Knowing that using our agency would inevitably cause us to make choices contrary to Father's commandments, Jesus Christ, the Firstborn Spirit son of our Father in Heaven, covenanted to be our Savior. He wanted us to use our agency, and would suffer for our sins so that we could repent so we could return back to our heavenly home. Jesus Christ sustained the Father's Plan, giving the glory to God to whom it properly belonged.
Lucifer, another spirit son of God, rebelled against the plan and 'sought to destroy the agency of man.' Lucifer's modification of God's Plan (in that no one would be lost because everyone would choose the right), not only took away our agency, it also gave him all of God's power and honor and glory.
Lucifer's plan was rejected. He rebelled against God. Lucifer became Satan and he and his followers were cast out of heaven. Those who had faith in Jesus Christ have come or will come to earth to receive a physical body and have their agency to choose how they may, hopefully finding faith in Jesus Christ and returning to live with Him again.
I have been thinking a lot about Lucifer's twisted plan and here are some of my thoughts.
1. Lucifer was unable to come up with an original plan of his own. Instead, he took Father's great plan of happiness and twisted it. He does that same thing today! Lucifer is unable to come up with an original plan of his own. Instead, he waits and takes the good and great things God gives to man and then twists them just enough to drag God's children speedily down to hell. Television. Internet. Families. Just to name a few.
2. Lucifer loves himself. He loves himself more than he loves his neighbor and exponentially more than he loves God. If that doesn't destroy the law and the prophets. Furthermore, when God declares 'wo unto the inhabitants of the whole earth except they shall repent,' the 'the devil laugheth, and his angels rejoice, . . . because of iniquity and abominations.' He laughs because he attributes all that suffering, all that sorrowing, all that iniquity and abomination to him!
3. The most chilling of all is this: Perhaps Lucifer wanted to destroy our agency because he didn't want to experience pain! He wanted a body without the pain. After all, sickness is hard enough. And then, then there is dying. Dying for oneself was one thing, but to die for all of Father's children? He wanted no pain and yet, ALL the gain.
Interestingly, Isaiah saw the devil like he was and is and will be:
How art thou fallen from heaven. O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations.
For thou thou hast said in thine heart, 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.
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, everyone on in his own house.
But thou are cast out of thy grave like and abominable branch, as as the raiment of those what are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because those hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of the evildoers shall never be renowned.
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