Morning Worship, 9_10_2021
Review of Ezekiel 28 : 15,
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. (Ezekiel 28:15)
THREE important points,
Thou (Lucifer) - was created
- was perfect
- ‘till iniquity found
in one WORD = INIQUITY
What is iniquity? websterdictionary1828.com
[Latin iniquitas; in and oequitas, equity.]
In-justice
Un-righteousness
Deviation from rectitude
sin or crime, wickedness, any act of injustice
What is the basic understanding of iniquity in this verse?
we can see that this “word” is contrasted to the other quality
found in Lucifer
PERFECT (POSITIVE)———> <———INIQUITY (NEGATIVE)
Perfect until iniquity found!
INIQUITY originated in the mind of Lucifer!
So when there is iniquity, it becomes totally opposite of perfection!
INIQUITY in Lucifer had resulted EVERYTHING THAT WE NOW
FACE ‘till TODAY!
From NON-existed to become existed = CREATION
(Lucifer had created SOMETHING EVIL)
The opposite of the creation of God!
So Satan had “authored” Iniquity!
Bahasa Indonesia = Setan mengarang (karang-karang) yang
tidak ada menjadi benar!
sehingga sama saja dengan = FITNAH, meng-ada-kan walaupun
sebenarnya TIDAK ada!
Pertanyaan ibu Rima? (akhir menit 36)
Diskusi mengenai LAGU berhubungan dengan penyembahan,
Kutipan Setan turut menyembah Bapa dan hampir bertobat
saat malaikat bernyanyi!
Bukankah Yudas juga pernah hampir bertobat di upper room?
Bukankah Daud bisa menenangkan Saul saat memainkan kecapinya?
Perlu cari kutipan2 ini!
1SP 28.2
The hour for joyful, happy songs of praise to God and his dear Son had come. Satan had led the heavenly choir. He had raised the first note, then all the angelic host united with him, and glorious strains of music had resounded through Heaven in honor of God and his dear Son. But now, instead of strains of sweetest music, discord and angry words fall upon the ear of the great rebel leader. Where was he? Was it not all a horrible dream? Was he shut out of Heaven? Were the gates of Heaven never more to open and admit him? The hour of worship draws nigh, when bright and holy angels bow before the Father. No more will he unite in heavenly song. No more will he bow in reverence and holy awe before the presence of the eternal God. Could he be again as he was when he was pure, true and loyal, gladly would he yield up the claims of his authority. But he was lost! beyond redemption, for his presumptuous rebellion! And this was not all; he had led others to rebellion and to the same lost condition with himself—angels, who had never thought to question the will of Heaven, or refuse obedience to the law of God till he had put it into their minds, presenting before them that they might enjoy a greater good, a higher and more glorious liberty. This had been the sophistry whereby he had deceived them. A responsibility now rests upon him from which he would fain be released. – {1SP 28.2}
Mengapa lagu2 yang dinyanyikan membuat Lucifer sangat dipengaruhi
secara positif dari lagu?
Lucifer memiliki vocal chord yang luar biasa…
Lucifer 28: 13, Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. (Ezekiel 28:13)
Compilations about Lucifer by Ellen G White
Physical description of Lucifer
SR, 13: “His forehead was high and broad, showing a powerful intellect.” [Lucifer]
SR, 13: “His bearing was noble and majestic.” [Lucifer]
PL, Book IV, 276-309: “His fair large front and eye sublime declared absolute rule.” [Adam]
PL, Book IV, 276-309: “Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad in naked majesty.” [Description of Adam and Eve]
2. Position of Jesus and Lucifer
SR, 13: “Lucifer was next in honour to God’s dear Son.”
SR, 13: “Christ had pre-eminence over all the angelic host.”
PL, Book V, 655-688: “If not the first archangel, great in power, in favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught with envy against the Son of God.” [Lucifer]
3. Christ was one with the Father
SR, 13: “He was one with the Father before the angels were created.” [Jesus]
PL, Book V, 825 -858: “Equal to Him begotten Son, by whom as by His word, the Mighty Father made all things, even thee, [Lucifer] and all the spirits [angels]of heaven.”
4. Father assembled the Heavenly host
SR, 13: “The Creator assembled the heavenly host, that He might in the presence of all the angels confer special honour upon His Son … The Father made known that it was ordained by Himself that Christ, His Son, should be equal with Himself; so that wherever was the presence of His Son, it was His own presence.”
PL, Book V, 553-586, 587-620: “Of angels by imperial summons called. Innumerable before the Almighty’s throne … Hear, all ye angels … Hear my decree, which unrevoked shall stand. This day I have begot whom I declare My only Son, and on this holy hill Him have anointed, whom ye now behold at my right hand. Your head I Him appoint; and by Myself I have sworn.”
5. Satan assembled the angelic host
SR, 13: “Concealing his real purposes, he assembled the angelic host.” [Satan]
PL, Book V, 655-688, 689-722: “Assemble thou, of all those myriads which we lead the chief … [to the] quarters of the north; there to prepare fit entertainment to receive our king, the great Messiah, and His new commands … so spake the false archangel.”
PL, Book V, 757 – 790: “Pretending so commanded to consult about the great reception of their King.”
6. Why did Lucifer envy the Son of God
SR, 14: “Lucifer was envious and jealous of Jesus Christ … Why should Christ thus be honoured before Himself?”
PL, Book V, 655-688: “In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught with envy against the Son of God, that day Messiah King anointed, could not bear through pride that sight, and thought himself impaired.”
7. Lucifer tells his angels that their freedom was at stake
SR, 14: “He told them that henceforth all the sweet liberty the angels had enjoyed was at an end. For had not a new ruler been appointed over them, to whom they from henceforth must yield servile honour?”
