(Section 5) Lucifer's Exaltation Series

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