Babylon Is Fallen: Lucifer, Satan, and the Son of Perdition

By Gary Johnson

This book reveals who Lucifer was, who the devil is, where he came from, the real reason he fell and when he fell. It also reveals who the angels were that fell and why they fell, and who the stars were that the dragon cast down with his tail. It reveals the son of perdition, the abomination of desolation, who the two witnesses are and who will rebuild the temple of God. It reveals how the kingdom of Satan lives in evil men and it will rise in men in the last days and how God will destroy it. It reveals how the kingdom of God is not of this world, but is of the new earth to come. It also explores how God’s kingdom is inside the righteous on this earth right now. I also used to believe things the same way as others until the Lord began to show me the scriptures do not agree with the doctrines being taught.

Have you really studied the subject or just believed what people have told you? I did not just decide to write a book about it, but as the Spirit revealed things to me I wrote them down and began to study what the Lord gave me over a period of thirty years.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Nov 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781645759492

Gary Johnson

Gary Johnson was born September on 25th 1959 in Samson, Alabama. He was born again by the Spirit of God on July 4th in 1970 at a Brush Arbor meeting in east Texas. Gary Johnson preached his first sermon at the age of 14 in a large church and became a missionary at the age of 17. He then became an evangelist at the age of 23 preaching all over the United States. He became a youth pastor at a church in north Arkansas at the age of 24 and then became the pastor of that same church at age 26. He has continued to evangelize and visited many different countries to preach the good news of Jesus Christ for 46 year.

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Babylon Is Fallen

Lucifer, Satan, and

the Son of Perdition

Gary Johnson

Austin Macauley Publishers

Babylon Is Fallen

About the Author

Dedication

Copyright Information ©

Acknowledgment

Introduction

Chapter 1: Was Lucifer an Angel That Fell from Heaven?

Chapter 2: Who is the Devil?

Chapter 3: Where Did the Devil Come from?

Chapter 4: Who are the Stars That Were Cast Down by the Dragon’s Tail?

Chapter 5: What Was the Real Reason for the Fall of the Devil?

Chapter 6: Angels Fall

Chapter 7: Fallen Christians are Also the Fallen Angels

Chapter 8: Jesus is the Light

Chapter 9: Just a Big Bang—Words of Satan Spoken Word—Word of God

Chapter 10: Two Trees

Chapter 11: Who Will Rebuild the Temple of God?

Chapter 12: Abomination of Desolation

Chapter 13: Tribulation, Sign of His Coming, and the End of the World

Chapter 14: Son of Perdition

Chapter 15: Wars and Rumors of Wars

Chapter 16: Kingdom Against Kingdom

About the Author

Gary Johnson was born September on 25th 1959 in Samson, Alabama. He was born again by the Spirit of God on July 4th in 1970 at a Brush Arbor meeting in east Texas. Gary Johnson preached his first sermon at the age of 14 in a large church and became a missionary at the age of 17. He then became an evangelist at the age of 23 preaching all over the United States. He became a youth pastor at a church in north Arkansas at the age of 24 and then became the pastor of that same church at age 26. He has continued to evangelize and visited many different countries to preach the good news of Jesus Christ for 46 year.

Dedication

I dedicate this book to my loving wife, Kimberly Johnson, for loving me unconditionally, for always praying for me and being beside me no matter where the Lord leads us. The Lord and my wife gave me hope in a time in my life when I had lost all hope.

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Acknowledgment

First and foremost, I want to thank the Lord Jesus Christ for His mercy and grace for saving me and leading me by His Spirit to write this book. I also want to thank my beloved wife, Kimberly Johnson, who has helped me so much with this book and many other ways.

Introduction

The Bible is full of mysteries, parables, and revelation. I have heard people say, We do not need revelation taught in the ministry. If this is true, then the teacher is not needed in the fivefold ministry that Paul spoke of in Eph. 4:11-12 and 1 Cor. 12:28. Paul said in 1 Cor. 2:7, We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.

If a teacher only teaches you something that you already know, it would be like staying in the same grade and never moving up. Webster’s Dictionary says, Revelation is an act of, or something revealed, a manifestation of divine truth. The last book in the Bible is called Revelation, because IT IS A REVELATION. Behold, the Lamb of God and Christ in you the hope of glory is a revelation. 1 Tim. 3:16, And without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness.

