Regarding the Bible, I'm not a big fan of the NIV or NTLH versions, but for understanding the following passage, I think a blend of them with the ACF and KJA would be helpful:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nMortal man, raise a lament over the king of Tyre and say to him:
Thus says the Sovereign Lord:
You were an example of perfection. How wise and kind you were!
You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: carnelian, topaz and diamond, beryl, onyx and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and emerald. Your settings and mountings were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared.
You were anointed as a guardian cherub, with your wings spread; after all, it was precisely for this function that I appointed you.
You were also on the Holy Mountain of God and walked among the shining stones.
At that time you were perfect and blameless in your feelings and actions,
from the day you were created until wickedness was found in you.
Through your many dealings throughout the land you have filled your heart with arrogance and brutality, and you have sinned;
For this reason I cast you out, defiled and humiliated, far from the Holy Mountain of God.
I myself humbled you and expelled you, guardian cherub, from the midst of the glory of the fiery stones!
Your heart has become proud and haughty because of your stunning beauty.,
And you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor and your fame.
That is why I cast you to the ground;
I have set you before kings, that they may gaze at you.<\/span><\/p>\n(Ezekiel 28:12-17)<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<\/a>Have you ever tried reading the book of Ezekiel?
Right there, in the first chapter, he throws such an absolutely complex description in the reader's face that even I\u2014modesty aside, far from being functionally illiterate\u2014read it about ten times, in three different versions of the Bible\u2026 and I confess that I still don't quite understand what these beings are or how they work, beings that will only be identified as cherubim in the tenth chapter: the appearance of a man with four faces\u2014man, lion, ox, and eagle!\u2014and four wings, straight legs, soles of their feet like a calf's, bodies burning like embers in a fire, wheels (with terrifyingly high rims) remotely controlled and intertwined, one for each face\u2026 go read it because I stopped!<\/p>\n\n\n\nI stopped and was relieved that the Lord Jesus Christ took upon himself all the Old Testament sacrificial rituals that appear in this book\u2014only the proposal, in Ezekiel 4:9<\/span><\/b>, Spending three hundred and ninety days eating bread made from beans (and other grains) smoked in human feces has already made me certain that I am too weak to be a prophet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Incompetence aside, my wish is to highlight that all this complexity described (in the first and tenth chapters) deals with the appearance and powers of "normal" cherubim: I am led to believe that this "anointed guardian cherub" was endowed with even more attributes than they were... and, paradox of paradoxes, having so many advantages ended up being extremely disadvantageous!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We must be very careful not to misunderstand the message of the passage above: it is true that the limited and finite human being who reigned over Shot<\/a> He was not in Eden, he was not anointed as a guardian cherub, nor did he walk on God's Holy Mountain, but because of his similar behavior, the message he receives is full of direct allusions to Satan!
That's precisely why I prefer not to even consider the reference to... business<\/a>, ...but linking the misfortune to the emergence, through such great successes, of arrogance and brutality in the hearts... of both!
Abandoning the King of Tyre<\/a> From here on, there is a New Testament passage that highlights the central reason for the emergence of the Devil:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nThe bishop should not be someone who has recently converted;
If he goes, he will be filled with pride and will be condemned like the Devil was.<\/span><\/p>\n(1 Timothy 3:6)<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nPower corrupts.
Not only are there little men who are dazzled by the power of influence in any sector imaginable, but even "the epitome of perfection" has succumbed, seduced by himself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nHow you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you have fallen from heaven, you who weakened the nations!
And you said in your heart:
I will ascend to heaven, above the stars of God I will exalt my throne,
And I will sit on the mount of the congregation, on the sides of the north.
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.
And yet you will be brought down to hell.,
to the deepest abyss.<\/span><\/p>\n(Isaiah 14:12-15)<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nIs vanity the source of all other sins?
As I read the passage above, I can't help but think of Paul revealing to us how he did not fall into a similar temptation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nI will boast about such a person, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses.
For if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, because I will be telling the truth;
But I leave this aside, so that no one may think more of me than what he sees in me or hears from me.
And to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh.,
namely, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, so that I would not exalt myself.
Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
And he said to me:
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.
Therefore, I will gladly boast about my weaknesses,
so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.<\/span><\/p>\n(2 Corinthians 12:5-9)<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nSatan, unlike the example recorded by the last apostle, not only became vain, but, without forgetting that angels are neither foolish nor weak, ended up convincing a third of the angelic population (as we saw in...). previous publication<\/a>) to follow him in his rebellion: before preaching the socialist stupidity of "equal rights"\u201c<\/a> For Eve, the Devil preached this deception to himself... and she believed it!
And it fell.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTHE SECOND IMPACT<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\nAnd the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan;,
that deceives the whole world;
He was hurled to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying:
Now has come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ;
because the accuser of our brothers has already been thrown down,
who accused them before our God day and night.<\/span><\/p>\n(Revelation 12:9-10)<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nFools are those who, without searching the Word, go around repeating in prose and verse that Satan and his demons have no access to any physical place, particularly to ecclesiastical establishments: if the enemy can go even before God, walls, doors, or windows will not stop him!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nAnd on a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD,
Satan also came among them.
Then the LORD said to Satan, \u201cWhere have you come from?\u201d
And Satan answered the LORD, and said:
To roam the earth, and wander through it.<\/span><\/p>\n(Job 1:6-7)<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n