PL, Book V, 757 – 790: “Another now hath to himself engrossed all power, and us eclipsed under the name of King anointed…Too much to one! … But what if better counsels might erect our minds, and teach us to cast off this yoke? Will ye submit your necks, and choose to bend the supple knee?”
PL, Book VI, 148- 181: “…Hast thou [Satan] armed, the minstrelsy of heaven servility with freedom to contend.”
8. Lucifer Rebels against the Son of God
SR, 15: “They rebelled against the authority of the Son.”
PL, Book V, 655-688: “He resolved with all his legions to dislodge, and leave unworshipped, unobeyed, the throne supreme contemptuous.”
9. Loyal angels of God counseled Lucifer
SR, 15, 16: “Angels that were loyal and true sought to reconcile this mighty, rebellious angel to the will of his Creator. They justified the act of God in conferring honor upon Christ, and with forcible reasoning sought to convince Lucifer that no less honor was his now than before the Father had proclaimed the honor which He had conferred upon His Son. They clearly set forth that Christ was the Son of God, existing with Him before the angels were created; and that He had ever stood at the right hand of God, and His mild, loving authority had not heretofore been questioned; … They anxiously sought to move him to renounce his wicked design and yield submission to their Creator… Lucifer refused to listen.”
PL, Book V. 791-824, 825-858: “O argument blasphemous false, and proud! Words which no ear ever to hear in heaven expected, least of all from thee, ingrate, in place thyself so high above thy seers. Canst thou with impious obloquy condemn the just decree of God, pronounced, and sworn, that to His only Son, by right endued with regal scepter, every soul in heaven shall bend the knee…Unjust thou sayest, …Shalt thou give law to God? Shalt thou dispute with Him the points of liberty, who made thee what thou art, and formed the powers of heaven,…But to grant it thee unjust, that equal over equals Monarch reign. Equal to Him begotten Son, by whom as by His word, the Mighty Father made all things, even thee; and all the Spirits of heaven… Cease this impious rage, and tempt not these; but hasten to appease the incensed Father, and the incensed Son while pardon may be found in time besought. So spake the fervent angel, but none seconded.”
10. The war in heaven (God assembles the heavenly army)
SR, 17: “Angels were marshalled in companies, each division with a higher commanding angel at its head.”
PL, Book V, 553-586, 587-620: “Of angels by imperial summons called … under their hierarchs in orders bright. Ten thousand thousand ensigns high advanced.”
11. Contest between the Son of God and Lucifer
SR, 17: “He would give the rebellious an equal chance to measure strength and might with His own Son and His loyal angels. In this battle every angel would choose his own side and be manifested to all.”
12. How many angels followed Lucifer?
SR, 18: “Satan exultingly pointed to his sympathisers comprising nearly one half of all angels, and exclaimed, “These are with me.” ”
PL, Book II, 691-724: “Drew after him third part of heaven’s sons.”
PL, Book IX, 108-141,142-175: “I, in one night, freed from servitude inglorious well-nigh half the angelic name, and thinner left the throng of His adorer.”
Lucifer’s Rebellion
1. Lucifer had a closest resemblance to God
Ellen White (1827-1915): “God made him [Lucifer] good and beautiful, as near as possible like himself” (RH, Sep 24, 1901).
2. The cause of Lucifer’s rebellion
Ellen White (1827-1915): “The great Creator assembled the heavenly host, that he might in the presence of all the angels confer special honour upon His Son….The Father then made known that it was ordained by Himself that Christ, His Son, should be equal with Himself,…His Son He had invested with authority to command the heavenly host. Especially was His Son to work in union with Himself in the anticipated creation of the earth,…Lucifer was envious and jealous of Jesus Christ….He thought….why should Christ thus be honoured before himself?….[So] They rebelled against the Son” (SR, pp. 13-15, 1947).
3. Satan in deep thought
Ellen White (1827-1915): “As I beheld him, his chin was resting upon his left hand. He appeared to be in a deep thought” (Story Redemption, p. 46, 1947; Early Writings, p. 153, 1882).
4. Christ has been made equal with the Father
Ellen White (1827-1915): “God is the Father of Christ; Christ is the Son of God. To Christ has been given an exalted position. He has been made equal with the Father. All the counsels of God are opened to His Son” (8T, p. 268, 1904).
5. Loyal angels of God counseled Lucifer
Ellen White (1827-1915): “Angels that were loyal and true sought to reconcile this mighty, rebellious angel to the will of his Creator. They justified the act of God in conferring honor upon Jesus Christ, and with forcible reasoning sought to convince Satan that no less honor was his now than before the Father had proclaimed the honor which he had conferred upon his Son. They clearly set forth that Jesus was the Son of God, existing with him before the angels were created; and that he had ever stood at the right hand of God,…They anxiously sought to move Satan to renounce his wicked design and yield submission to their Creator; …Satan refused to listen” (1SP, pp. 19, 20, 1870).
Ellen White (1827-1915): “Then Satan exultantly pointed to his sympathizers, comprising nearly on half of all the angels, and exclaimed, “These are with me! Will you expel these also, and make such a void in heaven?” (Story of Redemption, p. 18)
Ellen White said that God allowed Lucifer to prove his strength with Jesus: “He would give the rebellious an equal chance to measure strength and might with His son and His loyal angels” (1Sp, p. 21, 1870; SR, p. 17, 19, 1667).
6. Satan became the monarch of the world
Ellen White (1827-1915): “Having conquered Adam, the monarch of the world…he would establish his throne and be monarch of the world” (RH, 1874).