So after a fortnight apart after our lovely week together, my lover and I are kept up past my bedtime studying the Bible! And being a modern-ish pair of pensioners, he’s scrolling his phone and I’m looking for Isaiah in my 1960s Catholic Truth Society Bible.
The reason? Where exactly did the story of Lucifer’s fall come from? Several decades back I read Genesis – as one does – and realised there is no mention of this amazing tale I was taught at school and Sundayschool. And – with a different Christian background and Sundayschool attendance – my lover knew Lucifer’s tale just as well. So where is it?
The answer – well the Devil’s name and a figure cast down anyway – is to be found in Isaiah 14:12: “How you are fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer, Son of the Morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who defeated the nations!”
And I’ve since discovered that the stuff about Michael and his angels is in Revelations12:7-9 and revelations 9;1 describes a fallen star given the key to the “pit of the Abyss” – curiosity satisfied!
So why the curiosity? After a fairly debauched afternoon and a civilised dinner I seduced him with the wonderful “Lucifer” and he was hooked so we watched the first three episodes and wondered again about Lucfer’s backstory.
Did I mention we did have a little debauchery before dinner?
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