We all know the famous passage from Isaiah 14:12.
“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!”
The name “Lucifer” comes from the Vulgate, the translation of the Bible to Latin by Jerome in the 4th century.
Since then the word came to be associated with Satan as the angel that was cast out of heaven but a closer look at the original text, the geographical and eschatological context of Isaiah 13 & 14 reveals something more.
Isaiah 13 starts with the oracle against Babylon in the land of the Chaldeans (modern day Iraq) and its future destruction in the end times. How do we know it’s about the end times?
The Eschatological Context
“The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. . .For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine.”
(Isaiah 13:1,10)
Here we see that when Babylon is destroyed, the sun, moon and stars will go dark just like Jesus said will happen at the end of the tribulation:
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.”
(Matthew 24:29)
The Geographical Context
“And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.”
(Isaiah 13:19)
In this verse Isaiah says Babylon is the beauty of the Chaldean’s pride. This is explicitly telling the reader that the end time city and empire of Babylon is geographically associated with the land of the Chaldeans. Chaldea was located in what we know today as Iraq.
We also read that Babylon will be “as when God overthrow Sodom and Gomorrah”, that is, it will be destroyed by fire. That is what Revelation chapter 18 says will happen to Babylon as opposed to the conquest of Babylon by Persia without a battle in 539 B.C.
Isaiah 14 continues the oracle against Babylon with Israel’s future and final restoration:
“For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob.”
(Isaiah 14:1)
Isaiah proceeds with saying that when finally restored, Israel will take up a proverb against Babylon’s future and final ruler:
“It shall come to pass in the day the LORD gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,4 that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: “How the oppressor has ceased, The golden city ceased!”
(Isaiah 14:3-4)
Later in the chapter this king of Babylon is called “the Assyrian” whom God Himself will destroy for invading His (God’s) land.
The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass, And as I have purposed, so it shall stand: That I will break the Assyrian in My land, And on My mountains tread him underfoot. Then his yoke shall be removed from them, And his burden removed from their shoulders.
(Isaiah 14:24-25)
The final ruler of Babylon and Assyria (modern day Iraq) will be none other than the Antichrist and as we shall see, it all connects to Islam and Mohammed.
The following text from Isaiah 14 is from the Eth Cepher translation of the Bible by Dr. Stephen Pidgeon which agrees with the Jewish Orthodox Bible
“How are you fallen from heaven, O Heylel, son of the howling morning! how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations! For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of El: I will sit also upon the Mount of the assembly, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like El Elyon (Most High). Yet you shall be brought down to She’ol, to the sides of the pit. They that see you shall narrowly look upon you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
YESHA’YAHU (Isaiah 14:12-17) את CEPHER
Read Stephen Pidgeon’s article titled “There is no Lucifer”
https://www.cepher.net/blog.aspx?post=3667&title=There-is-no-Lucifer-%28with-video%29
In 2015 we published an article titled “Lucifer, the Son of the Howling Morning”. We now have a video version which can be watched below. You can also read the article linked below the video and be sure to watch the video of dogs howling at the sound of the Islamic call to prayer at … Continue reading
The Coming Bible Prophecy ReformationThe first thing we see here is that Heylel, not Lucifer is the subject of the prophecy. The word Heylel (Strong’s concordance H1966) comes from the root word Halal (Strong’s concordance H1984)
The word means, among other things, to be praised, praiseworthy and worthy of praise. Keep this in mind as we will come back to it later.
The Arabic word for “Crescent moon” is “Hilal”. The etymology of “hilal” is cognate (having the same linguistic derivation as another; from the same original word or root) with the Hebrew word Halal ה־ל־ל from which the word Heylel comes from as seen below.
In other words, the Arabic “Hilal” for “crescent moon” comes from the same root as the Hebrew words Heylel and Halal that translate as “shining one” and as “praiseworthy” or “worthy of praise.” Do you know what the name Muhammed means in Arabic?
