Genesis chpt.1, let us go there now. We know that this is the Creation of God and in some previous parts of the Mystery of Reality we said that even verse 1 we can enlarge by saying: “In the beginning of time God by Christ created the heaven and the earth.” So the Son of God is in action, not the Father; the Son of God is in action. The first thing He creates is what? The first thing He creates is light, and God said in verse 3: “Let there be light: and there was light.” Now this is a physical light, and this is just the first light that He created, because then He created other light, in verse 16: “And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day [which is the sun], and the lesser light to rule the night [which is the moon].” And then He made a third light, because He created stars also. These are three different types of light.
Now the first light is the light that I believe is mentioned in principle only here in Genesis 1:3, and there is only one other mention of this light in the whole Scripture (as far as I know now or as far as I see). The second mention is right at the end of the Bible, and we can go there. As we know, chapter 22 of the Book of Revelation speaks about New Jerusalem and the life in it. In verse 5: “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 shall reign for ever and ever.” Now what is the light that the Lord God giveth them? This is the Light of His own Glory! And this is the same Light which is mentioned in Genesis 1:3. However, this light (Gen.1:3) is physical and this light typifies the Light of God Almighty as His Glory! (Rev.22:5).
So the Lord creates first something physical, which typifies Himself as God Almighty, and His Glory, which is spiritual. We cannot see the Glory of God here in this physical creation, but wherever there is light it typifies it and that light was divided from the darkness in verse 4: “God saw the light, that it was good.” Which means it did typify His Glory very well. And God divided this light from the darkness, which means from everything which opposes the Glory of God.
Then Christ, knowing Who He was and His mission, created the sun. And the sun and the moon and the stars were lights which were created for signs. In verse 14: “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 so the sun typifies Christ as Jesus the Man, the Saviour. He created that sun so that it would typify Himself as the Saviour, as Jesus the Man. And then He created the moon to typify all the redeemed from mankind, which in themselves would be as dead as the moon is, but would reflect His Light, and so they would rule the night. And then He created stars which, I believe, typify individuals, angels, saints.
Now when you read Genesis 1:16: “And God made two great lights;”, one of them the sun to typify Himself, then you can go to John 8:12: “Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of this world:”…I am the sun, as it were, in the sky, “he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” Maybe we should just backtrack a little bit. When we talked about Christ creating everything from Genesis 1:1, I don’t know if I gave you the reference Scripture for that, it is in Colossians 1:16,17. You can write Colossians 1:16 right in the beginning of Genesis. If you do that you will have a different picture of things. Colossians 1:16 says: “For by him [by Christ] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” And the light is a thing, the sun is a thing, the moon is a thing, the stars are things.
We know that this sun typifies Christ perfectly because it gives light, it gives life to this earth, and without the sun there would be no life here on earth. Any scientist will tell you that, even pagans will tell you that; so without Christ there would be no spiritual life on earth and no spiritual light, because remember, what He created in the physical typifies that which is the spiritual reality.
So, in fact, even pagans, if they would just look up and see the sun, should get a sense that there is someone Who created it for some purpose. Even Christians, when they start saying in unpleasant circumstances, “Where is God? Where is Jesus?” Well, all they have to do is look up. If they seemingly have lost all faith, they should look up. And the sun would tell them, “I’m here, what are you talking about, I’m here every day. I have not failed since the beginning of creation.” And if the dumb sun can tell you that, then the Lord can tell you equally, “I am here from the beginning of creation and I never left.”
So you don’t have to have terrific faith to turn your head a few degrees and look up, and that sun would tell you. And we know that it is there whether there be clouds or whether it be a sunny day; in fact, whether there be night because the sun is there too, only on the other side of the earth.
Now the moon, just a word about the moon, it reflects the light of the sun and this is how the redeemed are, because we contain no light of our own (nor any life of our own). We only reflect what the Lord gives us. So are we like the moon, and we may go, for example, to Matthew 5:14: “Ye are the light of the world.”, especially during the night, and the night here, of course, typifies the spiritual night. The spiritual night starts from the time Adam and Eve fell into sin and Satan got hold of this Creation. That’s where the spiritual darkness came into the Creation of God and that’s where the night started, in fact. And the night will continue until the end of the Tribulation, again until Christ comes, and this filthy idiot, called Satan, is put into the bottomless pit for a thousand years. This shall be the first ruling of light that comes to this world, since Adam and Eve.
We know the Lord was the light of the earth, but that was a very localized light, that light was only where He was, but now we are talking about the light of the world, as such. Another feature of the moon is that this is not earth, the moon is not of the earth and neither are we. John 15:19, “If ye [My Believers] were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” So we are not of this world/earth but we reflect the light of the Lord and His life; we bring His life, and like the moon, reflecting the light of the sun which typifies the Lord. So the moon and the sun are signs in heaven for those who are without faith.
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To be continued next week
brother Hanola
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