Adventistische Schriften über: "Argument concerning Isaiah 14:12–14 and the question of whether the text originally refers only to the king of Babylon or can also be applied to the fall of Satan"

The scriptures state that the prophetic lament from Isaiah 14 (“How you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer…”) is applied directly to the fall and activity of Satan. Although the context deals with Babylon, the prophetic vision reveals the true originator of the rebellion, who sought to exalt himself above God and is ultimately brought down.

Isaiah 14 applied to the fall and judgment of Satan

»The prophet Isaiah looks forward to the time of Satan’s fall and declares: “How you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you have been struck to the ground, you who weakened the nations!” “You said in your heart: I will ascend to heaven, I will raise my throne above the stars of God.” “I will be like the Most High. Yet you will be cast down into hell, into the deepest pit. Those who see you will examine you closely and contemplate you and say: Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms; who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities; who did not open the house of his prisoners?” For six thousand years Satan’s work of rebellion has “made the earth tremble.”«

1 - Ellen Gould White, The Great Controversy (1888 ed.) (GC88 659.2)

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