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| Yahshua (i.e. Jesus) is the Light of the World Who Gives Us Light |
IMPORTANT NOTE:
THIS IS A 3 PART SERIES!
Here Are Links To All
Three Parts, Including This One:
Part 1: The Battle Of Light Over
Darkness, Or How God Aims To
Restore The Original Order of Creation!
Part 2: The Hidden Light of Knowledge
In The Days of Creation
That Reveal How God Thinks!
Part 3: THE LOVING LIGHT NATURE
OF YAHWEH VERSUS THE DARK,
HATEFUL NATURE OF LUCIFER
On November 22nd, 2017, Yahweh God showed me something amazing! He made me see that THERE IS NO DARKNESS IN YAHWEH, WHO IS PURE LIGHT, LOVE AND PERFECTION! Therefore, since our Father God Yahweh has no darkness or evil in Him, He has complete mastery over evil! In other words, though He cannot walk in darkness or do evil Himself, Yahweh has complete control over what the dark forces that do evil can and cannot do. He can either allow evil to work for Him in leading some people to salvation, or He can allow it to send some people to perdition. But this does not make God evil or dark in any way, for the Bible declares that God is Light, and there is no darkness in Him at all (1 John 1:5)!
Though God does not want to send anyone to perdition, He has given us the free will to choose which side we want to be aligned with. If some choose to follow the path of light and righteousness, they will be allowed to pass into eternity with their resurrected bodies, and to be in God's loving presence forever. If some choose darkness and rebellion, those poor souls will be resurrected to stand before God in front of the Great White Throne that He will sit upon at the Last Judgment. Then, if their names are not found written in the Book of Life due to unrepentant sin, they will be cast into the Lake of Fire, and will experience the second death (Revelation 20:11-15).
We all need to give thanks that Yahweh God has no evil in Him at all. Rather, God is filled with an infinite capacity to love each and every one of us - as much as we need and want - forever! As Yahshua or Jesus continually taught, God only wants what's best for us, and what we have to do to achieve all we can be through Yahshua as our Christ or Messiah is to let go of our rebellion and lusts, repent of them, seek forgiveness, forgive everyone who has wronged us, submit to God in penitent love and humility, and ask God the Father to help us change through His indwelling Holy Spirit.
When we do surrender our lives to God through His Son Yahshua, we will earn an eternity of everlasting bliss, joy and contentment in Yahshua's loving, outstretched arms, and beneath His mighty Wings! We will also achieve true liberty and freedom, which is the liberty and freedom from sin, death, and satanic darkness that only God can give (2 Corinthians 3:17). In 1 John 1:5-9, the Apostle John showed this by writing the following:
“This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ (i.e. Yahshua the Messiah) His Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.”To understand what the Apostle John was expressing in the preceding scripture about God, Who is infinite Light and Love that contains no Evil or Darkness at all, and to see how God's Light can illuminate our spirits to touch others in a healing and miraculous way, we need to understand where the darkness of sin and evil originated. We find the story of the origin of evil and sin in the Book of Genesis, Chapter 3. There, we are told that there are two special trees in the Garden of Eden, and while one was called the Tree of Life that was an allusion to Yahshua as the Bread of Life, the other was called the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and it contained Forbidden Fruit that - if eaten - would lead to death.
Allegorically speaking, the Forbidden Fruit signified forbidden knowledge that led to divinely forbidden and unlawful behavior. This state of lawlessness always begins with one single act of rebellion that - if unchecked - will only escalate further from there into total rebellion against God. Evil can therefore be defined as blatant, premeditated disobedience of God's Laws, and what Evil does is lead to the loss of life and vitality that come from drawing far away from God and rejecting His love, guidance and authority. The result is eventual sickness, and inevitable physical as well as spiritual death.
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| Light WINS Over Darkness! |
As we are spiritually reborn by the mentoring of the Holy Spirit within us, we will manifest many spiritual fruits and gifts. Some of the fruits of the Holy Spirit are love, joy, peace, kindness, mercy, compassion, gentleness, and self control (Galatians 5:22-23). Meanwhile, the fruits of the satanic spirit of rebellion against God that is characteristic of our fleshly desires are listed in Galatians 5:19-21 and include adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, jealousy, wrath, selfishness, envy and other forms of malice, which are the exact opposite of the fruits of the Spirit. They do not serve to balance one another, but are in a continual war with one another for supremacy - a war that is being waged within the hearts of each individual person, each and every day!
