The TRUE LIGHT

Part 5. Gospel of John. (See start of series.)

The Hebrew “Chai” means “Life”.

JOHN 1:4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.

9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

These Scriptures boldly claim that Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah) is the true light! Some other Scriptures about God being light:

“God is Light.” (both 1 John 1:5; John 8:12)

PSALM 118:27a (WEB) YAHWEH is God, and HE has given us LIGHT.

PSALM 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

God is True Light, not the light coming from your lightbulb. But God made physical light and we can learn things about God from studying physical light. Just as we can learn things about people by observing the things they write and create, we can learn things about God from studying His Word and His creation.

PHYSICAL LIGHT

So what can we learn about the True Light from His creation of physical light? What is physical light? Scientists have been trying to figure that out for years just as theologians have been trying to understand God, the True Light, for many years!

Physical light is very hard to describe and understand. Scientists say now that light is both a “wave” (like sound waves or radio waves) and a “particle” (a tiny bit of matter) and also something mysterious that “cannot be fully imagined”! * If the smartest scientists cannot fully understand physical light, is it any wonder that we have a difficult time understanding God who is the True Light?

But you can see that scientists think that light, which is ONE thing, actually acts as three things all at the same time:

wave, particle and an unknown something.

In the same way, YHWH God is ONE God and yet:

Father, Son and Spirit!

(Possibly the Father would equate in this example with the “unknown something”; the Holy Spirit with “the wave”; and the Son with “the particle”. Just speculating!)

VISIBLE LIGHT

Did you know that physical light has parts that are NOT visible to the human eye? We can only see part of what light really and wholly is. This part we see is called “visible light”.

Likewise, Yeshua, the Son of God, is the part of God, that we can see! He is the visible part when He chooses to be seen! Yeshua walked on the earth amongst men for a while two thousand years ago, and appeared throughout the Bible to some people, and sometimes people see Him spiritually in visions and dreams. Today many people in places where they will not allow Christian missionaries are having visions of Christ in the spirit! ** Someday, Yeshua the Messiah will return with His resurrected spiritual body and the Bible says that “every eye will see Him”! (Revelation 1:7)

Yes, Yeshua is “the image of the invisible God” (Colossians 1:15)

Yeshua is the visible part of God, but there’s still the big, vast invisible part! This helps to explain why Yeshua said, “the Father is greater than I”. (John 14:28) The Greek word for “greater” is “megas”. Something bigger is “mega”. The vastness of light is bigger than the smaller part we can actually see. YHWH God is bigger than what we can see of Him. He’s more than the appearance of the Son. Yet Yeshua is still FULLY GOD! He’s all True Light!

Visible light is still light and is ONE with the rest of light, not separate. Visible or invisible, light is light! It’s all the same thing or substance. Likewise, the Son of God IS God and is also ONE with God.

“…and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Yeshua is both with God and God!

Yeshua said, “I and my Father are one”. (John 10:30).

Ask the Holy Spirit of God to lead you into all Truth and to help you to understand and believe more and more each day! We come to know God better as we spend time with Him, reading His Word and singing His praise and talking with Him in prayer!

Yeshua is the Resurrection and the Life and the True Light of the world!

Therefore, we should “walk as children of light”. Ephesians 5:8

PSALM 36:9 “For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light do we see light.”

NOTES:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light (See Quantum Theory section)

CREDIT: I want to give credit to my son Richard. When he was in high school, he explained to his friend the triune nature of God with one sentence! He used the illustration of light being both wave and particle. I was amazed! His friend instantly seemed to understand this explanation!

Also, see Elohim’s Temple and The Triune of Three Graces

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