Jesus is the New Lucifer

No, that is not a mistype.  I hope you have the patience, curiosity, or wherewithal to finish the article before you judge.  Let's begin.
==Lucifer==
It is necessary first to address the name Lucifer.  The word Lucifer is found only once in the entire English Bible, and then in only a very few translations.  Most of those are the older translations like the KJV.  The word is found in Isaiah 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!
Let me first explain briefly that Lucifer is NOT the being we know as Satan or the Devil.  The myth that Satan used to be an angel and that he fell/was cast out of Heaven for whatever reason is just that, a myth.  It comes from a very cursory reading of Isaiah 14 and Revelation 12 with zero depth of understanding of either passage.  If Heaven is a place where sin can exist and folks can get kicked out of, then how is it practically any different than this temporal existence?
In my article on Isaiah 13-14 I tentatively identify who Lucifer is.  Here in this article I will take this to the farthest examination I have gone.
Isaiah 14:4 explicitly identifies who is being prophecied against in this context.
: That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Therefore, Lucifer is the king of Babylon, whoever that is in this context.
==Babylon==
If you read my articles on Isaiah, you will see that I lay out a premise about the book that must be accepted to properly understand the book of Isaiah.  The book of prophecy, written in the time of the last four kings of Judah, is a book that is primarily about the eventual end of Judaism in "the last days" (Isa. 2:2).  To that end, Isaiah uses the other nations round about Judah as a foil to compare Judah to, just as Jesus did concerning the cities of Judah in Matthew 10:14-15 and Chorazin, Behtsaida, and Capernaum in Matthew 11:20-24, as Paul did concerning the Jews in Romans 9:29, and as John did concerning Jerusalem in Revelation 11:8.  In Isaiah 13, we see a prophecy concerning the literal fall of Babylon to the Medes.  Then in chapter 14 we see the comparison of Judah and Jerusalem to Babylon.
Therefore, the king of Babylon is actually a reference to the kings of the Jews in the last days.
==Daystar==
Lucifer is the LATIN translation of the GREEK word phosphorus, which in turn comes from the HEBREW word heylel. The meaning of these words is “daystar”, “morning star”, or “light bearer”. In every case this is a reference to the planet Venus.  In the Greek Septuagint (the Greek Text of the Old Testament in use during the first century AD and quoted by Jesus and the other NT writers) uses the word phosphorus here in Isaiah 14:12.
As has been said numerous times in many articles, celestial bodies like the sun, moon, and stars (an in this case a planet that mortals mistook for a star) represent leaders.  They are associated with light because when a king is doing his job, he brings "light" -- knowledge, wisdom, prosperity, peace, etc. -- to his people.
In this context, however, the daystar/morning star that is the "king of Babylon", the metaphor for the kings of the Jews in the last days, the first century AD, falls from heaven.  Heaven in apocalyptic language represents the sphere of government authority.  This ruler, or rulers as the case is shown to be, fall from power according to Isaiah's prophecy.  Judaism was ending and the Herods had done a poor job as kings of God's people.  Rather than being like David or Josiah, they operated more like Saul or Jeraboam, leading their people into whoredom with the nation of Rome.  Under the Herods, Jesus Christ was crucified.  Under the Herods, Jerusalem was called the great harlot who sat upon the sea beast, Rome, in Revelation 17 and 18.  They were the last kings of Judah and oversaw the fall of Judaism and the old, physical Jerusalem.
==Jesus Christ, the New Lucifer==
There are a number of times where the phrase "morning star" or "daystar" (light bringer) are used in New Testament.  These are all clearly references to Jesus.
Rev 2:28 - And I will give him the morning star.
Rev 22:16 - I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
2 Peter 1:19 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
Note, though, that in the Greek, the first two verses use the word aster for star.  Of special note is the passage in 2 Peter 1:19 which uses the word phosphorus.  This is the same Greek word as used in Isaiah 14:12 in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, that is translated "Lucifer" in the Latin.
So, if this word is translated Lucifer in the Latin in Isaiah 14:12, it should be translated Lucifer in 2 Peter 1:19 if the translators are consistent.  However, since 2 Peter 1:19 is clearly a reference to Jesus Christ, then we can say that Jesus Christ is the New Lucifer, the Light Bringer of the New Testament.
==The Bright and Morning Star==
Bringing this all together, this is the proper understanding.
: 1.  Jesus Christ is the light of the world, the one who brings knowledge, wisdom, truth, protection, and prosperity (in spiritual things, not necessarily physical things) to His kingdom.  Like the kings of old, He is the brightest light, the eternal light in this case for His kingdom will never end.  He is the government represented in the new heavens ruling over the new earth as Peter writes of in 2 Peter 3.  Just as Lucifer was king over "Babylon" the representation of physical Israel, Jesus is the antitype of the type given in the kings of Israel, kings such as David, and yes, even the Herods being that they were kings over physical Israel and Jesus is King over spiritual Israel.
: 2.  We can and must also conclude that Lucifer is not the being known as Satan or the Devil and we must cast off false traditions and myths in favor of the truth.
In Truth and Love.
Category:Apocalyptic