Article For How Long Was Satan Faithful?

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For How Long was Satan Faithful in God's Kingdom Before His Fall?

This angel known by many names such as “Lucifer” or “the devil” as we know him is not a stupid red being with pointed tail and ears who has beady eyes and sinister appearance. He was one of the guardian cherubim that protected the holiness and purity of God the Father. Ezekiel is thought in his lamentation to figuratively portray the King of Tyre as a type of this special angel of God.

Ezekiel 28:12-17

12 "Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: `This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "`You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz and emerald, chrysolite, onyx and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and beryl. Your settings and mountings were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared. 14 You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones. 15 You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you. 16 Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones. 17 Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings. NIV

For some period of time in creation past this angel existed as part of God’s beautiful perfection. From God’s description Lucifer could not be improved in any way. Every part of his being added up to complete wisdom and beauty. His appearance was something to behold as well – a superior contrast of colors as described by the different stones. The “holy mount of God” speaks of his high position in God’s government of the creation. He “walked among the fiery stones” revealing his access to power from God. He was “ordained” or set apart and prepared for this special purpose in heaven past. God said of him, “You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created,” testifying for at least some period of time from the day he was created He did God’s will.

Satan was created at a specific point of time - “the day he was created.” This again speaks of measurements of God’s past telling us the Eternal lives within the domain of time in relation to His creation. Was the day one of the six days recorded in Genesis? Not if he watched the creative actions of the Son as taught in Job. Lucifer functioned as designed from his creation until another dreadful point in God’s past.

Job 38:1-7
38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,
2 "Who is this that darkens counsel
By words without knowledge?
3 "Now gird up your loins like a man,
And I will ask you, and you instruct Me!
4 "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding,
5 Who set its measurements, since you know?
Or who stretched the line on it?
6 "On what were its bases sunk?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
7 When the morning stars sang together,
And all the sons of God shouted for joy? NASB (Emphasis mine)

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