The Devil's Real Name Is Lucifer?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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