If Lucifer Never Fell

By James M. Longaker Jr

Imagine that the world that we exist in today is one where everything and everyone works in perfect harmony with no crime or evil acts against each other. This environment could possibly be equal to a utopia, paradise, nirvana, or even heaven on earth!

The world, which was created by God, was meant to be exactly as we have just imagined and would have been so even today if not for one prideful and rebellious angel known as Lucifer. Many biblical scholars today are still trying to find out what the total effects on mankind are due to this fallen angel. How could one of God's most beautiful creations turn out to become so evil and have such a negative impact on all of creation?

The title of this book considers this very question, and the contents take a deep dive into what is and what could have been on earth if the circumstances and actions of Lucifer would have gone in the opposite direction. It is normal to imagine things throughout our existence, but at some point, we must all come back to reality.

The actions of Lucifer have impacted every person on earth from the time he was cast out of heaven by his Creator, which is when he became Satan. Has this evil angel affected you in a way where you have been deceived by his twisted lies to the point that you are uncertain of where your final eternal resting place will be?

After reading this book, you will definitely know where you will reside after you perish from this earth. Some say knowledge is power and provides an individual with the ability to make a well-informed and educated choice. Are you 100 percent certain that your choices are placing you on the path of where you believe you will spend your eternal afterlife? This book will provide you with an accurate answer to this vital question.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
• Release date: Oct 13, 2023
• ISBN: 9798889824862

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Table of Contents

Title

Copyright

Introduction

Chapter 1: Who Created Lucifer?

Chapter 2: Why Did Lucifer Rebel Against God?

Chapter 3: Transition from Lucifer to Satan

Chapter 4: Would Hell Be Required Without Satan?

Chapter 5: Adam and Eve Without Satan

Chapter 6: A Sinless Eternal Society

Chapter 7: No Need for Jesus Christ to Be Born

Chapter 8: Heaven on Earth from the Beginning

Chapter 9: But Lucifer Did Rebel and Fall

Chapter 10: Choose Your Final Eternal Destination Wisely

Source Notes

About the Author

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If Lucifer Never Fell

James M. Longaker Jr.

Copyright © 2023 James M. Longaker Jr.

All rights reserved

First Edition

Fulton Books

Meadville, PA

Published by Fulton Books 2023

ISBN 979-8-88982-487-9 (hardcover)

ISBN 979-8-88982-486-2 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

To my mother, Bonita Martinez, who inspired me to put my thoughts into words

Introduction

As many of you reading this book have probably wondered, just as I have, what would this world that we live in be like if the angel that God created named Lucifer had never rebelled and determined his final destination? With all the evil and turmoil that each generation before us has witnessed and lived through, sharing it with future generations, it is only reasonable that this book title would resonate in a human's mind.

Here we are today, born into this world without a choice and within a selfish and much more advanced dark planet than those who came before us. We know what history tells us about how the world has arrived at the state that we are witnessing where wrong is right and evil is good. The only things that fuel these wrong worldly directions are the sources from which we receive this history.

If you want to live in a world where you can choose the historical events of the past and direct those events to come that will enable you to justify living such a rebellious life, just as Lucifer did, then look no further than modern-day social media. But what if you want to know the actual, never-changing, and real accounts of what has happened and what is yet to come? The answer is simply the gospel truth of the Holy Bible, which will be the only source required to be your guide to your eternal destination after your physical life on planet earth ends.

I would like to clarify upfront that I have cited scripture throughout this book to support my comments objectively without personal opinion. There may be those that do not agree with my comments, and that is okay. There are those who reject the bible, and that is okay also, and my comments are not for those. My comments provide scriptural information for consideration, not debate. It is not my position to tell anyone what to believe. Now that I got that off my chest, I hope that all the readers of this book will retain an open mind and carefully analyze and consider what this book is attempting to present, which is nothing more than presenting a possible idea of what life on earth would be like today if Lucifer never fell.

Chapter 1

Who Created Lucifer?

What exactly are angels, anyway? What are they made of, where did they come from, and where do they stay? How are they like me? How are they different? If an angel should appear—if I should somehow become acquainted with one—what should I expect?

With so much misinformation accumulating today on the subject of angels, let's go back and begin where the Bible begins. Since there is actually only one reliable source, the Holy Bible, when it comes to the history of angels, I have decided to make that my guide for this book. The Holy Bible reveals to us a lot about multiple angels, like who they are and how they can help us in our daily earthly life.

Angels are first of all created beings like you and me. They are not the result of the big bang theory. They did not come about in the hierarchy of some evolutionary process. When God created the world and everything in it, He created the angels (Acts 17:24, Psalm 104:4). These spiritual beings have unique roles and characteristics, but they share a common purpose. Their job is to worship God and minister to His people.

Since there are so many different angels referred to in the Bible, I would like to focus on one that has intrigued the minds of mankind from the beginning of time; his name was Lucifer.

Lucifer comes from a name meaning light bearer. Interpretations of a similar term in the Hebrew Bible, translated in the King James Version (and earlier in the Wycliffe Bible) as the proper name Lucifer, led to a Christian tradition of applying the name Lucifer to Satan (the devil); but modern translations almost always translate the Hebrew term in the relevant Bible passage (Isaiah 14:12 NASB) as star of the morning, morning star (NIV), or shining one (NET) rather than as the proper name Lucifer. The King James Version and New King James Version use the name Lucifer only once (Isaiah 14:12 KJV).

There are multiple scriptures in the King James version of the Bible that refer directly to the angel Lucifer. Some examples are as follows:

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! (Isaiah 14:12)

Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 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. 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. (Ezekiel 28:12–14)

By these and many other scriptures in the Bible, it is common knowledge that God himself created the angels. God created all of His angels with their own special gifts and purposes. Lucifer was created to partake of the same splendid privileges we have seen the other angels that God created enjoy.

Lucifer was created as an angel who was anointed as a guardian cherub, God says, for so I ordained you (Ezekiel 28:14 NIV).

This guardian cherub was perfect.

You were a model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. (Ezekiel 28:12 NCB)

He was perfect in intellect and perfect in form. The guardian cherub had no light of his