is chapter 28 on the book of Ezekiel describing satan & his beginning?

Answer 1

Yes! Ezekiel 28:11 onwards describes Satan

Answer 2

Jehovah inspired his prophet Ezekiel to expose and condemn Tyre’s dynasty of kings. That message addressed to “the king of Tyre” contains expressions that fit both the Tyrian dynasty and the original traitor, Satan, who “did not stand fast in the truth.” (Ezekiel 28:12; John 8:44) Satan was once a loyal spirit creature in Jehovah’s organization of heavenly sons. Jehovah God gave indication through Ezekiel of the basic cause of the defection of both the Tyrian dynasty and Satan:
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The spirit creature who became Satan once had the wisdom needed to fulfill any assignment God gave him. Instead of being thankful, he became “puffed up with pride” and began to despise God’s way of ruling. (1 Timothy 3:6) He thought so much of himself that he began to crave the worship of Adam and Eve. This wicked desire became fertile and gave birth to sin. (James 1:14, 15) Satan seduced Eve into eating the fruit of the only tree that God had ruled out. Then, Satan used her to get Adam to eat of the forbidden fruit. (Genesis 3:1-6) Thus the first human pair rejected God’s right to rule over them and, in effect, became worshippers of Satan. His haughtiness knows no bounds. He has tried to seduce all intelligent creatures in heaven and on earth, including Jesus Christ, into worshipping him in rejection of Jehovah’s sovereignty.—Matthew 4:8-10; Revelation 12:3, 4, 9.

Answer 3

It seems rather apparent based on the repeated identification that this is a Phoenician king. The reference to Eden is clearly then metaphorical. Look at th eway the King of Babylon is refered to in Isaiah 14. Very much the same.

Answer 4

In ancient Jewish tradition Satan is simply an angel doing the work that God assigned to Satan to do.

The word Satan means challenger. With the idea of Satan challenging us, or tempting if you will. This description sees Satan as the angel who is the embodiment of man's challenges. This idea of Satan works closely with God as an integral part of Gods plan for us. His job is to make choosing good over evil enough of a challenge so that it becomes clear to us that there can be only one meaningful or logical choice.

Contrast this to Christianity, which sees Satan as God's opponent. In Jewish thought, the idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God's opponent would be considered polytheistic or setting up the devil to be an equally powerful polarity to god or a demigod.

Oddly, proof for The Christian satan/devil mythology is supposedly found in the ancient Jewish texts that were borrowed to create the bible. One can’t help but wonder how Christians came up with such a fantastically different interpretation of Gods assistant Satan in their theology.

Other hints about Satan’s role in human relations can be seen if you look at the name Lucifer. It’s meaning in the original tongue translates as Light bearer or light bringer. Essentially the bringer of enlightenment. The temptations of the Satan idea bring all of us eventually into Gods light. Hardly the Evil entity of Christian mythology.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 5

I agree that it is specifically talking about a human king. Satan is not a man and the king of Tyre is clearly identified as a man. The Eden reference is a metaphor for an earlier time in his life before he became so conceited that he thought himself godlike.

Answer 6

My interpretation is no. Tyre is a city in present day Lebanon. In this context is is being described as similar to Sodom, which was destroyed for similar "sins." When the Kind of Tyre is described as being in Eden, this is a reference to all mankind, who were descended (according to the Bible) from Adam and Eve, by placing the King there it is referencing the concept of original sin. Because we are all from Adam and Eve we are born with the sin of Eden, so metaphorically we were all from Eden.

Answer 7

Why do you read the Words of Ezekiel, did he die on the cross for you ?

Jesus asked you to repent and believe in the Gospel, you can not even get this right.

Other than the testimony of Jesus Christ, and the testimony of His witness John, Jesus never told you to trust or read the writing of anyone else except Daniel, so why do you not do as Jesus told you, is it because you do not believe Him.

Answer 8

Nope. "Satan" - along with "Hell" - was an invention by the early Church in Rome, as scare tactics to keep the early followers in line, and to ensure that they would never look elsewhere for answers.

("Believe in God, or you'll go to Hell and BURN there with Satan for all eternity!" Now, if that's not a scare tactic, I don't know what is. Not to mention the fact that it renders the idea of "free will" null and void. TRUE "free will" would NOT include ominous threats.)

Answer 9

All my minds say NO.

Bah, this requires clear speaking...

That is describing not only the man, but his kingdom and power.

Ezekiel 28

1 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, `Thus says the Lord GOD , "Because your heart is lifted up And you have said, `I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods In the heart of the seas'; Yet you are a man and not God, Although you make your heart like the heart of God--

Notice the key phrase here...

you are man and not God

I see nothing saying Satan here.

Answer 10

One reason is that God is reminding satan where he fell from & seconly if God did not have written in the bible the beginning & ending of satan, then people would say, "see there, we have no record of satan being created or destroy."