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Light is a particle and a wave. Light has substance to it, but darkness has nothing to it; there’s no substance to it. Darkness is the absence of light.

How does God create darkness? Turn off the light. Darkness is the effect; the cause is the absence of light, explains Alex Kurz in a study.

On the first day God said, “Let there be Light,” and it’s interesting that the Light is capitalized. There is a person in the Bible who is named capital “L” light. The Lord Jesus Christ.

The first verses of the Book of John are all about Jesus Christ being light: [4] In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
[5] And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
[6] There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
[7] The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
[8] He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
[9] That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

I John 1: [5] 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.

Some would say that verse is used in a figurative sense; in a symbolic sense. But does the Bible describe God as being a literal source of light?

Lucifer was called “the son of the morning.” Lucifer, by name, means “light-bearer.” He possessed a built-in capacity to shine. He’s not “the moon of the night.” Lucifer was an illluminary.

Remember what Ezekiel said about Lucifer? “By the brightness of thy beauty.” Is it any wonder God’s response would be, “Turn the light off”?

This creature Lucifer was consumed with the brightness of his capacities. He became self-reliant, self-sufficient: “Who needs God? In fact, I’m going to become just like Him.”

Revelation 21: [23] 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.

Is this figurative and symbolic, or is this a literal description of Jesus Christ? There is no need for celestial lights? Why? The Lamb is the shining, penetrating manifestation of light.

Listen, when the Bible describes God, He’s described as being in possession of this radiating resource of light.

I Timothy 6: [15] Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
[16] Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.

That writer says that the Lord Jesus, in connection to His eternal reign and rule as King of kings and Lord of lords, dwells in the light.

When the Bible says, “He is light,” there’s no need for the sun and the moon and all these cosmic celestial orbs of illumination because He IS that source of radiating light!

Remember Saul of Tarsus on the Road to Damascus. When the Lord Jesus appeared there was this penetrating light and it literally BLINDED Paul. Then, of course, the scales fell off Paul's eyeballs.

You know what, in that new heaven and earth there isn’t going to be any nighttime. It’s going to be the Light of the lamb that just penetrates the universe.

Matthew 17 provides an interesting description: [1] And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
[2] And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

By the way, Genesis 1:2 says “darkness was upon the face of the deep.” If you’ve ever been in the ocean, you know that the deeper you go the less light can move through the water. There are creatures we don’t even know exist down in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, for example.

“The face of the deep” indicates that were not just talking about darkness at the bottom. There’s no light on the FACE. That means there’s no light reflecting off of the surface of the water. Now you understand why God says, “Let there be light.” God is light.

Psalm 104 begins: [1] Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
[2] Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

He covers Himself “with light AS a with a garment.” What is one of the distinguishing characteristics of a garment?

Look at verse 6: [6] Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
[7] At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

Verse 6 describes the earth being covered with water as a garment. What did God do to that water? Didn’t He take that garment, that covering of water, off? Verse 6 describes water, the deep, serving as a covering. It’s a garment and we find out that at God’s command the water hasted away.

In Genesis 1, God spoke the command and He pulled the garment of water off the earth. God calls the water a covering. It’s a garment and God can take it off and put it on.

Now read Psalm 104:2 again. Why does God describe light as a garment that can cover Him, but a garment that can be removed, and then, four verses later, He uses the exact same language to describe the water that at one time covered the earth and that now has been removed? Because it’s like a garment.

Look at Genesis 1:1: [1] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

What can we clearly infer? Did creation exist as long as God? No. God created, so that means God existed before creation. It’s obvious. God exists outside of time, space, matter.

Do you think God created the heaven and the earth and this was all done in the dark? Why would we think that?!

There was a moment in time when the same God who declares Himself to be light decided, “I’m going to create heaven and earth.” There’s a gap between "God" and "create" in verse 1.

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Here's an outtake from an old post on Lucifer:

For his clothing, Lucifer was covered in “every precious stone.” The way Ezekiel 28 describes it, “every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold . . .”

“Obviously gold is not a stone, and people will say, 'See, your Bible’s got a big mistake there!' but it isn’t a mistake," explains Richard Jordan, pointing to Exodus 28:17-20:

“And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.

[18] And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
[19] And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
[20] And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.”

 

“Gold is the setting used for stones, just like with a woman’s wedding ring, etc. When God gave Moses the pattern for the tabernacle, He gave him the breastplate as the covering for the high priest, and on that breastplate were stones. There were twelve stones, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel. Nine of those stones are found in Ezekiel 28 (describing Lucifer).

“Three of them that are on the breastplate of the high priest in Israel were not in the list in Ezekiel 28. Now, there’s a whole evening’s worth of studies about the stones and why there are 12 here and three of them are left out, but if you look at Exodus 28:19 and then Ezekiel 28, you’ll see there are three stones missing in Ezekiel 28.

“These three--beryl, onyx and jasper--were not in the original breastplate and they’re set in gold. That’s how they were held there. Imagine that breastplate with the settings of gold with all these jewels in them.

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“In his covering, Lucifer was given a spectacularly dazzling attractiveness that reflected the dazzling display of God Himself.

“He had the original ‘coat of many colors. If you look down at end of verse 14 (in Ezekiel 28), it says, ‘thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.’

“Fire is light, and if you take these jewels and hold them up to the sparkling of a fire, it’s going to make them glow and sparkle. Stones of fire represent justice and judgment in the Scripture, but just for the physical appearance, they would be causing the stones to glimmer, to glisten, and each one of them has a different color.

“And what he’s doing . . .  just like Adam was given this garment of light, but the light Adam had wasn’t just this blazing white light coming off of him—‘Hold it back, I can’t see him!’

“In Ezekiel 1, when you see the appearance of the glory of God, it’s described as a rainbow. And you know what a rainbow is? The word is ‘refracted.’ Not reflected, but refracted. It’s bent light so that the colors of the light spectrum are seen.

“Literally, the throne of God in the ‘third heaven,’ when you see it, the light that comes around it is like a rainbow. It’s this dazzling array of light. God Himself lives in the ‘coat of many colors,’ as it were, and He gave it to His representatives in the earth—those special people who were loved and represented Him—and Lucifer had that! In other words, Lucifer in his person was bearing God’s light! And those stones represented that."