Chapter Nine-- The history of the rebellion Part Three
Lucifer's heart pounded in fear. It had been pounding non-stop in fear since the beginning of the 'gathering'. With the help of Beelzebub, Belial, Leviathan, Asmodeus and Abaddon, Lucifer had managed to persuade other high ranking angels to be participants with him in what would be the ultimate rebellion. These high ranking angels, had persuaded other angels to join Lucifer and Lucifer had one third of the angels of heaven with him now.
The angels wanted to know more about Lucifer's plan, so Lucifer had sent them a message to secretly gather in an obscure park, under the pretext of organizing a surprise worship session for the Most High. If other angels, those fools that would not hear of the rebellion plan would chance upon them, Lucifer would lie that they were merely preparing a worship song for the Creator.
Lucifer scanned the faces of the host of angels that wanted to rebel against their maker. Their faces showed signs of nervousness and uncertainty. Like him, they must have struggled with guilt and they must have wrestled with love. Like him, hate and pride must have won the battle and that was why they were now willing to rebel against Him.
Lucifer had promised them power and glories, especially to the smarter and more higher ranking angels. Most importantly, he promised them freedom-- the freedom to be who they wanted to be, outside of the will of God. If they succeeded in this rebellion, they could choose to use their gifts and talents for themselves and would no longer be subjected to using their abilities for Him. What freedom they would have if they succeeded!
Belial could be the artist he always wanted to be, he could paint arts after himself, without having to use his artistic talent to please the Most High. Beelzebub could be the leader he always wanted to be, the leader of himself, without having to subject himself anymore to the Most High, and having only to pay a small homage to Lucifer. Asmodeus, Leviathan and Abaddon could all fulfill their innermost dream.
And him, Lucifer, he would be God. He would be the new God of the universe. Finally, it would be the other angels composing songs to please him, instead of him being the slave that had to compose songs to worship the Most High.
“Some of you have been wondering... how could we succeed in this rebellion when we are outnumbered, two to one.” Lucifer began.
The angels looked at him with intense concentration.
“But you think too lowly of me, if you think I will be hindered by such small obstruction. Yes, you think too lowly of me, indeed.” Lucifer continued. Pride was angry. How dare these angels doubt him, doubt his intelligence, doubt his capabilities?
“Indeed, if we are to fight against the other angels, we will be outnumbered. There will be two angels for every one of us. We will not be able to win such a war.” Lucifer exclaimed. The angels' eyes stared at him.
“But what if... we choose not to attack those fools that still want to be loyal to Him? What if we choose to attack Him, and Him alone?” Lucifer declared. The angels gasped. And Lucifer smiled.
“Yes, that is what we will do. Tomorrow, the moment I begin my worship song, 'I will serve you, God, forever' , you will all charge at Him and attack Him. He is one being, we are countless. He will not be able to withstand the attacks of so many beings at the same time. We will kill Him, I will take His throne, and with Him gone, those fools that still want to be loyal to Him will have no one to be loyal to anymore. And they will surrender to us.”
There were a mixture of expressions on the faces of the angels. Clearly, they were not expecting this! Some of the angels were excited by the prospect that God would be killed. Others seemed hesitant. They wanted freedom, but they were not ready to take such an extreme measure as to actually kill the God who had given them lives. Regardless of how they were feeling, one thing was evident. All of the angels that were with Lucifer were willing to carry out the plan. They might not like the plan, they might love the plan, but they would carry it out regardless of how they felt.
Lucifer arranged the army of angels that were with him, into hierarchies, in order to be more efficient in the attacks against God tomorrow. He gave ranks to the wiser angels, and put army of lower ranking angels to submit to the wiser angels. And at the top of his army, he appointed Beelzebub, Abaddon, Belial, Leviathan and Asmodeus. The five of them would hold the top commanding posts of his army. They would give the order to attack, and they would be the commanders of high ranking angels, given the name of 'princes' and these 'princes' would in turn be commanders of the middle ranking angels known as 'principalities' and the 'principalities' would be in turn commanders of the lower ranking angels.
By organizing his army into hierarchies, Lucifer knew that the attacks on God would be more efficient, and it would ensure their success in the rebellion. After organizing the army, Lucifer gave instructions to the top 5 angels of his on what to do, if unexpected scenario occurred. He went through a list of possible circumstances, and gave the 5 angels his instructions on how to deal with them.
In one such scenario, Lucifer foresaw that some of God's angels might still try to resist them, after they had killed God. In such a situation, his 5 angels would kill the resisting angels. But not all of them. Just the higher ranking and stronger angels. The lesser ranking angels would surrender when they saw that they could not be a match to Lucifer's angels. And Lucifer's angels would win in the rebellion because they had what God's angels didn't have-- they have evil. And so they could be ruthless, cruel, merciless,while God's angels would always be bound by their virtues.
After going through the plan of rebellions with his angels, Lucifer dismissed them to be alone by himself. He went to the library, with a harp he took from one of the musical instruments' room. The fear was gone. There was some kind of excitement at what would happen tomorrow. Excitement at the fact that he would soon be the new god of the universe. But Lucifer suppressed that excitement.
He held onto the harp and began to sit on one of the chairs in the library. He began to play at the harp.
My last tribute to You.
Excitement fled, as tears fell from Lucifer's eyes. After tomorrow, he would not be able to see his maker anymore. And in spite of how attractive the idea of being the new god was, needles were piercing at his heart. Piercing non-stop.