The following is from Google Artificial Intelligence:
Did you get the connection? Isaiah 14 is telling us that the coming final ruler of Babylon who will rise to oppress Israel is associated with the Hebrew word “Heylel” that comes from the root word “Halal”. Those Hebrew words have the same meaning as the Arabic word for Muhammed and are etymologically connected with the Arabic word Hilal which translates as “crescent moon”, the very symbol of Islam.
The Temple Mount Connection
The text in Isaiah 14 says that Heylel wants to ascend to heaven, above the stars of God and sit on the “mount of the congregation” on “sides of the north” and be like the “Most High God.”
What is the ascension of Muhammad?
“The night journey and ascension of the Prophet Muhammad was a miraculous occurrence during which he travelled from Makkah (Mecca) to Masjid Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem before ascending to heaven, all in one night. Isra’ is the night journey from Makka to Masjid Al-Aqsa. Mi’raj is the journey from Masjid Al-Aqsa to the heavens.”
Did you understand this? Are you able to connect all the dots? Isaiah pretty much described what Muslims believe about the ascension of Muhammed to heaven during which he traveled to Jerusalem where the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosques were built on the Temple Mount, the very place where the first and second Jewish temples stood.
But why build them on the Temple Mount specifically? Remember Heylel in Isaiah 14 wanted to sit on the Mount of the congregation on the sides of the north besides ascending to heaven?
Psalm 48:2 says that Mount Zion on the sides of the north is the Mount of the congregation of Isaiah 14:13, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Have you already realized what is going on here? The Dome of the Rock and Muhammed’s delusional ascension to heaven is a partial fulfillment of Isaiah 14 and its final fulfillment will take place under the rule of the Antichrist or Muhammed Al Mahdi, the awaited Islamic Messiah.
Notice the Hebrew word “ALAH” traslated as “ascend.”
Soon after Mohammed supposedly received divine revelations from the Islamic god “Allah” brought to him by an “archangel” named Gabriel, Mohammed sought to conquer lands for Allah until he reached Jerusalem.
Islamic tradition believes that Mohammed miraculously “ascended” (Alah in Hebrew) to heaven from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and as a result, Muslims decided, under the Umayyad Caliphate, to build an Islamic mosque on the Temple Mount, the very site where Yahweh God chose to put his name and to have a house or temple built for him.
The Mahdi Connection
Shiite Muslims have been awaiting for the return of Imam al Mahdi, the Islamic Messiah. In fact his full name is Imam Muhammed Al Mahdi. He has the same name that means “praiseworthy” that is etymologically connected to the Hebrew words Heylel and Halal which are from the same root of the Arabic word Hilal which translates as crescent moon, the symbol of Islam.
The Mahdi went into occultation in the 9th century and is believed to return in the end times. A lot of Bible Prophecy teachers talk about the person of the Mahdi and what he will do as compared to the Antichrist but they never talk about his birthplace. He was born in Samarra, Iraq (ancient Babylon where Heylel will rise to persecute Israel) and is believed by Shiite Muslims to return and make Iraq the center of his government before capturing Jerusalem to make it the final capital of his “rightly guided Caliphate”. That is why Iraq is so important to radical Shiite government of Iran and its Shiite proxies and allies in the Middle East.
“The Mahdi will be victorious and eradicate those pigs and dogs and the idols of this time so that there will once more be a caliphate based on prophethood as the hadith states… Jerusalem will be the location of the rightly guided caliphate and the center of Islamic rule, which will be headed by Imam al-Mahdi… That will abolish the leadership of the Jews… and put an end to the domination of the Satans who spit evil into people and cause corruption in the earth, making them slaves of false idols and ruling the world by laws other than the Sharia [Islamic Law] of the Lord of the worlds.”
Watch the following video by an Islamic channel depicting the Mahdi arriving to conquer Jerusalem on a white horse.
It’s my hope and prayer you are able to see what is at play here. We have much of this documented in our book titled The Coming Bible Prophecy Reformation published in 2014.
How are you fallen from heaven, O Heylel, son of the howling morning! how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!
YESHA’YAHU 14:12-12 את CEPHER
Read our related article published in 2015 titled “Lucifer, the Son of the Howling Morning” linked below.
Watch our related video
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