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The Fall of Satan - Part IV

Who was Satan? And how exactly did he fall?

The word “Satan” is not a name, but a title, meaning “Adversary” or “Accuser.” (Strong’s # 7854 שׂטן), Revelation 12:9-13. Satan also had a personal name, which was blotted out of Scripture, but survived in Jewish tradition. His name was originally said to have been “Shamashel,” meaning “sun-like angel.” (Davidson 1967, pp. 355, 261-262)

But this name was later changed to Shamael, which means “poisonous or bitter angel.” (Davidson 1967, p. 255a) Why? Obviously, if he had become “bitter” or angry over something, then it follows that he had fallen from a former position and suffered a loss of his name. What had been his former status from which he had fallen? Satan was, in theory, the angel of Mars, yet some Jews placed him on Saturn. (Davidson 1967, pp. 36, 43a)

He is regarded as having once been one of the very highest angels (p. 261. The name “Shamash-el” could be “sun-angel.” (Turner and Coulter 2001, p. 323a Shamash-el can also refer to Saturn or a now “missing” giant planet (a “fallen” angel that once would have outshone all other planets in earth’s night sky. (Talbott 1980, p. 39) (Van Flandern 1993, pp. 156, 333-336, 401)

There was indeed a missing planet, said the late astronomer, Dr. Tom Van Flandern. He calculated there was a second Saturn in what is now the asteroid belt, but it exploded, creating comets, asteroids, moons and a vast debris field. He also postulated another lost planet, near the orbit of Mars, that was ten times the mass of earth and had Mars as its moon. He felt this other Mars-linked planet had also exploded, but very early in the history of the solar system. (Van Flandern 1993, pp. 235, 333, 336)

Could planetary legends of Satan’s fall refer to ancient solar system upheavals?

Astronomers calculate a lost gas giant near Jupiter had been ejected from the solar system early in its history. (Grant 2012) Some say a large rocky planet may have been cast out to the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune but remains in the solar system in a comet-like orbit. (Leomonick 2016) Others cite growing evidence for two such rocky “super earths” out there. (Leomonick 2016) It is known that 99.9+% of all solid material once in the asteroid belt, several times the mass of earth, has been jettisoned out, mostly into the Kuiper Belt. (Binzel 2001, p. 46)

So, a giant planet may have once orbited nearer earth and may have had Mars-sized moons. Richard C. Hoagland, in his book: The Monuments of Mars, supports the theories of Dr. Tom Van Flandern, arguing that the latest Mars data shows it was a moon of a now-destroyed giant planet. (Hoagland 1987, 1992)

A Mars-sized moon, twice as big as any moon in the solar system today, should be destabilizing if it orbited too close to its host-planet, especially if that planet were itself swinging out perilously near giant Jupiter. The result might be like a bloated drunk (the gas giant with a date). Mars, staggering into an immovable bouncer (Jupiter). The girl might be left inside as the bouncer shoves the drunk out the door (to the Kuiper Belt).

But in the case of a rapidly rotating planet like Saturn (only ten hours, any kind of bouncing around could destroy its core equilibrium and cause it to split apart. Add to this the force of even more rapid rotation caused by loss of lighter gases and the shrinking of the planet. (Van Flandern 1993, p. 333n) The resulting explosion could hurl chunks of the core deep into the Kuiper Belt. Clouds of debris would be swept up with the dense core material. But periodically, the two main halves of the exploded core would fall back into the solar system and hurtle past one another near the site of the original cataclysm.

Eventually the two halves could hit each other. It would not likely be a perfect head-on collision, but probably a glancing blow. Their orbits would then be changed, and one of the objects would lose enough momentum to bring it much closer to the earth.

We know planetary upheavals have been triggered by large-scale changes in our solar system: The accepted scientific model now says the planets are in orbits far from where they had originally been. (Cowan, Roaming Giants 2005) (Burmham 2004) (Leomonick 2016) Chaos upset the primal order, jostling apart the “cozy” early solar system, sending large planets careening into deep space, and triggering several violent upheavals and collisions. This new consensus is violent. (Batygin, Laughlin and Morbidelli 2016)

For example, patterns in the Kuiper Belt imply its icy worlds could have been elbowed aside by two or more earth-sized or larger planets. (Trujillo 2003) An earth-sized planet (possibly one of these Kuiper Belt disrupters is thought to have collided with the giant planet Uranus and knocked Uranus over, onto its side. (Lauber 1993, p. 81)

Events like these generate vast clouds of debris that roam the solar system and periodically cause massive bombardments of the earth, the moon, Venus, Jupiter, and other planets and cosmic bodies. (Cowan, Roaming Giants 2005) (Cowan, Meteorite Hints at Pounding of Planets 1995)

If an angel had indeed been put “in charge” of a giant planet (or two that went astray or exploded, he certainly would be “cast down” from his former estate and become “bitter.” But is this all theory? Do we have any direct evidence of an exploded planet?

