Ezekiel 28:13-17
13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day you were created. 15 You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you. 17 ‘Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; I cast you to the ground, I laid you before kings, That they might gaze at you.
13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day you were created. 15 You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you. 17 ‘Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; I cast you to the ground, I laid you before kings, That they might gaze at you.
The devil was once a beautiful angelic cherub, similar to those with flaming swords guarding the way back to Eden when sin caused us to be kept from living forever sinful. He became proud and disobedient to God, and put looks over wisdom, and his eternal fate is a warning to us who sinned as he, sinful in our pride and intellect (still thinking we know good from evil apart from God). The only beauty we have is in Christ, made in God's image anew, by His wisdom and grace.
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