title: Deconstructing Lucifer: Reexamining the Ancient Origins of the Fallen Angel of Light
author:  David W. Lowe 
description: David W. Lowe is a certified public accountant working in the field of corporate income tax, and lives in Wichita, KS with his lovely wife Vivienne. He is the author of two books dealing with eschatology and the resurrection of the dead: Earthquake Resurrection (2005), and Then His Voice Shook the Earth (2006).
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  # Chapter 12
  
  The light had come while Agonostis was still finishing laying out his battle
  planswithout sound or warning, Heaven had taken Lucifer's hand-picked
  Hellspawn from whatever part of Hell they'd been in. Fifty-eight thousand
  eight hundred fifty-one damned vanished from the bowels of Hell. From the
  lowliest gargoyle and gremlin to the mightiest of fallen angels, they blinked
  out of existence in one location and blinked back into existence somewhere
  else.
  
  But each of them was in a _different_ somewhere else.
  
  Agonostis looked around. He was alone, in the middle of somebody's garden,
  stark naked and in his original form. He had _not_ intended to arrive in such
  a fashion. He'd been expected to stop by the office to pick up his final
  orders; he'd failed to do that, and the fact that it was God's fault wasn't
  going to cut any ice with the Father of Lies. Lucifer only cared about
  results, and