Everyone gets this wrong about Lucifer! 😈 In light of my friend Brandon Peterson’s (Truth Is Christ) recent video called “The REAL Reason KJV Translators Chose Lucifer” in Isaiah 14:12, I had to share a sneek peek of some info we’re posting on our developing page addressing the question of “Lucifer” or “day star”.
John Gill (1697-1771), a British Calvinistic Baptist and “Spurgeon’s favorite scholar” contradicts closely held KJV-only convictions about Lucifer. Gill is frequently and selectively cited by KJV-only advocates when he agrees with their arguments, especially Gail Riplinger – from whom we have inherited many misplaced convictions, especially those about “Lucifer”. But of course, when he fails to toe the KJV-only line, his scholarship is relegated to “man’s wisdom”. …But it won’t be so easy to get away with pious double-standard this time.
In Gill’s commentary on Isaiah 14:12, he applies the fall of Lucifer not only to the ancient king of Babylon (Isaiah 13:1) being compared to the planet Venus (“Lucifer” in Latin, “day star” in English), but also to Roman Catholicism and the Antichrist. 😳 I hope you will find this as fascinating and enlightening as I have.
(Note: My apologies for the formatting of the following quote. Like I mentioned, the page is under construction. 🚧 😅 You can see more about this passage and John Gill’s thoughts at https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/isaiah-14/)
“How art thou fallen from heaven
This is not to be understood of the fall of Satan, and the apostate angels, from their first estate, when they were cast down from heaven to hell, though there may be an allusion to it; see ( Luke 10:18 ) but the words are a continuation of the speech of the dead to the king of Babylon, wondering at it, as a thing almost incredible, that he who seemed to be so established on the throne of his kingdom, which was his heaven, that he should be deposed or fall from it. So the destruction of the Roman Pagan emperors is signified by the casting out of the dragon and his angels from heaven, ( Revelation 12:7-9 ) and in like manner Rome Papal, or the Romish antichrist, will fall from his heaven of outward splendour and happiness, of honour and authority, now, possessed by him:
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
alluding to the star Venus, which is the phosphorus or morning star, which ushers in the light of the morning, and shows that day is at hand; by which is meant, not Satan, who is never in Scripture called Lucifer, though he was once an angel of light, and sometimes transforms himself into one, and the good angels are called morning stars, ( Job 38:7 ) and such he and his angels once were; but the king of Babylon is intended, whose royal glory and majesty, as outshining all the rest of the kings of the earth, is expressed by those names; and which perhaps were such as he took himself, or were given him by his courtiers. The Targum is,
“how art thou fallen from on high, who was shining among the sons of men, as the star Venus among the stars.”
“thou art cast down to the earth, who killedst the people:”
This content (minus the meme at the bottom which was inspired by our facebook conversation with Joey Faust) was originally posted two our Buy Me A Coffee page on Feb 07, 2025. https://buymeacoffee.com/josepharmstrong/everyone-gets-wrong-about-lucifer
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