There is a passage in the Scriptures that seems to describe God’s adversary, Satan, to a certain detail. Ezek 28:12-19. Beware if you fit into any of the mentioned features! Others, be warned of such people!

His unmatched perfection: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Are you worldly-wise or gorgeous or handsome?

His precious attire: Every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold. Are you snobbish and showing off?

His wonderful musical ability: The workmanship of your percussion instruments and of your wind instruments was prepared in you on the day that you were created. Are you a talented musician? Artist?

His prime responsibility: You are the anointed cherub that covers (or possibly, the security officer responsible for guarding the approach to the heavenly host?); and I have set you so. Are you in an extremely responsible job?

His privileged abode: You were upon the holy mountain of God; You have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Are you above everybody else around and close to a powerful person?

His self-inflicted misfortune: You have been in Eden the garden of God. You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, till iniquity was found in you. Have you been a skilled and perfect workman?

His primary sin: Your heart was lifted up (pride!) because of your beauty, you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness. Are you proud of your current exalted state? Are you worldly-wise? Famous?

His misconstrued strategy: By the multitude of your merchandise they have filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned. You have defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your traffic. Do you want to achieve the ultimate by nook or by crook?

His course of punishment: (1) I will cast you as profane out of the mountain of God: and (2) I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. (3) I will cast you to the ground, (4) I will I bring forth a fire from the midst of you, it shall devour you, and (5) I will bring you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold you.

His shame and mockery: I will lay you before kings, that they may behold you. All they that know you among the people shall be astonished at you: you shalt be a terror and never shall you be anymore.

Satan was created by God full of wisdom and beauty; the one who “sealed up the sum” – there was no creation above him until God created man in His likeness and His own image. Wisdom and beauty is undeniably a lethal combination. Murugu in Thamizh, means beauty. And Murugan is the chief god of the Thamizhar. He is said to have instituted idol worship by making idols of the ancestors; Adam was the first ancestor who was worshipped as god in the name of Easwaran. Murugan also instituted goddess worship – seven goddesses (Amman from Ammon) in all, each with a different name – with seven different colored attire progressing from the black to the transparent (neervannam). The seventh one is worshipped with various names attributed to a river running in every given region; Gangai, Ponni, Kaviri, and Bhavani, to name a few in India. (Water is transparent!)

Satan had been in his place in heaven probably for a short while (a “novice” who was lifted up with pride – 1 Tim 3:7). The earth was already in place by the time Satan sinned (Job 38:7). He was cast down from heaven, God’s abode, when inequity was found in him. (Heaven has no place for sin and the sinful). I will cast you as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. – Eze 28:16.

He fell to the first heaven (with respect to man), (the second was not in existence until the second day of creation). When Satan fell from the third heaven, he also swept one-third of the angels with him and cast them to the earth. (Rev 12:4). (Was this why the Earth was without form, void, and dark soon after it was created?)

The Devil became an excellent but deceitful hawker when he promised these angels an alternative to God’s dominion. He dealt cunningly with them and seems to have tried to expand his influence through threat and violence. (Eze 28:16). (There is a religion on the earth even today that is expanding its influence through threat and violence and enforces conversion by the edge of the sword!). He kept assembling with God’s other loyal angels (Job 1:6; Job 2:1) (in the second or first) until he was cast to the earth later during the time of Jesus’ ministry.