John 21:24, And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.

In Heb. 5:10-14, Paul tells us, There are many things to say about Jesus and Melchisedec, but they are hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat. For everyone that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Some say, We don’t need anyone to explain scriptures. Yes, people do need for others to explain the scripture to them when they don’t understand. This is why Col. 4:6 says, Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. What God says is not natural, it’s spiritual and not everyone is in the Spirit to understand what they read in the Bible.

Isa. 28:9-10, Whom shall He teach knowledge? And whom shall He make to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breast. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.

Some say, It is only important to teach the fundamentals of the salvation message. Paul said in Heb. 6:1-3, Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God. Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this will we do if God permit.

Eph. 4:11-15, And He gave some apostles, and some evangelists, and some pastors and TEACHERS. For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. That we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie wait to deceive. But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.

This book is not bringing out a NEW revelation; it has always been in the Bible, men have just interpreted it wrong. This book brings out who Lucifer and the devil really are and reveals that the kingdom of Satan lives in evil men just as the kingdom of God lives in the righteous.

Eph. 4:14 is the reason why some are afraid of revelation, but when Paul said, We henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine. He was not saying we do not need revelation. The DOCTRINES he was talking about us not being deceived with were doctrines of men; like, you have to be circumcised to be saved, We know by Gal. 5:6 and Rom. 2:29 that the circumcision of the heart and receiving Jesus as our savior is what saves us.

Many times when people do not know the answer to a question in the Bible, they say, Some things we will not know until we get to heaven. I believe that is true for the things we do not search out, because Jesus said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom, and He said, Henceforth, I call you not servants, for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth, but I have called you friends. For all things that I have heard of My Father I have made known unto you.

If we ask the Holy Ghost to reveal things to us, He will. John 16:13, Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will show you things to come. Jesus said in John 14:26 that the Holy Ghost shall teach you ALL things.

The Lord told Daniel, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed TILL THE TIME OF THE END. But He told John, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. I believe the closer to the end that we get, the more revelation God is going to reveal to His people. Have you ever noticed that one revelation leads into another, and God gives more revelation off of a revelation that He gave to another? This happens to me many times when I hear another minister preach.

Christopher Columbus once said, Nothing that resides from human progress is achieved with unanimous consent, and those who are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

Many thought the world was flat, because that is what was taught in their day. Until a few men suffered much persecution to prove otherwise. People do not like change because it requires more work, and they do not like teachings that are new to them because they would have to admit their old beliefs were wrong. Men like Christopher Columbus, Martin Luther that lived in the 1500s, and even Jesus Christ were greatly persecuted for teaching the truth. John 8:32, Jesus said, Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Christopher Columbus didn’t have a new revelation; people in his day believed a lie and Columbus showed them the truth. Even the Bible taught them the earth is ROUND. Isa. 40:21-22, Have ye not understood from the foundation of the earth? It is He that sitteth upon the CIRCLE of the earth. When the Bible said, From the four corners of the earth, it meant north, south, east, and west, not literal corners. If the earth had corners, it would be square.

It has been said that all truth must go through three stages; first, it is rejected; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as self-evident, but when is the evidence enough so all believe?

Many believe that the doctrines of their church can’t be wrong because they have believed that way for hundreds of years. Just because a belief has been around for hundreds of years does not mean it is the truth. Look at the false religions; they have been around for thousands of years. I believe the Bible is the true word of God, but some doctrines of churches are wrong for a lack of understanding or a miss interpretation of scriptures.

Matt. 15:6-9, Jesus told the Pharisees and scribes, Ye made the commandments of God of none effect by your tradition… But vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Keep in mind, in order to understand what a verse means, you have to read the whole chapter and sometimes the chapters before and after. Other times, you have to run reference to other places in the Bible on the scripture in order to get the real meaning of what is being said. Running reference is needed to understand the Bible. Scriptures fit together like a puzzle and they agree. Prophesies that were prophesied thousands of years apart still agree because it is all from God. The Bible is the word of God, not just a lot of words that men wrote. You have to be in the same frame of mind that the writer was in, in order to understand what was written. The Bible was wrote by men that were inspired by the Spirit of God. 2 Tim. 3:16, Therefore we need the Spirit to give us understanding of what we read in the Bible. 2 Tim. 2:15 says, Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth.

