The Great Light / the Father of Lights

The Great Light / the Father of Lights

 

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Ephesians 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

 

1 Thessalonians 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

 

Matthew 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

 

Part of the punishment for sin was to become what we call “human” today.  The body experienced pain and weakness for the first time.  This was terrible and frightening to Adam and Eve.  Another punishment was a change in eyesight and visual perception.  Before sin they had no perception of darkness and they could see the angels as they worshipped God.  When they were kicked out of the Garden of Eden all that changed.  Adam and Eve were alone with the animals, but they had each other for company.  The account of their first experience with darkness is pitiful.  I admit that I felt sorry for them, when I put myself in their place.  A part of their original glory is that they shined like lights before eating the forbidden fruit.  That light departed from them and they discovered they were naked.  Two accounts were very pitiful, (1) their first experience with night-time and darkness, and (2) their eyesight becoming human.

 

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xxxiv. 1 And immediately, the Lord God was wrath with us, and the Lord said to me: 'In that thou hast left behind my commandment and hast not kept my word,' which I confirmed to thee; behold, I will bring upon thy body, seventy blows; with divers griefs, shalt thou be tormented, beginning at thy head and thine eyes and thine ears down to thy nails on thy toes, and in every 2 separate limb. These hath God appointed for chastisement. All these things hath the Lord sent to me and to all our race.'

 

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CHAPTER XXVI.

Then Adam took Eve, and they began to return to the Cave of Treasures where they dwelt. But when they neared it and saw it from afar, heavy sorrow fell upon Adam and Eve when they looked at it. Then Adam said to Eve, "When we were on the mountain we were comforted by the Word of God that conversed with us ;and the light that came from the east, shone over us. "But now the Word of God is hidden from us; and the light that shone over us is so changed as to disappear, and [let] darkness and sorrow come upon us. "And we are forced to enter this cave [which is] like a prison, wherein darkness covers us, so that we are parted from each other; and thou canst not see me, neither can I see thee."  When Adam had said these words, they wept and spread their hands before God; for they were full of sorrow. And they entreated God to bring the sun to them, to shine on them, so that darkness return not upon them, and they come not again under this covering of rock. And they wished to die rather than see the darkness. Then God looked upon Adam and Eve and upon their great sorrow, and upon all they had done with a fervent heart, on account of all the [trouble] they were in, instead of their former well-being, and on account of all the misery that came upon them in a strange land. (Earth)  Therefore God was not wroth with them; nor impatient with them; but He was long-suffering and forbearing towards them, as [towards] the children He had created. Then came the Word of God to Adam, and said unto him, "Adam, as for the sun, if I were to take it [and bring it to thee],* days, hours, years and months would all come to naught, and the covenant I have made with thee, would never be fulfilled. "But thou shouldest then be turned and left in a long plague, and no salvation would be left to thee for ever. "Yea, rather, bear long and calm thy soul while thou abidest night and day; until the fulfilment of the days, and the time of My covenant is come. "Then shall I come and save thee, Adam, for I do not wish that thou be afflicted. "And when I look at all the good things in which thou didst live, and why thou camest out of them, then would I willingly show thee mercy. "But I cannot alter the covenant that has gone out of My mouth; else would I have brought thee back into the garden. "When, however, the covenant is fulfilled, then shall I show thee and thy seed mercy, and bring thee into a land of gladness, where there is neither sorrow nor suffering; but abiding joy and gladness, and light that never fails, and praises that never cease; and a beautiful garden that shall never pass away." And God said again unto Adam, "Be long suffering and enter the cave, for the darkness of which thou wast afraid, shall only be twelve hours long ; and when ended, light shall arise."  Then when Adam heard these words from God, he and Eve worshipped before Him, and their hearts were comforted. They returned into the cave after their custom, while tears flowed from their eyes, sorrow and wailing came from their hearts, and they wished their soul would leave their body.And Adam and Eve stood praying, until the darkness of night came upon them, and Adam was hid from Eve, and she from him. And they remained standing in prayer.

 

Darkness and night-time were strange to Adam and Eve and they were frightened by it.  Eventually they grew accustomed to being on Earth and experiencing the intervals of night and day.  Before sin, they could look up and see the angels as they praised God in Paradise.  But all that changed with the punishment for sin.  The human eye cannot see the light of God anymore.  Our Father, God is nothing but glorious Light.  But men cannot see it at all.  We live inside Father’s glorious Person, His massive Body  And the light of “TODAY” is everywhere around us!  We cannot perceive His glorious shining, because our humanity is suffering from the curse for sin.  Our human eyesight leaves us spiritually blind.  God did not dim His glory from us.  But He fixed human eyesight so that we cannot see His glory.  Since we live inside His left foot, we look up into the night-sky using space telescopes deep into the cosmos.  All the SPACE, the stars, and galaxies of the universe are His INSIDES!  But we know GOD IS ALL LIGHT!  We just cannot see it!  What a shame on us!  God, or the image He wants us to see, is in His “headquarters”. That Heaven is far above this Earth.

