The Devil's Real Name Is Lucifer?

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It's said that before the devil was called Satan, his name was originally Lucifer. But that's actually just a myth.

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It's true that Satan was an angel of light before he became the Prince of Darkness, and that when he fell from heaven he took a third of the angels with him as described in Revelation 12 .4.

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But the Bible doesn't say his name was Lucifer. The name comes from the Latin Vulgate, a 4th century translation of the

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Bible. Later English translations made the word Lucifer a proper noun. Its only appearance is in Isaiah 14 .12,

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which reads, How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning? Isaiah is sarcastically comparing the king of Babylon to a fallen

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Satan, giving us a glimpse of who the devil used to be. We also see the prideful king of Tyree compared to Satan in Ezekiel 28, but only

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Isaiah contains the name Lucifer. In more modern translations, Lucifer is replaced with Daystar or Morningstar.

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That's because Lucifer is Latin for Daystar and Morningstar. Oh, and also the planet Venus. Some Latin hymns will use the word

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Lucifer to describe Jesus, not because they're comparing him to the devil, but because Christ is also called the

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Morningstar, as in Revelation 22 .16. But the light the devil once had before he turned to darkness was given to him by God.

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The light of Jesus is self -existent and eternal. I am the light of the world, he says. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

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Some critics of the more modern translations of Scripture will question the legitimacy of those translations for even minor things like excluding the true name of the devil.

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the devil's name has never been Lucifer. It's just a word. A little clarification when we understand the text.