Woodside , God's most dutiful angelic son. Amenadiel's presence in Los Angeles is a persistent reminder to Lucifer of the difference in their positions. This, coupled with Amenadiel constantly coercing Lucifer to return to his post, gives way to an existential crisis that leads the devil to therapy.
It's in the therapy scenes where the show really blossoms. Lucifer explores his feelings toward his father, his brother, Decker, and, in Season 2, his mother.
In Season 1, we see Lucifer struggle as a son who only wants his father's approval. His desire for simple communication and not receiving it creates massive insecurity. Drinking and sex are the key coping mechanisms he uses to compensate.
Lucifer's fractured relationship with God leaves him despondent. It's a feeling to which many people can relate. However, unlike humans, Lucifer doesn't just believe God exists.
He knows it. Consequently, the one-sided relationship pains him in a way that doesn't resonate with humans who similarly seek communication with God. This element of the show deepens in Season 2 with the introduction of Ella, a forensic scientist at the police department. She's a woman of deep faith, one who understands that even her moments of doubt are crucial to her Catholicism.
Because of faith, she believes that which she does not know. Yet she struggles in her belief far less than Lucifer and Amenadiel, who believe precisely because they know. All three desire, even yearn, to tangibly experience the Presence in their lives. Each reacts differently when it doesn't happen. Ella continues in her belief that is strengthened by doubt. Amenadiel, ever the dutiful son, persists in his effort to do God's will while struggling to admit to himself that he's not sure what that is.
And Lucifer finds new ways to engage in the same filial rebellion. One reason my weariness of the charming playboy shtick doesn't last is because just when I begin to find it tiresome, there is a pivot that reignites my attention. For instance, sex is the currency Lucifer initially uses to pay for his therapy sessions with Dr.
Linda Martin Rachel Harris. This clear, gross lapse of ethical judgment on her part is mitigated by the fact that Lucifer uses his powers to manipulate her and spark a desire for him.
However, she is not so befuddled that she can't see what is obvious to everyone except the devil himself. Lucifer is in love. Late in Season 1, Linda sees Lucifer and Chloe interacting and gains insight into him that she could not have seen in therapy alone.
She immediately halts their sexual relationship in favor of an exclusively therapeutic one. It's an act of self-respect and self-preservation. It's one thing to regularly have sex with a man knowing that both of you are in it for a bit of fun.
It's quite another to regularly have sex with a man knowing he is in love with another woman. Being in love requires vulnerability. Usually, that vulnerability manifests emotionally in letting someone see a side of us that we typically protect — even conceal.
Lucifer was intended to end with a two-part season 5, but the streaming service ordered another season right as the showrunners were finishing up, prompting the development of an entirely new ending for the series. That ending would have settled the question of fate as totally and completely malleable by completely upending what God originally intended for these characters.
In season 1, God sends Amenadiel D. Woodside to Earth just to tell Lucifer to return to hell. If he wanted him in heaven as a God-in-training, he could have very easily made that happen.
But season 6 complicates that perception a little. Early in the series, the cases Chloe and Lucifer worked on together were almost all human-on-human violence, with no demons or biblical baddies. The main conflict was whether Chloe would find out that Lucifer was, in fact, the devil, not just some rich guy living out a weird fantasy. Neither the Goddess nor Charlotte are cut-and-dried characters.
But the season 3 big bad, Cain Tom Welling , is much less compelling. Driven by his belief that Lucifer is evil, without any nuance, Father Kinley has only one motivation: to prevent a prophecy from being fulfilled.
Because he believed so strongly that Lucifer is evil, he believes the devil is actively trying to fulfill this prophecy, instead of just focusing on his day job. Fate on this show may be real, but not in the way Kinley understands it. Lucifer was a big screw up by god and even bigger a screw up is god putting us on a planet saturated with the devils influence. Screw god for Lucifer and for putting us at risk of eternal suffering. How do you immediately believe vaccines are the devil's work, when in fact the gift to discover them and cure the sick is given by God's will.
Hey this was brilliant! Spot on. From your choice of words to the efficiency and clarity with which you communicated it. I love the order too! Although I understood everything you had to say even when I read it, it is very comforting to know there are other good Christians in this struggle fighting the good fight. It helped reading your note cause every damn day, we are in Spiritual war with this faggoat. I might add, he tries harder the closer you get to God, the only God, Jesus Christ!
I was told that I would know when to get a shot but I already later on took a shot both does for the vaccine if that's it then how come I did not get that feeling nor did I feel and think that this is what I should be doing So I took the vacines with pure trust but you guys are telling me it was a trap when I never got the feeling and never got the gumtion to think so. What Does the Devil Want? From the Scriptures we know that the devil has a plan.
He is up to something. He is very active. He is very persistent. He is very thoughtful and he invests in the future as well as the present.
He has a team and they work together against the Lord and those who love Jesus. The devil is real, and if you ever doubted that in the past, when you look at the condition the world is in right now, I bet your doubts have subsided.
So what, exactly, does the devil want? Let me share a few things that he is interested in doing in your life. It doesn't matter what he has you distracted on as long as you aren't focused on God first. Maybe he will even distract you with good things at first. He is fine with good things as long as they aren't as good as the things you should be focused on.
He doesn't mind a slow erosion of your focus. The political season, the news cycle, a never ending supply of streaming entertainment, kids sports, the pursuit of a degree The devil wants to distract you from your Lord. Not only does he want families destroyed, but he wants to stop them before they even start.
He wants to prevent the marriage by encouraging living together and degrading marriage to, "just a piece of paper. He wants us to view kids as a burden instead of a blessing Psalm But if the devil isn't able to keep us from marriage and bearing children, he wants to destroy our marriages and hijack the minds and hearts of our children. He will use subtleties like unmet and unspoken expectations, selfishness, or budgets to put pressures on your marriage.
He will slip perversions into your kids entertainment that you feel aren't quite bad enough to take it away, but begin to mold their hearts and minds away from the Lord.
Nothing is more powerful than a hypocrite. Even a lost and dying world despises hypocrisy. If the devil get you confident enough of in your faith to profess it, but weak enough in your faith to not follow it, he has created a powerful weapon for his plan. The devil loves fear. Riots in the streets and economic uncertainty are breeding grounds for fear, anxiety, depression, and all other forms of human suffering and he delights in them all.
When we are afraid we just want to drown out the thing that is causing the fear. We want to numb the pain. Fear can be crippling. And when you focus on fear, he is winning. He is greedy. He is selfish. Being a powerful angel in the Lord's presence wasn't enough for him.
He wanted to be God. He will stop at nothing to take every good thing and destroy it. He is relentless and will go until he drains us of all good! So what should we do? James tells us, " Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Submit to God. No more trying to control our own lives and make our own decisions and write our own story. If He is Lord, submit to His authority. He will do a better job than you anyways. Then we need to r esist the devil. For too long we have tried to compromise with him, hoping that he would leave us alone.
But in the end all we have done is feed the beast, let him grow, and now he wants more. His greed can never be satisfied and you cannot appease him by giving in. Resist him in the power and strength of the Lord , with the armor of God Eph. Posted in August , Pastor Chris. Reda - October 29th, at am. Francis Garens - July 25th, at am. Jacoby Olguin - November 7th, at pm.
Nobody - December 31st, at am. Insult somemore and you will face your end. You don't even know the plan. Zion Giusti - February 10th, at am. Joseph Evans - May 15th, at pm.
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