Did you know that the Devil was the first angel?
Jesus Christ was begotten of God the Father, and so he is the Son of God, “the firstborn of every creature” (ref. Colossians 1:15). In turn, Jesus Christ created everything and all life (ref. Colossians 1:16) – of course mankind on earth, but also the angels of heaven. Among the angels of heaven, my guess is, the first that was ever created was Lucifer.
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! …
Isaiah 14:12
Isaiah 14:12 tells that the angel Lucifer, meaning “the bearer of light”, was in a way a son of Jesus Christ, who is the morning star.
More specifically, Lucifer was the “anointed cherub” in Eden, the garden of God. A number of precious stones covered him (ref. Ezekiel 28:13). And he was also made with tabrets and pipes (ref. Ezekiel 28:13), meaning music was something that he was good at.
He was an angel of God until he became corrupted by pride, by envy, and by the wisdom that he had acquired from the forbidden fruit of Eden.
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. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
Ezekiel 28:14-15
His fall from grace turned him into the adversary of God, in Hebrew literally “Satan”.
His beguiling of “Eve” in Eden while in the form of a serpent, also known as a “dragon”, which began the phenomena of “evil”, cursed him and all who take his side to have their heads in the dirt, eating dust (ref. Genesis 3:14).
So, Satan, the leader of the fallen angels, also known as “demons” or “devils”, was the first of the angels.
In the movie Alien Covenant (2017), the android who took the name David, the first of his kind created by Peter Weyland is supposed to represent the angel Lucifer. Notice in his conversation with his creator, while in a spacious white room with a picture of The Nativity, with a chair evoking a throne, with a statue of Michelangelo’s David, with a view of mountains, and with a piano with which he plays Wagner’s “The entry of the gods into Valhalla”, a favourite among Nazis, there is resentment that he the immortal android was made to serve his human master, presumably a reference to the Son of man. This is the same movie that contains Percy Shelley’s poem about the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, which foretells Babylon’s modern-day bioweapon the virus Sars-Cov-2: “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Make no mistake, Lucifer despises God and wants to destroy all of his creation, in any possible way.
So, angels were created to serve God as messengers. The word “angel” comes from the Greek word angelos which means “messenger”. Angels were also created to sing praises to God and play music. I am sure you have heard the hymns “Hark, the herald angels sing”, and “Les anges dans nos campagnes”, which tell of angels announcing the birth of the Son of man, and the eventual liberation of Israel.
Lucifer himself was a “light bearer”, and he was created with “tabrets” and “pipes”, a talent for music.
But many have forgotten or are not aware that angels also serve the kingdom of heaven as soldiers of an army (ref. Revelation 19:14, Psalms 148:2).
Shortly before the time of the end, this army splits into two: one third take the side of Satan, formerly known as Lucifer; and two thirds take the side of the archangel Michael, the captain of the part of the army that remains loyal to God (ref. Revelation 12:7-12).
Because of the way humans perceive time, this civil war in heaven has led to “demons” or “fallen angels” in the distant past being described in the Bible as “the host of heaven”, meaning specifically the rebels of the army of heaven.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father destroyed; and he reared up the altars of Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2 Kings 21:2-3
If you don’t realise that demons are “soldiers”, waging a war of rebellion against God, listen to the 2020 song “Soldiers” by Neoni and Fjora, the same music artists of the 2019 song “Demons”.
“Rushing forward, raise the gates
And usher in the madness
Catch our breath as they descend
Together in the darkness
We can stand our ground
Stand our ground
We stand our ground
It’s what we’ve waited for
We’re soldiers
Marching on
Survivors
Standing strong
To the ends of the earth
At the edge of the world.”
Notice especially in the song, “marching on”, “madness”, “darkness” and “the ends of the earth”.
Now, for the next nugget.
In parts of the Bible, the phrase “the queen of heaven” refers to angels that have sided with Satan: angels pretending to be “gods” and receiving worship from humans.
Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place…
Jeremiah 7:17-20
In Talmudic Judaism and some American evangelical churches, the expression “Shekinah Glory” is supposed to mean God the Father, yet it is grammatically feminine, thereby suggesting God is a woman and a queen.
In Roman Catholicism, Mary the mother of the Son of man is often exalted and revered alongside Jesus Christ.
In ancient Egypt, Isis was the goddess that transcended all others. The same was known as Ishtar to the ancient Assyrians. And to the Romans, she was Libertas, as in Liberty and even America’s Statue of Liberty.
The musician Rihanna has the Egyptian goddess Isis complete with wings tattooed on her torso.
