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=== Latter Day Saint movement === Lucifer is regarded within the [[Latter Day Saint movement]] as the [[Mormon cosmology#Pre-mortality|pre-mortal]] name of the Devil. [[Latter-day Saint theology]] teaches that in a [[Mormon cosmology#Council in Heaven|heavenly council]], Lucifer rebelled against the plan of [[God in Mormonism|God the Father]] and was subsequently cast out.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Lucifer|title=Devils|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Mormonism|access-date=2017-11-29|archive-date=2018-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922204853/http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Lucifer|url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[Doctrine and Covenants]] reads: {{blockquote|And this we saw also, and bear record, that an angel of God who was in authority in the presence of God, who rebelled against the Only Begotten Son whom the Father loved and who was in the bosom of the Father, was thrust down from the presence of God and the Son, and was called Perdition, for the heavens wept over him—he was Lucifer, a son of the morning. And we beheld, and lo, he is fallen! is fallen, even a son of the morning! And while we were yet in the Spirit, the Lord commanded us that we should write the vision; for we beheld Satan, that old serpent, even the devil, who rebelled against God, and sought to take the kingdom of our God and his Christ—Wherefore, he maketh war with the saints of God, and encompasseth them round about.|Doctrine and Covenants 76:25–29<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/76.25-29?lang=eng#p24|title=D&C 76:25–29}}</ref>}} After becoming Satan by his fall, Lucifer "goeth up and down, to and fro in the earth, seeking to destroy the souls of men."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/10.27?lang=eng|title=D&C 10:27}}</ref> Members of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] consider Isaiah 14:12 to be referring to both the king of the Babylonians and the Devil.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/scriptures/gs/lucifer?lang=eng|title=Lucifer |website=churchofjesuschrist.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/scriptures/ot/isa/14.12?lang=eng|title=Isaiah 14:12, footnote c}}</ref>
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