The sight of the morning star is always uplifting, promising: The good news of a new day, of all things new.
"I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." (Revelation 22:16).
"LUCIFER", or "THE MORNING STAR"?
King James Bible:
"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!" (Isaiah 14:12)
NETfree Bible:
"Look how you have fallen from the sky,
O shining one, son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the ground, O conqueror of the nations!" (Isaiah 14:12)
God uses metaphor and imagery to help us to understand what He is talking about. Jesus used the Morning Star as a metaphor in reference to Himself in Revelation 22:16.
The book of Revelation - like almost all prophetic books such as Isaiah - is full of metaphor, symbolism and imagery.
The word "Lucifer" is simply the ancient Latin name for the morning star, and this is how the word "Lucifer" ended up in Isaiah 14:12 in the Latin Bibles. However, in the original text the verse speaks about a shining star, "son of the morning".
God was inspiring Isaiah to prophesy, and Isaiah, at the inspiration of God, was using the metaphor/imagery of the Morning Star in reference to the king of Babylon and his coming fall from glory. It's SIMPLY a metaphor, imagery:
The king of Babylon exalted himself "above the stars of God" (metaphor) and was brought down to Hades.
Jesus was literally brought down to Hades after being killed by humans who had the same political authority that the king of Babylon had in his day, who were inspired by the same spiritual forces of darkness, but Jesus was exalted by God above "the stars of God" (metaphor) when He rose again from the dead and ascended into heaven.
So Jesus is "the bright and morning star".
Is the word "Lucifer" a correct word to use in any English translation of the Bible?
Nowhere in the original Hebrew scriptures, or anywhere else in the Bible is Satan called "Lucifer". It's not scriptural to call Satan "Lucifer" in English. "Lucifer" is simply the ancient Latin name for the morning star, which is being used as a metaphor for a person who is exalted.
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