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Ezekiel 28:17 ‘Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.’
Lucifer thought he was so good he wanted to be God. He became full of pride and would not change his ways, so God had to cast him out of heaven. These are the events that brought the first earth age to an end.
Ezekiel 28:18 ‘Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
Here Lucifer is sentenced to death by God Himself. If you ever wondered what hell is going to be like, these verses tell us. Satan and anyone else that is sentenced to death, God will destroy their soul with fire until the only thing left is ashes.
So now we have a better understanding of Satan and what his job used to be. Because of his rebellion and the fact that a third of God's children followed him, God ended the first earth age and started the second one, this is the one we are living in now. If no one followed after Satan when he rebelled in the first earth age, God would have just destroyed him there and then, but seeing that so many of God’s children followed him the situation was never going to be resolved. Evil, corruption, and all kinds of iniquity infested the first Earth Age, (Sound familiar?) and seeds had been sown by Satan. So God had no alternative, and ended that earth age by bringing forth a total flood, (Not to be confused with Noah’s partial flood.) and created the one we are living in now,
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