Religion educates that Satan was made a good angel, and for turning against God he was cast out of heaven, as he transformed into evil. In a debate circle I was challenged to find the evidence to prove it true. My hope is to explore that literary evidence. For study purposes we will use the King James Version, as the King James Version book influenced our modern day religions and understandings.

In any serious discussion on this topic, there is one verse theologians use to teach that Satan was made good, and became evil. Also, all publications published use Ezekiel 28:15, and any and all understandings would have been inspired by this passage. “Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.” In the previous verse it speaks of the anointed cherub that has been in the Garden of God, Eden. It is a direct quote from the “mouth of God,” which is a rule we will apply through out this research based on what Jesus said directly to Satan in Matthew 4:4, “But he answered and said, It is written Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” At first glance, it is easy to assume seeing the word “iniquity,” that something was good, and has done something wrong.

Beginning by rephrasing the passage, and splitting it into two parts, let us examine the first part in more understandable terms, “You were perfect in your ways, from the day you were created…” Using the speed of a search engine, if we search the term “ways” we will find God declare his ways in Isaiah 55:8, “ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.” The bible text states in many places, God is Good, and upon comparing this passage to Ezekiel, we see God does not say “my ways.” To expound, God does not say, “You were created perfect in my ways.” If not perfect in the ways of God, then what ways? The preceding passages in Ezekiel call this cherub the King of Tyrus, and a man. The passage in Isaiah is comparing the ways of God to the ways of the man. So we need to understand the ways of God and the ways of man can be called perfect, but they are not the same, nor are the ways of man good.

To discover the meaning of the second half of the passage “till iniquity was found in thee” we must delve into when he was judged, and for what crime. We use our search engine again and use the word “judge.” In John 16:11 we have a quote from Jesus declaring he would be judged “of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.” Another passage to include is John 12:31 “Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.” It is important to note the semi colon, which means what is said before is directly related to what is said after.

So now we have found the judgment where iniquity would have been found, but for what crime? The search engine revealed Satan enters the man Judas Iscariot, in that he was not present before. It is a peculiar passage, in that we see an action of Satan entering a human being to commit an action against the Christ. We also see Jesus does not cast Satan out, or rebuke Satan as he did with Peter, but rather accepts that Satan has entered his  disciple. While Satan is in Judas, he speaks in Mat 27:4 “Saying I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, what is that to us? See thou to that.

The search engine reveals this law to be written in Deuteronomy 19, that reveals an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. What we need to discover next is, who is the innocent blood betrayed? That answer would be Jesus Christ. The bible story is clear to point out that none are free from sin but Jesus, he is in fact the only “innocent blood” or without sin in the entire publication from King James. So what caused this Satan to enter Judas and send Christ to his death? Did not Satan know Jesus is innocent blood? Why would Satan commit such a crime when the law clearly states, he would be committing suicide in the eye for an eye law. The bible also states Satan knows the text and laws of the bible.

In the story we see that the man Judas hangs himself from a tree, and in fact, perishes before Jesus. Jesus is sentenced to death, by hanging from a tree, the cross. Using the search engine for “tree” we see in Deuteronomy 21:23 anyone that hangs from a tree is accursed of God. So not only did Satan shed innocent blood and suffer the same punishment he sent out, but he did so by using the worst way to be put to death. To understand this, we need to do much more research.

Using the “mouth of God” law we see Jesus use in speaking to Satan in the tempting of Mat 4:4, I noted that Satan is asking Jesus to prove he is the Son of God, and Jesus does not prove it. Using the search engine, I sought every passage with “son of God,” and noted the story between Satan and God concerning the man Job, whom is called “Sons of God.” “Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.” Job 1:6.

In many theories appeared the term “Sons of God” referencing texts declare are angels, however, I found no other passages that declare angels are the sons of God. In Hebrews 1:5 we find it to say, there is no quote from the mouth of God at any time that an angel is his son. Following the words in the search engine I entered the query “present” and “ Lord.”  In the book of 1 Samuel 10:19 we see “… Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes, and by your thousands.” We see God commands man to present himself to the Lord, not the angels. Lastly, I found several verses refer to men or humans becoming the sons of God, not angels. In fact, referencing Genesis 6:4, it states that these men become famous, “men of renown.” Even to this day Noah, is famous. The flood tale is found in most ancient texts, and that makes it truly renown!

