2. Angels named
a. Michael -- Archangel (chief)
Dan. 10:13 “But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.”
Who is Michael, specifically? (David Guzik)
(1) He is mentioned by name in four passages of the Bible: Dan 10, Dan 12, Rev 12 and here.
(2) Every time he is presented in the context of battle, or readiness to fight.
(3) He is an archangel, or a leading angel; we don't know for certain if he is the only archangel.
Michael seems to be the angelic representative of Israel, battling against the demonic representative of Persia; on earth, Israel seemed lowly and weak; but in the heavens, it had the mightiest representative
of all. (David Guzik)
Dan. 10:21; Dan. 12:1;
Jude v. 9 “Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.”
b. Gabriel -- Messenger Dan. 8:16; Dan. 9:21; Luke 1:19
Dan 8:16 “And I heard a man’s voice between [the banks of] Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this [man] to understand the vision.”
Luke 1:18 “And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.”
Luke 1:19 “And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.”
c. Abaddon -- Some say this is Satan.
Rev. 9:11 “And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon.”
Perhaps Apollyon is Satan himself, or another high-ranking leader of demons. (David Guzik)
d. Lucifer ? -- "the anointed cherub" Ezek. 28:14 [No name given here.]
Law of Double Reference according to Dake: A visible person is immediately addressed while at the same time an invisible person who is using the visible person as a tool to hinder the plan of God is also addressed. pg 118 God’s Plan for Man
Example: Jesus said to Peter, “Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou art an offense to me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men” Matt. 16:23
“Thou [art] the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee [so]: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.”
03742 k@ruwb {ker-oob'} of uncertain derivation; TWOT - 1036; n m
AV - cherubims 64, cherub 27; 91
1) cherub, cherubim (pl)
1a) an angelic being
1a1) as guardians of Eden
1a2) as flanking God's throne
1a3) as an image form hovering over the Ark of the Covenant
1a4) as the chariot of Jehovah (fig.)
3. Lucifer? -- According to Ezekiel
a. Wiser than Daniel Ezek. 28:3
“Behold, thou [art] wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:”
Remember the dream interpretations of Daniel and the visions (secrets). The person being addressed is no ordinary person to be wiser than Daniel. Or, he only thinks within himself that he is wiser than Daniel.
b. Perfect in beauty Ezek. 28:12
“Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum [high above all], full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.”
c. Hast been in Eden (Pleasure) v. 13a --Not Adam's Eden
“Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; 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.”
d. Dressed [man]or implanted [angel] with stones, etc. v. 13b
“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”
He [Lucifer] was clothed in a garment that was covered with the most rare and precious gems,
(Clarence Larkin pg 112)
e. Musical Ezek. 28:13c
“the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes [holes] was prepared in thee”
pipes--literally, "holes" in musical pipes or flutes.
“musical instruments built into his being” pg 134 Charles K. Ramsden Sr. The Prehistoric Ages
f. Created Ezek 28:13c “in the day that thou wast created.”
Men are not created beyond Adam. This is not a man being addressed.
g. Anointed Ezek 28:14
anointed cherub--GESENIUS translates from an Aramaic root, "extended cherub." English Version, from a Hebrew root, is better. "The cherub consecrated to the Lord by the anointing oil" [FAIRBAIRN].
covereth--The imagery employed by Ezekiel as a priest is from the Jewish temple, wherein the cherubim overshadowed the mercy seat, as the king of Tyre, a demi-god in his own esteem, extended his protection over the interests of Tyre. The cherub--an ideal compound of the highest kinds of animal existence and the type of redeemed man in his ultimate state of perfection--is made the image of the king of Tyre, as if the beau ideal of humanity. The pretensions of Antichrist are the ulterior reference, of whom the king of Tyre is a type. Compare "As God . . . in the temple of God"
( 2Th 2:4 ).
Cover -- To entwine, fence in, defend or hedge in, protect and rule. (Dake)
h. Perfect in ways -- free will v. 15
“Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created,”
Men are not perfect. Again, this individual was created.
i. Iniquity found in v. 15 (Later)
“till iniquity was found in thee.”
Psa 51:5 “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.”
He was the Guardian of the throne of God. The probability is that the original Earth was placed under his governship, and was the scene of the first rebellion against the Kingdom of God, for which Satan was responsible. For this sin, Satan was deposed from the governorship, and is now the Prince of the powers of the air, the earth being thrown into a chaotic state. (Clarence Larkin pg 110 Dispensational Truth)
j. Cast out to the mountain of God v. 16
“By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned:
therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.”
No angel was in the mountain of God when an earthly king of Tyre ruled, so the reference is to the eternal past when the cherub himself had a literal throne on Earth on the holy mountain of God. Here we have insight into the position of Lucifer before his fall, and a revelation regarding the cause of his fall. (Dake)
4. Lucifer -- According to Isaiah [Named specifically. Only occurrence of the word “Lucifer”.
THE SCENE CHANGES FROM EARTH TO HELL. Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown
Isaiah 14:9 “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.”
