent until such a time as an intelligent creature wills their existence by mischoosing the way of life. And then are such evils later exalted into sin by the knowing and deliberate choice of such a willful and rebellious creature. This is why our Father in heaven permits the good and the evil to go along together until the end of life, just as nature allows the wheat and the tares to grow side by side until the harvest.” Ganid was fully satisfied with Jesus' answer to his question after their subsequent discussion had made clear to his mind the real meaning of these momentous statements.

 

 

Later Jesus informed his first 12 Apostles. "Do not make the mistake of confusing evil with the evil one, more correctly the iniquitous one. He whom you call the evil one is the son of self-love, the high administrator (Lucifer) who knowingly went into deliberate rebellion against the rule of my Father and his loyal Sons. But I have already vanquished these sinful rebels. Make clear in your mind these different attitudes toward the Father and his universe. Never forget these laws of relation to the Father's will:

"Evil is the unconscious or unintended transgression of the divine law, the Father's will. Evil is likewise the measure of the imperfectness of obedience to the Father's will.

"Sin is the conscious, knowing, and deliberate transgression of the divine law, the Father's will. Sin is the measure of unwillingness to be divinely led and spiritually directed.

"Iniquity is the willful, determined, and persistent transgression of the divine law, the Father's will. Iniquity is the measure of the continued rejection of the Father's loving plan of personality survival and the Sons' merciful ministry of salvation."

Moral evaluation with a religious meaning -- spiritual insight -- connotes the individual's choice between good and evil, truth and error, material and spiritual, human and divine, time and eternity. Human survival is in great measure dependent on consecrating the human will to the choosing of those values selected by the indwelling spirit-value sorter -- the indwelling interpreter and unifier. Personal religious experience consists in two phases: discovery in the human mind and revelation by the indwelling divine spirit. Through oversophistication or as a result of the irreligious conduct of professed religionists, a man, or even a generation of men, may elect to suspend their efforts to discover the God who indwells them; they may fail to progress in and attain the divine revelation. But such attitudes of spiritual nonprogression cannot long persist because of the presence and influence of the indwelling Spirit if the Father.

The profound experience of the reality of the divine indwelling forever transcends the crude materialistic technique of the physical sciences. You cannot put spiritual joy under a microscope; you cannot weigh love in a balance; you cannot measure moral values; neither can you estimate the quality of spiritual worship.

The Contemporary history of the Lucifer Rebellion from the 5th Epochal Revelation Papers

HISTORY OF THE REBELLION

 

                                                     Urantia paper 53 pt 2

The Lucifer rebellion was system wide. Thirty-seven seceding Planetary Princes swung their world administrations largely to the side of the archrebel. Only on Panoptia did the Planetary Prince fail to carry his people with him. On this world, under the guidance of the Melchizedeks, the people rallied to the support of Michael. Ellanora, a young woman of that mortal realm, grasped the leadership of the human races, and not a single soul on that strife-torn world enlisted under the Lucifer banner. And ever since have these loyal Panoptians served on the seventh Jerusem transition world as the caretakers and builders on the Father's sphere and its surrounding seven detention worlds. The Panoptians not only act as the literal custodians of these worlds, but they also execute the personal orders of Michael for the embellishment of these spheres for some future and unknown use. They do this work as they tarry en route to Edentia.

Throughout this period Caligastia was advocating the cause of Lucifer on Urantia. The Melchizedeks ably opposed the apostate Planetary Prince, but the sophistries of unbridled liberty and the delusions of self-assertion had every opportunity for deceiving the primitive peoples of a young and undeveloped world.

All secession propaganda had to be carried on by personal effort because the broadcast service and all other avenues of interplanetary communication were suspended by the action of the system circuit supervisors. Upon the actual outbreak of the insurrection the entire system of Satania was isolated in both the constellation and the universe circuits. During this time all incoming and outgoing messages were dispatched by seraphic agents and Solitary Messengers. The circuits to the fallen worlds were also cut off, so that Lucifer could not utilize this avenue for the furtherance of his nefarious scheme. And these circuits will not be restored so long as the archrebel lives within the confines of Satania.