Good-bye, my maker.
Guilt laughed mercilessly.
Epilogue -A decision to Make
The rebellion had been a failure. Lucifer could never had predicted that he would fail, but he did fail and he was cast out of his home paradise, as a result of the worst mistake he had ever makes. Th past memory is now a pain to him. He can no longer enjoy the sweet harmony he used to have. Regret and sorrow and guilt constantly nagged at him while he used to hear the sweet talk peace and joy had given to him.
Why am I thinking of the past? Lucifer thought to himself. All that lied for me is the burning lake of fire written in revelation.
Leviathan flew to Lucifer.
“Bad news. Joe had returned to being a christian, and he had managed to convince his satanist friends to join him.” Leviathan replied.
Lucifer groaned. Pathetic fools and pathetic failures!
This is too much. I will petition for the life of Elijah Green and Joe. They are a threat to me.
Lucifer flew towards heaven with the intention of petitioning before God. Hatred and anger urged him to show the christian pastor and his satanist convert no mercy.
At the gate of heaven, Jesus stood still and would not let him entered.
“I have the right to petition God over anything.” Lucifer sneered at Jesus.
“Lucifer…” Jesus began. Lucifer blinked his eyes. Jesus had just called him by his name. Jesus had called him ‘Lucifer’ and not ‘Satan’. Tears forced their ways out of his eyes in an uncontrollable manner.
Oh… how he wanted to hold the hand of the Son of God and apologized for his mistake! Give me a chance, he wanted to scream.
But it must all be all illusion.
“I have th
e right to petition God over anything.” Lucifer stated, coldly.
“I wanted to show you to someone, Satan.” Jesus said.
Satan, again , and not Lucifer. He must have misheard, earlier.
“Go ahead. Show me.” Lucifer said. Who could the Son of God wanted to show to him?
He followed the Son of God into heaven and froze when he saw the girl he had killed. Elihua. The daughter of Elijah.
“I had kept my promise. I had prayed for you. Would you repent now?” The girl smiled.
It was too much for Lucifer to bear. Lucifer fled away from Jesus, from the girl, into hell.
He can never be able to repent now, or can he? The girl's words rang non-stop in his ears.
The book of Jonah. The book of Jonah.
The book of Jonah was the only book that could challenge the book of revelation. It was the only book, his only hope.
Lucifer wept. His top ranking demons flew to him.
“Why are you crying, our master?” Beelzebub asked.
“I am thinking of Him.” Lucifer burst out in tears.
“Who?” Asmodeus asked.
“The God that made us.” Lucifer confessed, unable to control his guilt anymore.
“I had thought of him, too.” Belial cried.
“As did me.” Leviathan howled.
“But it is too late for us, isn't it?” Abaddon questioned.
“I am not sure. The girl that I killed told me that the book of Jonah could challenge the book of revelation.” Lucifer confessed.
“But would he be willing to forgive us? Would the christians allowed Him to pardon us?” Asmodeus asked.
“That is no harm in trying to get back his forgiveness, ”Lucifer replied. “I truly missed Him.”
“Let get all the demons together and we will pray.” Beelzebub suggested.
“Pray for what?” Belial asked.
“Repentance on our parts and forgiveness on His part.” Beelzebub replied.
“And if He will never forgive us?” Leviathan asked.
“Then we just simply accept the hell we create for ourselves when we choose to so cruelly seek to overthrow Him.” Asmodeus smiled.
Lucifer laughed. He was joyful, now. Truly joyful.
God, forgive me. Whether you send me in hell or not, whether revelation happened or not, my heart is at peace. I believe now what You said about evil and I will be her slave no more.
Somewhere far away, Elihua, the child who Lucifer had killed laughed. Evil screamed as Lucifer kicked her away. Goodness laughed and embraced Lucifer again.
“My name is Lucifer, and I will be his light-bearer.” Lucifer announced. The name Satan wept as it realized it had lost control of Lucifer. Lucifer was, and is, and will now always be God’s beloved son
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P/S: To Satan, in the end, I still couldn't portray you as the evil being you really are. I will be content to think of you as my beloved brother Lucifer who had repented, even though I know for a fact that you can and will never ever repent. Think of this as my tribute to you, God's beloved son who chose to foolishly be his enemy, instead.
Note to Christian: This is just a story. The book of Jonah is my idea. In the book of Jonah, God promised destruction on the Ninevah but didn’t do it in the end because Ninevah repented. I used this book to support in this story the idea that Lucifer could repent.
The real thing, though, we don’t know. In the book of revelation, God promised destruction to Satan and He promised Satan eternal torment in the lake of fire. Will God still give Satan a chance if Satan repented, and will Satan repent? I am not sure, but I think it is likely that Satan will never repent.
Yet, after writing Lucifer for so long, I had fallen in love with this stupid angelic brother of mine. I had fallen in love with the beautiful, kind him and I couldn’t bring myself even though he is now Satan, the most cruel being in the universe, to end this story with him remaining as Satan.
Therefore, in my story, Lucifer repents. And so, somewhere in my world, I have a good angelic brother, a good angelic brother who makes a mistake and who comes back to the right path.
For those of you who love Lucifer like I do, let him rest here in this story as a good angel, while in our real lives, we continue to guard against the temptations of Satan.
Do not treat this story as real theology. Thanks.
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