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The Book of Moses, included in the LDS standard works canon, references the war in heaven and Satan's origin as a fallen angel of light. [15] The concept of a war in heaven at the end of time became an addendum to the story of Satan's fall at the genesis of time—a narrative which included Satan and a third of all of heaven's angels.
The Fallen Angel (1847) by Alexandre Cabanel. The most common meaning for Lucifer in English is as a name for the Devil in Christian theology.He appeared in the King James Version of the Bible in Isaiah [1] and before that in the Vulgate (the late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible), [2] not as the name of a devil but as the Latin word lucifer (uncapitalized), [3] [4] meaning "the ...
The word with the definite article Ha-Satan (Hebrew: הַשָּׂטָן hasSāṭān) occurs 17 times in the Masoretic Text, in two books of the Hebrew Bible: Job ch. 1–2 (14×) and Zechariah 3:1–2 (3×). [12] [13] It is translated in English bibles mostly as 'Satan'. The Examination of Job (c. 1821) by William Blake
"How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!" [14] "Fallen from heaven": see Luke 10:15, 18 for the words of Jesus regarding the War in Heaven. "Lucifer" or "Daystar" (Hebrew: הילל, romanized: hēlēl, from Hebrew: הלל, romanized: hālal, "to shine").
In the Life of Adam and Eve, Satan was cast out of heaven for his refusal to prostrate himself before man, likely the most common explanation for Satan's fall in Proto-orthodox Christianity. [133] Christianity, however, depicted the fall of angels as an event prior to the creation of humans.
In verses 7–9, Satan is defeated in the War in Heaven against Michael and his angels: "the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth and his angels were thrown down with him". [43]
In the King James Version of the Bible, the text reads: Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. The English Standard Version translates the passage as: Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him. For a collection of other versions see BibleHub Matthew 4:11.
The title of satan is also applied to him in the midrash Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer, where he is the chief of the fallen angels, [7]: 257–60 and a twelve-winged seraph. [14] According to the text, Samael opposed the creation of Adam and descended to Earth to tempt him into evil.