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| Light Casts No Shadow |
Before continuing with the importance of drawing near to God's Light and Love, and what our future lives will be like in the New Creation to come, I wanted to mention that the Spiritual Battle between Good and Evil and Light and Darkness has been going on since before the fall of Adam and Eve, and it started in the angelic realms before it infected the human race and the rest of the Universe. As such, there are ancient documents that specifically address the Battle of God's Light with Satan's Darkness.
One of the most important among them is the War Scroll, which was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is also called “The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness”, and I've linked to an online version of it in this paragraph via the title link so that you can read it, if desired. This Scroll contains rules of warfare that are actually based on that of the Ancient Romans, but it is written from a Semitic Israelite perspective. It describes two actual battles, as well as the priestly rituals, banners and symbols tied to them.
Those who keep the Blood Covenant between God and mankind by keeping God's Moral Law are called the Sons of Light, and those that rebel against God's Moral Law are called the Sons of Darkness, and they are part of an army called the Army of “Belial,” which is another name for Lucifer or Satan in his military connotation as a warrior set against God's people. Though I could write an entire article about the War Scroll, this isn't the point of this article. So for now, I hope that it will suffice for me to say that the War Scroll tells us that the Army of Belial will ultimately be totally defeated by the Army of God filled with the Sons of Light! Amen and Hallelu-Yah to that!
In a separate article, I did a complete debunking of the Old Testament verse in Isaiah 14:12 that many deceived people insist calls Lucifer the Morning Star, which is a title for Yahshua or Jesus in Revelation 22:16. I did this to disprove the heretical and false theory that Lucifer and Yahshua are either the same entity or twin brothers, and therefore God is both good and evil, and there is no such thing as good versus evil, but only balance between two opposing forces. This sort of distorted reasoning ultimately leads to making sin or rebellion a false construct since it is deemed as necessary to achieve a balance of, or negation of both extremes. To see this study where I show that the statement tied to Lucifer as the King of Babylon in Isaiah 14:12 has been grossly mistranslated by some, please read my article linked to below this article closing entitled: "DESTROYING THE DA-VINCI CODE LIE SUGGESTING THAT CHRIST IS LUCIFER!", or just click on the title text link here.
The New Testament is much clearer on the differences between Satan and Yahshua, and it clearly reveals that Satan is nothing like Yahshua at all. My article linked to below entitled "GOD IS ALWAYS LOVE, AND SATAN IS ALWAYS HATE!" shows their differences quite clearly. In the New Testament, we get a much clearer picture of the Celestial War between God's Light and Lucifer's Darkness as well, and it reveals both the spiritual terms as well as military terms of this war. The following passage from the Apostle Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians is the most important among the New Testament passages referring to this war because it clearly describes the fact that we are meant to see ourselves as Warriors engaged in a Spiritual Battle that is raging on all around us every day, and that all of us must take a stand in this war - whether we want to or not:
Ephesians 6:10-18 ~ “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints...”
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| We are Warriors for Christ, as Ephesians 6 Explains |
Luke 11:34-36 ~ “The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness. 35 Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness. 36 If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole body will be full of light, as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light.”
John 1:1-13 ~ “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all 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 gives light to every man coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
John 8:12 ~ “Then Jesus (Yahshua) spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”
John 12:34-36 ~ “The people answered Him, “We have heard from the law that the Christ remains forever; and how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?” 35 Then Jesus (Yahshua) said to them, “A little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. 36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” These things Jesus (Yahshua) spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.”
2 Corinthians 6:14-16 ~ “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God.”
1 Thessalonians 5:5-10 ~ “But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. 8 But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. 9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ (Adonai Yahshua the Anointed One), 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we shouldi live together with Him.”
Ephesians 5:8-14 ~ “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says:
“Awake, you who sleep,
Arise from the dead,
And Christ will give you light”.”
1 John 1:5-10 ~ “This is the message which we have heard from Him (i.e. Yahshua) and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ (i.e. Yahshua the Messiah or Anointed One) His Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.”
