Tuesday | 03 November 2026
When Lucifer sinned, the Lord cast him out of the mountain of God as ‘a profane thing’. Eze 28:16. Satan having been ‘cut down to the ground’, the Lord proclaimed that he would yet be brought down to ‘Sheol [hell], to the lowest depths of the Pit’. Isa 14:12,15. The point is that Satan’s destruction in the lowest recesses of hell was assured, even though, until the day of judgement, he and many of his angels were able to roam the earth. This was not the case for a number of other angels, as the apostle Peter noted, writing, ‘God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgement’. 2Pe 2:4. Notably, hell is, first, the place of confinement in readiness for the judgement of fallen angels. This happened before the creation of Adam and the woman.
The first reproach directed against God was expressed by Satan when he impugned the Father by suggesting that the Father acted from His own initiative, apart from the fellowship of Yahweh. Satan said to the woman, ‘Has God [Elohim] indeed said, “You shall not eat of every tree of the garden”?’ Gen 3:1. We know, of course, that it was the Lord God (Yahweh Elohim), communicating from a fellowship, who said that if man ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they would die. Gen 2:16‑17. Satan then further reproached the Father by questioning His motives, saying to the woman, ‘You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’ Gen 3:4‑5. He was suggesting that God was deceitfully withholding something from the woman and, by this means, was limiting her potential.
Further Study:
Genesis 3
References:
Eze 28:16
By the abundance of your trading, you became filled with violence within, and you sinned; Therefore, I cast you as a profane thing out of the mountain of God; and I destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the fiery stones.
Isa 14:12
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!
Isa 14:15
Yet, you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.
2Pe 2:4
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgement.
Gen 3:1
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, ‘Has God indeed said, “You shall not eat of every tree of the garden”?’
Gen 2:16-17
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, ‘Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.’
Gen 3:4-5
Then the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’