As a child, I never quite understood why God needed someone to do the wrong thing in order for His plan to come forth. Like Eve and Adam eating the forbidden fruit, it needed to be done for posterity. Prior, was Samuel. An archangel. Why would God create a son only to be the bad guy in His plan, after all, isn't God is all-knowing? Over the years and feeling capable and confident in my questions and beliefs I've allowed myself to think. Think what information I could be missing. I came up with a couple conclusions, but neither one wholly formed and understood.
What if Lucifer isn't actually here, tempting us to do wrong, hoping to get us in his claws. What if Satan is something other than one of God's children, the high and mighty firstborn? Why would God create a son knowing that he would need to fulfill His purpose and pose as the villain? The kind and loving God I believe in wouldn't foreordain His son to be the serpent of the fallen world.
Lucifer was the firstborn. Our oldest brother. He was wise and beautiful; his archangel name was Samuel. What if we looked up to him, what if we loved him, what if we went to him for help? What if his plan was to come down to earth to get our bodies and go back to heaven with ease so we could all be together again? Being our oldest brother, charming and wise, what if his plan was out of love for us? Love and desire to be with us with a tad of control to do so?
Lucifer is our Brother #1. He knows us best because he is older than us. What if he misses us?
God knew that we needed to come to earth to experience the gift of mortality to become the best versions of ourselves, to love and be loved. Mortality would mean conjoining with the "natural man and carnal desires". What if God asked for Samuel to be the tester knowing that he knew us better than anyone else? What if Samuel didn't want to do the hard job maybe knowing what that could do to his reputation, what if got upset, starting the 'war' in heaven? Trying to rally up God's children to support him for what he thought was the better good for his brothers and sisters?
Did this theory lead to Samuel being overcome with emotions such as pride, after all, he was the firstborn, the morning star, the beautiful, the oldest, and the wisest? OR, did all of this lead to the rebellion in heaven against his father because he didn't want to worship humanity (us), knowing us well and what this mortality would mean for us. Flawed, damaged and blind in so many ways.
The reminder is, that Lucifer Morningstar never makes us do anything. He does not make us commit sin, we do that-humanity commit sins on their own. He reminds us of what our choices are. Though this allows free agency, something that is key to God's plan, something we might take for granted, something we don't admit to having when we've done something unfavorable, "I was tempted by the snake!". It makes us feel better to point fingers (at Satan) than it is to take ownership and responsibility for our own mishaps. Is this hurtful to him? Is he completing his task? Did he go too far? Does he still miss us which is stemmed from loving us?
Lucifer Morningstar is our oldest brother, the fallen archangel, the prince of death, lord of lies. He misses us. He is our greatest teacher that we sense every day. He gives us our journey. Lucifer Morningstar isn't evil, he 'punishes' evil.
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