In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. (John 1:4-5)
It is Christmas Eve as write this. June and I enjoyed a time of fellowship with our church. Our sermon today was based on Isaiah 9:6-7, which speaks of the child that was to be born whose name was “Wonderful Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” He is the One upon whose shoulder the government should rest and whose reign would have no end. It is one of those promises whose fulfillment is now and not yet. Truly He reigns within the heart of every believer, but He is yet to come to rule over all the earth.
After church, June and I came home to settle into our Sunday routine which includes “second breakfast” and listening to more Bible teachings and sermons on YouTube. One of those was Dr. Robert Jeffress of the First Baptist Church of Dallas. In his sermon, he spoke of Jesus coming to earth as “the Light of the World,” a term Jesus applied to Himself (John 8:12; 9:5).
As I listened to Jeffress’ exposition, my mind carried me back to Genesis 1:14-19 when God created all of the celestial bodies. “And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1:17-18, emphasis mine). Was that not also Jesus’ purpose for coming to the earth? – “to give light upon the earth” and “to divide the light from the darkness”? It seems that the Apostle John made the same point – “In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not” (John 1:4-5, emphasis mine).
As I mused on this, I remembered that God created the celestial luminaries on the fourth day of creation. That brought to mind what the Apostle Peter wrote about the way God reckons time. “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Peter 3:8). Of course, Peter was using simile to express the timeless nature of God, but as we consider biblical chronology, the comparison does seem to fit. It has been about 6000 years since creation, which is comparable to six days, and creation was accomplished in six literal days. God ceased from creation on the seventh day, and we yet await our seventh day of rest when Jesus rules on earth for 1000 years (1 day) – Revelation 20:1-8. So, it appears that the days of creation and the years of Earth’s history have a 1:1000 correspondence.
Taking this a step further, Jesus was born around 4000 years after creation which corresponds with the fourth day of creation when God created all the heavenly bodies. I wonder if God did that on purpose?
“But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons” (Galatians 4:4-5).
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