Did Lucifer earn his Glory?

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“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations?” Isaiah 14:1234:
Lucifer is generally presented as being the most glorious angel God made. Did Lucifer earn his glory, … or was it freely given to him?
 
Everyone earns something so without asking God I would come to a logical conclusion that he did.
 
I’d think his glory was a gift from God, as a bright reflection of His own image. And that Lucifer did a pretty good job of forfeiting it.
 
God freely gives and He isn’t required to except for His nature’s sake.
 
In the near context apparently Lucifer was struggling to get to Heaven and he fell. So part of his glory is definitely earned?
[11] Thy pride is brought down to hell, thy carcass is fallen down: under thee shall the moth be strewed, and worms shall be thy covering. [12] How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations? [13] And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the north. [14] I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be like the most High. [15] But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, into the depth of the pit.
The bold part is mine to argue that part of his glory appears to be a personal effort of him.

But the Douay Rheims Bible says this passage is from a letter dedicated to the king of Babylon. So the fall in this passage is actually about the fall of a man, who was given glory and lost it.
[12] “O Lucifer”: O day star. All this, according to the letter, is spoken of the king of Babylon. It may also be applied, in a spiritual sense, to Lucifer the prince of devils, who was created a bright angel, but fell by pride and rebellion against God.
Since this passage links the destiny of a man (given glory) to that of the Enemy, then the idea that the Enemy was given glory is also sustained.
We just don’t know.
 
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