Light is the answer.
This writing is to help us understand what the Bible is telling us concerning Light. God is Light. Jesus is the Light of the world. When we believe, Jesus comes to sup with us. Jesus is a real light that is brighter than the noonday sun. To each who believes he is the Light and Glory of God — he comes. The Light is in the world and the world was made by him, but the world knows him not. The Bible says that the condemnation is that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. Unfortunately, he even comes to his own and his own receive him not.
The Light comes to us individually and then he ascends telling us that we collectively will ascend with him and meet him in the clouds. When the last trumpet blows and all who are on the earth believe and we have all ascended with Him as he is with the Father there will be a new heaven and a new earth — it is then we will know through experience the words of the two men in white apparel who said, “… why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”
His coming is his ascension. I know this is a bold statement, his coming is his ascension, however, when the Light of the glorious gospel of Christ is manifest, or ascended into the clouds from the mortal flesh of all those who do and will believe and the last trumpet blows, the perfect will have come for all the world to see the marriage of the bride and the lamb. Death then, is swallowed up in victory by the life which is the Light from heaven and is above the brightness of the midday sun. This Light is God himself and the Lamb. There will be no need of the sun or the moon to shine on the earth for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
By knowing, understanding and living the precepts given to us by the light of God, we shall find eternal life. In the light, every dilemma can be reconciled. A steadfast consideration of light will solve our social, political, and worldly problems. We can have one goal, one vision — without being required to change cultural values — man can become one in the light.
While looking into the night sky, we see minute flecks of light standing out in the vast darkness. Like the stars in the heaven, we, the body of Christ, are lights to the world. In the darkness there is always a remnant of light; in the light there is no darkness. Light is the only singularity!
God is light; Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
This little book is about light. It's about finding the place where there is no darkness — a place of rest — the Sabbath. It's about being raised into heavenly places. It is about charity. It is about giving the light and love and healing of God to the world — freely and without cost — for the edification of those who receive and for the profit of our Lord God Almighty and the Lamb. It is about the urgency of this matter — that none will be lost. It is about the incumbency — the duty and obligation of all who believe to give the gospel to those who are without the love of God. It is about going into all nations with our gifts from God, healing all peoples physically and spiritually, thereby, bringing the Kingdom to fruition that the end will come.
In some ways we have missed the importance of light — all too often we speak of it in passing. We study, meditate, and scrutinize words like spirit, love, life, truth, etc.; and we find each of these precepts individually perfect in the glorification of God. With all due respect, I long for the time we, as a body, will also engage in the more weighty discourses pertaining to light. Throughout the Bible, the teaching of light is prevalent, so we do not want to minimize it in any way, nor do we want to gloss over it — we want to grab hold and work out its meaning — in all of its grandeur. En masse, we should encourage each other to talk about the light, study the light, think about the light, live in the light; thereby, with and by his grace, we can help others to be raised from the cares and woes of this world unto the right hand of God — into all that is good. Thank you Jesus!
The prophets and the Psalmist discoursed in the hope of the coming Messiah: "For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising" (Isa. 60:2-3). "O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles" (Ps. 43:3). "The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple" (Ps. 119:130). Even so, when Jesus the Messiah came, many could not see Him.
Jesus taught his disciples: "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid" (Matt. 5:14).
After his encounter with a great light on the road to Damascus, Paul the apostle was sent to the people and the Gentiles by the Lord to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light (Acts 26:18). It is said by Paul, "... Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light" (Eph. 5:14).
The light is no longer a mystery. The writers of the old and the new testaments understood the fullness of the light and they passed it on to us. John, in his first letter, says, “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.” 1John 1:5 In the book of Genesis, the first words directly attributed to God are, "Let there be light: and there was light." God, as revealed in the coming heavenly city, is the temple of light: "And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the 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" (Rev. 21:22 — 23).
My personal relationship with Christ is somewhat like that of the apostle Paul. I do not claim to be an apostle or prophet, however, Jesus engendered in me to know, understand, and follow his teachings and the writings of the prophets and apostles concerning his glorious coming and to follow after them. After meeting Jesus, I found in myself the urgency to learn to verbalize the meaning of light. I have, without faltering, determined to find its place in our doctrinal matrix.
I prayed with all of my heart to do the will of God, and the Lord found a way for me to do it. I believe what I am doing is my duty — my prayer is that I will harm no one. My hope is that all who read this will turn to our Lord Jesus to validate any truth that might be discovered here.
I think we are to give up whatever else we are doing and seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness on earth. We are mandated to go into the world and preach the gospel, with every jot and tittle of the word of God.
The purpose of this writing is to simply begin a dialogue on light. I am trusting that through this work some may turn from the darkness of sin to the wonderful glorious light of the gospel of Christ who is the image of God.
Thank you Jesus!
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Introduction