"He was with God in the beginning. ...In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it." (John 1:2,4-5)-
After the flood the world was washed clean. Promising to never destroy living things like this again, God sealed His promise with a sign. God's first creation was light. With it He pushed away darkness and brought the promise of physical nourishment and life to an empty world. At the end of the flood, God took that same light and wondrously split it into its parts, giving us the gift of His rainbow and the second promise of life.
But sin affected more than the physical world. The spiritual was also infected, and a flood could not wash it clean, nor could the sun give it life. Another Light was needed--the same Light that shone in the beginning before the sun, moon, and stars were put in their places. And that light was Jesus.
"A star will come out of Jacob," God told us back in Numbers 24:17. God hung His brightest star right over the place where His Son, the Light of the world, would lay in meekness in a cattle stall. While you and I look up to see rainbows and stars, God looks down and sees His Son, remembering His promise of eternal life. --- Only Jesus could push away the darkness and destruction of sin. Only the Light of the world could give the gift of life eternal.
Haven Ministries ~
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]
