The following four passages are the only biblical references offered by writers for all the details ... some of them exceptionally elaborate ... that they may build into their scenarios about the "fall of Lucifer/Satan." See The Devil In the Details for discussion of the validity of applying the Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 38 passages to Satan.
See the same article for an exploration of the interpretations commonly offered for the single sentence, "I saw Satan like lightning fall from heaven" in Luke, and for the highly metaphorical passage in Revelation 12.
Isaiah 14:1-
[The portions highlighted with bolding are alleged by some to be references to Satan.]
LORD will have compassion on Jacob;
once again he will choose Israel
and
will settle them in their own land.
Aliens will join them
and unite
with the house of Jacob.
Nations will take them
and bring them to their own place.
And the house
of Israel will possess the nations
as menservants and maidservants in the
LORD's land.
They will make captives of their captors
and rule over
their oppressors.
On the day the LORD gives you relief from suffering and turmoil and cruel bondage, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:
How the oppressor has come to an end!
How his fury has ended!
The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked,
the scepter of the rulers,
which in anger struck down peoples
with unceasing blows,
and in fury
subdued nations
with relentless aggression.
All the lands are at rest and at peace;
they break into singing.
Even the pine trees and the cedars of Lebanon
exult over you and say,
"Now
that you have been laid low,
no woodsman comes to cut us down."
The grave below is all astir
to meet you at your coming;
it rouses
the spirits of the departed to greet you—
all those who were leaders in the
world;
it makes them rise from their thrones—
all those who were kings
over the nations.
They will all respond,
they will say to you,
"You also have become
weak, as we are;
you have become like us."
All your pomp has been brought down to the grave,
along with the noise of
your harps;
maggots are spread out beneath you
and worms cover you.
How you have fallen from heaven,
O morning star [KJV: Lucifer) , son of the
dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the
nations!
You said in your heart,
"I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most
High."
But you are brought down to the grave,
to the depths of the pit.
Those who see you stare at you,
they ponder your fate:
"Is this the
man who shook the earth
and made kingdoms tremble,
the man who made the world a desert,
who overthrew its cities
and would
not let his captives go home?"
All the kings of the nations lie in state,
each in his own tomb.
But you are cast out of your tomb
like a rejected branch;
you are covered
with the slain,
with those pierced by the sword,
those who descend
to the stones of the pit.
Like a corpse trampled underfoot,
you will not join them in burial,
for you have destroyed your land
and
killed your people.
The offspring of the wicked
will never be mentioned
again.
Prepare a place to slaughter his sons
for the sins of their forefathers;
they
are not to rise to inherit the land
and cover the earth with their cities.
"I will rise up against them,"
declares the LORD Almighty.
"I will
cut off from Babylon her name and survivors,
her offspring and descendants,"
declares the LORD.
"I will turn her into a place for owls
and into swampland;
I will
sweep her with the broom of destruction,"
declares the LORD Almighty.
Ezekiel 38:11-
The word of the LORD came to me: "Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king
of Tyre and say to him: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
" 'You were
the model of perfection,
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
You were in Eden,
the garden of God;
every precious stone adorned you:
ruby, topaz and emerald,
chrysolite, onyx and jasper,
sapphire,
turquoise and beryl.
Your settings and mountings were made of gold;
on
the day you were created they were prepared.
You were anointed as a guardian cherub,
for so I ordained you.
You
were on the holy mount of God;
you walked among the fiery stones.
You were blameless in your ways
from the day you were created
till
wickedness was found in you.
Through your widespread trade
you were filled with violence,
and you
sinned.
So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God,
and I expelled
you, O guardian cherub,
from among the fiery stones.
Your heart became proud
on account of your beauty,
and you corrupted
your wisdom
because of your splendor.
So I threw you to the earth;
I made a spectacle of you before kings.
By your many sins and dishonest trade
you have desecrated your sanctuaries.
So I made a fire come out from you,
and it consumed you,
and
I reduced you to ashes on the ground
in the sight of all who were watching.
All the nations who knew you
are appalled at you;
you have come to
a horrible end
and will be no more.' "
Luke 10: 17-
The seventy-
Revelation 12:1-
A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. 4His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. The woman fled into the desert to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
1Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
"Now have come the salvation and the
power and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Christ.
For the
accuser of our brothers,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has
been hurled down.
They overcame him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by
the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to
shrink from death.
Therefore rejoice, you heavens
and you who dwell in them!
But woe to the earth and the sea,
because the devil has gone down to you!
He is filled with fury,
because he knows that his time is short."
The “Fall of Lucifer”:
The Scriptural Evidence