07585 sh@'owl {sheh-ole'} or sh@ol {sheh-ole'} from 07592; TWOT - 2303c; n f
AV - grave 31, hell 31, pit 3; 65
1) sheol, underworld, grave, hell, pit
1a) the underworld
1b) Sheol - the OT designation for the abode of the dead
1b1) place of no return
1b2) without praise of God
1b3) wicked sent there for punishment
1b4) righteous not abandoned to it
1b5) of the place of exile (fig)
1b6) of extreme degradation in sin
Hades (the Amenthes of Egypt), the unseen abode of the departed; some of its tenants, once mighty monarchs, are represented by a bold personification as rising from their seats in astonishment at the descent among them of the humbled king of Babylon. This proves, in opposition to WARBURTON [The Divine
Legation], that the belief existed among the Jews that there was a Sheol or Hades, in which the "Rephaim" or manes of the departed abode.
9. moved--put into agitation. [waken, arouse, incite]
for thee--that is, "at thee"; towards thee; explained by "to meet thee at thy coming" [MAURER].
chief ones--literally, "goats"; so rams, leaders of the flock; princes ( Zec 10:3). The idea of wickedness on a gigantic scale is included ( Eze 34:17 Mat 25:32, 33 ). MAGEE derives "Rephaim" (English Version, "the dead") from a Hebrew root, "to resolve into first elements"; so "the deceased"
( Isa 26:14 ) "ghosts" ( Pro 21:16 ). These being magnified by the imagination of the living into gigantic stature, gave their name to giants in general ( Gen 6:4 14:5 Eze 32:18, 21 ). "Rephaim," translated in the Septuagint, "giants" (compare see on JF & B for Job 26:5, 6). Thence, as the giant Rephaim of Canaan were notorious even in that guilty land, enormous wickedness became connected with the term. So the Rephaim came to be the wicked spirits in Gehenna, the lower of the two portions into which Sheol is divided.
Isa 14:10 “All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?”
10. They taunt him and derive from his calamity consolation under their own (Eze 31:16 ).
weak--as a shade bereft of blood and life. Rephaim, "the dead," may come from a Hebrew root, meaning similarly "feeble," "powerless." The speech of the departed closes with Isa 14:11 .
Isa 14:11 “Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, [and] the noise of thy viols [harp, lute, guitar, musical instrument]: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.”
01347 ga'own {gaw-ohn'} from 01342; TWOT - 299e; n m
AV - pride 20, excellency 10, majesty 7, pomp 5, swelling 3, arrogancy 2, excellent 1, proud 1; 49
1) exaltation, majesty, pride
1a) majesty, exaltation, excellence
1a1) of nations
1a2) of God
1a3) of the Jordan
1b) pride, arrogance (bad sense)
11. "Pomp" and music, the accompaniment of Babylon's former feastings (Isa 5:12 24:8 ), give place to the corruption and the stillness of the grave ( Eze 32:27 ).
worm--that is bred in putridity.
worms--properly those from which the crimson dye is obtained. Appropriate here; instead of the crimson coverlet, over thee shall be "worms." Instead of the gorgeous couch, "under thee" shall
be the maggot.
Isa 14:12-15 . THE JEWS ADDRESS HIM AGAIN AS A FALLEN ONCE-BRIGHT STAR.
The language is so framed as to apply to the Babylonian king primarily, and at the same time to shadow forth through him, the great final enemy, the man of sin, Antichrist, of Daniel, St. Paul, and St. John; he alone shall fulfil exhaustively all the lineaments here given.
Isa 14:12 “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!”
01966 heylel {hay-lale'} from 01984 (in the sense of brightness); TWOT - 499a; n m
AV - Lucifer 1; 1 Lucifer = "light-bearer"
1) shining one, morning star, Lucifer
1a) of the king of Babylon and Satan (fig.)
2) (TWOT) 'Helel' describing the king of Babylon
12. Lucifer--"day star." A title truly belonging to Christ ( Rev 22:16 ), "the bright and morning star," and therefore hereafter to be assumed by Antichrist. GESENIUS, however, renders the Hebrew here as in Eze 21:12 Zec 11:2 , "howl."
weaken--"prostrate"; as in Exd 17:13 , "discomfit."
