Forming Light

"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." (Isa 45:7)

Here is something interesting. The Word of God says that He formed light, not created it. Somehow, I always figured that everything was dark, and then God created light. Not so. He IS light. It was already there. Wow, does that have tremendous implications!

I had to know more, so I looked up the word, "yatsar". It means to form or fashion, to devise, to frame. The word implies initiation as well as structuring. It is used to designate a potter as he squeezes and mold clay into a vessel. I know that one has just struck you! The Potter fashioned us in the same way that He has fashioned and formed Light!

In Isaiah 29:16, "Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?" The "potter's" in "the potter's clay" is the same word, as it the word "framed". It is the same in many other scriptures, and suggests that the prophets of God carried a "formed" or "shaped" message to Israel.

The great implication is that the things of Light were not created from scratch, but always existed. He just fashioned it into what we see.

Going further, I looked up "create darkness". Sure enough, the word "bara" means to create from scratch. Bara emphasizes the initiation of the object, not manipulating it from its original creation. Darkness did not always exist. Darkness was created.

If you're like me, all of a sudden your mind just stretches out to all sorts of theological implications, not the least of which are the ramifications to Particle Physics. It changes the whole view of the Big Bang and what was before it ... and what created it.

Light is Life and Darkness is Death. Just as Death did not exist until sin entered the world, so it, along with Hell, will be cast into the Lake of Fire and will forever cease to exist anymore. Satan may have rule over this carnal world and he may seem to have a dominant presence here, but just as it was not always so, so shall it end. His lie to humanity is that he is in charge and dominates the affairs of Man, but God will have the last word.

It was, after all, His Word that started it all.

"Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith ..." (Hebrews 12:2)

Brother Dale, www.revivalfire.org