Does either Isaiah 14 or Ezekiel 28 teach Satan is a fallen angel?
• This would amount to basing a major doctrine on two “apocalyptic tests”. • Truth comes from “exegesis” or reading out of scripture, not “eisegesis” reading into scripture. • False prophets are famous for associating their teachings to the high profile prophetic books of the Bible. They can put any kind of spin on these figurative languages and “for this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false”. 2 Thess 2:11 • Such interpreters have associated the books of Revelation, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel with certain nations, tragic events, monstrous rulers and even Alexander Campbell by name. • Hal Lindsey who wrote the “Late Great Planet Earth” uses these books to formulate his theory on premillennialism. He attributes “wings” to airplanes and says “Satan is Heaven’s Choir Director”. • I remember my mother trying to convince me that “the chariots racing madly in the streets … like torches” in Nahum 2:4 were the traffic patterns of the fre