What Really Caused Lucifer to Rebel Against God

Ezekiel tells us that sin originated with Lucifer when iniquity was found in him. It is imperative that we comprehend this statement from Ezekiel 28: 15:

"You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you."

This verse clearly informs us that whatever iniquity was, it was found in Lucifer. It was first ‘within’ him.

The onset of iniquity in God’s universe originated in the mind of Lucifer first as a thought. Initially, iniquity did not demonstrate itself in any external empirical acts, thus revealing its depravity. All the actions that followed Lucifer’s thoughts were sinful evil acts, but the iniquity that was found in him was first of all in his mind. The subsequent evil acts that took place were reactions to what had first begun in his thought processes and were the physical manifestation of those thoughts.

First and foremost, then, Lucifer cognitively deviated from the mind of God. Any concept that is contrary to agape love is in opposition to God and is irreconcilable to Him. Any deviation in the least particular from the eternal principle of God’s agape love as the rule of law for the universe is utterly iniquitous.

Therefore, it was not some benign thought that Lucifer was harboring as he turned away from God’s agape love. On the contrary, what he was contemplating was malignant and malevolent because the law he began to devise and which was later represented by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was radically antithetical to God’s agape love.

The cross of Jesus reveals the height and depth of the evil that originated in the mind of Lucifer. His rule of law created havoc on planet earth and in the universe, and the cross is the ultimate confirmation of this fact.