(Servias’ Note: Once again, this final section should be studied thoroughly, especially the referenced Scriptures. The reader should then reread this part after studying associated passages in the Bible before making any determination about accepting or rejecting Kemper’s discussion. We are providing his writing to provoke the reader to challenge his or her current doctrine for its validity as many have done in the past with the doctrine of eternal damnation. As always, each of us should test our own doctrine given to us by the teachers in our past to see if it truly lines up with FATHER’S Divine Intent and deeper revelation. Each of us is responsible for seeking out the Truth and to reject doctrines and traditions of men.)
Kemper completed with the following:
The Fall From Glory
Adam, being subject to his serpent wisdom, brought death upon all mankind from the beginning of his dominion. Adam kept not his first estate, but refused to abide in the truth which was God’s Word of life (John 6:63). This was his response to the commandment resulting in their downfall, which brings us to Isaiah 14:12, “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!”
The word lucifer is the Hebrew word, heylel, which means; light bearer. This verse is the only place it is used in the scriptures. Lucifer is a name (nature) and a description of one who is to bring light to others. This was the description of the dominion mandate Adam was to be expressing as he ruled over the earth (Genesis 1:26-28). This stewardship of bearing light is what the prophet Isaiah was referring to when he assigned the title “Lucifer” to the king of Babylon. For in Isaiah 14:4, it is written, That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon. Isaiah was inferring that the king of Babylon was continuing in the same corruption that Adam had established in his fall. As Adam failed to fulfill the Lucifer mandate so also did the king of Babylon. Therefore this king was designated as “Lucifer” by the prophet to signify the estate from which he failed to fulfill.
Isaiah continues in verse 13 and14, For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. This correlates to what God had said about Adam in Genesis 3:22; And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, which meant that man took the place of God as also stated in 2 Thessalonians 2:4, Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. The king of Babylon had continued in the same agenda that Adam initiated and pursued at the time of his fall.
Lucifer is referred to as the son of the morning (Isaiah 14:12) which is a direct reference to Adam being the son of the beginning or a product of creation. God’s intent was for Adam to become a son of God, a bearer of light, the Bright and Morning Star (Revelation 22:16). For Adam to become a son of God he was to willingly embrace in obedience the Word of God which is the incorruptible seed. As we know, he failed to do so and remained a created being rather than a begotten son.
The mandate to govern the earth was first given to Adam. God’s desire was for him to bring the light of the truth unto those under his dominion and therefore the name Lucifer was used by God in Isaiah 14:12 to illustrate this. However when Adam drew on his own wisdom to usurp God’s will with his own, he left his first estate (Lucifer) of abiding in the truth and subjected his mandate to his corrupt wisdom, the nachash.
Adam had taken the Lucifer mandate and subjected it to the influence of the serpent or Satan the devil. When Isaiah was prophesying over the king of Babylon he spoke to the root of his corruption which was the fall of Lucifer way back in Adam’s beginning. What Adam had initiated continues to corrupt others who have been given the privilege to rule. This corruption is the self-preservation mindset of the serpent. Not all men however have been swayed from the fear of the Lord. God has maintained a remnant throughout the generations that have not subjected themselves unto the serpent wisdom of self preservation, but have submitted themselves unto God for the sake of His Kingdom, and have responded to the call of being sanctified through Christ to drive the principle of Nachash out of their flesh.
It can be concluded that the Lucifer mandate, Adam was to function in, was allowed to be usurped by his own wisdom, the nachash. Thereby establishing the principality of Satan and his altered reality of this present world floundering outside of God’s design. It is unfortunate and inaccurate that Satan is considered to be Lucifer the light bearer. Lucifer was a principle consistent with the will of God, but Satan was never in God’s plans. Lucifer was ordained to illuminate the truth, Satan has never abode therein. Adam with his dominion had fallen from God’s original principle (Lucifer) to establish his own principle (Satan).
Basically, Lucifer is the state of Adam being created upright and Satan is the state of Adam in his disobedience. Adam went from functioning as Lucifer the light bearer to Satan the adversary and one who opposes. As stated before; Adam’s disobedience to the commandment of God, invented a world of opposition to the will and purpose of God. Without man, Satan and his demons do not exist. They are a direct product of the rebellion of man. All the evil that has been loosed upon this earth is a result of this nachash which man invented using the rebellion side of the commandment.
The Lucifer mandate has been usurped by Satan, a principality under which man rules this endeavor that he has set in motion, whom Paul calls the “god of this world” (2 Corinthians 4:4). Each person has their own endeavor of fulfilling their own will to establish their own world. It is a massive game of “King of the hill.” Therefore the conflicts begin and man learns war.
James 4:1-5; From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss (note that; amiss is sin), that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
This “spirit that dwells within us” is the serpent, nachash, the wisdom of man, lodged in our sensual flesh. Man becomes Satan (an adversary in opposition) unto those he’s contrary to and perceives those contrary to him as Satan. Yet he fails to understand his own ego, pride and self preservation is Satan, the wisdom of the natural earthly man. His spirit of self preservation deceives him to race toward his own destruction trampling down those in his way, accumulating further torment for the recompense to come. However, where sin abounds grace does much more abound.