"How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
For you have said in your heart,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God,
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the fartherest sides of the north,
I will be like the Most High!
Yet you will be brought down to Sheol,
To the lowest depths of the Pit!
"Those who see you will gaze at you,
And consider you, saying,
'Is this the man that made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
Who made the world as a wilderness
And destroyed its cities
Who did not open the house of his prisoners?'
"All the kings of the nations,
All of them, sleep in glory,
Everyone in his own house,
But you are cast out of your grave
Like an abominable branch,
Like the garments of those who are slain,
Thrust through with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the pit,
Like a corpse trodden underfoot,
You will not be joined with them in burial,
Because you have destroyed your land
And slain your people." (Isaiah 14:12-20, NKJV)
Isaiah describes the final downfall of Lucifer after the battle of Armageddon. He had supplied the power for the Antichrist and the False Prophet to take over and rule the world during the Great Tribulation of the Wrath of God, and Jesus Christ had returned to earth and destroyed the world's last armies with a single shout. Satan meets his end in Revelation 20:10. He was not given a chance to repent. Maybe God knew that he would not subdue his pride enough to ask for forgiveness. Since angels are immortal and men are mortal, God might not offer them a second chance like men.
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