Ezekiel 28:17 (HCSB)

Your heart became proud because of your beauty;

For the sake of your splendor

you corrupted your wisdom.

So I threw you down to the earth;

I made a spectacle of you before kings.

This is a prophecy against the king of Tyre, but it is more so a description of the fall of Lucifer. He was the “seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty,” an “anointed guardian cherub.” He became full of pride in his station and his beauty. He said in his heart “I am a god, and I sit on the throne of the gods.” He became full of wickedness.

God expelled him in disgrace. He was cast down to the earth. Here on this globe he has remained for the last six thousand years. But the day is coming when he will be chained and cast into the pit of hell. Until then he seems to have the run of the place. But we have the power through the Holy Spirit to resist him and thwart his efforts.

Resist him, steadfast in the faith. Rebuke him, in the name of Jesus, and he will flee from you. Don’t become his patsy. Be his worst nightmare!