"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
The earth was without form and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Then God said, "Let there be LIGHT"; and there was light."
In the first two verses are the Father and the Spirit, and right after that in verse 3, there's Jesus as the Word and the Light. "In the beginning was the Word," this Word was LIGHT, God's shekinah glory. In the creation week, God spoke all kinds of things into being - let there be this, let there be that. But what was the first spoken word? "Let there be LIGHT!" The Word didn't become flesh at the beginning, but the Word itself was there at the beginning. Jesus taught His followers to be light of the world in other gospels, but in the gospel of John, Jesus Himself is identified as this Light -
1:9 "That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world."
3:19 "...that the light has come into the world ..."
8:12, 9:5 "I am the light of the world."
12:46 "I have come as a light into the world ..."
Jesus, as the Light of the world, was fittingly conceived by the Holy Spirit on Hanukkah, the Feast of LIGHT, see my research on that for more details in the link below. This Light doesn't come from the sun, the moon or any stars, they were all created on Day 4, neither of them was there on Day 1. The only source of this radiant Light is God Himself as the creator. Amazingly, this is actually confirmed in Rev. 21:23:
"The city had no need of sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illumiated it. The Lamb is its light."
In the Greek mind, this Word, logos, is the divine order and logic of the universe. When you listen to a sermon or read an article on John 1, that's most common angle, and of course there's nothing wrong about it. However, if you let the Bible interpret itself, this Word is truly alluding to the beginning of creation - with all three persons of the Holy Trinity, in the first three verses of the entire book!
The earth was without form and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Then God said, "Let there be LIGHT"; and there was light."
In the first two verses are the Father and the Spirit, and right after that in verse 3, there's Jesus as the Word and the Light. "In the beginning was the Word," this Word was LIGHT, God's shekinah glory. In the creation week, God spoke all kinds of things into being - let there be this, let there be that. But what was the first spoken word? "Let there be LIGHT!" The Word didn't become flesh at the beginning, but the Word itself was there at the beginning. Jesus taught His followers to be light of the world in other gospels, but in the gospel of John, Jesus Himself is identified as this Light -
1:9 "That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world."
3:19 "...that the light has come into the world ..."
8:12, 9:5 "I am the light of the world."
12:46 "I have come as a light into the world ..."
Jesus, as the Light of the world, was fittingly conceived by the Holy Spirit on Hanukkah, the Feast of LIGHT, see my research on that for more details in the link below. This Light doesn't come from the sun, the moon or any stars, they were all created on Day 4, neither of them was there on Day 1. The only source of this radiant Light is God Himself as the creator. Amazingly, this is actually confirmed in Rev. 21:23:
"The city had no need of sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illumiated it. The Lamb is its light."
In the Greek mind, this Word, logos, is the divine order and logic of the universe. When you listen to a sermon or read an article on John 1, that's most common angle, and of course there's nothing wrong about it. However, if you let the Bible interpret itself, this Word is truly alluding to the beginning of creation - with all three persons of the Holy Trinity, in the first three verses of the entire book!
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