Seeing the Light

Light is electromagnetic radiation. It is the waves of photons as they oscillate from a light source. In our solar system, the sun is the main source of all light. Light, being made up of photons, has no mass, and hence are able to travel at the fastest speed- the speed of light in a vacuum. Since space is the closest thing to a perfect vacuum, light travels the fastest through space.

Visible light can be seen. Ironically, most light cannot be seen because waves of high frequency and short wavelength remains unseen. Most of what is "out there" is unseen because God limited our vision to certain frequencies and wavelengths! Light exists even in darkness but we can't see it because our vision is not discerning enough.

Light consists of radio waves, microwaves, infrared radiation, visible light, ultraviolet radiation, X-rays and gamma rays. [ Maxwell, J. Clerk (1 January 1865). "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 155: 459–512. doi:10.1098/rstl.1865.0008].

Think about the chaos in life if with the human eyes, we could "see" the unseen!

Maxwell identified some of the "dark" light that we can see. With those known, just think of the possibilities of the things unseen, but as yet defined. We know there is much out there of which we know little, and is outside the realm of proof. As such, what we cannot see with our own eyes and with the aid of instrumentation is no less real! I would say that "dark" light - that beyond the realm of our ability to see it, is real. Perhaps that unseen natural light is what we call the supernatural!

The supernatural are all those things which can't be explained by the laws of nature. Before radio waves were discovered, they were still there, but what is now known was once supernatural. I propose that there is much "out there" of which mankind knows little. Perhaps those invisible light waves set the stage for the creation. Visible light is known to be required for life as we know it. Perhaps supernatural life requires supernatural light! It seems likely that there is a spectrum of light in the universe which gives supernatural life to supernatural beings! Perhaps that light is Shekinah - the presence of God!

God is Light.

1 John 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Since darkness is the absence of light, and all light cannot be seen, then it is reasonable to say that God is all spectrums of light, the seen and the unseen. The Creator God - the Father, cannot be seen, and as such He is supernatural in essence. God is real but He can't be proved because only one metric has been found to identify him. Those who have been cleansed from sin, can discern God's cleansing presence. God's presence, although it cannot be measured, is "glory". We know since God is the presence of light, that glory is being in the presence of "dark" light - that wavelength and frequency which we cannot see but know is there!

There is a special mirror to detect unseen light. When we look at Jesus we see God!

2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

At the Creation, Jesus was there. He was the invisible mirror which mankind used to "see" God. Jesus was "seen" because of the Word. Light was revealed to the patriarchs, and that Light was the Voice - the Word, of Jesus! The patriarchs "saw" God. They "knew" Jesus before God was born incarnate. It was truth which revealed God in the flesh. God promised a Savior, and years later, Jesus was born. Just because we had eyes to see Him but saw Him not, doesn't mean that He wasn't there. It is plain that David, Isaiah, and many others saw Jesus on the cross covered in blood - long before He was ever born!

I have that same picture in my mind. Light shined onto me to allow me to see Jesus dying in my place. Isaiah's came before the fact, and mine afterward, but we both saw Jesus. When we receive the image of Jesus dying for us, we are enlightened. It is recognizing that God died in my place! That enlightenment is being born-again. Once we are enlightened, then we can plainly see the truth because it is no longer obscured in the darkness of unseen light. That light was always there, but with special lenses, so to speak, Christians come to see Him there!

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Born-again is the receiving of spiritual "glasses". It enables the sinner to see into eternity - the kingdom of God where life is supernatural. Those born-again can see God's Glory even through the clouds of earth where darkness obscures supernatural truth.

Jesus acknowledged those special lenses:

John 3:12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?  

Heavenly things are divine Light. Jesus came to tell of earthly things but because of his presence, mankind believed in heavenly things. Indeed, the world is not our home - we're just passing through. With the knowledge of God, we can see the Garden in Eden again, although I believe it exists in another realm. Only those born-again can see into that realm with spiritual glasses. Those glasses are free but few take them. Satan shatters the lenses before they are ever worn!

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Faith is seeing life through Jesus lenses. When we look at Jesus, we see God. Jesus said that! (John 14:9).  Mankind could never look on God face-to-face because we were not equipped with the faculties to do so. When Jesus was born, finally, finally man could look at God face to face. He was always there, but He was filtered from our sight. As such, the Old Testament is just truth obscured by a shadow:

Colossians 2:17 Which (things of the law) are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Every work and ritual of Holy Scripture was a shadow of Jesus Christ. Jesus was lurking in the shadows all the time, just waiting for the right time to be revealed to mankind. Before the Gentiles could "see" it was necessary for the Jews to show their blindness! Just think on that: Jews denied Jesus even though they had always had that special light, but the Gentiles even saw Jesus in the dimness of paganism. Jews were blinded by the law. They failed to see by the filter which God provided - love! Love of God and love of others.

Reviewing faith again for a moment, it is the evidence of things not seen!  Faith is being able to see things of short frequencies and long wavelengths which are beyond the naked eye. It doesn't mean that the spiritual world is not real but strong belief is required for them to be seen. I see into the kingdom of God. I want that because that's where eternal life lies. Faith isn't something induced, but a gift all wrapped up in the blood-stained robe. When I look at the cross, it is Jesus I see even though he is not on it. Because I can't see him there with my eyes, doesn't mean that I do not have faith that he hung upon that tree. That vision of Him there in my place is the correct frequency and wavelength I need to be born-again. I have the eyes of babes in this old body because I look at the world differently than I did before. This new creation sees Jesus in everything!

2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

The kingdom of God is eternal. We readily see what shall go away but what will always be is beyond human vision if not for divine assistance. When we look toward God and see Jesus, that is grace. He was there all the time but just beyond the abilities of our faculties to see. God often accused the Jews of having eyes to see, but not seeing. They still can't see the Tree of Life for the forest around Him. They keep looking for the things of mankind to save them, but salvation can be had by merely standing under the Tree of Jesus. He was there all the time, and still is. The Jewish people just failed to see Him, and still fail!

Look at what all goes on beyond our limited vision. Look at what is there, but can't be proved because scientists fail to wear those divine spectacles. We still have miracles, but are blind to them. We still have Jesus, although the world hides Him out.  Jesus looks down from above right now, and his "Ghost" is still with us, but because we can't see that with our naked eyes, we fail to believe!

There is a mystery of God - the mystery of Christ. Unseen by the ancient world, Judaism was all about Jesus. Because God so loved the world, the mystery of Christ was that salvation was and is for all mankind. There is not Judaism and Christianity - there is one faith. Judaism is Christianity but they just fail to open their eyes and see Him!

Someday their eyes will be opened. It will be too late for most but never too late for some. If the Jews squint real hard and focus on truth, they too will see Jesus. He is waiting patiently for them to see. He even gave them Jesus to let them see in their blindness, as Paul did. Paul saw Jesus's face after Jesus was glorified. He looked on God and came alive. He now lives forever because he looked at Truth squarely in the face, but it took blindness to enable him to see the unseen!

How ironic, that Paul's special filter was blindness. He no longer saw what he once did, but did see the One he denied. Jesus was there all the time. He waited thousands of years to reveal Himself to Paul, but once Paul saw Jesus, he saw everything more clearly.

Paul was blinded. What, perhaps went through his mind?

Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse...

Paul knew about all the things from the creation because he was a Pharisee. When he was blinded, all that he had seen before became more clear. Holy Scripture was all about Jesus, and Paul, when he quit seeing the visible things, saw the invisible. In his blindness he finally saw Jesus!