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“Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God: You are the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering… You were the anointed cherub that covers, and I set you. You were on the holy mountain of God ; you walked among the stones of fire. You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created until iniquity was found in you.’” ( Ezekiel 28:11-15 )
“How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the ground, O conqueror of the nations! Yet you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend into heaven; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God ; I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.’ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit. Those who see you will stare at you; they will consider you, ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble and shake kingdoms?’” ( Isaiah 14:12-16 ).
Having discussed sin and its significance, I now turn to the second idea: “sin and its entry.” Where did evil come from, and how did sin enter this miserable world of ours?
Before answering this question, I want to emphasize the following points: First, evil is real and not an illusion or a figment of the imagination as some have claimed, for it is written, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves…” Second, evil is not eternal, nor does it originate with God . God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all, as the beloved John said. Third, evil is not caused by human limitations. Fourth, it is not the result of sexual lust. Fifth (and here is the answer), evil originated and began in the head and heart of Satan before the creation of man by a period known only to God, and after that it was transmitted to man. The details of Satan’s fall are found in the prophecies of Isaiah and Ezekiel in the Old Testament and in the letters of 2 Peter and Jude in the New Testament .
Ezekiel 28 tells us that Satan was originally one of the archangels known as cherubim. He is described as an “anointed, covering cherub” and that he was so perfect and beautiful that the Lord instructed Ezekiel to say to him, “You are the seal of perfection… and perfect in beauty… You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created until… (until what?) until iniquity was found in you…” Iniquity, as I mentioned earlier, is sin that originates in the mind and is then put into action. It is premeditated sin. So God said to him , “I will cast you down to the ground…” because “you have defiled your sanctuary with the multitude of your iniquities.”
Isaiah, in the fourteenth chapter of his prophecy, says that the evil thought that crossed Satan’s mind and led to his fall was the thought of arrogance, pride, and usurping the position of divinity. Therefore, God says to him : “How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning? How are you cut down to the ground, O conqueror of the nations? Yet you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God … I will ascend above the heights of the clouds… I will be like the Most High.'” Yes, Satan wanted to be like the Most High (don’t forget this thought), but he descended into the abyss, to the depths of the pit. In the New Testament , Peter and Jude refer to “the angels who kept their own principality but left their own dwelling place,” and the result was that God “cast them down, bound in everlasting chains under darkness.” This clearly indicates that Satan did not fall alone, but rather fell with his band of angels under his command.
Now let’s move on to the second stage of the story of evil and sin. Moses tells us in Genesis that God created man, distinguishing him from all other creatures. He formed him from the dust of the ground and breathed into him the breath of life, and Adam became a living soul. God then created a life partner for him from one of his ribs, close to his heart, and settled them both in a place of beauty and perfection, the Garden of Eden—a paradise where God provided them with everything they needed to satisfy their hunger and fill their emptiness, in addition to the fellowship between Him and them.
Yes, man is the crowning glory of God’s creation , created in God’s image. This means that God gave him a mind that thinks according to God’s mind, a heart that loves according to God’s heart, and a will that acts in accordance with God’s will . In other words, God did not create man as a robot or a programmed computer, unaccountable for his actions. Rather, God created man with the capacity for free and responsible choice.
At the same time, we read in the Book of Genesis that God placed two trees in Paradise: the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God, glory be to Him, wanted to test man and put his freedom to the test, so He said to him, “Listen, Adam. I have given you a mind, emotions, and a will. I have also given you all the trees in Paradise except one, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. You shall not eat of it, for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die.”
Here Satan intervened, because the idea that had played in his head and led to his fall never left him: he wanted to become like God and failed, so why wouldn’t he plant the same idea in the human mind? Here, he came to the woman alone and said to her, “You will not die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it, you will be like God …” His implicit intent was to make the woman doubt God’s love and the sublimeness of His purposes, as if to say to her: If God truly loved you, He would not have deprived you of His equality in knowledge. The result, as the Apostle Paul says in the New Testament , was : “The serpent deceived Eve” and led her into the trap of temptation and seduction, so she fell into transgression. Thus, she ate of the fruit and gave it to her husband, and he ate with her. From that moment, the human tragedy began and sin was revealed for what it truly is. To this day, we are still reaping the consequences of that fall.
The Apostle John says in the second chapter of his first epistle: “All that is in the world is the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.” These are the three things that led to the fall into sin. Eve saw that the tree was good for food, and her appetite was whetted. It was a delight to the eyes, and she longed to obtain it. It was desirable for sight and insight, and she thought she would become wise, knowing good and evil. But her omen was in vain.
From here we see that sin is not original, but intrusive. It is a foreign body that entered human life at the behest of Satan. That is why when Christ, the Word of God, was incarnated, He took from the Virgin Mary a body like that of Adam before the fall—a body free of sin. When the tempter came to Him, He thought He would succeed with the last Adam as He succeeded with the first. But no. Christ inflicted a crushing defeat on him, and the final defeat was in the battle of the cross. And with the defeat of Satan, sin was also defeated, because the Lamb of God died to take away the sin of the world, “so that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.”
Did you know, dear friend, that God , in His supreme wisdom, made the steps that led to the fall of man a means of man’s salvation? The woman fell when she looked, ate, and gave. Man’s salvation lies in looking to the Lord Jesus , and in delighting in and confessing Him. He said, “Look to me and you will be saved, all you ends of the earth.” He also said, “I am the bread which came down from heaven… so that one may eat of it and not die.” I wish you could say about the experience: “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” However, this experience will not come to you through emotion, sect, and philosophy. Rather, as Paul says in the tenth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans: “If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and leads to righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses and leads to salvation.”