This was a Lanonandek rebellion. The higher orders of local universe sonship did not join the Lucifer secession, although a few of the Life Carriers stationed on the rebel planets were somewhat influenced by the rebellion of the disloyal princes. None of the Trinitized Sons went astray. The Melchizedeks, archangels, and the Brilliant Evening Stars were all loyal to Michael and, with Gabriel, valiantly contended for the Father's will and the Son's rule.

No beings of Paradise origin were involved in disloyalty. Together with the Solitary Messengers they took up headquarters on the world of the Spirit and remained under the leadership of the Faithful of Days of Edentia. None of the conciliators apostatized, nor did a single one of the Celestial Recorders go astray. But a heavy toll was taken of the Morontia Companions and the Mansion World Teachers.

Of the supreme order of seraphim, not an angel was lost, but a considerable group of the next order, the superior, were deceived and ensnared. Likewise a few of the third or supervisor order of angels were misled. But the terrible breakdown came in the fourth group, the administrator angels, those seraphim who are normally assigned to the duties of the system capitals. Manotia saved almost two thirds of them, but slightly over one third followed their chief into the rebel ranks. One third of all the Jerusem cherubim attached to the administrator angels were lost with their disloyal seraphim.

Of the planetary angelic helpers, those assigned to the Material Sons, about one third were deceived, and almost ten per cent of the transition ministers were ensnared. In symbol John saw this when he wrote of the great red dragon, saying: "And his tail drew a third part of the stars of heaven and cast them down in darkness."

The greatest loss occurred in the angelic ranks, but most of the lower orders of intelligence were involved in disloyalty. Of the 681,227 Material Sons lost in Satania, ninety-five per cent were casualties of the Lucifer rebellion. Large numbers of midway creatures were lost on those individual planets whose Planetary Princes joined the Lucifer cause.

In many respects this rebellion was the most widespread and disastrous of all such occurrences in Nebadon. More personalities were involved in this insurrection than in both of the others. And it is to their everlasting dishonor that the emissaries of Lucifer and Satan spared not the infant-training schools on the finaliter cultural planet but rather sought to corrupt these developing minds in mercy salvaged from the evolutionary worlds.

The ascending mortals were vulnerable, but they withstood the sophistries of rebellion better than the lower spirits. While many on the lower mansion worlds, those who had not attained final fusion with their Adjusters, fell, it is recorded to the glory of the wisdom of the ascension scheme that not a single member of the Satania ascendant citizenship resident on Jerusem participated in the Lucifer rebellion.

Hour by hour and day by day the broadcast stations of all Nebadon were thronged by the anxious watchers of every imaginable class of celestial intelligence, who intently perused the bulletins of the Satania rebellion and rejoiced as the reports continuously narrated the unswerving loyalty of the ascending mortals who, under their Melchizedek leadership, successfully withstood the combined and protracted efforts of all the subtle evil forces which so swiftly gathered around the banners of secession and sin.

It was over two years of system time from the beginning of the "war in heaven" until the installation of Lucifer's successor. But at last the new Sovereign came, landing on the sea of glass with his staff. I was among the reserves mobilized on Edentia by Gabriel, and I well remember the first message of Lanaforge to the Constellation Father of Norlatiadek. It read: "Not a single Jerusem citizen was lost. Every ascendant mortal survived the fiery trial and emerged from the crucial test triumphant and altogether victorious." And on to Salvington, Uversa, and Paradise went this message of assurance that the survival experience of mortal ascension is the greatest security against rebellion and the surest safeguard against sin. This noble Jerusem band of faithful mortals numbered just 187,432,811.

