War For Dominion: The Surprising Origins Of The Conflict In Heaven
A WAR FOR DOMINATION
A war for dominion rages in the heavenlies, and we are the battlefield. Since time began, the fallen wife of YHWH battles for control over this earth and all its kingdoms. In this essay, learn who Lucifer really is, and why she led a rebellion against the Most High.
Lucifer declared,
“…I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.’
Isaiah 14:13,14
God shares a lot about Himself and His history in the scriptures, it’s just that oftentimes, because we lack perspective, we can’t see it. This is why we must live by Revelation and not by knowledge, else we will never figure it out on our own. On the mountaintops with YHWH, much we can’t see from the valleys, begins to make perfect sense.
The first kingdom and the war for dominion
Originally, Earth was the seat of God’s dominion. His temple, city, and congregation lay in the sides of the north. This was the first Mount Zion. The city of our Great King was the original City of Peace. The temple, which we see in the book of Isaiah and Revelation, is God’s dwelling place which was originally located in Eden.
Seraphim are the equivalent of God’s wives. Chief among these heavenly mates was Lucifer. Therefore, who is Lucifer? She was the bright and shining one and the covering cherub for this creation. Her charge was to protect this earth and the garden God planted eastward in Eden. Eden, God’s dominion, stretched from the Nile to the Euphrates river and covered most of what we now think of as the Middle East. YHWH created Adam from the dust of the earth and breathed the breath of life into him, causing him to become a living soul. After that, God created Eve to be His son’s helpmate. That is when, literally, all hell broke loose and the war for dominion began.
A Seraph, perfect in beauty
When Lucifer realized mankind was meant to be God’s new wife, she rebelled against Him. The reason that a third of the angels followed this Seraph is that she was, next to God, perfect in beauty.
“Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Ezekiel 28: 12,13
The fall of the anointed Cherub
God says,
“Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.”
Ezekiel 28: 12-16
Mirror, mirror, upon the wall
Eve was God’s crowning achievement in this creation. In God’s paradise, the first woman was beautiful beyond measure. However, what really caused God’s preeminent Seraph-wife to become jealous, is that Eve could do something she could never do; bring forth life.
Moreover, it was not just that she could bring forth after Adam’s kind, Eve, through mating with the Holy Spirit and Adam, could bring forth after YHWH’s kind. To Lucifer’s everlasting rage, Eve, through Adam, could procreate with God. Lucifer fell through pride and became Satan, the accuser of the brethren. Therefore, Satan is female, and jealousy over the creation of Eve and her ability, through Adam, to procreate with God, is the surprising origins of the conflict in heaven.
God says,
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
Genesis 1:26,27
Therefore, in these scriptures, God is talking to His Seraphim about creating mankind. The “in our image, after our likeness” talks about creating man in the image of God and his Seraphim. Thus, Adam was created after the image of God, who is male, and Eve was created after the likeness of Seraphim, who are female.
The judgment of fallen Lucifer and the disobedient angels
Moreover, the book of Isaiah, beginning in chapter three, talks about the fall of Jerusalem. However, these passages speak of much more than the sacking and destruction of an earthly city. In fact, these passages talk of the judgment of the original rebellion in Eden’s Mount of the Congregation.
“The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts. Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.”
Isaiah 3:13-17
YHWH declares,
“And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
Isaiah 4: 3,4
Isaiah stood in the Temple of YHWH
In fact, when Isaiah sees the vision of God, high and lifted up, He is seeing God at that time, in His temple in heaven. This is the same Temple that God dwelt in on the sides of the north in Eden before moving it to the spiritual realm. YHWH speaks judgment of the daughters of Zion, which is a picture of His judgment upon Lucifer and the angels who rebelled against Him.
Thus, God writes a lot about what happened during the war in heaven in the scriptures. However, we cannot see it because we think of Lucifer as a “he” and, since the daughters of Zion are females, we never equate the two. However, allowing God to give us His perspective, everything begins to clarify.
Lucifer is female
Lucifer is the equivalent of God’s wife and, because God is male, the sum of all beauty is female. Likewise, as the Lamb’s wife, mankind is a Seraph in the making. The Bride of Christ is female, though made up of both male and female. Just as we cannot understand God fully, Seraphim are beyond our earthly comprehension too.
A third of the fallen angels thought she would win the war for dominion
Finally, the angels didn’t follow Lucifer thinking she was going to lose. A third of the host of heaven followed that prideful Seraph, sure she would win. Jesus died upon the cross, paying the redemption price for mankind, sealing the fallen Seraph’s fate. As Jesus gave up the ghost, it was finished. God rent the veil and only 50 days hence, the Holy Spirit, which left Adam and Even in Eden, returned to indwell mankind once again.
