“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!” (Isaiah 14:12). Known as the Morning Star, Venus is the brightest object in the sky, after the sun and the moon, of course. It is called the Morning Star, or sometimes the Evening Star, because it only appears in the sky at the horizon just as the sun is beginning to rise or set. The Morning Star tries to shine its brilliant light, which, again, is brighter than any other star, at the same time as the Sun, but once the Sun is fully risen, there is just no competition. Not long after the sun is fully up, it is impossible to see the Morning Star anymore. Lucifer, the Son of the Morning, may have been brighter than all of God's other creations, apart from the Father and the Son. He may even have tried to shine his brightest and outcompete the light of Jesus Christ. There is even a small window, when the horizon is beginning to brighten but the sun has not yet risen, that we could possibly mistake the Morning Star as being a legitimate source of light. But when the Son had risen, after He had conquered death and thrown down the gates of Hell, the world was filled with so much light that the influence of Satan became practically invisible. There are times in our lives when we turn our back on the light of the Son that we may once again see the Morning Star and be fooled into believing that he is a viable guiding light, but his is not a light that can illuminate the path we should take. It is a cold and distant light, tantalizing but providing no real benefit. If we will only be patient through our periods of darkness, the Son will rise again and fill us with light and truth and banish the beguiling light of the Morning Star so that it might not lead us astray anymore.
