I never knew that about Lucifer being above the opening. Interesting!
Vicki
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From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: passages concerning the devil
> Matt,
>
> Before I go hunting down all the passages, I need to check and see if I
have
> a file on the verses already. However, for now, Satan, or Lucifer, was
one
> of the top three angels. Michael, Gabriel, and Lucifer. These three
angels
> are depicted with wings in the Old Testament. They are cherubim. When
you
> read about the mercy seat of God and its construction, or the temple of
God
> that King Solomon built, the cherubim are mentioned to be made with wings.
> Lucifer means light bearer or morning star or day star. You find more
about
> this in Isaiah chapter fourteen. If you also read in Ezekiel chapter 28
> from verses 13 through nineteen, you will learn more of his original
nature.
> It is there he is called a covering cherub which most take this to mean
that
> above the mercyseat, there was an opening left by the out stretched wings
of
> the two cherubim facing each other at either end of the mercy seat. It is
> believed, according to the Ezekiel passage I just mentioned, that the
third
> angel, or Lucifer, was above this opening to cover God from all sides. He
> isn't anything, therefore, as man has described. He is very likely the
most
> beautiful creature God ever made as you will read in the passages I have
> mentioned already and it was his beauty that caused him to sin and to
> consider himself higher than God. That's why he was kicked out of Heaven.
>
> Phil.
>
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