With the arrival of Lanaforge the archrebels were dethroned and shorn of all governing powers, though they were permitted freely to go about Jerusem, the morontia spheres, and even to the individual inhabited worlds. They continued their deceptive and seductive efforts to confuse and mislead the minds of men and angels. But as concerned their work on the administrative mount of Jerusem, "their place was found no more."

While Lucifer was deprived of all administrative authority in Satania, there then existed no local universe power nor tribunal which could detain or destroy this wicked rebel; at that time Michael was not a sovereign ruler. The Ancients of Days sustained the Constellation Fathers in their seizure of the system government, but they have never handed down any subsequent decisions in the many appeals still pending with regard to the present status and future disposition of Lucifer, Satan, and their associates.

Thus were these archrebels allowed to roam the entire system to seek further penetration for their doctrines of discontent and self-assertion. But in almost two hundred thousand Urantia years they have been unable to deceive another world. No Satania worlds have been lost since the fall of the thirty-seven, not even those younger worlds peopled since that day of rebellion.

 

  

THE SON OF MAN ON URANTIA

 

Lucifer and Satan freely roamed the Satania system until the completion of the bestowal mission of Michael as Jesus of Nazareth on Earth. They were last on your world together during the time of their combined assault upon the Son of Man.

Formerly, when the Planetary Princes, the "Sons of God," were periodically assembled, "Satan came also," claiming that he represented all of the isolated worlds of the fallen Planetary Princes. But he has not been accorded such liberty on Jerusem since Michael's terminal bestowal. Subsequent to their effort to corrupt Michael when in the bestowal flesh, all sympathy for Lucifer and Satan has perished throughout all Satania, that is, outside the isolated worlds of sin.

The bestowal of Michael terminated the Lucifer rebellion in all Satania aside from the planets of the apostate Planetary Princes. And this was the significance of Jesus' personal experience, just before his death in the flesh, when he one day exclaimed to his disciples, "And I beheld Satan fall as lightning from heaven." He had come with Lucifer to Urantia for the last crucial struggle.

The Son of Man was confident of success, and he knew that his triumph on your world would forever settle the status of his agelong enemies, not only in Satania but also in the other two systems where sin had entered. There was survival for mortals and security for angels when your Master, in reply to the Lucifer proposals, calmly and with divine assurance replied, "Get you behind me, Satan." That was, in principle, the real end of the Lucifer rebellion. True, the Uversa tribunals have not yet rendered the executive decision regarding the appeal of Gabriel praying for the destruction of the rebels, but such a decree will, no doubt, be forthcoming in the fullness of time since the first step in the hearing of this case has already been taken.

Caligastia (known as the Devil) was recognized by the Son of Man as the technical Prince of Urantia up to near the time of his death. Said Jesus: "Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast down." And then still nearer the completion of his lifework he announced, "The prince of this world is judged." And it is this same dethroned and discredited Prince who was once termed "God of Urantia."

The last act of Michael before leaving the Earth was to offer mercy to Caligastia and Daligastia, but they spurned his tender proffer. Caligastia, your apostate Planetary Prince, is still free on Earth to prosecute his nefarious designs, but he has absolutely no power to enter the minds of men, neither can he draw near to their souls to tempt or corrupt them unless they really desire to be cursed with his wicked presence.

Before the bestowal of Michael these rulers of darkness sought to maintain their authority on Earth, and they persistently withstood the minor and subordinate celestial personalities. But since the day of Pentecost this traitorous Caligastia and his equally contemptible associate, Daligastia, are servile before the divine majesty of the Paradise Thought Adjusters and the protective Spirit of Truth, the spirit of Michael, which has been poured out upon all flesh.

But even so, no fallen spirit ever did have the power to invade the minds or to harass the souls of the children of God. Neither Satan nor Caligastia could ever touch or approach the faith sons of God; faith is an effective armor against sin and iniquity. It is true: "He who is born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one touches him not."