Isa 14:13 “For thou hast said in thine 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:”
13. above . . . God--In Dan 8:10 , "stars" express earthly potentates. "The stars" are often also used to express heavenly principalities ( Job 38:7 ).
mount of the congregation--the place of solemn meeting between God and His people in the temple
at Jerusalem. In Dan 11:37 , and 2Th 2:4 , this is attributed to Antichrist.
sides of the north--namely, the sides of Mount Moriah on which the temple was built; north of Mount Zion ( Psa 48:2 ). However, the parallelism supports the notion that the Babylonian king expresses himself according to his own, and not Jewish opinions (so in Isa 10:10 ) thus "mount of the congregation" will mean the northern mountain (perhaps in Armenia) fabled by the Babylonians to be the common meeting-place of their gods. "Both sides" imply the angle in which the sides meet; and so the expression comes to mean "the extreme parts of the north." So the Hindus place the Meru, the dwelling-place of their gods, in the north, in the Himalayan mountains. So the Greeks, in the northern Olympus. The Persian followers of Zoroaster put the Ai-bordsch in the Caucasus north of them. The allusion to the stars harmonizes with this; namely, that those near the North Pole, the region of the aurora borealis (compare see on JF & B for Job 23:9; Job 37:22 )
[MAURER, Septuagint, Syriac].
Isa 14:14 “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.”
14. clouds--rather, "the cloud," singular. Perhaps there is a reference to the cloud, the symbol of the divine presence ( Isa 4:5 Exd 13:21 ). So this tallies with 2Th 2:4 , "above all that is called God"; as here "above . . . the cloud"; and as the Shekinah-cloud was connected with the temple, there follows, "he as God sitteth in the temple of God," answering to "I will be like the Most High" here.
Moreover, Rev 17:4, 5 , represents Antichrist as seated in BABYLON, to which city, literal and spiritual, Isaiah refers here.
Isa 14:15 “Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.”
15. to hell--to Sheol ( Isa 14:6 ), thou who hast said, "I will ascend into heaven" ( Mat 11:23 ).
sides of the pit--antithetical to the "sides of the north" ( Isa 14:13 ). Thus the reference is to the sides of the sepulcher round which the dead were arranged in niches. But MAURER here, as in
Isa 14:13, translates, "the extreme," or innermost parts of the sepulchre: as in Eze 32:23
(compare 1Sa 24:3 ).
F. Earth Gen. 1:1“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
If you believe Genesis 1:1, you really have no problem believing the rest of the Bible.
David Guzik --Could all this happen by accident? Not a chance. What did God create the world out of? The Hebrew word bara [Gen. 1] (create) is specific: He created the world out of nothing; not out of Himself. God is separate from His creation; unlike Eastern and pantheistic perceptions of who god is, the Bible teaches that the universe could perish, yet He would remain. Men cannot "create" in the sense the term is used in Genesis 1:1. We can only "fashion" or "form" things out of existing material. The closest we come to creating is in reproducing ourselves sexually. This is perhaps one reason why Satan wants to pervert and destroy God's plan and standard for sexuality; it is deeply connected to our being made in the image of God.
Some 100 years ago, there was a great German philosopher named Arthur Schopenhauer. By habit, he usually dressed like a bum, and one day he was sitting on a park bench in Berlin, deep in thought. His appearance made a policeman suspicious, so the policeman asked the philosopher "Who are you?" Schopenhauer answered, "I would to God I knew."
Genesis shows us the origins of: the universe, order and complexity, the solar system, the atmosphere and
hydrosphere, the origin of life, man, marriage, evil, language, government, culture, nations, religion. It is precisely because people have abandoned the truth of Genesis that society is in such disarray.
(David Guzik)
Jean-Paul Sarte stated the essential problem of philosophy: that there is something, instead of nothing. Why? Everything else in our life flows from the answer to this question. If everything around us, including ourselves, is the result of random, meaningless occurrences, apart from the work of a creating God, then it says something about who I am - and where I, and where the whole universe is going. Then the only dignity or honor we bestow upon men is pure sentimentality, because I don't have any more significance than an amoeba; then there is no greater law in the universe than survival of the fittest. (David Guzik)
Job 38:4-7“Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.”
(v. 5) “Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?”
(v. 6) “Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;”
(v. 7) “When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”
Ps 104:5 “[Who] laid the foundations of the earth, [that] it should not be removed for ever.”
Hebrews 1:1 “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, (v. 2) Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds [165];”
165 aion {ahee-ohn'} from the same as 104; TDNT - 1:197,31; n m
AV - ever 71, world 38, never + 3364 + 1519 + 3588 6, evermore 4, age 2, eternal 2, misc 5; 128
1) for ever, an unbroken age, perpetuity of time, eternity
2) the worlds, universe
3) period of time, age
worlds--literally, "ages"; all that exists in time and space, visible and invisible, present and eternal.
(Same word as in Hebrews 11:3.)
G. A paradise state is created on Earth and populated with Pre-Adam Man ? Genesis 1:1
1. Not in the image of God
2. Did not have dominion
(We are not given the details of the creation of the old world and pre-Adam "man".)
3. Pre-Adam Civilization is destroyed.
H. Restoration of the Solar System, Plants and Animals, etc. are re-Created
I. Man Created in the Image of God