Comet dust proves that comets formed, not in deep-space cold, but in blisteringly intense heat. (Cowan, Comet Sampler: Fire meets Ice 2006) This is hard evidence for Van Flandern’s contention that an exploded Saturn-like planet would have produced comets. (Van Flandern 1993, pp. 215-222) (Alford 1999) Also, he traced several comet orbits back to a common origin site in the asteroid belt. (Van Flandern 1993, pp. 218-220)

The same held true of the origin of the asteroids themselves, many of which show they originated inside a large planet violently broken up. (Binzel 2001, pp. 44-51 (Van Flandern 1993, pp. 215-217) Martian meteorites show that the inner solar system was bombarded with rocky debris from a planetary source nearly four billion years ago. (Cowan, Meteorite Hints at Pounding of Planets, 1995)

So, there is smoking-gun evidence of exploded planets in our solar system. Our planetary neighborhood is not a quiet suburban array of orderly orbits, but a violent place battered by a series of cosmic high crimes and misdemeanors.

Accepting that they occurred, when did these violent episodes take place?

As just noted, the first of these bombardments has been dated 4-billion years ago, soon after the planets first formed, when it has now been calculated that a gas-giant planet was violently ejected by Jupiter. (Grant 2012)

There is a sound scientific reason for this timing: If a giant planet had indeed formed inside the orbit of Jupiter where the asteroid belt is now located, then it would have been very unstable. Jupiter’s gravity is enormous; its mass is greater than all other objects orbiting the sun put together. (Lauber 1993, p. 59) A Saturn-sized planet trying to survive that close to Jupiter would have a very, very short life-expectancy.

Put differently, it was inevitable that any large planet in that location would be broken up or ejected by Jupiter’s gravity. That is standard physics, and there is absolutely no dispute or controversy about it. Every astronomy book or periodical will confirm this (Lauber p. 16. In fact, so ingrained is this dogma that it was difficult to believe that a planet could even form or spend any time in such an orbit near Jupiter. (Dickinson 1999, p. 67) (Binzel 2001)

Put differently, it was inevitable that any large planet in that location would be broken up or ejected by Jupiter’s gravity. That is standard physics, and there is absolutely no dispute or controversy about it. Every astronomy book or periodical will confirm this (Lauber p. 16. In fact, so ingrained is this dogma that it was difficult to believe that a planet could even form or spend any time in such an orbit near Jupiter. (Dickinson 1999, p. 67) (Binzel 2001)

The second major explosive event in our solar system occurred about 600-million years ago. (Betz 2015) (Eicher 2015) (Cowan, Groovy Science, 2005)

The reason for this second explosion is also straight-forward. If a large planet in the asteroid belt did explode, then its major surviving chunks would go into orbits that would inevitably result in its largest pieces hitting each other. Again, it is the unavoidable consequence of standard physical laws. That collision would generate a huge cloud of debris that would suddenly begin to pelt the planets and their moons, albeit long after the original explosion of the large planet.

Since we know a sudden bombardment did in fact occur 600-million years ago, that itself is strong evidence for a cosmic collision event in our solar system at that time. And the simplest explanation to explain both the large four billion year ago bombardment and the smaller 600-million year ago bombardment is that the first event was the result of a large planet near Jupiter exploding and the second was the result of the major portions of that exploded planet eventually colliding.

There was a third major solar system disruption, a sudden change that took place about 3.2-million years ago. (Van Flandern 1993, pp. 155-162, 235) This was the beginning of a transformation of the earth’s climate. We had been experiencing a 60-million-year hot, dry epoch, when we abruptly plunged into 3.2 million years of cyclical ice ages. (Van Flandern 1993, p. 157)

One proof of this event was the origin of long-period comets 3.2 million years ago. (Van Flandern 1993, pp. 159-160, 182-192, 217-222, 235) Van Flandern presented 29 scientific points of evidence in support of this thesis The evidence shows that these long-period comets had actually formed “between Uranus and Neptune.” (Cowan, Comets: Icy Studies Probe Sunny Behavior, 1994) (Lauber 1993, pp. 82-84)

This origin of long-period comets points to the collision of the earth-size object with Uranus. Where did this errant earth-size object originate? Chunks at least as large as earth could come from the core of a large exploded planet. (Van Flandern 1993, pp. 332-336)

The ancestral line of humanity is said to have begun about 3.2 million years ago. There is a case for the tilting of Uranus 3.2 million years ago, if it was hit by a part of the exploded planet, although such a single collision was deemed less probable by Dr. Van Flandern. He also argued for a third missing planet, triple the earth’s mass, passing by Neptune and disrupting its satellites and Pluto. (Van Flandern 1993, pp. 235, 298-300, 307-314)

I propose only one: The collision in the asteroid belt 600-million years ago of the halves of the exploded planet sent one of them near Neptune and Pluto. It changed its orbit after disrupting Neptune and eventually knocked over Uranus 3.2-million years ago.