Jesus told the Sadducees in Matt. 22:29, Ye do err, not knowing the scripture, nor the power of God. Some people know the word of God, but they do not know how to rightly divide it, or they only know parts of the Bible but not the whole thing. If you only know parts of the Bible, then the devil can trick you into believing a lie. He tried this on Jesus when he told Jesus to cast himself down, FOR IT IS WRITTEN, He shall give His angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written AGAIN, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. The devil could not trick Jesus because He knew all the word and He knew how to rightly divide it.

To run a reference on scripture in the Bible, it has to be on the same subject. For example, Rev. 3:1, Isa. 11:1-2, and Matt. 3:16 all fit together.

Rev. 3:1, …These things saith He that hath the SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD…

Isa. 11:1-2, And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the spirit of one, wisdom, and, two, understanding, the spirit of, three, counsel, and, four, might, the spirit of, five, knowledge, and of, six, fear of the Lord, and, seven, to judge with righteousness.

Matt. 3:16, And Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon Him.

People try to put scripture together that do not belong together to prove that their doctrines of men are right. Two scriptures that do not go together are: Matt. 27:5 and Luke 10:37.

Matt. 27:5, And he (Judas) cast down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed and went and hanged himself. Luke 10:37, Go, and do thou likewise. I know this sounds like a silly example, but some of the scriptures people put together are just as ridiculous. You can’t just put any scripture together to make it say what you want it to say.

Matt. 24:34 says, THIS generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. This scripture goes with Matt. 5:18, For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Jesus is simply saying, the end will not come until all of God’s word is fulfilled. Everything has to be fulfilled or God would be a liar.

If you study Matt. 24:34 with spiritual understanding, you would know Jesus meant, the LAST generation before His return will not pass until all is fulfilled, not His generation when He lived in the flesh on the earth. One reason this is known is because the whole chapter where Jesus said this is talking about the end time, except the first two verses which are talking about the fall of Jerusalem and the temple. We know this because when Jesus talked about the temple, He and his disciples were at the temple. Matt. 24:1, And His disciples came to Him for to show Him the buildings of the temple. Matt. 24:3 says, And He sat upon the Mount of Olives; the disciples came unto Him privately, saying, tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming and the end of the world? The Mount of Olives is 3.7 miles away from Jerusalem. It takes a while to walk 3.7 miles. Especially with 12 other people. They were two different conversations.

Some people say that Matt. 24:16-20 (to flee to the mountains) is when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70 A.D. I agree, but over ten major wars have been fought over Jerusalem since then. Wars and rumors of wars. They had to flee every war, and they will flee wars to come.

When men sin, judgment repeats itself. This wouldn’t have to happen if men would learn from their mistakes. If other nations make the same mistakes as Israel, they will have to suffer the same judgments.

Chapter 1

Was Lucifer an Angel

That Fell from Heaven?

Most churches believe Lucifer was an angel that rose up against God, and God cast him and all the angels that took his side from heaven. Where did these teaching come from? Why does almost every denomination believe this is the truth? The Jews do not teach that Lucifer was the devil, and the Old and New Testament does not teach that Lucifer is the devil.

Teachings of the devil being a fallen angel was taught by a man that wrote a book about devils many years ago. Mostly everyone accepted it to be a true doctrine and not many have searched it out to see if it was true. I also use to believe it the way mostly everyone else did, until the Lord began to show me the scriptures do not agree with that doctrine. I did not get what I wrote from someone else’s book or teaching. I did not just decide to write a book about it, but as the Spirit revealed things to me, I wrote it down and began to study what the Lord gave me over a period of 35 years. I do not preach what God gave me from a pulpit as of yet, and I did not publish the book before now because it was not time. Have you really STUDIED the subject? Or did you do as I did in the past and just accepted a doctrine because it was what your church taught? I do not like to talk to people about the book unless they have read the whole book, because it cannot be discussed in a few hours. I tell people, just read the whole book, and read it more than once. I suggest for you to do the same.

