Children’s Bible Program – Level 2: Lesson 5 “Lucifer Becomes Satan”
Featured: Passage: Isaiah 14:12–14; Ezekiel 28:15–17; Luke 10:18.
Lucifer was a powerful archangel with great responsibilities. However, he allowed pride and vanity to pervert his thoughts and actions. Lucifer began to believe that he knew better than God and that his way of competition and get was better than God’s way of cooperation and love. He devised a coup attempt, convincing about one-third of the angels to rebel with him to take over God’s throne. Lucifer wanted God’s job! Of course the created being was not more powerful than his Creator. God threw Lucifer and his angels back to the earth. God names things what they are, so when he rebelled, God changed Lucifer’s name to Satan, which means adversary. God called Satan’s angels demons.
Discuss:
- Satan was a son of God in that God was his Creator. Ask your child if they can think of any movie, television program, or personal example in which the child thought they knew more than their parent.
- Help your child understand that we have nothing to fear from Satan because God is in charge and Satan can do nothing to us without God’s permission.
- Explain that everyone will be given a chance to be in God’s family and that only those who willfully reject God will be burned up in the lake of fire (Mal. 4:1, 3). No human being will spend eternity burning in hell fire.
Memory Challenge:
Hebrews 1:13–14
“But to which of the angels has He ever said: ‘Sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool?’ Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister to those who will inherit salvation?”
