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"Let There Be Light"
"In The Beginning” Our Father said,“Let
There Be Light, and There Was Light”
"LIGHT Begets Light!""The Beginning of The Creation of GOD!"
And
the revelation that The Messiah received from Our Father and gave unto the apostle John bore
witness to The Truth that The Messiah, was "The Beginning of the
Creation of GOD(Our Father, Creator of ALL)”! (Rev 1:1, 3:14) And The Messiah bore witness to His Brethren when He testified, “My GOD is your GOD and My Father(Creator) is your Father(Creator).” (John 20:17) The
Messiah testified “I have sent My angel to you(John) with this
testimony for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of
David. I am the bright, Morning Star(Light)”! (Rev 22:16) Peter
testified,
"We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well to take
heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and
The Morning Star(Light)arises in your hearts."(2Pt 1:19)
"But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a
holy nation, HIS own special people, that you may proclaim the praises
of HIM who called you out of darkness into His marvelous
Light."(1Pt2:9)
And the
evening(darkness) and The Morning (Light) was the First Day).” (Gen
1:5)
“The Beginning of The Creation of GOD”! It is very important to both know and experience The Messiah as He Is, Was and always Will Be, and also to know the "glory He had with Our Father" before He was born in "the likeness of sinful flesh". (John 17:5, Rom 8:3) For what The Messiah Was and Is, Is that which He will always Will Be. “The Only Begotten Son” of “Our Father”! First, let me simply state that I do not believe the "catholic” and “christian" theo’ry’logical doctrines concerning “The Only True GOD, Father ALL”. For they “Imag”ine a three-headed “god" they call their “trinity”, or they declare their “christ” to be both “god and father", or they believe that The Messiah was but an exalted messenger(angel) or prophet. John The Baptist testified, “And I saw, and bare record that The Messiah is the Son of GOD(Our Father).”(John 1:34) Peter testified, “You are The Messiah, The Son of The Living GOD(Father of ALL)”!(Matt 16:16) And the Ethiopian eunuch testified, “I believe that The Messiah is The Son of GOD(Our Father)”. (Acts 8:37) “Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the Heavens, The Messiah, The Son of GOD(Our Father), let us hold fast our profession.” (Heb 4:14) “These things are written so that you might believe that The Messiah is The Son of GOD(Our Father)”. (John 20:31) The Messiah testified that He was “The Son of GOD”, and that His GOD was “The Only True GOD(Father of ALL)”. (John 10:36, 17:3) And He also testified that He was the “Son of man” and “The Light of the world”. (Matt 26:64, John 8:12 ) It
is needful to believe that The Messiah Was, Is and always Will Be
"The Son of The Living GOD", and that there is but “One
GOD, HE WHO is Father of ALL”. (Mat 16:16, Eph 4:6) Once again, The
Messiah testified, “My GOD is your GOD and My Father is your
Father.” (John 20:17) Is
The Messiah’s GOD and Father your GOD and Father? Who are The
Brethren of The Messiah? “Let
There Be Light” Once
again, It is very important to both know and experience The Messiah as
He Was, Is and always Will Be. The Messiah simply testified in John
17:5 "And now O Father, glorify Me with YOUR own self with the
glory that I had with YOU before the world began”. Prior
to that testimony The Messiah had testified, “Yet a little while is
The Light with you. Walk while you have The Light, lest darkness comes
upon you: for he that walks in darkness does not know where he goes.
While you have Light, believe in The Light, that you may be the
children of Light.” (John 12:35-36) And
the apostle John testified: "In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with GOD, and The Word was GOD. (John did not testify
that The Word is GOD)The same was in the beginning with GOD. All
things were made by Him, and without Him was not any thing made that
was made. In Him was Life; and The Life was The Light of men.
And The Light shined in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it
not. There was a man sent from GOD, whose name was John. The same came
for a witness, to bear witness of The Light, that all men through Him
might believe. He(John the baptist) was not that Light, but was sent
to bear witness of that Light. That was the True Light, which
enlightens every man that comes into the world. He(The Messiah) was in
the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.