Someone once told me, It’s bad that there is so much disagreeing over the Bible. I said, Yes, but it can be a good thing if it causes us to search the scriptures out for ourselves. If we say, this is the way I have always been taught, and my way is right no matter what you say. Do we not have the same attitude as those that will not receive Jesus as their savior because they have always been taught otherwise? There have been times I thought for sure I was right about something on my job until my boss showed me I was wrong.

It is said, Criticism comes from ignorance. Many times, we criticize when we do not know the whole story or when we think we know the whole story. How can we criticize something that we haven’t read, seen, or heard the whole thing? I know people are going to disagree with this book and will strongly criticize it, and that’s okay, but let it put a hunger in you to search for the truth and not just take someone’s word for what is the truth. Don’t be quick to criticize it to others before you read the WHOLE book. I have put many scriptures in this book to back up what I have said. I believe what I believe because of what the scriptures say and not because of church doctrines. Peter said in 2 Pet. 3:16, Some things that Paul wrote are hard to understand… (It was those that did not understand that criticized. Peter understood, but he said those that are unlearned and unstable do not.)

Scriptures used, to try to prove Lucifer was an angel fallen from heaven, actually prove that he was not an angel fallen from heaven. I want to take you to all these scriptures and unfold them verse by verse and prove to you that scriptures were put together that didn’t belong together and were taken out of context and were misinterpreted. Before we go to the scriptures, let’s find out what the Hebrew word is for Lucifer and what it means. LUCIFER—from the Hebrew words heylel and halal, meaning, in the sense of brightness. LIKE the morning star, to be clear, to shine, to make a show, to boast to be clamorously foolish; to rave, to celebrate, also to stultify, glory, praise.

The KJV Bible and the Hebrew scrolls says that Gabriel and Michael are angels, and Jesus said Beelzebub is a name for the prince of devils, but the Bible, Hebrew scrolls, or Jesus did not say anything about Lucifer being the name of the devil or that the devil or Lucifer was one of God’s heavenly angels.

The King of Babylon

The name Lucifer is mentioned in the Bible only ONCE, and that’s in Isaiah chapter 14. If Lucifer was another name for the devil, I’m sure it would be mentioned more than once. Some say, The name Lucifer was only mentioned once because that was his name before he fell. If this is true, then why didn’t Ezekiel chapter 28 and Rev. 12:9 call him Lucifer? Because according to some people, Ezekiel 28 and Revelation chapter 12 is talking about the devil before he fell? Nowhere in the Bible does it say that the devil’s name was Lucifer before he fell. Rev. 12:9 called him great dragon, the Devil and Satan, and even that old serpent, but it did not call him Lucifer because that was never his name.

Isa. 14:12-15 is one of the main scriptures that people use to try and prove that Lucifer was the devil and he was an angel that rebelled against God, but these very scripture prove otherwise.

Isa. 14:12-15 says, How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!? How art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the nations!? For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, I will exalt my throne ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD; I will ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS. (If Lucifer was an angel, he would not have to ASCEND INTO HEAVEN; he would already be there, ABOVE THE STARS AND CLOUDS.) It was the king of Babylon, a MAN on earth, that said this, because verse 16 says, Is this the MAN that made the earth to tremble?

It was not the devil that lifted himself up as a god. It was more like the devil entered the king and caused him to lift himself up as a god. PEOPLE have made the devil into a god by teaching that he had the power to turn one-third of God’s angels against Him.

If you read Isa. 14:12-15 ONLY, out of 32 verses in Isaiah chapter 14, you could come up with the wrong conclusion. People have taken a few verses here and there and given them their own interpretation. 2 Pet. 1:20 says, Knowing this first that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. (Scripture interprets scripture, if you search them out.)

These four verses were taken out of context and their meaning were changed. In order to understand this, you have to read the whole chapter. Let’s examine what was said more closely. Notice, first of all, the devil or an angel was not mentioned nowhere in this chapter.