In general, when weak and dissolute mortals are supposed to be under the influence of devils and demons, they are merely being dominated by their own inherent and debased tendencies, being led away by their own natural propensities. The devil has been given a great deal of credit for evil which does not belong to him. Caligastia has been comparatively impotent since the cross of Christ.

  

PRESENT STATUS OF THE REBELLION

 

Early in the days of the Lucifer rebellion, salvation was offered all rebels by Michael. To all who would show proof of sincere repentance, he offered, upon his attainment of complete universe sovereignty, forgiveness and reinstatement in some form of universe service. None of the leaders accepted this merciful proffer. But thousands of the angels and the lower orders of celestial beings, including hundreds of the Material Sons and Daughters, accepted the mercy proclaimed by the Panoptians and were given rehabilitation at the time of Jesus' resurrection nineteen hundred years ago. These beings have since been transferred to the Father's world of Jerusem, where they must be held, technically, until the Uversa courts hand down a decision in the matter of Gabriel vs. Lucifer. But no one doubts that, when the annihilation verdict is issued, these repentant and salvaged personalities will be exempted from the decree of extinction. These probationary souls now labor with the Panoptians in the work of caring for the Father's world.

The archdeceiver has never been on Urantia since the days when he sought to turn back Michael from the purpose to complete the bestowal and to establish himself finally and securely as the unqualified ruler of Nebadon. Upon Michael's becoming the settled head of the universe of Nebadon, Lucifer was taken into custody by the agents of the Uversa Ancients of Days and has since been a prisoner on satellite number one of the Father's group of the transition spheres of Jerusem. And here the rulers of other worlds and systems behold the end of the unfaithful Sovereign of Satania. Paul knew of the status of these rebellious leaders following Michael's bestowal, for he wrote of Caligastia's chiefs as "spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places."

Michael, upon assuming the supreme sovereignty of Nebadon, petitioned the Ancients of Days for authority to intern all personalities concerned in the Lucifer rebellion pending the rulings of the superuniverse tribunals in the case of Gabriel vs. Lucifer, placed on the records of the Uversa supreme court almost two hundred thousand years ago, as you reckon time. Concerning the system capital group, the Ancients of Days granted the Michael petition with but a single exception: Satan was allowed to make periodic visits to the apostate princes on the fallen worlds until another Son of God should be accepted by such apostate worlds, or until such time as the courts of Uversa should begin the adjudication of the case of Gabriel vs. Lucifer.

Satan could come to Urantia because you had no Son of standing in residence -- neither Planetary Prince nor Material Son. Machiventa Melchizedek has since been proclaimed vicegerent Planetary Prince of Urantia, and the opening of the case of Gabriel vs. Lucifer has signalized the inauguration of temporary planetary regimes on all the isolated worlds. It is true that Satan did periodically visit Caligastia and others of the fallen princes right up to the time of the presentation of these revelations, when there occurred the first hearing of Gabriel's plea for the annihilation of the archrebels. Satan is now unqualifiedly detained on the Jerusem prison worlds.

Since Michael's final bestowal no one in all Satania has desired to go to the prison worlds to minister to the interned rebels. And no more beings have been won to the deceiver's cause. For nineteen hundred years the status has been unchanged.

We do not look for a removal of the present Satania restrictions until the Ancients of Days make final disposition of the archrebels. The system circuits will not be reinstated so long as Lucifer lives. Meantime, he is wholly inactive.

The rebellion has ended on Jerusem. It ends on the fallen worlds as fast as divine Sons arrive. We believe that all rebels who will ever accept mercy have done so. We await the flashing broadcast that will deprive these traitors of personality existence. We anticipate the verdict of Uversa will be announced by the executionary broadcast which will effect the annihilation of these interned rebels. Then will you look for their places, but they shall not be found. "And they who know you among the worlds will be astonished at you; you have been a terror, but never shall you be any more." And thus shall all of these unworthy traitors "become as though they had not been." All await the Uversa decree.

