“And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” (Genesis 1:5)
We accept creation without realizing that magnitude of God’s creation. The earth was a dark planet, without any light in it. Maybe it was as dark as the moon, just a rock where God sent the rebellious angels. (Isaiah 14:12; Revelation 12:4) Some say the catastrophic fall of the angels to earth caused its darkness, but the sun, the moon and any source of light for the earth had not been created yet. There was no source of light at this time on this planet. God is Light. His light shone on this rock. He is the first source of light on this rock. He pushes the darkness aside, dividing the darkness. “And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night.”
There is the assumption that maybe before the fall of the angels to earth, the earth was thriving because in verses 11 and twelve, God causes the seeds in the earth to come forth. “And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” (Genesis 1:11-12) From reading these Scriptures, it does appear that at one time there was light on this earth. And since the sun and moon had not been created, it would have to have been God’s light that made this planet flourish before the fall of the angels. So, we can make the assumption that if this is true, God removed Himself from this planet when He hurled the rebellious angels to this rock.
God is marvelous and able to do all things miraculously. I wonder why it took God a whole week to create the world. God does nothing without purpose. His time is perfect in every instance. God worked six days and on the seventh He rested. We take this as a pattern for us. God sanctified the seventh day. He proclaimed it and pronounced it holy. “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.” (Genesis 2:1-3) The word rest which Moses used in Hebrew means desist from exertion, meaning He didn’t work. The work He wanted to do on earth was finished and completed. The cycle of days, nights, weeks, months and years was established, and the moon and the sun kept the time and caused the plants and creatures to establish their patterns of living and resting. All of living creation could procreate, the plants, the creatures and man. And man could work six days, tending the garden, naming the creatures and rest on the seventh, reserving it for the Lord.
When Paul wrote to the Thessalonians, he wrote about the Day of the Lord, when Jesus returns to earth also known as the last days. Paul tells the Thessalonians that the day will come as a thief in the night, but not for the children God. We don’t know exactly when that day will be, but Paul assures us that God’s children will know about that day because they are children of the light and children of the day. “But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.” (1Thessalonians 5:4-5) We are connected to that first light on the earth, the Lord God Who is light and shone on the earth. And God knew us when He shined His light on this rock, we call earth. He saw us as children of the light and children of the day on this earth when He shined His light on this dark rock. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:” (Ephesians 1:3-4)
In other lessons we have learned about how we are chosen for His blessings because He “foreknew” that we would accept His gift of salvation. (Romans 8:29) God does not pick and choose who will be saved. What we want to see in these Scriptures is that before the foundation of the world, when He first shined His light on this rock and before He began creation, He knew us. He knew when we would be born in the flesh and when we would be reborn in the spirit and actually become children of the light and children of the day, born of His Spirit for His purposes, here on earth and in the world to come.
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