Some say the scriptures have a two-foe meaning, that they are talking about the king of Babylon and the devil. If this is so, then why is it THE DEVIL IS NOT MENTIONED NOWHERE IN THE WHOLE BOOK OF ISAIAH OR EZEKIEL? And why is it that Lucifer is not mentioned in chapters where the devil is mentioned, like Revelation chapter 12 that calls him many different names but not Lucifer?

There are no scriptures that back up that Isa. 14 and Ez. 28 have a two-foe meaning of the kings and THE DEVIL, but the whole Bible backs up the fact that these two chapters do have a two-foe meaning, but it’s of the kings and MEN IN GENERAL.

In order to find out who these verses are talking about, you have to read all of chapter 13 and 14 of Isaiah which is about God destroying Babylon. Chapter 14 starts out telling us that the Israelites will be set free from their captives and will return to their own land, and they will take up this proverb against the KING OF BABYLON, (not the devil). How hath the oppressor ceased the golden city ceased! Isa. 14:1-4. Even though the devil is an oppressor, this verse is plainly telling us that the king of Babylon is the oppressor in this chapter, not the devil.

Isa. 14:5-11 tells us that because the king smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke and ruled the nation in anger and persecution, that God is going to bring him down, and hell from beneath is moved for him to meet him at his coming, and the king would end up in the grave and the worms will cover him just like any other man, because he’s a man, not a god.

The four verses in Isa. 14:12-15 that people say is talking about the devil rebelling against God is actually still talking about the king of Babylon; the subject has not changed. To show you the subject did not change in these four verses, the next two verses, 16 and 17, did not say, ‘is this the SPIRIT?’ but it asked, Is this the MAN that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms, that made the world as a wilderness and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the house of his prisoners? If Lucifer was Satan or an angel, then why did Isa. 14:16 say, Is this the MAN that made the earth to tremble? We know the devil is a spirit, not a man, and if he is a spirit, how would he go to the grave, and the worms be spread under him and cover him, like it says in Isa. 14:11? This is a king from the same people that tried to build a tower to heaven, (the tower of Babel) built in Shinar (Babylonia).

Isa. 14:12-15 is telling us that Lucifer was the name of the king of Babylon, not the name of the devil. The king was given this name by the Prophet Isaiah because he was the most powerful king of his day. He was proud and everyone worshipped him as a god. The king was also called Lucifer because it means son of the morning, morning represents the beginning. His kingdom was the rise, the beginning of the FIRST beast of the four in Daniel chapter two, the head of the image.

Isa. 14:12 tells the king that he was LIKE the morning star (natural star which is Venus, not spiritual star). This verse was not saying the king or the devil was the morning star. Only one man has ever been the morning star and that is Jesus, not the devil, Rev. 22:16. Satan was NEVER the morning star. He was never light. Satan was always darkness. Jesus has ALWAYS been the morning star because He was before all things, firstborn of every creature, Col. 1:15-17. He was the beginning of the creation of God, Rev. 3:14.

Isa. 14:12 says, How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer. Heaven in this verse is not where God dwells, because this verse is about a man on earth. Heaven in this verse is a metaphor for a high place of power, like horns on the dragon in Rev. 12 represents kings. The Hebrew word for heaven in this verse is shameh, meaning lofty, meaning elevated as in position or character, exalted, haughty, or high. God told the king He’s going to bring him down from his high place of power. Jer. 51:53, Though Babylon should mount up to HEAVEN, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from Me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD. Heaven in this scripture is also used as a metaphor, as a place of power.

The Bible is full of allegories and metaphors, but if something is used as an allegory or metaphor, the rest of the Bible will back it up. In Gal. 4:24, it tells us that the story of the bound woman and the free woman is an allegory of those under the law and the children of promise. An allegory is an illustration, story, or parable requiring interpretation. Jesus told parables to illustrate spiritual things. A metaphor is a figure of speech in which one object is likened to another. Christians are liken unto eagles. Since allegories, metaphors, and parables where used throughout the Bible, and the Bible was written by men that were inspired by the Holy Ghost, we have to have a spiritual mind to understand it, and this takes being born again.

