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Defining Light


    
“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”  Gen 1:3

Please notice that there was light but what was the source of that light?  It isn’t until verse 14 that we see what is believed to be the source.  “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,  And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.  And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.”  Genesis 1:14-19.
But what was the source before the fourth day?   ”And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.”  Revelation 21:23.  By that verse I see that God is the source and the Lamb, Christ Jesus, is the light there of.  “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.”  1 John 1:5.  
What is light, what is its purpose?  Light makes vision possible.  In a spiritual sense light allows one to see and understand more of God as He reveals truth to the believer.  In the physical, light allows us to live, physically.  
When scripture speaks of light one must “rightly divide the word of truth” 2 Timothy 2:15c. 
So now to take it one step further;    “But the children of the kingdom (non-believing Jews) shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”  Matt 8:12 and also in 22:13 & 25:30, spoken only three times all in Matthew.   
This darkness is void of all light, it is “outer darkness, God isn’t there:  “In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:  Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;  When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.” 2 Thessalonians 1:8-10
Some may say that there has to be light if there is a eternal lake of fire.  Not so, as was in Genesis 1:  “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.  And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.  And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.”  Genesis 1:1-4
I really enjoy meditating on the Word, seeing God in light of scripture, all scripture.  I pray that you also may be intrigued by His Word.

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