The First Day of Remodeling.
12. The First Day of Remodeling.
Genesis 1:3-5.
Here is the Record:
"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." (Genesis 1:3)
"And God saw the light that ("it was" not in the original) good: and God divided the light from the darkness." (Genesis 1:4)
"And God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." (Genesis 1:5). In Genesis 1:3, "Let there be light" would be better put into English as "Allow there to be light," as "Let" in the Hebrew means "to release or to allow." Since God did not create light, then where did it come? It had to exist in order for God to release and allow it to be observed as the substance that it is—light. Since God did not create light on the first day, it must have always been. Therefore God, Who has always been, as we are going to see, is that light. In Psalms 4:6; Psalms 89:15; Psalms 90:8 it is recorded, in part in each verse, these words, "...in the LIGHT of thy (God's) countenance." Everything God is, is light Himself. His light, concerning Himself, is not limited to Himself, internally; but, flows externally, lighting up everything that exists. Only when He restrains His own light from illuminating, does darkness occur.
We have an example of God's light, lighting the Second Jerusalem, a city prepared for the redeemed. It Isaiah 2:1-22/3 the size of the United States, coming down from God out of Heaven. Here is the record of God's Word in Revelation 21:22-23; Revelation 21:25 :
"And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and Lamb are the temple of it. 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. ...And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be NO NIGHT there."
Concerning God's light, Revelation 22:5 further states,
"And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they (the saved) shall reign for ever and ever." May we also take notice of 1 John 1:5 which speaks of God's light.
"This 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." With this in mind, let us go back to Genesis 1:2 and notice that when God's judgment rendered the earth without form and void, it also included withdrawing the light and leaving the earth in total darkness. There were two light "switches," so to speak, that had to be shut off. Therefore, the sun, moon, and stars, which had previously been created, were to light the Original Creation. God had rendered them inactive, thus shutting off the first "switch" of light.
Yet, God's light from Himself would have radiated an ever enveloping and continuous light upon the Original Creation. God, therefore, threw the second "switch, placing a barrier by His Word; refraining His light from illuminating the earth; thus leaving it in a chaotic condition and completely surrounded by darkness, as found in Verse 2 of Genesis One.