These events would sap momentum from the object, reducing its close approach to the sun from 250-million miles (the region of the collision 600-million years ago to a perihelion nearer earth’s orbit. Disturbing the earth by its close approaches, tilting our axis, and raining down icy comet debris on our planet, are all possible consequences of encountering this massive chunk of the exploded giant planet’s core. Ice ages could follow such events, as in fact happened, starting abruptly about 3.2 million years ago.

This game of cosmic billiards began when the first planet exploded, sending the halves of its shattered core out into space to generate thousands of asteroids, comets, and moons. Then, 600-million years ago, a secondary collision unleashed an eon of cosmic bombardments when the two cores grazed each other. They changed their orbits, tilting Uranus, disturbing Neptune, destabilizing the sun, and launching a series of ice-ages that led to mankind becoming adept at survival, developing a large brain, learning to talk and share discoveries… and to make weapons of war.

The whole epic pageant could be the result of just one initial explosive event.

What if that unstable original planet had been put in charge of Satan, then an angel called Shamash-el, for the supposed purpose of preventing these cataclysms?

Satan apparently felt it was beneath him to baby-sit some chilly planet in a back-water solar system orbiting a boring galaxy on the outer fringe of its galactic cluster.

If Shamash-el had considered this assignment an insult for one who had helped to create the Universe itself, “when the Morning Stars sang together, and the Sons of God shouted for joy,” (Job 38:7 then he might have neglected his duty and ignored the signs that his planet was becoming unstable. If he had located his headquarters on solid Mars, rather than on its frozen-mush Saturnine host planet, perhaps he became distracted by his efforts at “decorating” his new Martian throne of supervision:

Take up a lament over the King/Angel of Tyre (Mars, and say to him: Thus says the Lord YHWH: You seal the measure, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You have been in Eden, the Garden of God. Every precious stone was your covering: the ruby, the topaz, the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jaspers, the sapphire, the turquoise and the emerald and gold (a list of nine of the twelve zodiacal stones of the tribes of Israel: The workmanship of your tabrets and of your pipes in you, in the day you were created, when (they were prepared. You were the anointed cherub that covers (the throne. I had placed you upon the Holy Mountain of God: You were there! You had walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. You were perfect in all of your ways (original orbits from the day you were created until iniquity (instability was found in you. By the mass of your trade (transfers to Mars?, they filled your midst (core with violence (tremors and you sinned (went astray. So I cast you profaned from the mount of God (the cosmic cone of stars circling the Pole Star, and I destroyed you, O Covering Cherub, from among the stones of fire: Your heart had been swollen with pride by your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom by your (bloated, blinding splendor (the explosion. So I had cast you to earth. I will lay you before kings/angels that they may gawk at you. By the host of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your trade, you have profaned your sacred sites. So I had brought out a fire from the midst of you (an object from his planet’s molten core that shall return. It shall devour you, and I will give you for ashes upon the earth in the sight of all who behold you. All who know of you among the peoples shall be appalled at you. Terrors you shall evoke. And you shall not exist forever more. (Ezekiel 28:12-18)

The loss of his first status as one of the initial angels (Job 38:7: “Morning Stars”) of the creation must have been a disappointment to Satan. God had intended his new job, his appointment over Shamash, the second, inner Saturn, to be a position of great importance. Perhaps the “official” Plan had been for this to be a base from which the earth was to be turned into the Paradise planet, teeming with life. Of course, God knew Shamash-el would fail in this second assignment and become a still-more bitter fallen angel. The other angels may not have known that this angel (and planet had an unstable core, but God perceived the iniquity lurking inside of Shamash-el. (Ezekiel 28:14)

Our solar system is so unusual among planetary systems that earth-like planets (and life must be rare; for scientists say a delicate balance of extremely unlikely chaotic events was needed to produce it. (Batygin, Laughlin and Morbidelli 2016, pp. 30-32) This odd mix is consistent with a Divine Plan adroitly fulfilled by anticipating an exploding planet.

After the explosion, Shamash-el had only Mars, the moon of his lost planet. Although he survived, he felt cast down a second time. On Mars he became an angry vengeful creature, Samael, angel of bitterness. He gathered defiant angels to join with him in rebellion. The new science now makes sense of these Jewish legends of Satan.

