We have looked at Spiritual Light in our past studies and I think our GOD as Light. But in this study I am focused on our being light as posers of Christ's Spirit within our vary being as the first Adam and woman were also posers of His being in Genesis 2. For the LORD of the old came forward from His invisible realm to our visible but limited universe to reconnect GOD and man into One being, again. One more thing, this is about the book of the Revelation of Christ and it is this there is no temple in it....this we will see later. And ho by the way I am using the ESV translation in this study in case you have not figured that out yet.
Christ the Light of the World:
2Corinthians 4:1-6 "Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of GOD, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with GOD's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of GOD. And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of GOD (making Him GOD as in the beginning of Genesis 1:1). For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as LORD, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. For it was GOD, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of GOD in the face of Jesus Christ."
Ephesians 5:6-14 (Luke 1:67-79) and 1John 2:7-11 "Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of GOD comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not become partners with them; for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the LORD. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the LORD. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine in you."
(Luke 1:67-79 And his (John the Baptist's) father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying, "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people (His Is-re's) and has raised up a horn of salvation (limiting in whom salvation is operative) for us in the house of His servant David, as HE spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from of old, that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us; to show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant, the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us (Genesis 12:3c) that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days. And you, child (John), will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare His ways, to give knowledge of salvation to His people in the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high to give light (2Peter 1:19) to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.")
1John 2:7-11 "Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes."
Revelation 21:22-27 "I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the LORD GOD the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of GOD gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life."
From here I want to look at Sons of Light, the LORD willing.
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