Lucifer Is a One-of-a-Kind “Good Guy” Among Literary Villains
Complete literary role reversal.
So. A question directed at mythological Christian lore.
Is lucifer a good guy or the bad guy?
I see lucifer as a good guy exposing the tyranny and iron rule of a malevolent and evil diety that will kill anyone not in complete obedience to it.
I remember thinking God was good at first, but there are enough examples in the Bible and apocryphal works that suggest otherwise when the overall picture is layed out on the table.
Lucifer, Satan and the Devil are the same person who evolves over time. Lucifer, Satan and Devil are a trinity of sorts, that is spread over time and space. The trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is overlapped in time and space.
Lucifer was morally neutral. Satan polarized neutral into good and evil. While the Devil is pure evil.
Lucifer as the morning star, which is Venus, symbolized the night and the day overlapping The stars are normally associated with night. However, the planet Venus orbits close enough to the sun, that when the sun rises, we can often see Venus at sunrise; morning star.
Lucifer was part of the dark side; night and stars; unconscious mind, but also close to the light side in the morning; start of day; conscious mind. Lucifer was with God during creation. He was like a randomizing agent that help to bring variety to creation. For example as God created trees, Lucifer would add different types. In evolution, the action of Lucifer would be analogous to mutations on already formed DNA.
Lucifer evolves into Satan who, like the tree of knowledge, was both good and evil. Lucifer's nature as a randomizer may have been responsible for the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which was a mutation of the tree of life. This would become Satan's tree. Knowledge of good and evil is also similar to a randomizer affect that compounds the number of different laws and the types of sins. The IRS alone has 70,000 pages of laws of good and evil; constant mutations instead of a new way to do this.
In Genesis, God creates the heaven and earth over 6 days and then rests on the 7th day. While God was resting on the first Sabbath, others were working for him maintaining creation. Like the human sabbath, which was modeled on the heavenly sabbath, one is not allowed to do work on the Sabbath. All things need to be prepped in advance, and if work still needs to be done, one needs to hire another to do the work for you.
Lucifer becomes Satan, as God rested. Arrangements were made on the sixth day, for Adam and Eve to meet Satan, through a prohibition, and they all seemed to be on the same page; eat from the tree of Satan; knowledge of good and evil which is often subjective. God was resting and could not work to save them. Instead, Satan became the Lord of the Earth, in charge of humans, as God rested. Knowledge of good and evil would add a randomizer affect to the human mind; endless taboos.
The God of the Old Testament, seen by the prophets of old, was really Satan, since the real God was still resting on the seventh day. Jesus said nobody has seen the Father except the son. God was on sabbath rest even at the time of Jesus and only mingled with his family and close friends, which is allowed on the Sabbath. Satan had become God's CEO in charge of the humans as he rested.
Before Jesus began his ministry he was visited by Satan as Jesus fasted and prayed in the wilderness. Among other things, Satan offers Jesus all the wealth and power of the Kingdoms of the Earth if he would bow and serve him. Has Jesus accepted the offer he would have become the Messiah anticipated by the Jews and written about in the Old Testament; powerful leader who could subdue all enemies. But Jesus declines and by doing so broke the time line of the prophesy. This leads to a political battle and heaven.
Satan transforms into the Devil in Revelations. There is a war in heaven and Satan is thrown from heaven. Satan was part of God's plan and was divinely sanctioned until he is thrown from heaven. Jesus did not accept the old time line but had his eye on the CEO job. Satan flies comes down to the earth, no longer sanctioned by heaven, as he had been in the Old and most of the New Testament. Now as the Devil, he is evil, to contrast to the Son of God, who replaces Satan as the CEO, as God finishes his Sabbath rest.
When the heavens open, at the end of Revelations, and the armies of God comes down to earth, to over throw the Anti-Christ, False prophet and Satan/Devil, God's rest has officially ended and he is back to work. This starts a new work week; Sunday.