The rabbis say their revolt was caused by the creation of Adam. Samael and the others regarded mankind as their potential rival, if not replacement. (Ginzberg, Legends of the Bible 1909, 1992, pp. 27-28, 33-34) When Satan sought to interfere with humanity by impregnating Eve, God demoted him a third time, making him the “Serpent” crushed underfoot. (Genesis 3:15) (Ginzberg, Legends of the Bible 1909, 1992, p. 54)

Because you have done this, you are cursed (“polished” or “slippery”) more than all beasts, more than all in the field. On your belly you shall go (“polished” or stripped of arms and legs, dismembered as his heir Cain/Osiris would be), and dust you shall eat (‘out of dust’ is mankind whom Satan may ‘devour’ or possess all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed (Cain and her Seed (the Messiah: He will bruise your head (Rosh = the heir, Cain, and you will bruise (nail His heel (Jacob, his later Seed. (Genesis 3:14-15)

Notice all the word-play in this passage: Because Satan had been so clever, slick, and polished in his sexual seduction of Eve, God was going to show everyone how truly slick he had been (Satan manifested as a well-endowed giant so his offspring would be able to conquer Adam’s sons (Book of Adam and Eve 2011, I: lxx: 5) God turned Satan into a snake, a giant phallic symbol who would henceforth frighten women: So God ordered Satan’s arms and legs cut off. (Ginzberg, Legends of the Bible 1909, 1992, p. 42) Seth, the heir of Adam and Eve (her seed, would later also do this to Satan’s firstborn seed and heir, Cain/Osiris.

Just as God said, the “head” of Satan’s line, Cain/Osiris, was “bruised” first; then later, Eve’s descendant would be “bruised” near the end (“foot” or “heel” of Eve’s and Seth’s line, in the house of Jacob, whose name means “the heel.” The Messiah would be stripped naked and have His heel literally “bruised” with a nail in crucifixion. Moreover, this was said to take place upon a tree descended of the Fig Tree of Knowledge, (Ginzberg, Legends of the Bible 1909, 1992, p. 40) where Satan had seduced Eve, at the very gate of Paradise atop Olivet. (Matthew 27:50-54, Mark 15:37-39, Luke 23:43-49, (Book of Adam and Eve 2011, I: lxviii: 10-25, lxix: 1-9)

At the Crucifixion, that bitter angel, Satan, was cast down a fourth time: “Now shall the prince of this world be cast out.” (John 12:31)

Satan has four more punishments ahead: He is cast down a fifth time, (Revelation 12:9, 12-13), when Michael battles him and casts him down at the start of the Tribulation, and his planet, Mars, is cast down. (Revelation 12:8) When Christ returns at Armageddon, Satan will be cast down a sixth time, into the Pit of the Abyss where his son Cain/Osiris had been. (Revelation 20:1-3) After he is released and defies God with the war of Gog and Magog, he will be cast down a seventh time, into the Lake of Fire, the Second Death. (Revelation 20:10)

His smoke (ash then rises up, as it were, cast out by the Lake of Fire. So even Death itself does not want him. (Revelation 14:11, 20:13) This ultimate destruction is his eighth punishment. From this fate, there is no escape, nor further downfall: “I will give you for ashes on the earth (after burning …You will exist no more forever.” (Ezekiel 28:18-19)

We are told Satan and his angels know their fate and tremble at what awaits them. (James 2:19 The knowledge of their grim destiny has led Satan and his wicked spawn to vow vengeance, seeking “only to kill, steal and destroy.” (John 10:10 They go about the world in a rage, attempting to corrupt or possess anyone they “may devour.” (I Peter 5:8)

With each casting down, Satan and his angels have grown more and more angry at God and at us. Their wrath began at Creation, (Ginzberg, Legends of the Bible 1909, 1992, p. 27) dissenting from God’s Plan. After their next assignment exploded, they sulked in anger until a long epoch of ice and primitive life on earth ended 600-million years ago, when advanced life began. As dinosaurs developed, some of Satan’s angels may have possessed them, inspiring their dragon-reptile image. When mankind arose, it was jealously hated. (Ginzberg, Legends of the Bible 1909, 1992, p. 33) Satan launched a long war against humanity, using every conceivable deception. (John 8:44, II Thessalonians 2:1-14)

Misery loves company. The household of evil seeks to enlarge the ranks of Hell. Jesus tells His disciples to be on guard at all times lest they be deceived. (Matthew 24:24) Paul likewise warns us lest we fall prey to “the wiles of the Devil.” (Ephesians 6:11)

But Satan’s most sinister long-range strategy is to generate Sons of Belial!

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