ISIS is also an acronym of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a phenomenon that began in 2014, that subsequently received a “deadly wound” (ref. Revelation 13:3), and something that will rise again soon to form the empire of the Assyrian, the rider of the horse of the fourth seal of the apocalypse.
All these are manifestations of the idea of the queen of heaven, a reference to Satan and his rebels, or else Satan himself.
Now, the rebellion in heaven against God, which led to the problem of evil here on earth, has prompted need for the formation of a new army. This new army of God, which draws power from the morning star (ref. Revelation 22:16, Revelation 2:28), a Star out of Jacob (ref. Numbers 24:17), and above all an army that is based on the power of the Resurrection of the Son of man which I will explain later, is none other than the saints, the “holy ones” of Jacob, otherwise known as “the bride of Christ”.
I used to think that the bride or wife of Christ would be all Christians collectively. Now, I regard the bride of Christ to mean the saints of Israel, the new troops of God, clothed in fine linen and white.
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.
Revelation 19:7-8
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God [ref. John 1:1]. And the armies which were in heaven followed him up white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Revelation 19:13-15
So, the queen of heaven was the old army of heaven, or at least one third of that army, which today comprises of demons. And the bride of Christ will be a new army of saints, the born again soldiers of Jesus Christ that I have been talking about over these last few days.
The first of the old army of heaven was Lucifer. He fell from grace, but he has managed to convince, through lies, false accusations, and empty promises, one third of the angels in heaven to take his side.
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven [one third of the army of angels in heaven], and did cast them to the earth…
Revelation 12:3-4
The third that fell might have also taken his side for the simple fact that he was the eldest of the angels, the firstborn among angels.
Of the saints, in these last days, according to Isaiah 49, there is to be one who is likewise the first.
… princes [as in saints] also shall worship…
Isaiah 49:7
In the movie Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), there is an interesting exchange between the character Red Skull and Steve Rogers aka Captain America.
Red Skull: “He resented my genius and tried to deny me what was rightfully mine. Yet he gave you everything. What made you so special?”
Steve Rogers: “Nothing. I’m just a kid from Brooklyn.”
This is basically the Devil saying that he, being the first of the original army of heaven, was meant to sit on the throne alongside God, and reign as queen in heaven.
The part about “genius”, I think, refers to the Devil in Eden and the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge (ref. Genesis 2:17).
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
Ezekiel 28:3
So, the Devil asks the first of the super-soldiers what made him so special and why was he given what belonged to angels.
Captain America replies that he is from Brooklyn, implying that he is Jewish. This is an allusion to the holy ones of Jacob.
Actually, here, I should say, the Bible explains that it will be faith in God and loyalty to God that will grant someone the opportunity to sit on the royal throne, and not merely his bloodline.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Revelation 3:21
Also, the notion of a bride of Christ, or a new queen in heaven, applies to all of the saints collectively. I am not sure if there will be, for the army of saints, a captain of some sort, an equivalent of the archangel Michael. This is because the “King of the saints” is Jesus Christ himself, and I think he will command the army through the Holy Spirit as the LORD of hosts (ref. Isaiah 54:5). For ultimately, each saint will be responsible for one part of the world, and each part is separate (ref. “borders”, Isaiah 54:12-13).
Earlier I presented to you a song titled “Soldiers” which clearly is about demons in these last days waging a war spreading madness and darkness, trying to ruin all of God’s creation.
Let me now show you another song about soldiers in this holy war: the 2016 song “Soldier” by Fleurie and Tommee Profitt. I do not know which side the person who wrote this song is on, whomever that may be, but this song astonished me when I first stumbled upon it, and it occurs to me that the lyrics must have been inspired by an angel close to Satan.
First of all, the lyrics prove what I have been saying about the coming phenomenon of the saints.
Soldier keep on marchin’ on
Head down ’til the work is done
Waiting on that morning sun
Soldier keep on marchin’ on
Head in the dust, feet in the fire
Labour on that midnight wire
Listening for that angel choir
You got nowhere to run
You wanna take a drink of that promise land
You gotta wipe the dirt off of your hands
Careful son, you got dreamer’s plans
But it gets hard to stand
Soldier keep on marchin’ on
Head down ’til the work is done
Waiting on that morning sun
Soldier keep on marchin’ on
Quiet now, you’re gonna wake the beast
Hide your soul out of his reach
Shiver to that broken beat
Dark into the heat
…
Soldier keep on marchin’ on
Head down ’til the work is done
Waiting for that morning sun
Soldier keep on marchin’ on
Soldier keep on marchin’ on
Soldier keep on marchin’ on
This song accurately describes what a saint is: “waiting on that morning sun”, “listening to that angel choir”. But “head in the dust, feet in the fire” sounds Satanic to me: a serpent’s head is in the dust (ref. Genesis 3:14), and the cherub that became the god of Tyre walked upon “stones of fire” while he was anointed (ref. Ezekiel 28:14).
