Light What is Light?

Light

What is Light?

God describes Himself as Light

God also tells us He created light and lights

To separate the darkness

Paul writes concerning the Days of Creation

The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 1 Corinthians 15:46

It is important to see that there is a connection between the natural and the spiritual

In understanding of true science

 The creation of natural things there is a connection to spiritual things

If we remove God from creation or do not understand the natural order of things

There will be confusion of spiritual things   

The first principal and responsibility of light was to bring order

If our understanding comes first from the natural, than the spiritual

Let us give thanks to God who gave us light

To see all the other things He has created

Before we move on to understanding the spiritual light

What is Light?

Light is defined as…

The natural agent that stimulates

sight and makes things visible.

This is the simple definition.

Science definition of light becomes very

complex as you study electromagnetic radiation

within certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.

  The Bible has a lot to say about light.

In the third verse of the Bible

 we find this word light.

We are told…

And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

 God saw that the light was good,

and he separated the light from the darkness.

God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night."

And there was evening, and there was morning — the first day.

Genesis 1:3-5

The First and Fourth Days of

Creation had to do with light.

The First Day God said let there be light and

God called the light Day and the darkness Night.

On the Fourth Day God made two lights…

 We know them to be the sun and the moon.

The sun was to govern the day

and the moon to govern the night.

We are also told in the Fourth

Day God made the stars as well.

From God creating light and setting it in order,

we have not only day and night,

two divisions, we also have seasons.

Throughout the Bible we will find the natural

effects of light revealing spiritual truths.

Paul writes concerning the Days of Creation.

The spiritual did not come first,

but the natural, and after that the spiritual.

1 Corinthians 15:46

It is important to see that there is a connection

between the natural and the spiritual.

In understanding of true science,

the creation of natural things, there

is a connection to spiritual things.

If we remove God from creation,

or do not understand the natural order of things,

 there will be confusion of spiritual things.

   

The first principal and responsibility

of light was to bring order.

God made two great lights —

the greater light to govern the day

and the lesser light to govern the night.

He also made the stars.

Genesis 1:16

The lights were to “govern”.

The natural order of lights God created,

have kept the world for 7000 years.

That to me is amazing, when I think

the sun has not burned out all its gasses.

Just the other night I watched a planet

shining in the sky, amazed at how it shines

so bright without having a light source of

its own but only a reflection of the sun.

The wonder of how that planet hangs in space.

Light did not evolve, it was created by God.

And through what God has

created, He teaches us about Himself.

So we might understand not only

the natural world, but the spiritual.

The Bible will teach us a lot about light.

Light is a must for creation,

both in the natural and the spiritual.

What is light?

 It is the absence of darkness.

The first problem God had to address

in creation is found in Genesis 1:2…

Darkness was over the surface of the deep.

No life came to the face of the earth

until the separating of light from darkness

and the water from the land.

If our understanding comes first

from the natural, than the spiritual.

Let us give thanks to God who gave us light

to see all the other things He has created…

Before we move on to understanding the spiritual light.

Scripture Reading

Genesis 1:1-19 NIV

1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

3 And God said, "Let there be light ," and there was light . 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning — the first day.

6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning — the second day.

9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.

11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning — the third day.

14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning — the fourth day.