When did God create Lucifer or how old is Lucifer?

Answer 1

"Lucifer"- The Shining One

A descriptive designation applied to the "king of Babylon." (Isa 14:4, 12) The Hebrew expression thus translated (NW,Ro, Yg) comes from a root meaning "shine." (Job 29:3) The rendering "Lucifer" (KJ, Da) is derived from the Latin Vulgate.

The "shining one" is represented as saying in his heart: "Above the stars of God I shall lift up my throne, and I shall sit down upon the mountain of meeting." (Isa 14:13) Biblical evidence points to Mount Zion as the "mountain of meeting." Hence, since stars can refer to kings (Nu 24:17; Re 22:16), "the stars of God" must be the kings of the Davidic line who ruled from Mount Zion. The "king of Babylon" (the dynasty of Babylonian kings), reflecting the attitude of Satan the god of this system of things, indicated his ambition to lift up his throne "above the stars of God" by desiring to make the kings of the line of David mere vassals and then finally to dethrone them. Like stars that shed light, the "king of Babylon" shone brightly in the ancient world and could be termed "shining one."

To find out who and how old Lucifer is, it is often easiest to work backwards from the known to the unknown.

1. When Christ returns He will bind the animal called the dragon which is also known as the serpent or Devil or Satan:-

Rev 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

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This creature is a deceiver:-

Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

3. Eve was deceived by this serpent /Devil/Satan :-

Gen 3:14-15 KJV And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: (v.15) And I will put enmity between thee [the serpent] and the woman [Eve], and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

4. Satan fell from heaven:-

Luk 10:18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Satan was thrown out into the earth together with his angels:-

Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

5. Lucifer also fell from heaven :-

Isa 14:12 KJV How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!,

Also see other versions :-

ASV) How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! ...

(BBE) How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! ...

(GNB) King of Babylon, bright morning star, you have fallen from heaven! ...

(MKJV) How you are fallen from the heavens, O shining star, son of the morning! ...

(WEB) How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! ...

7. The word 'Lucifer' means 'light bringer', and Satan is also known as an angel of light:-

The Hebrew word translated as 'Lucifer' in Isaiah 14:12 (How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!,..)is 'helel' meaning, 'to shine', or 'to bear light', and when Jerome translated this Hebrew word into Latin he used the Latin term "Lucifer" , and the translators of the King James Bible simply transliterated this term from Jerome's Latin Vulgate version into the English.

2Co 11:14 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

Put simply, Lucifer is Satan.

8. The 'king of Tyre' is not a man but refers to Lucifer/Satan.

Eze 28:12-17 KJV 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, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. (v.13) 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. (v.14) 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. (v.15) Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. (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. (v.17) Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

He had been fully wise, and perfect in beauty,had been in Eden, was a created being, was the anointed cherub that covereth, had been at the Throne of God, had been in the midst of the stones of fire, had been perfect since he had been created until he sinned, and had been cast out of heaven. The 'king of Tyre' is clearly Satan.

9. Lucifer rebelled against God :-

Isa 14:12-15 KJV 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! (v.13) For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars [ie other angels: see Job 38:v.4, v.7] of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: (v.14) I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (v.15) Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

In The Bible 'stars' often refers to 'angels' . The 'sons of God' refers to angels, not men: (men are sons of Adam). As angels celebrated at the creation of the earth they had to be created before then, and as all of them sang for joy this must have been before Lucifer fell as a result of his sin because there are no fallen angels:

Job 38 v:4,7 .4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?....[ie created the Earth before Satan's rebellion] 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

God created Lucifer, who later became Satan, before anything was created including Time: he was created untold aeons ago in eternity past and is therefore timeless.