Even the World Book Encyclopedia says, Isaiah APPLIED the name, shining one, or Lucifer, to the king of Babylon, BUT IT CAME TO BE THOUGHT OF as an evil archangel who was hurled from heaven for his wickedness and revolt against God. It came to be thought of as an evil archangel, because a man wrote a book about the devil many years ago and taught that Lucifer was the devil, and people have believed this ever since.

Lucifer is not an angel fallen from heaven. Lucifer is a name given to a man that lifted himself up to be a god. This was a king liken unto Nimrod and other MEN that lifted themselves up to be a god. Ever since the serpent told Eve to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, that it would open her eyes, and SHE SHALL BE AS GODS, knowing good and evil. Men have set themselves up as gods all the way up to our present day. Lucifer was the king of Babylon, a man here on earth saying, I will exalt my throne and power I have on earth also in heaven, above the clouds and stars of God.

Lucifer was not the actual name of the king. It explains his nature, just like Emmanuel explains who Jesus is. The devil did not rebel against God as an angel. He enters men and causes them to rebel against God. Isaiah chapter 14 is about a king that allowed the devil to enter into him and caused him to rebel against God, just like Judas allowed the devil to enter him to betray Jesus.

The devil did not want to rule heaven. He knew he was no match for God. He has always wanted to rule the earth. He has succeeded in doing this by entering into men and causing them to rebel against God. The world is God’s, but because people do not let Him rule in them. The world rules them instead of them ruling the world. That’s why Satan is called the prince of the world, John 12:31. Even though the devil is prince of the world because men have made him prince of their life, God is still Lord of the earth and over all, even the devil and his demons, because He created ALL things. Ps. 24:1, The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein.

I heard a minister say, The devil rebelled against God in heaven, so God cast the devil to the earth and made him the prince of it. No, God created man and put him on a perfect earth and gave MAN dominion over it. The devil became the prince of the earth because man fell, not because he fell. God made man the prince of the earth, but man lost that because of his sin. The devil did not become the prince of the world because he fell. God would not reward rebellion. The devil became the prince of the world because men let him rule in their lives instead of God.

The Son is the Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty, Rev.1:8. The firstborn of every creature, Col.1:15. The beginning of the creation of God, Rev.3:14.

The Son was before the angels, Satan, and demons. John 1:1-3 In the beginning was the word, (The Son) and the word was with God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.

Gen.2:1 Thus the heavens and earth were finished, and all the host of them. God made everything in six days. I don’t believe an angel would turn against God in just six days. One thing that proves that it was literally six days, is, every time God finished creating things for that day, it said, And the evening and the morning, was the first day, and the evening and the morning was the second day, etc. To say it took millions or even thousands of years, takes away from the power of God to speak, and it was so.

The devil is not mentioned in the Bible to exist, BEFORE the six days of creation. Rev. 12:9 says he is, That old serpent called the Devil, letting us know his first MENTIONED existence was IN the Garden of Eden.

The Fool Says in His Heart There Is No God

MEN ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO ARE FOOLISH ENOUGH TO REBEL AGAINST GOD. Men are also the only ones that are foolish enough to say, there is no God. Ps. 14:1, ‘The fool hath said in his heart there is no God.’ Even the devils believe, James 2:19, ‘Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe and tremble.’ Men say they do not believe. This is because they do not want God telling them what to do. Some say, men wrote the Bible or they invented God to control others. If men want to rule over others, it’s better done without a god, not by inventing a god. This is how Communism ruled one-third of the world in the 1960s. They persecuted and killed those that believed in God. And this is how the devil became the prince of the world, by getting people to believe there is no God.

Angels know God is real, for they are in His presence. Men doubt God is real because they have gotten out of His presence. The main reason men rebel is the doubt that God exists. Jer. 29:13-14, And ye shall seek Me and find Me when ye shall search for Me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the Lord. If atheists search for God with all their heart, the Lord would allow them to find Him. People spend a lot of time searching out things they like, have they searched out God in the same way?

Men believe in what they can see, touch, smell, and taste. If someone would have told people that microorganisms existed before the microscope was invented, they would have said they were crazy. Men say to God, show me and I will believe. God says to men, believe and I will show you.

If the devil can get people to believe men wrote the Bible without being inspired by God what to write, then he can get them to rebel against