He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as
received Him, to them He gave power to become the sons of GOD, even to
them that believe on His name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of
the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of “The Only True
GOD, Father of ALL”." (John 1:1-13) It is needful to realize that The Messiah testified of “The Only True GOD” in John 17:3, and so it is that The GOD and Father of The Messiah IS, WAS and always WILL BE “The Only True GOD”. “The
Only True GOD” is “Father of ALL”. And “Our Father” is
“The Only True GOD” and Father of The Messiah’s Brethren. And
the apostle John testified in John 3:17-21: “For Our Father sent not
his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world
through Him might be saved. He that believes on Him is not condemned:
but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not
believed in the name of the only begotten Son of GOD(Our Father). And
this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men
loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil. For
every one that does evil hates The Light, neither comes to The Light,
lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that does Truth comes to The
Light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in
GOD(Our Father).” In
John 12:34 the people asked, “Who is this Son of man? Then in John
12:35-36, “The Messiah said unto them, yet a little while is The
Light with you. Walk while you have The Light, lest darkness come upon
you: for he that walks in darkness does not know where he goes. While
you have Light, believe in The Light, that you may be the children of
Light. The Messiah spoke these things, and departed, and hid Himself
from them.” Simply,
"In The Beginning" The Only True GOD spoke The Word,
"Let There Be Light", “And there was Light”! “And
there was evening(darkness) and there was morning(Light), The First
Day”. (Gen 1:5) Certainly such “Light” was not
"natural" light, for “natural” light, the sun,
moon, and stars were not created until the “fourth day”. (Gen
1:14-19) "In
the beginning", “The First Day”, The Father of All created
"The Light", without which Creation and Life, as we now know
and experience it, could not have been. The
First Day, “The Light”, The Messiah, "The beginning of the
Creation of GOD (HE WHO is The Only True GOD and Father of ALL)”!
(Gen 1:3, Rev 3:14, John 17:3, Eph 4:6) And “The Only True GOD”
created all “things” by, through, and for “The Light”, The
Messiah, “The Son of The Living GOD” and “Son of man”. (Col
1:15, Eph 3:9, Mat 16:16, Mat 12:32) And
"The True Light which enlightens every man coming into the
world", was born as a child destined to be The Messiah. (John
1:9, Mat 1:21) The Messiah, “The Light of the world”. (John
8:12, 9:5) The Messiah, "The firstborn of every creature(all creation)". (Col
1:15) The Messiah, “Begotten of Our Father”, "The firstborn among many brethren". (Heb
1:5) (Ps 2:7) (Rom 8:29) The Messiah, "A servant of The Only True GOD(Father of ALL)". (Isa
42:1-7) The Messiah, “The Lamb of GOD”. (John
1:29,36) The Messiah, "The firstborn from among the dead". (Col
1:18) Once
again: "In The Beginning" Our Father, “The Only True
GOD” spoke: "Let there be Light, and there was Light"! The
Messiah, "The Beginning of the Creation of GOD", "the
firstborn of every creature (all creation)". (Gen 1:3, John 17:3,
Rev 3:14, Col 1:15) Thanks
Be To “Our Father”! The Messiah, The Creation of "The Only True GOD, Father of ALL"! (Rev
3:14) The Messiah, "made so much better than the angels"! (Heb
1:4) The Messiah, "The Light of the world"! (John 8:12, 9:5) Paul
experienced “The Light “ on the road to Damascus. “And it came
to pass, that, as I made my journey, and came near unto Damascus about
noontime, suddenly a great Light from Heaven shone round about me. And
I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul,
why do you persecute Me? And I answered, "Who are You,
Master"? And He said unto me, I am Yehowshuwa’ (Yahshua,Joshua)of
Nazareth, Whom you persecute. And they that were with me saw The
Light, and were afraid; but they did not hear the voice of Him that
spoke to me. And I said, "What shall I do, Master"? And He
said unto me, arise and go into Damascus, and there you shall be told
all things which are appointed for you to do. And when I could not see
for the glory of that Light, I was led by the hand into
Damascus.” (Acts 22:6-11) Paul
also testified, “At midday I saw in the way a Light from Heaven,
ABOVE THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE SUN, shining round about me and those who
journeyed with me. And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a
voice speaking unto me, and saying in the HEBREW tongue, Saul, Saul,
why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the
pricks.” (The Messiah could not have told Paul, “I am jesus” for
He spoke in the “HEBREW tongue”) (Acts 26:13-14) The
Messiah, “The Light of the world”, “The Lamb of GOD”, is also
“The Light of The New Heavenly Jerusalem”! (Rev
21:22-23) And
consider the natural light provided by the sun which was Created on
the fourth day. Does not the natural light of the sun reveal all
earthly things? Consider what happens when that which you thought was
clean is exposed to the light of the sun? Is not the least outward
particle of uncleanness readily seen in the light of the sun? And so
it is with “The Light” that is The Messiah. For His Life, “The
Life”, exposes all the uncleanness in the life that is of The
“I” in all of us! The “I” is but the creation of mankind’s
“imag”ination! And “The Light” penetrates deeply, cleansing even
the innermost recesses of the heart, “rightly dividing the soul
and spirit”!
