GLORY OF GOD: THE RADIANCE OF HIS LIGHT

Each day now there is a new discovery from science. Today there was a startling announcement about light.

A friend of mine, obviously a younger woman, had just recovered from the birth of her child. One day when I saw her, I said, “You are radiant today; you must be pregnant.” She only smiled…. radiantly. Life from within her seemed to give her a glow.

The news today? 

Scientists discover that humans emit light

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Have you ever been told that you appear to be radiant? According to research coming out of the University of Calgary and the National Research Council of Canada, you might actually be glowing. This light is so prominent that it is likely indicative of certain biological processes and cellular activity. Interestingly, scientists observed that this light is only emitted while alive. After death, the light extinguishes. 

Light represents glory; “The Glory of God” is His radiance — “The Light of God.”

As the Bible says, “God is Light and in Him there is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). The Light of God is the inherent creative Power within Him; in the Hebrew that Light is El. Radiant Light from God is Elohim. 

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, and the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and God said, “Let there be light: and there was light” (Gen 1:1-3) 

In that passage, God is not “El” but “Elohim.” God is one entity and not plural. So “Elohim” is the radiance of the El of God. In other words, God shined, and there was Light.

Light is not only in the visible frequencies, but “darkness” is light as well but in the higher frequencies that remain unseen by the common man.

God radiated Himself and Light was revealed. God, throughout the ages, first revealed Himself as Light, then as a Person in the substance of Jesus, and then as the Holy Ghost of the Man, Jesus. God is always God, but God reveals Himself in different forms, or substances; first Light, then Matter, then Spirit in bodily shape (Luke 3:23). Hence, there are not three Persons of the Holy Trinity, but one Divine Person that people see in different forms.

Jesus was radiant; he was glorified Glorification was Jesus revealing His three Substances at the same time to show mankind that He was who He said He was. The crucifixion revealed the Glory of God (John 7:39). There was darkness over the land for three hours before Jesus died; from the sixth to the ninth hour. What happened in the ninth hour? When Jesus gave up the Ghost the darkness turned to Light over the land. Jesus radiated the Elohim in Himself, and the Holy Ghost left Him, proving that Jesus is the Elohim.

It had not been dark at all. Those around Him saw darkness, but it would have been light that they could not see because their natures were dim. God turned the darkness to Light as He radiated.

What should it have been at the ninth hour? The advent of the Sabbath day. It should have turned dark when Jesus died but the Sabbath begins at the dimming of the light of Friday. Instead, God overcame the world and reversed the course of nature. It was dark before the Sabbath, and the Sabbath began with the emergence of Light. Jesus glowed over the land, revealing that He indeed was the Elohim of the beginning of things.

Although the news today was that people glowed. Jesus glowed many times. He also glowed as a pillar of fire by day, and onto the face of Moses. Jesus could be recognized by His Glory — the Light of God shining from Him. Even the pillar of a cloud by day was His Light emitting from the darkness of the cloud. Lastly, after Jesus ascended into the heavens, “There appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them” (Acts 2:3).

That “tongue of fire” was the radiance of Jesus. Even His body was still there, but it glowed Divine Light. In other words, regardless of the Substance of God, each  of them revealed the inherent nature of God; that God is Light. With that said, the Holy Ghost is Emanuel as well as Jesus; He is “God With Us.” The Holy Ghost is not another Person, but a dimmer radiance of the same Person; it is the form in which mankind see God.

Although Jesus is gone in bodily form, He remains with us in the Power of the Elohim. Light is Power, is it not? How can Jesus still be seen in the modern age? 

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… (Rom 1:20) 

God is still with us as Jesus. Look around; do you see Jesus? If you are “lost’ no you can’t but those who are illuminated by God still see Jesus! How so? By the things that He made.

From the beginning how as God identified? By the things that He made. How can we still identify God even as Jesus? Jesus was there in the beginning (John 1:1-14). He was there as Light but was made manifest for mankind to see. John the Baptist said, “He (Jesus) was before me, and I knew (saw) Him not: but that He should be made manifest to Israel” (John 1:31-32).

Jesus was not born but revealed. His Light was covered by darkness, and the Israelites could mostly see the darkness and seldom the Light. Therefore, Jesus was made dark for is to see.

The Light of God made firm things. Jesus was one of the many “firm things” but mankind could not see Him, so God made flesh for Jesus as Paul wrote to the Romans to reveal the “Invisible God Thing.”

God again humbles the science. Jesus always emitted Divine Light and the writers of ancient days knew it. Science is always catching up!

Man’s kind (Adam) was made in the Image of God. That “Image” had substance; Adam was imbued by God, Elohim not El alone. Elohim indicates not multiple gods as the “m” implies, but the radiance, or glory, of God.

The shape of that Light was selem in the Hebrew. “Selem” means a “shadow” of God. Mankind has Light within but like light at higher frequencies, man’s shadow was not as evident as the direct Light of God. In other words, mankind glowed but not as brightly as the Glory of God.

Sin introduced another image — the nahas —  the image of Lucifer. Like God, Lucifer is an elohim as well but his (it’s) light is not the Light of God. It remains light but inglorious light. Sinners are of the “glory” of Lucifer which can be deduced from the passage, John 8:44.

Since Eve is the mother of all living, and she was the first to sin, genetic sin came from her (Gen 3:20). Eve glowed Luciferin light, not Divine Light. The image from Lucifer was cunningness; light appeared to be from God but was from the false “Bringer of Light” (Lucifer).

As such, sinners may seem to glow to this day.

However, light is in the eye of the beholder. Whereas Christians might see life glowing from a pregnant woman for there is life within her, others might see a lesser light in sinners.

There are indeed two lights: a greater and lesser light, to wit: “God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night” (Gen 1:16). That may apply not only to the Sun and Moon but also to God Himself as the “Greater Light” and Lucifer as the “Lesser Light,” the latter to rule the darkness. Was God forewarning mankind of Lucifer. If so, then the angels were made fourth and man sixth. That would mean that indeed Jesus and mankind are a little lower than the angels at the creation (Heb 2:9).

Eve was not aware from who the radiance came. She thought it was from the Lord God, but soon found that the glow was from the “Radiant One,” Lucifer.

We should all glow, and that was the case from the beginning. The true glow is for life and the lesser glow is death. The glow of the dead is still there but some glow in Light and the others may glow in darkness. There remains a glow even at death for souls are immortal. Like in the world, souls should still glow in death but because people can’t see death, glow cannot be seen radiating from the dead.