Listening to the discussion this morning I remembered a comment about Satan getting kicked out of Heaven for being prideful, arrogant, and controlling. I know this isn't following Matthew 14, but I thought it might be a great discussion.
John 8:44 - "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."
1 John 3:8 - "He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil."
I personally don't think Satan fell from Heaven (being a resident of Heaven in particular). If Satan was a murderer, liar, and sinner from the very beginning of his existence how could he reside in the Kingdom of God? How could he have time to influence a third of the angels? It just doesn't make sense for Satan to have been a part of God's almighty place when is specifically states that he was a "heathen" from the very beginning of his creation.
Revelation 12:3-4 - "And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
Rev 12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born."
I'm not sure what the real truth is but I'm searching. I'm interested to hear everyone's opinion.
