Ezekiel 28: 11 – 13: Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
In Exodus 28: 15 – 30, God had instructed Moses to make a breastplate upon which twelve stones would be set. These twelve stones represented the twelve tribes of Israel, and when the high priest carried out his priestly duties in the tabernacle wearing his glorious garments, those twelve tribes would be represented in him.
In Ezekiel 28, Lucifer is seen as God’s chief angel before he fell from Heaven. In this position, Lucifer was a most beautiful and glorious angel whose splendid covering was nine of the twelve breastplate stones. The question then arises as to why three of the breastplate stones are omitted from the description of Lucifer. To answer this question, it must be understood that the twelve breastplate stones, from jasper to sardius would represent the revelation of God to Israel by the colour, density and structural makeup of those stones, and by the names engraved on them.
Lucifer was similar to God in every way except that he could not create. Lucifer was actually incomplete because in him was sin and a nature of jealousy and reasoning. Lucifer was created by God but he did not have the Spirit of God, and so He did not have a full revelation of God. Lucifer’s exterior was indeed glorious, but to be complete, his heart needed to be perfect before God, and it was not.
Ezekiel was actually writing about the King of Tyrus and then breaks into a description of Lucifer. As a king, this great man of Tyrus wore a crown on his head and extravagant garments upon his person, but the Spirit of God was looking through the eyes of His prophet Ezekiel and could see that behind the luxurious covering of the King of Tyrus there existed a Luciferian spirit. And so when Lucifer is being addressed in the twenty-eighth chapter of Ezekiel, the prophet is seeing beyond the lavish exterior of the angel and beholding the spirit of sin that lay within him.
Lucifer had the jasper and the sardius. The jasper represented Reuben, the eldest son of Jacob, whilst the sardius represented Benjamin, the youngest son of Jacob. God is seen on the Throne in Revelation 4 with an appearance of jasper and sardine, it is because God is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the Genesis to Revelation. But Lucifer is an impersonator of that. When Lucifer fell from Heaven and got into the stream of human beings, he then used gifted ministers that can preach from Genesis to Revelation and place the Word by human wisdom. But those same men who have the letter of the Word without the Spirit of the Word, they preach to glorify themselves, they have a competitive spirit, and there is no humility and no willingness to receive correction. They display the very same characteristics of Lucifer and his ambition as he mingled among the angels in Heaven and spread his teachings wrought with error.
Lucifer lost his garments of Glory when he fell from Heaven. His presence was there in the Garden of Eden as the Tree of Knowledge, and by incarnating the Serpent to seduce Eve, he stripped Adam and his wife of their garments of Glory also (please read: Robes of Glory before the Fall). In his fallen state, Satan enters into flesh to gather glory to himself. Lucifer was the one who led in the heavenly worship and music. He shone and he glittered. So in the big modern concerts there is all the glitter and the lights, and the colour, and the fashion etcetera because the spirit behind it all is desiring to gather attention and worship to itself.
Ezekiel 28: 14: Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Lucifer in Heaven with his glorious covering of nine stones walked among the stones of fire, lively stones which are the sons of God whose hearts pulsate by the Pillar of Fire (1 Peter 2: 4 – 5: To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.). The stones of fire shouted for joy in Heaven when the Plan of Redemption was revealed to them (Job 38: 7), but when Lucifer went out with his teaching, there were other angels that were shouting for joy, but it was a noise of treachery and rebellion. Lucifer stole the hearts of the angels, just like Absalom did in 2 Samuel 15: 6. Those who reject Malachi 4 (the heart restorer), will have their hearts stolen by Lucifer.
The three missing stones of Lucifer’s attire therefore show that he is incomplete. He may present himself as one that can explain the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation, from Jasper to Sardius, but there is always something missing in the teachings of someone who does not have the Spirit of God within them. When Satan incarnated the Serpent in Genesis 3, he came to Eve and presented God’s Word to her. But Satan added to the Word. God had said “Ye shall surely die (Genesis 2: 17).” Satan said, “Ye shall NOT surely die (Genesis 3: 4).” It takes the Spirit of God to identify the Luciferian spirit veiled behind flesh, and it takes the Spirit of God to stay with the full revelation of the Word.