And consider the natural light provided by the sun, which was Created on the fourth day. Does not the natural light of the sun reveal outwardly, all the earthly, natural things? Consider what happens when that which you thought was clean is exposed to the light of the sun? Is not the least outward particle of uncleanness readily seen in the light of the sun? And so it is with “The Light” that is The Messiah. For His Life, “The Life”, reveals and exposes all the uncleanness in “our” life, the life that is of “our” own creation, which is the “I(ego, id)” in all of us, the product of “our” own vain “imag”inations! So it needs be that “The Light” penetrates deeply, even into the innermost recesses of the heart, "rightly dividing the soul and spirit", exposing the darkness that the "I" in all of us did not want to "see"! Yet
for such a cleansing to begin one must “experience The Messiah(The
Light) and The Power that raised Him from among the dead”!(Php 3:10)
Oh, there are many who know of a “messiah”, yet who has
experienced “The Light”? For “The Light” was “The Beginning
of Creation” both the old, which was natural and earthly and The
New, which is of The Spirit and Heavenly. Those who “love this world
and it’s things” yet desire that which “decayed, waxed old and
vanished away” (Heb 8:13) They are of those “whose ‘god’ is
their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, for they mind earthly
things”. (Phlp 3:19) Sadly,
those who “love this world and it’s things” yet love darkness
more than The Light and they will abide in the darkness they loved
forever ;-( (1John
2:15, John 3:19-20) Sadder
yet, systems of religion that are of this world, such as
"catholicism", "christianity",
"judaism", "islam", etc., have so perverted The
Testimonies, that today, as in the two thousand or so, years gone by,
"The Way of Truth is evil spoken of"! All because of the
theo'ry'logical, heretical doctrines that are of men! And especially
those theo’ry'logical doctrines which seek to define “The Only
True GOD, Father of All”. (2Peter 2:1-2) All
such doctrines are but the product of mankind's "imag"ination
and mankind's "imag"ination is destroying and perverting
Creation(land, air, water, creatures, Light, Truth, Love, Peace, Joy,
Hope, .etc.) Yes,
sadly ;-( Creation is being destroyed by self-willed men who could
care less about that which is of The Truth(What Is, Was, and always
Will Be), and care even less about those things which they can not
comprehend apart from their "natural" senses and mental
processes ;-( Truth testifies, The Creator "will destroy those who destroy the earth(HIS Creation)" (Rev
11:18). Sadly,
in this wicked world, those who seek profit will naturally overcome
those who do not ;-( Yet,
There Is Hope! For
Life is of The Spirit. And
Miracles do happen! And
Faith rejoices against profit(greed) and theo’ry’logy(logic)! Hope is there would be those who experience The Miracle that is receiving "a love of The Truth for they will "see" "The Light". (2Thes 2:10, John 8:12, 9:5)
And they will receive peace, in spite of the dis-ease(no-peace) that is of this world, for they will clearly “see” that “The WHOLE world is under the control of the evil one”. (1John 5:19) And they will clearly “see” things as they are and not as "imag"inative, world-loving humans would have others believe them to be, for they will “see” The Light that is The Messiah……. francisco |
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