1 John 2:8-10 ~ “Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining. 9 He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now. 10 He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.”As all the above Scriptures show, the goal to become Sons and Daughters of God's Light, and to win the Battle between Spiritual Light and Darkness is constantly being referred to in the Scriptures. Yahshua emphasized the light-giving or illuminating qualities of His Spirit and His Word in John 8:12 when He said that He is the Light of the World. But He also said that those who love Him and are born again by Him are the light of the world in the sense that they reflect His Light, Love and Wisdom:
Matthew 5:14-16 ~ “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”So the born again saints that form the Bride and Wise Virgins at the Wedding of the Lamb have a purpose to fulfill in this dark, satanically controlled world that we live in. Through the Holy Spirit within them, born again saints are meant to shed God's Light and Love on all whom they come into contact with. Just as the Sun causes seeds to sprout and grow, the Light of Yahshua's Hope, Love and Wisdom shines on all who will absorb it, and this in turn will help them to grow and mature spiritually so that they can produce good fruit via doing good works that will glorify our Heavenly Father. This is why the Seven Churches listed in the Book of Revelation are depicted as Seven Lampstands (Revelation 1:11-13). They give God's Spiritual Light to the world and help to expose the darkness of the lies touted by demonically controlled worshipers of Lucifer or Satan.
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| Light Warriors Destined For Victory! |
Revelation 22:1-5 ~ “And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. 4 They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. 5 There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.”
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| The New Jerusalem Coming Down out of Heaven |
Revelation 21:9-13; 22-27 - “Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. 12 Also she had a great and high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 13 three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west....
22 But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. 24 And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. 25 Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). 26 And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. 27 But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.”
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| Yin and Yang - The Ways of a Man |
The error in mankind's thoughts and perceptions of reality that sin brought into the world is captured well by the concepts of Yin and Yang in Eastern Philosophy. Yin is considered to be dark, hidden, passive and feminine and to be associated with dreams, intuition and the Moon, while Yang is considered to be bright, aggressive and masculine and associated with our perception of reality, the light of the Sun, and the force or energy we expend in achieving our goals. The concepts locked into this Eastern Philosophy of Light and Darkness, and the supposedly necessary balance in interplay of darkness and light in human existence leads to moral relativism - where good and evil are relative and necessary. This idea seems right to mankind in his fallen condition. But it is not right when viewed through God's enlightened and perfect perception of the transformed human condition in eternity. As it says in Scripture: “There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death” (Proverbs 16:25).
This man-centered understanding of the positive and negative forces moving within our Universe has brought about the idea that Light and Darkness are both essential, but must be in balance for love, peace and harmony to exist in this current world. But though this may create some semblance of harmony for mankind in this life, there is nothing even remotely healthy about this interplay between Light or goodness and Darkness or evil! In fact, this erroneous way of thinking is the product of the Fall of Adam and Eve into sin, is Satan's doing and not God's, and it is going to end soon. In fact, beginning in the Millennial Kingdom of Yahshua, and afterward when the New Heaven and New Earth are created, our loving Heavenly Father God is going to restore the original Order of Creation, when everything and everyone emitted light, love and goodness - and there was no darkness, imbalance, selfishness or evil in any created thing.
There is a right side and a wrong side. There is a Christ and an Antichrist. There is light and there is darkness, and the two cannot exist together. Darkness must be destroyed for the Light to reign forever. God is infinite Light and Love. There is no darkness in God at all, and He hates darkness. So, you may ask: how did hate, evil and darkness manifest if God is Spirit and He is Light? Well, there is a clue hidden in the fact that the material matter in our current fallen Universe cannot emit light WITHOUT BEING TRANSFORMED BY FIRE. Before Adam and Eve fell, however, I believe that all created matter emitted a visible aura of light far brighter than any auras surrounding people today because it was imbued with the Shekinah Glory of God, which is the shining Light and Wisdom of the Holy Spirit.
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| The Trees of Life along the River in the New Jerusalem |
When Eve chose to rebel, she opened the way for mankind to experience and suffer from the darkness of Evil - Evil which did NOT exist in their world prior to that time. So the Knowledge of Evil was not a gift of enlightenment at all, but a Curse that leads to chaos and pain! But, you may ask, "What is Evil?" Evil can be defined as TAKING PLEASURE in any Act of Rebellion or SIN against God's Laws, and what Adam and Eve had done was rebel against the only law they were given, and that was not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Since Adam and Eve did not know anything about evil or rebellion before they fell, there was no need for God to impose any other laws on them, including moral laws, since Adam and Eve were sinless, and incapable of sinning until they chose to rebel.
