And There Was Light
Gen 1:3 God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
As human beings, by definition, we stumble in the darkness. We are born in the darkness of separation from our original Source, Garden, inner Temple of HaShem (the Name, Lord of Hosts, G_d).
HaShem said the light was good (Genesis 1:4). That light is Christ. At first the light exists in Adam and Eve (the first Genesis)
Gen 1:26 God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Gen 1:27 God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
We lost (and continue to lose) contact with our inner light (Christ) by eating from the tree of matter (dust, human knowledge) and the grip of sin or the darkness prevents us from finding a way back to the light and the Garden within us. We are asleep in the Adam dream and cannot wake ourselves. We sleep in the dust of the earth (the human body) (Daniel 12:2). The inner Holy of Holies where the light resides in us becomes veiled from our view by the body of darkness (Exodus 26:33). This veil is the second Genesis of dust or clay.
This is the veil that Christ came to remove for us (Mark 15:38).
Gen 2:5 No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
Gen 2:6 but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
Gen 2:7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
The Serpent came and tempted them to leave HaShem’s beautiful Garden of Delights, and they are kept out by Cherubim who block their return to Paradise with a fiery sword.
Gen 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
How did we lose the light and forsake the image and likeness of G_d (Christ consciousness and nature) we were first created in by HaShem through the Word or the light (John 1:3)? Genesis (and Revelation) tell us that the powerful angel Lucifer fell and precipitated the fall of a full third of the angels, in the process becoming Satan, the enemy, the accuser, the Serpent, the dragon, the prince of this world.
So, HaShem made a plan to save us; but first He had to make us aware of the darkness we had fallen into; so He gave us the Law and prophets. The blood of bulls and lambs were a temporary solution pointing the to the Lamb of God, promising salvation by the light for all who trust in the cleansing blood of the true Lamb of HaShem (Christ Yeshua), whose blood was poured out on the cross. Christ Yeshua is the first to rise from the dead (darkness). This Messiah also has the power and authority to lift each one of us into the original light we were created in and out of the darkness. All we have to do is believe Him!
Joh 5:24 “Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
HaShem had a plan to send the light (Christ Yeshua, Jesus) into the darkness and to restore as many as He could of His children who fell into the darkness. The entire Old Testament testifies about this coming light (Messiah) who would allow anyone who believes in Him (Christ Yeshua, Jesus) to be purchased out of the dominion and power of the darkness as a bride was once purchased by her husband to be. Your life was bought at a heavy price; it belongs to Yeshua (Jesus). Don’t live it your way; live it His Way.
Yeshua is in the light and the light is in Yeshua. Only Yeshua can dispel the darkness and return us to the light of Paradise that is veiled within us. We have fallen from a great heavenly light into a deadly sleep or Adam dream or darkness (Revelation 2:5).Yeshua (Jesus) is the light that illuminates every person. Yeshua loves you enough to die for you on the cross. Really.
Forget your own selfish ideas and wants of the darkness; take up your cross, crucify (the material self or person of the darkness) desires and fears and follow Yeshua. Only Yeshua can heal you of all sin and conquer the darkness to bring you all the way back home to the Garden of Delights or Paradise. Walk in Yeshua (Jesus) (John 8:12); walk in the light (Yeshua), and become children of the light (John 12:36). Praise Yeshua (Jesus), the light of HaShem, Who is able to make you completely healed or whole in HaShem!
Peace only in Yeshua (Jesus)
Love,
Michael
