Music, Angels and Lucifer

These stringed musical instruments were 'viols' or a six-stringed instrument.8 So the total spectrum of instruments that we play today, except for electronic instruments, were built into lucifer's body, and he could play them all.

Not only was lucifer a musician, but he was also the instrument as well. Lucifer didn't sit down at a piano; he was a piano! And he didn't carry a guitar around his neck; he was a guitar. Lucifer possessed this talent and the ability to play instruments, producing a sound in his service of worship to God.

According to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, lucifer's name means 'light-bearer,' 'morning star,' or 'day star.' He is also called by several other names, such as 'Son of the Morning' and 'the Anointed Cherub.' Lucifer was given a definite anointing for serving or ministering in music. In Ezekiel 28:14,16, the Bible says that lucifer dwelt in the mountain of God (possibly the presence of God) and was the covering cherub. God had created the angels to worship Himself, and it was lucifer's responsibility to lead all the angelic hosts in praise and worship to God the Father. He was Heaven's choir director, music minister, or worship leader.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men (Luke 2:13-14).

I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim?And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory (Isaiah 6:1-3).

Some scholars say that these 'seraphim' were singing seraphs.

And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing (Revelation 5:11-12).

Because lucifer's responsibility was to lead the angelic hosts in singing and playing, he most likely provided the accompaniment on his pipes, tabrets, and viols. God had given him a special anointing for this powerful ministry in music. Lucifer was the master musician in Heaven. He very possibly was the choir director and the orchestra leader, as well as the entire orchestra.

In the beginning, music was created to minister to God the Father and to worship Him.9 God birthed the ministry of music in lucifer to lead the angelic hosts in worship. It was ordained by God and was pleasing to Him. Any use of music other than worship to God is a violation of the purpose for which God created music. God did not create music for any secular purpose, and there was no secular music in the beginning. All music was from God and for God and part of the Kingdom of God. He did not even create music for evangelism. God created music for worship. Music can be used to reach the unsaved, but if that is all we use music for, we are living beneath our privilege and are not reaching a total spiritual fulfillment in music.

Lucifer was a worship leader, whom the Bible describes as being very wise and extremely beautiful-an awesome musical creature.

?every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold? (Ezekiel 28:13).

You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you (Ezekiel 28:15 NIV, emphasis mine). Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor? (Ezekiel 28:17 NIV, emphasis mine).

Lucifer was an angel of light and radiated with brilliance. Everything about him was perfect from the day he was created.

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' ' (Ezekiel 28:12 NIV).

I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the most High (Isaiah 14:13-14, emphasis mine).

Lucifer desired worship for himself. God could not allow this rebellion, so He removed lucifer out of the Third Heaven and cast him down to the earth. With him went a third of all the angels in Heaven, perhaps because he had tricked them into worshiping him. He may have desired worship so much that he conned these angels into worshiping him and becoming part of his following.

And there appeared another wonder in heaven.?Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him (Revelation 12:3,7-9).

?I beheld satan as lightning fall from heaven (Luke 10:18).

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 (Ezekiel 28:16-17 NIV, emphasis mine).

Lucifer fell from the lofty position that he once held in the Third Heaven before the very presence of God. Satan's kingdom now fills the atmosphere around the earth, even to the very surface of the earth.

How you are fallen from heaven, O lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! (Isaiah14:12)

However, the Bible doesn't say that when God cast lucifer out of His presence that He took away his ministry of music, or his great ability to be wise. The day lucifer fell, music fell. Music that once was used to worship Almighty God now became music of an earthly nature; it became music of the world and began to appeal to our lower nature instead of appealing to God and our spiritual man (that part of us that has been born of God). Music, then, became corrupted. Music became used for self. Lucifer began to use it for his own worship and man for his own gratification. For the first time music became secular-outside the realm and reign of God.

The Bible suggests that there are worms in lucifer's music. 'Your pomp [and] the music of your harps have been brought down to Sheol; Maggots are spread out [as your bed] beneath you, and worms are your covering' (Is. 14:11 NAS). Two kinds of maggots are among him-rapidly breeding ones are under him, and voraciously devouring worms cover him.

That anointed and powerful ministry of music that lucifer had in Heaven is now corrupted and cursed. It has a false anointing. Lucifer's music is now of the earth-earthly. His splendor has been brought down and is grossly debased. He fell, as well as his music. He still has that same powerful ministry to create worship, but now it is corrupted, and lucifer uses that ministry to entice worship for himself because he has an insatiable appetite for recognition, fame, reverence, and exaltation.

Lucifer wanted to achieve a higher position; he wanted to be number one; he wanted to be exalted above everything. Lucifer's desire was and is to receive worship for himself.

It is interesting to note the Arab legend that says the first song ever sung was the lament of Abel.12 The first secular activity was the murder of Abel, and out of that came secular music. Music is often a part of man's sin. God, however, has always involved music with worship. Music was created by God for one main purpose and that is to exalt Him in worship.