He was so beautiful, so wise, and so powerful as an angel that he began to covet God’s position and authority. It is obvious from the text that Satan’s sin was pride. What was the first sin? We learn about it and Satan’s fall from Isaiah 14:12–15: How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’ Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit. You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you. You were the anointed cherub who covers I established you You were on the holy mountain of God You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. We catch a glimpse of Satan’s fall in the following passage, prophetically directed at the king of Tyre, but in this portion, apparently meant to include someone apart from humanity (specifically referred to as a cherub) who had been in the Garden of Eden, the prophecy turns into a description of an angel, namely Lucifer: Ezekiel 28:14–15 As Christians, we know that the serpent tempted Eve, but we often forget that the devil’s fall from grace was what set the stage for humankind’s fall, both as antecedent and type. While this is indeed the first human sin, it is not the first recorded sin in Scripture. Often when Christians think of the first sin, they think of Adam and Eve and the Fall in the Garden of Eden. Keywords: sin, Adam and Eve, Fall, Garden of Eden, Satan, truth, pride, grace, rebellion, God
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