Satan is an angel. A created being not "an unholy mass of bad negative vibes." God, the Person that created Lucifer tells us so in His Word. Don't you believe Him?
This will be a longish response.
Satan was a covering cherub in heaven,
"You were the anointed cherub who covers … you were on the holy mountain of God; you walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. ... “By the abundance of your trading you became filled with violence within, and you sinned; therefore I cast you as a profane thing out of the mountain of God; and I destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the fiery stones.” (
Ezekiel 28:14-16). Biblically a covering cherub (
Exodus 25:14-20), is an angel that stood in the very presence of God, covering the ark of the testimony, where lay the law of God is in heaven. Above the ark was/is God’s mercy seat. These earthly sanctuary/temples were designed to teach us about heavenly realities (see
Hebrews 8:1-5).
Biblically there are two different types of angels. Cherubim and Seraphim. The angels who stand in the presence of the Lord and are often associated with the throne of God are Cherubim.
There was war in heaven and the Bible tells us,
“War broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him” (
Revelation 12:7-9). Lucifer deceived a third of the angels (
Revelation 12:3-4). which is millions of angels and caused a rebellion in heaven. God had no choice but to cast out Lucifer and the other fallen angels, because Lucifer’s aim was to usurp God’s throne (as I've shown you from scripture in the Bible). After his expulsion from heaven, Lucifer was called Satan, meaning
“adversary.” The angels who followed Satan were called demons.
As I've posted in this thread and in the
one about angels, they are higher beings than us and have more powers than we do. When Satan and his demons were thrown out of heaven they were not stripped of their powers. Its the reason Satan can perform miracles. They are counterfeit miracles of course and he can only go so far with his deceit. For example the sorcerers from Egypt duplicated some of the signs and miracles that God performed through Moses (
Exodus 7). The evil angels can possess people too as we read in the Bible (
Matthew 12:22-24) and more.The Bible tells us Satan will personate Jesus just before Christ's return.
2 Corinthians 11:14 tells us,
"And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light." So they are not
negative vibes, they are very real beings causing havoc in this world. All the sin and suffering in this world is caused by Satan and his demons.
More proof of Satan being an angel is when Jesus said,
"Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels” (
Matthew 25:41). Hell is meant to destroy only Satan and his angels but sadly many people will be destroyed in it too because they chose him over God.