The History of Lucifer (Satan) Part 4

I believe at this point we need to understand Hell.  Because the next part of Lucifer's history plays out there...partly.  So, Hell is actually made up of several different parts but the larger name of Hell refers to them as a group. The parts are: Hell also known as Hades or Sheol, Paradise, the Bottomless Pit also known as Tartarus and the Lake of Fire also called Gehenna.  These are all real physical places within the Earth.  You wouldn't need some type of special glasses to see them or a special gifting from God to see in the spirit realm...they actually physically exist just like your home does.  But God has ordained that these places have very specific attributes....

But before I explain myself I want you to think along these lines.  The Tree of Life and The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil were real trees with real fruit that tasted good.  But these physical trees had supernatural effects.  So a physical thing can have a supernatural attribute and have supernatural effects!

Hell also called Hades or Sheol is not a prison for Lucifer or his angels or demons...they can move from that physical location to your home or city.  But it is a prison for the spirits of the dead who died not knowing Jesus as their personal Savior.  There is no escape...no moving in and out.

The dead cannot communicate with the living...period.  Necromancer's and Spirit Mediums who believe they are talking to the departed have been deceived...they are speaking with demons.  There has been one and only one instance where a dead man was permitted to speak with the living.  It was the Prophet Samuel.  But the Prophet was not held in the prison called Hell or Hades.  Samuel was in Paradise and the rules were different.

Paradise is a part of Hell that was reserved for the spirits of the dead who died as believers in God....Right up to the point that Jesus Rose from the dead.  The scriptures say He led captivity captive....it means that when Jesus Rose from the dead he brought with Him every single spirit who was captive in Paradise.  They died in their sins even though they believed in God.

Jesus had not yet made the sacrifice for all men's sins...so they died and went to hell because that is what sin deserves....but God...who already knew the end of the story...made a place for them to rest until the Messiah came and preached the good news of the Gospel to them....Yes, Jesus preached to them in Paradise.

The scriptures say that after Jesus rose from the dead there was a time when people saw and spoke with people whom they knew had already died.

Matthew 27:52-53 (NASB)

52 The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many.

So, Paradise is now empty and all those spirits are now in Heaven with Jesus.  It should also be said that those who have died in their sins cannot get to where Paradise is...The scriptures say that God put a great division between the two that cannot be crossed.

One other thing about Hell or Hades is that it is not a place of fire where demons are torturing you.  It is darkness....It is a total absence of God...it is prison without hope and full of utter despair.  The reason that Hell is portrayed so often as firey is because people haven't taken the time to understand that The Lake of Fire also known as Gehenna is the only thing burning.  Currently, The Lake of Fire just burns...it has never been used.  It is a physical place that has a specific function.

The Lake of Fire was created to destroy eternal beings.  Angels were created to exist forever.  When God created man....Man was created to live forever.

Part of the problem in our understanding is that we don't properly comprehend death.  Man was created as a triune being in the image of God. Man has a body, a soul and a spirit.  When man sinned it brought death to the body and death to the soul and spirit.  But death is defined differently between the physical and spiritual realms.  We understand physical death...It means that our physical body no longer gets to enjoy God's presence or creation.  Our physical body doesn't enjoy light or air or green grass...it's capacity to experience these things has ceased due to sin.  But in the spiritual realm....the spirit who dies in their sin also loses the capacity to experience God...Spiritual death means being cut off from the presence of God.....you still exist....but in Hell...totally cut off from God..from light...from love...from hope....and that is how you exist eternally....up to the point of the Judgement where your fate is sealed forever by your decision here on Earth to believe or not believe.  On Judgement day God will throw those who did not believe in Jesus into The Lake of Fire....and the eternal spirit will cease to exit.....

Finally, there is the Bottomless Pit also called Tartarus. The Bottomless Pit is a prison for angels.  Currently, there are angels chained to the sides of this pit.  These are the angels that had sexual relations with human women and their offspring were called the Nephilim.... The giants of old.  I will talk more about these giants later and how they fit into the History of Lucifer.

At the point that we left Lucifer he had wanted to be like the most high which was a sin...it was rebellion against God...High Treason.  The scriptures say that the sin within Lucifer is like a fire within him...consuming him.  The scriptures tell how Lucifer was cast down to Earth.....An Earth that no longer had the presence of God....The entire Earth had become a type of Hell.  As a side note:  There is a movie, the last of the Exorcist movies done as a Prequel that try to say that the geographical location where Lucifer landed on the Earth is a cursed spot.... but no one truly knows...it is a moot point....But old Catholic Priests love to write theories about such things.

So, Lucifer... here on Earth....without the presence of God...existing in this realm... experiencing time from this perspective...How long?  Millions of years?  He no longer has any authority in this planet...God revoked Lucifer's authority and took it back.  The Earth which he used to rule over has become a type of Hell to him....and he wasn't alone....The angels under his authority were cast down with him....The beings under his authority were also with him.

Some of those beings had body's with souls and spirits....but they differed from Adam and Eve in that they were created much like angels....without choice....created to fulfill a specific function.  So when sin was found in Lucifer it affected everyone and everything under his authority.  Sin affected them just as sin affects us....Their bodies died and so did their souls and spirits....but hell was not reserved for them.  These beings still exist as dead spirits under Lucifer's authority....These are demons.  Demons are not angels

Angels can take a physical form...Demons cannot.  Demons have had a body and desire to experience a body again...Which is why demons try to posses a person's body.

Remember that Lucifer was cast down to Earth?  So also were the angels under his authority.  The beings under his authority were already here.....They were all here...all together....separated from God for ...millions of years??

We know that sin causes death...physically and spiritually....we know what death looks like physically....after a day or two you begin to rot and stink and decay....but what affect does sin have on a spirit over millions of years?

It is true that many people have had supernatural encounters...many have tried to draw what they have seen....It is the shapes of horror and the grotesque that are normally drawn...Sin's effect on spirit beings. ..unless Lucifer is trying to deceive in other ways.....Hello E.T.!