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Speaker 1
So Arnold is asking, when God said, Let there be light, what was that light?
Speaker 2
I love it.
Speaker 1
That’s a great question, Arnold. Yeah, I love that question too. Jay, do you mind if I say a few verses first? Is that okay?
Speaker 2
Please.
Speaker 1
All right. So obviously you’re quoting, I believe, Genesis, chapter one. Or in the beginning it says, and God said, Let there be light. And there there was light in verse three and then goes on to say in verses four and five, and God saw the light that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light day in the darkness. He called night in the evening. And the morning were the first day. So on the first day of creation, god’s first act of creation was to bring in light. Now, I believe that this is talking about physical light, like the physical physics or whatever that we’re talking about. We’re talking about natural science. I believe that God literally made light, and we’re not 100% still sure what light is. Light is kind of a wave, and it’s kind of it has mattered to it. It’s very interesting. So anyways, I believe that this first the physical light came in the world on day one. But I think John chapter one also gives us the spiritual aspect of what this light truly is. And if you read John chapter one, verses one through five and verse nine, it reads, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Speaker 1
And we know this is Jesus. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made in him. Jesus was life, and the life was the light of men, it says, and the light shines in darkness, and the darkness comprehends it not. And Jesus being that light, that in verse nine, it says, that was the true light which lights every man that comes into the world. So basically, Jesus and his life is light and his life is truth. Everything revolves around Jesus, in essence, in creation, because nothing was made that wasn’t made by Jesus Christ. And so Jesus is God, and he’s not only our Creator, but he’s our redeemer. And I believe that physical light has come into the world to teach us about a spiritual concept, which is truth of Jesus Christ, that he is the life that he gives to us, and everything we have in this world consists and has its being in Jesus Christ. So if you’re saying what is that light? As far as Genesis, chapter one, I think it’s physical light. But I believe there’s a spiritual aspect to it that we kind of see deeper here in John chapter one, which is the light of Jesus Christ, which is his truth.
Speaker 1
And we know that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and we have access to the Father through him. That’s kind of what I would say is the light is the truth of Jesus Christ, that he is the lifegiver and everything in this world was made and consist by his power. Jay or Wendy have any other thoughts on that?
Speaker 2
Yeah, those first couple of verses of Genesis to me are so profound and I just was blown away when I was studying the Hebrew and coming up with my own translation even in the past couple of months. And it’s really interesting that the world starts off basically in darkness and confusion. That’s sort of the imagery we’re given there. And I said it’s literal, I believe it’s literal. But even with this literal history we’re given, as you’re suggesting to you that there’s a lesson behind it. And yeah, it’s darkness, confusion, disorder, chaos. That’s what God is starting off with. And then he is now adding light to the darkness and then the water. That’s this confusion, this discombobulation. God’s separating the waters. He’s pulling land out of these waters. He’s bringing order and then he’s structuring time, he’s making days, he’s making weeks. So it’s just order out of chaos is what God is doing out of creation. And this is such a symbol, I think for also sort of that story of redemption, right, that we’re going through where this world now is in disorder, it’s in chaos. In fact. Revelation talks about how in prophecy, Waters is representing the world, worldly people who are in chaos, disorder that came about after Babylon.
Speaker 2
In a sense. This is terminology that now is always used. It’s pretty much the same words representing the disorder in time of creation is representing people today. And God is now separating his people out of them like he separated the land from the water. And just as the world is in darkness, God has given us light. And a couple of verses like this john one five. John one five. This then is a message which we have heard of Him and declare unto you that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. One seven. But if we walk in the light, he is the light. We have fellowship one with another in the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin and we could just go on and on. Light, light, light. John especially likes using that as an example. But even if there wasn’t a separate light source as in the sun, moon and stars, I think what the Bible telling is that light source was God Himself. Just as he’s the light source in our life. God is a source of love, he’s the source of life. He’s also the source of light.
Speaker 2
And anything that is the opposite of confusion, he’s the source of order. And I think to me that’s the lesson to be pulled out of Genesis one. Besides the fact that God is the Creator amen.
Speaker 1
And I think, too, just when we’re talking, like our last question, saying, proving that there is a God, I mean, it’s just intelligent design, like kind of what you’re saying. There’s so much intelligence of God bringing order into this world. Like, if you came into a room and everything was perfectly organized and bins and had labels, you would know somebody had been there to organize it. If it was just like this gigantic mess, that’s one thing. But when you see order, you know that there had to be a being that came and brought about that order. And we see that so clearly in the world as far as God creating the sun and the stars and the moon and bringing in orders of time and orders of all these things, it just points to an intelligent creator who knows how to create things perfectly and put things in the right way. And when we see that we have a Creator who’s so intelligent and so magnificent, it helps us to be able to put our trust in Him, I think, and to know that his way, because Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, that his way is the right way and that we can trust that light that he’s giving to us.
Speaker 1
And I think that it’s just awesome. That how Jesus says, Ye are the light of the world. And it’s not that we have light within ourselves, but rather we’re just reflectors of that light, just kind of like how the moon reflects the sun and Jesus is the Son of righteousness. And so we’re just called to reflect that light to a dark world around us. And I just pray, by God’s grace we can do that.
Speaker 2
Amen.
Speaker 1
Only with Him, because we have no light in ourselves. I’m grateful to just be a little twinkle.
Speaker 2
Exactly.
Speaker 1
If God will just let me be that.
Speaker 2
Amen. I love that song. This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine. Amen.
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