Last week, I shared that there are two titles Jesus and Lucifer share: the lion and the morning star. Jesus is deserving of these titles; Lucifer is the counterfeit. In Revelation 5:5, Jesus is called “the Lion of the tribe of Judah.” In Revelation 22:16, Jesus calls Himself, “the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”
I want to share with you how Jesus’ identity as the Morning Star can give us hope in these dark times. Sailors used to use the “morning star,” which is actually the planet Venus, to know when dawn would come. It shines brightly just before dawn and is a sign a new day is coming. Likewise, the Morning Star returning will be a sign He is about to restore and reign on the earth. Until then, we must deal with the counterfeit.
Lucifer literally means “light bearer.” In Isaiah 14:12, he is referred to as a “morning star, son of the dawn.” Ezekiel 28 describes how he was covered with jewels and was “an anointed cherub.” He was covered with those jewels to reflect the light of God, but he became enamored by his own beauty and ego and became selfish instead. He essentially said, “I will not reflect the light of God.” He wanted to be the one to shine. So, he was cast down from heaven. Since then, he has done everything he can to deceive, tear down, pollute, distort, and destroy God’s creation.
The morning star shows up just before dawn when it’s the darkest. Have you watched the news lately and noticed how dark it is? In the U.S., we are dealing with illegal immigration, human trafficking, drug trafficking, a national debt crisis, rising inflation, gender confusion, abuses in our justice system, and much more. These are only a few of the dark, demonic things showing up as the fallen morning star projects his darkness. However, this presence of darkness also tells us the dawn—Jesus Christ’s return—is coming soon.
There is a company of people who, in the darkest hour before the second coming of Jesus, will become the morning stars that rise and do the job the devil forfeited. They will rise and shine brightly. They will become that compass and prophetic voice that points a dark world to the Son.
The last thing Jesus said in the Bible is, “Surely I am coming quickly” (see Revelation 22:20). It has been about two thousand years since then, which we humans do not consider “quickly.” Nevertheless, we know that “with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (see II Peter 3:8). So, if the last statement Jesus made was, “I am coming quickly,” we should take those marching orders and make it our priority to fulfill the Great Commission. The Great Commission is to “make disciples of all nations” (see Matthew 28:18-20).
Paul wrote that we should love our neighbors, knowing “now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand” (see Romans 13:9-12). If that was true in Paul’s day, how much more for us today? The night seems pretty dark now, but the darkness of the hour is only a sign that the Morning Star is close. The sun will rise, and a new day will begin. That new day will be when Jesus returns the second time to set up His physical kingdom on earth.
This new day will set everything right, fixing everything the devil's tried to mess up, and putting everything back to how it was designed to be from the beginning of time. All of creation has been waiting for this moment.
As Paul wrote in Romans 8:18-19, “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.”
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Blessings,
Chris Reed | President & CEO
MorningStar Ministries