But for ages the seven prison worlds of spiritual darkness in Satania have constituted a solemn warning to all Nebadon, eloquently and effectively proclaiming the great truth "that the way of the transgressor is hard"; "that within every sin is concealed the seed of its own destruction"; that "the wages of sin is death."

Presented by Manovandet Melchizedek, onetime attached to the receivership of Urantia.

                                           

                                         Charles Wharry (Darkbird18);

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Lucifer Is Never Called The Devil In The Bible, So Where Did He Come From?

Many Christians believe that the Devil, Satan, and Lucifer are three names for the same figure. But who is Lucifer? According to many scholars, Lucifer isn't Satan at all – and one argument even claims that Lucifer in the Bible actually refers to Jesus. After all, our vision of the Devil as a horned creature holding a pitchfork doesn't come from the Bible. It's possible that our view of Lucifer as Satan also has no Biblical roots

If Lucifer isn't Satan, what are Lucifer's origins? Was Lucifer another archangel, like Abbadon, the Angel of Death? Or is Lucifer even a person at all? And if Lucifer isn't Satan, why do millions of people believe that Lucifer is the Devil? To answer that question, we have to look back at Satan in the Bible and Lucifer in history to separate out the historical Devil from the historical Lucifer. 

The Argument

According to centuries of Christian writing, Lucifer is Satan. Take Dante, for example, who wrote of his journey through hell in The Inferno. When Dante reaches the lowest pits of Hell, he meets the Devil. In his writing, Dante uses four names for the massive, winged creature who rules hell: the Devil, Satan, Beelzebub, and Lucifer. By the early 14th century, when Dante wrote The Inferno, Lucifer clearly meant Satan. 

Many Christians point to the Book of Isaiah as an explanation of the Devil's history: he was originally an angel named Lucifer. However, Lucifer broke from God's authority and was banished from Heaven and cast out. Isaiah 14:12 describes the fall: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weakens the nations!"

After he lost his position in Heaven, Lucifer changed his name to Satan. For centuries, Christians have argued that Lucifer disguised himself as a serpent to tempt Eve in the Garden of Eden. The Book of Revelation predicts that Lucifer will be tormented for a thousand years after Christ's return. From man's creation through the Apocalypse, Lucifer will torment mankind as the enemy of God. 

There's just one problem: many Biblical scholars argue that Lucifer isn't Satan at all. And they bring persuasive evidence to show that Christians have mixed the tLucifer Is Never Mentioned In The Bible, So Where Did He Come From? image

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wo up for nearly two thousand years.

The Counter-Argument

In Latin, Lucifer means bringer of light. It's a strange choice for the name of Satan, also called the Prince of Darkness. What's more, the Romans didn't use Lucifer as the word for Satan. Instead, Lucifer meant Venus, the planet. As one of the brightest stars in the sky, Venus was called the Morning Star, or light-bringer. How did the Roman word for Venus find its way into the Vulgate, the Latin translation of the Bible?

The Old Testament, where Lucifer first appears, was originally written in Hebrew. The original text of Isaiah used the word ×œֵילֵ×”, or helel, to mean "shining one." Latin translators read the word as "morning star," using the Latin word Lucifer for the Hebrew helel. The choice must have confused some Roman readers since Lucifer was a Roman god. In Roman mythologyLucifer Is Never Mentioned In The Bible, So Where Did He Come From? image

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, Lucifer was called the light-bearer, the equivalent of the Greek god Phosphorus or Eosphoros. The Romans saw Lucifer as a male god carrying a torch, symbolizing Venus's brightness at dawn. Roman poets described Lucifer as the herald of dawn, and Lucifer was often depicted as a shining star.

The word "Lucifer" only appears one time in the Old Testament, in the Isaiah verse. By contrast, Satan appears multiple times, often described as the adversary or the opponent. In the New Testament, the Devil becomes an even more common figure, as Jesus warned his followers to beware of the Devil's attempts to lure them from the chosen path.

