Jack Gutknecht ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church

Good question, Peter, that you posed: 

Why are both Jesus and Lucifer referred to as morning star?

Revelation 22:16
Isaiah 14:12

Yes, it is true that Jesus and Satan are referred to as "morning star." 

RE 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. --KJV

"How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!" (Isaiah 14:12, New International Version)

Good News Translation (more of a paraphrase than a translation in my view) 

"King of Babylon, bright morning star, you have fallen from heaven! In the past you conquered nations, but now you have been thrown to the ground."

I think the King of Babylon is a symbol of Satan. Yes, it is a fact that Jesus and Satan are referred to as "morning star." 

I think the King of Babylon is a symbol of Satan. The name
“Lucifer” (“morning star”) indicates that Satan tries to
imitate Jesus Christ, who is “the bright and morning
star” (Rev. 22:16). “I will be like the Most High”
reveals his basic strategy, for he is an imitator (Isa.
14:14; 2 Cor. 11:13–15). -Warren Wiersbe 

But notice that Jesus is the only one referred to as the BRIGHT morning star! A star emits light. Jesus is the light of the world (John 8:12; 9:5), and Satan wants to imitate this.

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