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© 2000  Joe Griffin

The Inscrutable Question: Antiestablishment Concepts & Attitudes Defined; Lucifer Recruits a Following 
14)	The definitions of words that define antiestablishment concepts and the attitudes that accompany them on the way to ultimate conflict demonstrate how this Ezekiel 28:16 associates violence with rebellion.
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, s.v.:
discord.	A lack of agreement or harmony.  Active conflict resulting from discord among persons or factions.  synonyms:  DISCORD implies an intrinsic or essential lack of harmony producing antagonism; CONFLICT usually stresses the action of forces in opposition but in static applications implies an irreconcilability as of duties or desires; CONTENTION applies to competition that shows itself in disputing or controversy; DISSENSION implies discord and stresses a division into factions; VARIANCE implies a clash between persons owing to a difference in nature, opinion, or interest.
incendiary.  A person who excites factions, quarrels, or sedition.
sedition.	Incitement of insurrection against established authority
rebellion. Opposition to one in authority.  An open, armed, and usually unsuccessful defiance of an established government.  synonyms: REBELLION implies an open formidable resistance that is often unsuccessful; REVOLUTION applies to a successful rebellion resulting in a major change in government; REVOLT and  INSURRECTION imply an armed uprising that quickly fails or succeeds; MUTANY applies to group insubordination or insurrection especially against naval authority.
15)	Consequently, Lucifer began a campaign to lure others into supporting his rebellion against God’s established government.  In order to convince others to join him Lucifer used duplicity and deceit in the presentation of his position paper, “The Five Assertions.”
16)	His effort proved quite fruitful as one third of the entire angelic community bought his lie and joined the rebellion.  Documentation for the number of dissidents that rebelled is found in Revelation 12 which transpires at the mid-point of the Tribulation:
Revelation 12:4a -	And his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. 
1)	We will exegete the first sentence of this verse but in doing so we must consult verse 9 in order to put the events in their proper context.
2)	The verse begins with the nominative singular subject from the noun:
oÙr£ / oura /:	“tail”; used to describe the tails of animals and reptiles.  Figuratively, it refers to inferiority as opposed to superiority in leadership.