HE WANTS TO BE GOD: Satan (once Lucifer) was God’s highest-ranking angel, the most beautiful being God ever created. According to Ezekiel 28:12, he had the “seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfection in beauty.” God Himself was the only one more glorious than he was. Then one day, being overcome by pride in his own wisdom and beauty, he decided in his heart that he wanted more. What God had entrusted him with was not enough. With this came his infamous five-fold “I Wills:”
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