 

Luke 16:25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is A GREAT GULF FIXED: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. 

 

I was watching “Simply Space” on YouTube and one of the videos concerned how scientists now are able to view very distant galaxies using new satellite tools.  There are lenses that can measure different fractions of light and radiation to give a better and clearer picture of remote galaxies and planets that were previously impossible to see from land telescopes due to space dust and clouds  There are tools that measure the infra-red part of the spectrum.  There are tools the measure radio-waves; some lenses can pick up x-rays; tools that measure gamma radiation; etc.  We have tools to measure all these light fractions today.  When all are used to view previously dark parts of space, clarity is found in what used to be darkened space.  Space telescopes need these new tools just to see.  Now you see what sin has done to our eyesight.  Before sin, they could look up and see the angels in glory.  Now our eyes are fixed so we cannot see the LIGHT of TODAY.  All throughout God’s Person, there is glorious Light.  But when we look up inside His foot, all we see is the “universe” and darkened space.  How unfortunate it is that we cannot view Paradise like Adam and Eve could at the beginning.

 

They said their glory of “being light” left them.  Adam and Eve could see one another at night because they shined with the glory of being children of light.  Now men are glory-less.  We cannot see one another in darkness.  While we can hear one another at night, without moonlight and stars, we need flashlights or lighted torches for walking.  All these things are punishments to us because of sin.  God has allowed some of us to see our original glorious form.  Noah’s birth was striking, Book of Enoch 106.  He was born “glorious” and praising God.  This terrified his father, Lamech, and he ran away afraid of him.  In another instance,  God allowed Moses’ head to shine like the sun when he came down from the mountain with the commandments.  The children of Israel were afraid of him, too, Exodus 34:29-30.  Then there is the transfiguration scene, where Jesus was transfigured to glorious form, while some of the disciples witnessed it.  God also made a beam of light come out of my wrist and shine on my bed in a darkened room as I was sleeping.  I woke up to see the sight.  Then I closed my eyes for a few seconds and opened my eyes again to be sure I was really seeing what I saw.  I was satisfied that God was showing me what He can do!  He did this to show me His power and assure me of my true pedigree.  He did not have to prove me.  “I believed the scriptures” that men are His offspring, the children of light, without the proof.  But He does what He wants when He wants to.  NOW I can assure all men that we are all children of light with my personal witness as “proof”!  I am not different from any man on Earth right now.  We are all the same with the same birthright and the same glory. However, I think it would be wonderful to be able to look up into Heaven and see the angels praising God!

 

Hebrews 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.

 

How it all began

 

Secrets of Enoch 25 1 I commanded in the very lowest parts, that visible things should come down from invisible, and Adoil (allegory for Mother Wisdom) came down very great, and I beheld 2 him, and lo! he had a belly of great light. And I said to him: 'Become undone, Adoil, and let 3 the visible come out of thee.' And he came undone, and. A GREAT LIGHT CAME OUT. AND I WAS IN THE MIDST OF THE GREAT LIGHT, AND AS THERE IS LIGHT BORN FROM LIGHT, THERE CAME A GREAT AGE, AND SHOWED ALL CREATHION WHICH I HAD THOUGHT TO CREATE.  And I saw that it was good. And I placed for myself a throne, and took; my seat on it, and said to the light: 'Go thou up higher and fix thyself high above the throne, and be 5 a foundation to the highest things.' And above the light there is nothing else, and then I bent up and looked up from my throne.

 

Psalms 87:2 The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. 4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there. 5 And OF ZION IT SHALL BE SAID THIS MAN AND THAT MAN WAS BORN IN HER: and the highest himself shall establish her. 6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah. 7 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee. 

 

Isaiah 66:7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. 8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. 9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God. 10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. 

 

Hebrews 12:22 But ye are come unto MOUNT ZION AND UNTO THE CITY of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. 

 

Jesus is the Book Master.  So we must all be patient and wait on our turn.  He is calling all names by number in the order of our birth at the beginning.  We must all STAND BEFORE HIM at God’s Throne, Romans 14:7-12..