God is Light – Part 1

Where is the way where light dwells, and as for darkness, where is it's abode? Job 38:19

In the beginning... darkness was on the face of the deep. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. God saw the light was good, and God divided the light from the darkness. Genesis 1:1,2,3,4

“I am YHVH; there is no other. I form light, I create darkness.”Isaiah 45:7 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not suppressed it. John 1:5 God is light, and there is no darkness in Him. I John 1:5

We find that in the beginning, the Light and the Darkness were one. Light was not the opposite of darkness. In fact, light was darkness. However, God separated the light from the darkness in the beginning of time, just as He separated male from female. Now, one cannot exist without the other. Chaos is not chaos, unless there is order and vice versa. In order for there to be a positive, there has to be a negative.

Now, according to the Scriptures, God is Light and in Him there is no darkness at all. One rendition of the ancient Hebrew translates the word, Light as Order and Darkness as Chaos. So let's look at this verse in that light: God is Order and in Him there is no Chaos at all. How can that be? If one cannot exist without the other, how can there be no chaos or darkness, in God?

The Torah plainly states, “Hear, O Israel, YHVH is our God, YHVH is ONE.” He is complete. There is no division in Him. In Him, the light is one with the darkness. Order is one with chaos. So what caused the separation, then, in the beginning? Could it have been Time?

Time is everything. Time is a dividing factor. And only on the seventh day was there a completion of all things. In other words, on the seventh day Darkness was again reunited with Light. The Sabbath is a 24 hour glimpse of Eternity. It is an island in time. The sages of old talked about “the fullness of times” when all things would “gather together in one”. This is the spiritual Sabbath. It is a time when there is no division.

But we find that the Word of God is also a dividing factor. For it “divides asunder the soul and spirit.” And it was by the Word of God that all things came into existence, including Time. For “in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.... All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.” Also, we read, “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God...” So, then it was the Word of God that divided the Order from the chaos or the Light from the darkness. And so, the Word of God which reunites the chaos with the Order.