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Jesus’ Secret Identity?
Posted by CelticBear on July 13th, 2006
Here’s something interesting.
Lucifer is mentioned only once in the Bible:
“How you are fallen from heaven,
O Day Star, son of Dawn!”
– Isaiah 14:12 (NRSV)
(Of course in contrast to the popular belief, Lucifer when read in context of the chapter, is likely refering to the King of Babylon, not some fallen angel and certainly not Satan (which actually means in Hebrew “adversary,” meaning he was a servant of God who, as in the story of Job, had the job of testing the faithful for God.))
Now, the only other place where the “star of the morning” is refered to is in Revelations:
“It is I, Jesus, who sent my angel to you with this testimony for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”
– Revelations 22:16 (NRSV)
(By the way, how can he be descendant from David if Joseph was not really his father? Well, the answer to that is that the idea of the virgin birth was added later: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_birth)
Anyway, it’s an interesting coincidence. Would make for an interesting speculative-fiction story.
