Study 2 – Let there be light by Fay Berry

Study 2 – Let there be light

Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light (Gen 1:3). And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided the light from the darkness (Gen 1:4). And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering together of the waters called he seas: and God saw that it was good (Gen 1:10). And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good (Gen 1:12).

And God set lights 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 (Gen 1:10). And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good (Gen 1:21). And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good (Gen 1:25).”

God divided the light from the darkness; the waters from above the firmament from the waters below the firmament. There was a separation, a great separation, made between earth and heaven. As in the natural world, the inhabitants of the world became divided into lands and finally into nations, and the world was divided,so in the economy of God, the heavenly was separated from the earthly. “A great gulf is fixed” between the earthly and the heavenly (Luke 16:26) which is as hight as heaven is above the earth. A great division between the clean and the unclean, the holy and the unholy. As light dispels darkness in the natural world, so it does in the spiritual world.

And so there was and is, and always will be a separation, a great division, between the creation of God and the creation of man. An enmity exists between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, a division between light and darkness and between the holy and the unholy.

“And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day (Gen 1:5).