But though the first Adam brought death and darkness to the world because his love for Eve was stronger than his love for God and he did not understand God's forgiving nature, Yahshua is the last Adam who lived a perfect life because He loves His Father God more than mankind. So by appealing to God's mercy, light and love, the Son of God Yahshua could ask God the Father to do the unheard of. He could ask God to redeem humanity and to accept His own death in our stead to become the perfect blood sacrifice that could wash us clean and save us from sin and death forever (1 Corinthians 15:21-23; 1 Corinthians 15:42-45)
I am sharing this with you to show you the truth and the love and light of the One True God. I pray that you will see it for what it is - the only TRUTH, the only WAY and the only LIFE, ALL of which is found in the teachings of Yahshua our Messiah, Who is God, and Who is a perfect visible image of God, our invisible Father in Heaven (John 14:6; Colossians 1:9-23).
Think of it this way. God is on a campaign to give His infinite Light back to humanity and all Creation, and to do so, He has made another kind of Pandora's Box (known as Hell, the lake of fire, and the bottomless pit) to store up all the world's remaining evil in one day, and then He will compress it, lock it all up and throw away the key so no one can ever open it again. That way all but a tiny fraction of God's Creation will be filled with Light, and that tiny fraction or pinpoint in the vast sea of eternity - that one Black Hole with infinite mass - will emit no light, but will manifest nothing but darkness forever.
Adam and Eve were made of flesh before they fell into sin. But I believe that their flesh was imbued with and clothed by the light of the Shekinah Glory of God, which gave them the ability to shine forth with the pure light of God that was within them via the Holy Spirit until they fell into sin, lost that ability and became naked and exposed without their clothing of light, and they felt shame for the first time. As it says in Genesis 3:6-10, Adam and Eve became naked after they fell into sin, which means that God withdrew His spiritual presence from within them, and their flesh was exposed to view because the literal light of God no longer covered it up.
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| Firefly Phosphorescence |
I hope that you have been blessed by this first part in the three-part study that I have dubbed "The Physics of Salvation", which focuses on of the Battle between God's Light and Satan's Darkness, and I hope that you will remember it as you wield God's Light via the Sword of the Spirit in you, and wage your own battles with the dark forces of evil in this world. It is my goal to inspire you to continue fighting the good Fight of Faith as we wait and watch for Yahshua's return to set up His Millennial Kingdom on the Earth. Through all those battles, remember that God's Spirit is always with you! As Yahshua said:
Matthew 28:19-20 ~ “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you ALWAYS, even to the end of the age.”
PLEASE NOTE:
This is Part 1 of a 3 Part Article!
Here is the Link to Part 2:
The Hidden Light of Knowledge In The
Days of Creation That Reveal How God Thinks!
http://pillarofenoch.blogspot.com/2018/06/hidden-light-of-knowledge-in-days-of-creation.html
Here is the Link to Part 2:
The Hidden Light of Knowledge In The
Days of Creation That Reveal How God Thinks!
http://pillarofenoch.blogspot.com/2018/06/hidden-light-of-knowledge-in-days-of-creation.html
Helena Lehman of the
Pillar of Enoch Ministry
at: http://pillar-of-enoch.com
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RECOMMENDED FURTHER READING:
RECOMMENDED FURTHER READING:
ABIDING UNDER THE SHADOW
OF GOD'S WINGS OR TALLIT!
http://pillarofenoch.blogspot.com/2017/09/abiding-under-shadow-of-gods-wings-or-tallit.html
DESTROYING THE DA-VINCI CODE LIE
SUGGESTING THAT CHRIST IS LUCIFER!
http://pillarofenoch.blogspot.com/2017/12/destroying-da-vinci-code-lie-suggesting-christ-is-lucifer.html
GOD IS ALWAYS LOVE,
AND SATAN IS ALWAYS HATE!
http://pillarofenoch.blogspot.com/2017/06/god-is-always-love-and-satan-is-always-hate.html
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