With this data, Job must be a preacher with a congregation of men that share his belief in God, as the text also states he wakes daily and offers burnt offerings. While presenting himself, we see a spiritual conversation between God and Satan, and they discuss the man Job, and it appears Job is not hearing this private conversation. As an engineer, I focus on patterns, and repeats of data using the search engine method. So I begin noting Job presents himself to God twice, and twice this Satan character reacts. I note Satan does not see the man Job, as he states God has a hedge about him, but God removes that hedge and allows the character Satan to take all that he has. We then see Job’s family and worldly belongings taken away, and secondly then his flesh is afflicted with boils. Then the rest of the tale reveals Job’s words to God, and God responds. The conversation then turns to a communication not between Satan and God, but between Job and God.

Using the same algorithm in Job I began looking to see if there were any patterns between the “sons of God” Job, and the “son of God” Jesus. In Matthew 3:17 we see God speaks from a cloud after John baptizes Jesus, and declares, “… this is my son hear ye him.” We see this happen again in Matthew 17:5. This reveals the mouth of God spoke two separate days. This is a pattern match to God speaking about the man Job, and we see Satan react. In the first temptation of Jesus in Matthew 3:17, the very next verse Jesus is tempted of the devil in Matthew 4:1. In the second occurrence for Jesus, he tells his disciples not to tell anyone they heard the voice. Jesus then heals a young man from insanity, by rebuking the devil. These occurrences are repeated in the other gospels, but for ease and to save lengthy wording, we will just focus using Matthew.

In the case of Job, he endured the temptations and lives, but in the case of Jesus, he endured the temptations and died. I noted Job had a family, and many worldly goods. However, Jesus had no family and no worldly goods. Jesus even points to this in John 14:30, he says “Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.”

It appears the plan was for Jesus to come and die, and we have a peculiar situation with Jesus and his disciple Peter. Jesus informed his disciples not to tell any man that he was the Christ, and that he had to go into Jerusalem and suffer many things of the elders, and be killed. Peter was not happy with this news, and began to rebuke Jesus. Jesus in turn rebuked Satan in Peter found in Matthew 16:23.

On the other hand we have the disciple Judas, after Satan enters him, betray Jesus, which leads to Jesus being killed. What to note here is Jesus rebuked any effort to stop his being killed, where as he encourages Judas, as he does not rebuke Satan nor does he attempt to cast him out as he does with so many others in the bible story.

After Judas betrays Jesus, a clue, a law appears which in all my years of attending church sermons and study of the bible I had never heard before. The quote of Satan speaking inside the man Judas, found in Matthew 27:4 “Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.” Putting my search engine to work, I discovered the law in chapter 19 of Deuteronomy. To shorten it, it states that innocent blood be not shed upon the land, and leads to much of exactly what happened to Christ in being killed, ending with the infamous “eye for and eye.”

To review, looking for patterns, I quickly saw that Christ is the only innocent in the entire bible story, as the story itself declares all were born in sin, not innocent. The thing that all religions agree on is that Christ is without sin. Even the man Job was a sinner, and wondered which of his sins had caused such pain and anguish to come upon him. The pattern that appeared was that Jesus and Judas died the same way, both hanging from a tree, but this is obscured using the word cross for Jesus. There is a law that states anyone hanging from a tree is accursed. So it is interesting not only was Jesus killed, but the laws of how to kill were also in action. Why does this matter? Because Judas died before Jesus! The eye for an eye law was swiftly in action, in the sense that the moment Jesus was to be killed, Judas was hung himself from a tree, and with Satan inside him! The Law of Innocent Blood was swift. To repeat, Satan inside Judas was put to death by the same measure Jesus is to be killed.

This changed the entire view of Job for me, as I then realized this was a rather genius spy tale, spanning thousands of years! The evidence shows that in the story of Job, God was setting up Satan, in a way, tricking him by showing him a man with sin; in essence, Satan would have thought Jesus was just another Job. I then sought to see if I could find any evidence Satan knew who Jesus was. I then recalled the passages of Jesus keeping “who he was” a secret. It was vital his true identity was not revealed, as this would have alerted Satan to “who he was.” If Satan had discovered “who he was” then he would not have killed him.

So to sum it up, Satan was made perfect evil, and his job was to react to what ever or whom ever God points to. I then saw a new view, a type of bodyguard. The end result is, Satan's perfect evil was flawed, and he killed innocent blood. He was to be able to flesh out if it was evil or not, that he was sending to destruction. This allowed the Christ to cast Satan out of this world, giving all who follow the path of Christ the ability to cast Satan out of their own life, or inner world of thoughts.

I welcome any comments or questions, as this surely will bring about many other passages to discuss and clarify its relation to the outcome of this study.

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