Continuing, “labour on that midnight wire” can be either a true saint, or a someone pretending to be a saint, doing work in these last days.
This next part, “you wanna take a drink of that promise land” seems slightly irreverent of the Holy Spirit, but still it points to sainthood and the kingdom of God. Then “you gotta wipe the dirt off of your hands”, this speaks to “clean hands and a pure heart” which is Psalms 24:3-5.
But after that, “careful son, you got dreamer’s plans” and “but it gets hard to stand” is outright weird. These lines make me wonder whether this song is trying to tell a would-be “son of God” to be careful in case he is discovered by the other saints.
Moreover, “quiet now, you’re gonna wake the beast”, a reference to the Assyrian, and “hide your soul out of his reach” is where the song again is off. If this saint is to “labour on that midnight wire”, why would he be quiet? Also, “shiver to that broken beat” and “dark into the heat” is almost certainly about the False Prophet of Babylon, a rapper. In the last days, at the time of the tribulation, a saint is to be light in the midst of darkness. Being quiet, and fearful of evil, and in sync with the False Prophet are not things that a Christian should do.
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them… For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness…
2 Corinthians 4:3-6
Besides all that, the marching on in this song reminds of the marching on in the other song. But here the soldier is to march on and keep his head down, until the work is done.
It is possible that this is Satan conspiring something in secret: trying to repeat what he did with the third of the angels of the original army of heaven. Then again, it might simply be wishful thinking on the part of demons, or some kind of psyop.
It did seem to me wrong and improper to think that this sort of thing – treachery among the saints – would be possible. The idea of once saved, forever saved, and all that. Still, there are several passages in the Bible that would not be there if this were not possible at all.
For instance, the word “judges” in Psalms 2:10 must surely mean “saints”. For that matter, “Kiss the son” continues the metaphor of the bride of Christ. Think marital fidelity, as in spiritual faithfulness to God. Psalms 2 means, a saint can still “perish” during the Millennial Reign.
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Psalms 2:10-12
There is also Isaiah 40:23-24. In this passage, the word “they” either speaks to “princes” meaning demons, or else “judges” meaning “saints”, or else both princes and a certain few saints.
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
Isaiah 40:23-24
Here, also notice that the saints are described as “vanity”. This means every saint is replaceable, and so the cause of Jesus Christ will never be harmed by those that fall from grace. Sainthood is a gift from God: an honour and a privilege for the recipient. No one is to worship a saint, neither should any saint seek worship, because the power of a saint is that of God, and every saint is a servant of God.
Next, there is Hebrews 6:4-6, which suggests that someone who partakes in the Holy Spirit can technically still fall away. Of course, those that choose to do this are finished, for there will be no second chance.
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Hebrews 6:4-6
An important takeaway from all this is that the saints and other Christians in heaven are not going to be mindless automatons or anything like that. You will still be yourself and you will still have free will. Consequently, when you choose to have faith in God, and to be loyal to God, and to praise God, you will do so genuinely.
Now, to something else that might surprise many Christians, but it is in the Bible and so it must be covered: Did you know that a saint can actually be killed by another saint?
No human can kill a saint once he has been given the morning star. Likewise, no angel can kill a saint once he has the morning star. So a saint is truly god like.
Wonder Woman (2017) scene: Only a god can kill another god
This idea that only a god can kill another god might be the reason for Satan’s plot to pull some saints over to his side.
But Jesus Christ is the King of the saints, and he is Almighty, above every saint in power.
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Psalms 2:10-12
More than that, God the Father is even more powerful than the Son, and he is beyond earth and heaven.
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
John 1:18
My Father, which gave them me [possibly referring to certain saints, sheep of Christ]; is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one.
John 10:29-30
God also sees everything.
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 23:24
So, there will be no repeat of Satan’s rebellion, and evil in the world is coming to an end as the Bible prophesies. Any attempt to usurp the power of this new army will be put down quickly.
Behold, they shall surely gather together [because of a Satanic conspiracy?], but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
Isaiah 54:15
Now, having brought up the point that saints, the soldiers of Christ, can be killed in this war that will begin after the day of the LORD, let me add yet another spectacular twist.
Since Jesus Christ is God and he can resurrect a Christian who has died, presumably he can also resurrect a saint that happens to be killed as a result of treachery or whatnot.
… Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Psalms 2:12
This means any secret conspiracy among a select few saints to help demons or Satanists, or to kill a certain saint out of envy or greed will never prosper.
Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
Isaiah 54:16-17