Lucifer: The myth the devil used to be a big deal.

Isaiah 14.12-15. As I said in my article on the devil, the bible doesn’t tell us where Satan came from. It just shows up in Zechariah to accuse the head priest Joshua; Zc 3.1-2 then shows up in 2 Chronicles to get David to sin; 1Ch 21.1 then shows up in Job to challenge the L ORD ’s perception of Job. Jb 1.6-12 It’s not till Revelation was written that we definitively found out the serpent in Eden was Satan all along, Rv 12.9 so it was around from the beginning—and, as Jesus points out, a dirty liar and murderer from the beginning. Jn 8.44 Popular Christian culture insists Satan’s origins are totally spelled out in the bible—if you know where to look. Ask any semi-knowledgeable Christian about where it came from, and they’ll track down this specific passage in Isaiah . Here, they claim, is where the devil went wrong. Isaiah 14.12-15 KJV 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the