The meaning of Night and Day, Darkness and Light in the Bible

The meaning of Night and Day, Darkness and Light in the Bible

In Genesis, chapter 1, there was night and day which were called darkness and light. Also, In 1 Thessalonians, chapter 5, Paul explains about 'night and day'. And, In John, chapter 1, verse 1 said "the Word from the beginning is life and light and the light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it." In John, chapter 12, Jesus said "I have come into the world as a light."

What are the meanings of night and day, darkness and light?

As written in the verses above, the light is the God's Word. On the contrary, darkness has opposite meaning. Also, Light represents people who do have God's Word and darkness represents people who do not have God's Word. Word(light) is described as life in John, chapter 1 and 1 John, chapter 1:1-2.

Therefore, in the Bible, Word of God is light, life and God. So, people who don''t have the Word of God don't have life, light and God in them. The Word from the beginning was said to be God's seed(Luke 8:11). So, person who received the Word of God received God's seed.  Even, in John 10:35, scripture said that people who receive Word of God can be called 'gods'(Acts 17:29). Person who received the Word of God can be called God's offspring.

When God created Adam, he became God's offspring. And, Adam was supposed to listen to only God's Word. However, Adam was deceived by serpent and listened to serpent. As a result Adam became to eat fruit of the tree of good and evil. After Adam who sinned against God, we all became a sinner since we are born of Adam's seed.

People who do not have God's Word and His seed is not God's offspring nor God's people. That's the reason why we need to be born again with God's seed. A person who don't have God's word is darkness. So, we need to come out from the darkness and walk into the light. So, we can be new creations and become people of day (light).

As you know, God is holy. He can't stay with sin. That's the reason we need to sanctify ourselves. God left the people who sinned and those people become night and darkness which is no life and light. Spiritually, those people equals to dead people. This is why receiving God's Word is important to believers. When we receive God's Word, we need to plant it in our hearts. It is like planting the seed of life in our heart. By doing so, we can become a new creation  and bring God back into our heart.

God is the Word from the beginning. Through God's Word, He created everything. This Word is life, light and God's seed(Lk 8:11) which makes us His son and His offspring (Jn 10:35, Acts 17:2-29). As you know, Jesus was with God and His son. That means Jesus had God's Word which can lead you to Him. So, Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life (Jn 14:6).

There is certain way for God to work in people. God makes a prophecy with people. And, God fulfills through His Word. For example, He made covenant with Abraham and fulfilled through His Word. Also, He made covenant with prophets in the Old Testament and fulfilled through His Word. Frankly speaking, God told us in the Bible how he would send Messiah to save people. And Jesus came exactly how God told. In the New Testament, there is new covenant(Lk 22:14-20). And, new covenant has been fulfilled according to the Words of the New Testament today.

 There are new kingdom of God called 'New Heaven and new earth' written in Rev. 21:1-2. New heaven is 'Shin Cheon(신천, 神天)' in Korean. New earth is 'Shin Ji(신지, 神地)' in Korean. Shincheonji is the abbreviation for 'Shin Cheon Shin Ji'. Shincheonji is the new kingdom which has been created according to the prophecies of the New Testament. Shincheonji is the fulfillment of Revelation.

Again, the Word of God from the beginning is God, life and light. Nothing can be fulfilled without those. After people have sinned, God's purpose was to create new kingdom, new people and Twelve tribes. In order to do that, God gave us God's Word to make us born again. This is the Words of promise in the Bible. Can you believe it? Trust what is written in the Bible.

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