04-01-2008, 02:27 AM
Quote:We cannot know more than what scripture states about it. It was light, which produced the same effect as the sun, giving evening and morning for each of the days as the earth spun on its axis as it does now.
This light had to be localized in one point of space, facing only one side of earth at a given time. All the days had to be similar in length or they could not be categorized and numbered as time keeping devices, which is what days are, according to verse 14. The days, years and seasons, as well as signs (v. 14) are based on the sun, moon and stars, and should not be confused with each other. Since days four through seven had the sun to demarcate evening and morning, we must assume the light created on day one served the same function and that the earth's spin was at the same rate as on day four.
But God could have caused it to be otherwise Dave???God is not bound to our understanding of natural laws or Scripture interpreting???
Could there ever be or have been a time in the ???Evening??? where the Light is shining as bright as it is during the "Morning"?
Yes???
???It shall come to pass in that day that there will be no light; the lights will diminish. It shall be one Day that is known to Yahweh, neither day nor night. But at evening time it shall happen that it will be light.??? Zech 14:6-7
I believe that this LIGHT mentioned here which is going to shine for eternity is the same LIGHT that shone before the universe was furnished with the trillions of stars, including our sun/star. I don't believe that it was a physical orb like the sun seen in our sky that God made on the 4th day???.
Notice that this LIGHT is called ???DAY??? by God in Genesis 1:5
That is this Light???s Name. This, which God brings forth and calls DAY, is LIGHT.
I believe we can know a lot about this LIGHT/DAY/STAR/SUN that is not only revealed in Genesis chapter one, but all through the rest of the Scriptures.
???And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having The Glory of God: and her Light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal???. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun???. 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 21:23 Rev 21:10-11 Rev 22:5
???The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but Yahweh shall be unto thee an Eternal Light, and thy God thy Glory. Thy Sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for Yahweh shall be your Everlasting Light?????? Isaiah 60:19-20
???For Yahweh God is a Sun and a shield: Yahweh will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.??? Ps 84:11
???But unto you that fear My Name shall The Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings???.??? Mal 4:2
???The people that walked in darkness have seen a Great Light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath The Light shined.??? Isa 9:2
???Arise, shine; for thy Light is come, and The Glory of Yahweh is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but Yahweh 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 60:1-3
???Because of the tender mercy of our God, by which The Rising Sun will come to us from heaven to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace." Luke 1:78-79
???There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of The Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was The True Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.??? John 1:6-9
???Then Yeshua spoke again unto them, saying, I am The Light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have The Light of Life.??? John 8:12
???I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is Day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am The Light of the world.??? John 9:4-5
???And we have the more sure prophetic Word, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until The Day dawns and The Morning Star arises in your hearts.??? 2 Pet 1:19
"I, Jesus, have sent My Angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star." Rev 22:16
This is that same Light that blinded Saul of Tarsus at noontime one day while traveling the road to Dumascus and which left him blind for three days....
Blessings,
Chuck