Today: [Isaiah 14] Who is the King of Babylon? In Isaiah 14 we find Isaiah continuing to prophesy of events generations beyond the day in which he actually lived. He predicts that the 10 tribes will be taken into captivity and that the Assyrians will ultimately fall to the Babylonians, who were not perceived as an immediate threat to the region at the time. He further declares that the Babylonians will fall to the Persians and the Medes, whose king Cyrus would then restore the city of Jerusalem and the temple in a time yet to come. In this chapter, we see the Latin word used to describe the king of Babylon and by most Christian scholars to also apply to Satan himself as a rebellious fallen angel. Is there precedent to call Satan, Lucifer? We will explore this further in our study of the chapter.