In conclusion, the turmoil on earth past, present, and future, is due to the jealous rage of a fallen wife of the Most High. This war for dominion, all the carnage we see, is a struggle to determine who will rule over this earth. The war for dominion is essentially a divorce that God decreed before time began. It is a custody battle over who will rule mankind. Like Queen Vashti was put away from the presence of King Ahasuerus, God cast Lucifer from heaven to earth. Upon being cast down, the first place Satan went was the Garden of Eden to kill Eve. The Devil knew that in the day that the first woman ate of the forbidden fruit, she would surely die. Mankind is Esther and we are to be the new queen of the Most High.
This is a new concept to most of us. It makes more sense as I think about it. Do you have any Scripture that would help explain the Seraphim as being female especially Lucifer as being a she. When I shared it with a couple of friends, all of a sudden I’m deceived. I want to know God’s truths and realities. Thanks for your help!
Dear Paula,
Thanks for your comment, we appreciate it very much. To be quite frank, the revelation that Lucifer is a “she” is quite new to me too. Bascially, like a lot of things I write, God just speaks the truth to me, then I begin thinking about it as it relates to the scriptures. Often times this is the only way God can get me out of my well worn rut. We often think of different Bible topics from only one perspective. Some concepts in Christianity are such “givens” we never consider alternatives.
Bascially, the entire book of Esther is about what happened in heaven during the rebellion. Vasti typifies Lucifer who refused to obey the king when called to the banquet.
“On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king, To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on. But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
Esther 1:10-12
(I wonder if this gives the actual time of the rebellion as the 7th day, when God rested – never thought of that before)
Sometimes it is hard to see the forest for the trees. Wisdom is spoken of as a woman in the book of Proverbs. Most of the time, when God speaks about harlots, like in Proverb 9, He is speaking about fallen Lucifer too. In fact, the most of the book of lamentations is God speaking about His broken heartedness over His lost wife. Jerusalem and greater Israel, unfortunately fell into that picture of rebellion and judgement through their sin.
Who is Jezebeel? She was an evil queen that caused Abab to sin before the Lord. The war in heaven is THE EVENT that lead to the temptation of Eve and the fall of Adam. From the right perspective everything becomes clear.
For me this is a present revelation. I am learning it bascially as I recieve it. However, I think others are coming into this undestanding too. There is a book called Luficer Revisted: She’s Not Who You Think He Is by Tavis Yates that is supposed to speak to this issue. I have not ordered it yet, but I think I will when I have time.
God bless,
Michael
Thank you so much for taking the time to send this answer. I felt like God said this is one of His paradoxes the religious mind will not be able to comprehend. Keep sharing your revelations. Blessings to you, Paula
Dear Connections,
The book of Lamentations, as well as a great deal of the major and minor prophets, is God talking about Lucifer ‘s rebellion and His broken heart over it.
Sincerely,
Michael
I’m gonna read that tonight. Thanks! I’m tired of reading how we keep breaking my Father’s heart. The 7th day part sounds like an interesting breakthrough. I like.
Man…woman have a bad rep. ??♀️Thank God for the blood of Jesus. ??
First of all, thank you for sharing these thoughts with your readers. I find them really interesting and they give me a fresh perspective on things even if I’m not in tune with all of them.
I have a question. Ezechiel talks about Lucifer as the anointed Cherub that covereth and you say that she’s a Seraph? I thought there was a difference in hierarchy between those 2 classes of angels…
Dear Esther,
Thank you for your comment. We really appreciate it! The way I understand the classifications of heaven’s messengers currently, is that Seraphs are the highest order, with Cherubim being second, and angels being third. Hence 6 wings for Seraph, 4 for Cherubim, and 2 for angels. Many people want to strictly define classes of these beings, but it may be that Angels, which simply mean messenger, describe what all classes do rather than being a specific class itself. Also, the apparently 2 wings that each cherubim have on the ark of the covenant, may be three individual wings folded neatly together on each side.
What I think is most relevant right now, is to be open to God showing us each revelation. I believe that the Bible is simply a subset of the Rhema, or the spoken word of God down through the ages. Thus there is much more revelation to be had on aspects that the scriptures do not speak clearly about. As we are led by His Spirit, He can help us to understand the spiritual realm better.
Big hugs!
Michael