Genesis 1:3 ¶ And God said, Let there be
light: and there was light.
Sound passing
through water causes light in a process called Sonoluminescence, as the
experimental science which produced Sonar showed us.
Here are the three
parts of God in verses one, two, and three. In verse one there is God the
Father, the soul of God, so to speak, the seat of will and self-identity.
Psalm
11:5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but
the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
In verse two we
have the Spirit of God, His particular vehicle for acting upon and through His
creation, also called the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Ghost as God Himself as
already pointed out.
Here, in verse
three, we have God’s spoken Word, the beginning of all life, the origin of
life, the beginning of light, and the origin of light. Here, the universe is
being created, the UNI-VERSE, one spoken sentence. God is the author of it, the authority of it, as my wife, Beth, pointed out to me.
John
1:1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2
The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him
was not any thing made that was made. 4
In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 ¶
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
The Lord Jesus
Christ, as any reading of John will attest to, is the Word. He is the physical
image of God, the body of God, if you will, so we have three parts of one God;
soul, body, and spirit.
Colossians
1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:…2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the
Godhead bodily.
Hebrews
1:3 Who being the brightness of his
glory, and the express image of his
person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by
himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
John
14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been
so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father;
and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Three
parts to one God with one will, not three individual persons with separate
wills.
Deuteronomy
6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is
one LORD:
John
10:30 I and my Father are one.
Christ is the appearance of God; the angel of the
Lord, His presence.
Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and
the angel of his presence saved
them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and
carried them all the days of old.
Galatians 4:14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye
despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
Who led the Hebrews out of Egypt.
Judges 2:1 ¶ And an
angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go
up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your
fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
We
will be created in such a manner, having a body, a soul, and a spirit.
1Thessalonians
5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify
you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved
blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Regarding light,
scientists presume the existence of the basic particle of light, a photon. The
universe is bathed in that light. For every estimated proton around the nucleus
of an atom they say there are a billion photons.[1] Of course, photons might
not even exist except as theoretical entities to explain things that can be
seen by mathematical constructs.
Psalm
19:1 « To the chief Musician, A
Psalm of David. » The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament
sheweth his handywork.
We can safely
dismiss theoretical entities, as said previously, which exist only as having
explanatory power to envision a universe without God, and understand that this
is the Word of God working in our universe. And, He holds it together, not
non-existent Dark Matter or Dark Energy, but God Himself, as the Word, Christ.
Colossians
1:17 And he is before all things, and by
him all things consist.
Genesis
1:4 And God saw the light, that it was
good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the
darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
It is established
here God’s works are good. His original intention is good, beneficial,
worthwhile, life-giving, and giving Him glory, manifesting His power. But, God
is not a uniter. He is a divider. He divides, as we will see, evil from good,
sin from righteousness, the wheat from the chaff, and here, light from
darkness. There is truth and there are lies. There is good and there is evil.
There is light and there is darkness. Unlike the popular mantra that darkness
is the absence of light so evil is the absence of God the truth is that God has
control over all of it and He is present everywhere. Hell is not simply
separation from God, but an expression of His wrath on those who reject His
sovereignty over them. Do not let popular ‘new age’ philosophy corrupt your
understanding of the God of the Bible.
1Kings
8:12 ¶ Then spake Solomon, The LORD said
that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
Deuteronomy
4:11 And ye came near and stood under
the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with
darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
Isaiah
45:7 I form the light, and create
darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Psalm
139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou
art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
The modern
Christian denies God’s power and sovereign rule over all that exists in the
material universe. His God is weak; who can neither preserve His word nor keep
His man or woman saved and is in a war with almost equal in power, Satan, for
our souls, to whom Christ’s life was paid as a ransom, none of which are true
but spoken as if they were by every lying conservative pulpit in the land.
Psalm
119:89 LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word
is settled in heaven.
Exodus
30:12 When thou takest the sum of the
children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom
for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague
among them, when thou numberest them.
Psalm
49:6 ¶ They that trust in their wealth,
and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; 7 None of them can by any means redeem his
brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: 8
(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
Matthew
20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to
be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Spiritually, God
gives you a choice; light or darkness, spiritual Day or Night, with the first
letters capitalized. You have the choice to make as part of your free will but
you have no control over the consequences of that choice. The importance of
this comparison is made clear by the fact that the sun, which we define morning
by its appearance and the stars which dot the night sky have not been created
yet. What is revealing this first day is more profound than the sun we see in
the sky now or the stars that fill the heavens.
Here we see that
God’s day for us starts in the evening previous. The Bible defines the day as
starting on the previous evening and into the following day, like Tuesday night
into Wednesday. As the darkness was first then the light, so is the evening first
then the day, and your sinful condition first then the light of Christ, as the
darkness of this age and then the morning of Christ’s return.
This is a physical
24-hour day with an evening and a morning, not an ‘age’ consisting of millions
of years. It is capitalized in its first mention as this Day encompasses the
entire 24-hour period while the day the Jews would use consisted of twelve
hours from sunrise to sunset. When looking at the words day or night it is
important to regard the context. Are we seeing a 24-hour day and night, evening
and morning, or a 12-hour day and a 12-hour night consisting of watches. This
will become more important when we get to the gospels so we’ll leave it for
then.
[1] Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, and Fall of a
Science, and What Comes Next (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006), 75.
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