Surprisingly, "Lucifer" does appear in the Latin version of the New Testament - as a description for Jesus. Professor Henry Kelly explains, "Jesus is called 'Lucifer' or 'the morning star' because he represents a new beginning." In short, the original text of the Bible never used Lucifer to mean Satan. In fact, the word "Lucifer" was more closely associated with Jesus than the Devil.

The Historical Development of Lucifer as Satan

If the Old Testament reference to Lucifer didn't mean Satan, and the New Testament reference to Lucifer meant Jesus, how did Lucifer become Satan?

The first references to Lucifer as Satan date to the 3rd century, after the New Testament, had been in circulation for nearly 200 years. Professor Henry Kelly explains how the Latin word for light-bearer was misinterpreted as Satan. The ancient Hebrew in the Book of Isaiah doesn't refer to Satan at all. According to Kelly, Isaiah refers to a Babylonian king, using the metaphor of Venus.

But in the 3rd century, the early Christian theologian Origen claimed the verse referred to Satan. "Origen says, 'Lucifer is said to have fallen from Heaven,'" Kelly relates. "'This can't refer to a human being, so it must refer to Satan.' Subsequent Church fathers found this reasoning persuasive, and so did everyone who followed them."

Origen's reasoning drew on Lucifer's classical connection to Venus. In one of his commentaries, Origen described Earth as, “that seat of war, on which Lucifer, star of the morning, fell from heaven, to be warred against and destroyed by Jesus.” The astronomical understanding gradually faded, even in Origen's writings. In De Principiis, Origen linked the falling star in Isaiah with Jesus's New Testament words, "Behold, I see Satan fallen from heaven like lightning." Origen reasons that Satan was Lucifer - once a being of light who fell from Heaven.

Origin wasn't the only 3rd century Christian to see Satan in Isaiah's verse. Tertullian claimed the line was about the Devil. Later writers echoed this interpretation. Gregory the Theologian (325-389 CE), Eusebius of Caesarea (263-339 CE), and St. Gildas (6th c.) all link the Devil with Isaiah's description of Lucifer. Writing in the 4th century, for example, Gregory the Theologian declared, "The nature of the divine essence is then above all conception by human intelligence. It is, moreover, well that it is so. For... we should, perhaps, lose ourselves through pride, like Lucifer, if it were given us too soon." 

These influential writers shaped centuries of Christian thinking. With their attention to light and darkness, plus a close reading of the Bible, many early Christian theologians saw Satan in Isaiah's description of a fallen light-bringer – even though the original Old Testament verse never intended that interpretation.

Conclusion

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lars claim that Isaiah 14:12, the only reference to Lucifer in the Old Testament, does not refer to Satan. The Jewish Encyclopedia says the line refers to a Babylonian king, and most Biblical scholars agree. Hebrew scholar Lee Fields explains that Isaiah 14:12 has nothing to do with Satan. But centuries of misreading changed the meaning of the passage. Fields point out, "The name Lucifer, then, meaning 'light-bearer,' is quite appropriate for Christians and their task of bringing the light of the gospel to the world," pointing to New Testament verses calling Jesus the "morning star." Fields continues, "Of course, given the historic identification of Lucifer as the name for Satan, this meaning would be completely lost today."

Christians have 1700 years of Biblical scholars, dating back to Origen, proclaiming that Lucifer is Satan. The line fits with other Biblical descriptions of Satan falling from Heaven. Plus, centuries of cultural references, at least dating back to Dante, use Lucifer as another name for the Devil. The evolution of Lucifer holds a valuable lesson: the meaning of words changes over time. Similarly, religions evolve. New interpretations breath new meaning into text. After all, no one today would use "Lucifer" as a title for Jesus, even if the New Testament calls Jesus the bringer of light.

Lucifer means something very different today than it did 2,000 years ago.

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