FROM NO LIGHT TO NO NIGHT

The Bible refers to a life of righteousness and godliness as a life of LIGHT.

• Bright days always represented godly people.
• The darkness represented the wicked of the world.
• In Isaiah's Chapter of Fasting, Ch. 58, we read about light again.

Isai 58:10 And [if] thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noonday:

• In the discussion of the blessings experienced through fasting and prayer, Isaiah was told by God to write how that the light of such a soul will break forth as the morning.
• The darkest part of one's life would be like the noonday.
• That is a perfect day.

• The Bible begins with a very interesting picture and ends with quite an opposite one.

Gene 1:1-3 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.

• The world was covered with water.
• Darkness was covering the water.

WATERS

• The Bible often uses things of the world to represent something, like waters to represent people.
• The Bible is so poetic that we will miss the message unless we become familiar with the symbols.

Reve 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:

Reve 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

• So we find that waters represent peoples.
• Genesis 1:2 shows the waters covered in darkness.
• We already saw that darkness represents the wicked.
• So we see a picture of humanity in sin at the beginning of the Bible when we see the world covered with waters under darkness.

And by the end of the Bible account we see quite a different picture from that at the beginning.

Reve 21:23-25 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

• A city with no night as opposed to a world with no light.
• From No light to No Night.
• What a difference!
• What made the difference?
• It all began when God said "Let there be light".
• God's Word.
• By the preaching of the Word, God chose to save people (1 Cor 1:21).

Another contrast about the world at the beginning and at the finish is the state of the waters.

• In Genesis the world is covered by saline waters -- salt.
• Seas.
• The water that covered the earth before the dry land appeared in the third day, was saline.

• Salt water was always looked upon as bitterness.
• The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner speaks of salt water surrounding thirsty souls, but not conducive to drinking, since salt would dehydrate the body making one more thirsty than ever.
• "Water water everywhere, and all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink" Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.

• Regions given to salt, in the Bible, were indicative of cursed regions and lifeless.

• Nothing grows in a salted land.
• Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt.
• With this in mind, look at the end of the world after God has made all new.

Reve 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

• No more sea.
• No more salt water.
• At the beginning, before God said "Let there be light," all that existed was saline waters, people of wickedness. Salt water.
• But notice that Fresh water came into existence after the light was spoken forth.

• Waters separated, and there are two divisions. Above and below.
• What made the difference? -- HEAVEN -- the firmament.

• There are two kinds of people in the world.
• Not racial, nor ethnic.
• Only two.
• Christians and non-Christians
• Fresh and salt water.
• God's Word of faith concerning "Heaven" makes the difference.
• Some will believe and some will not.

More examples of salt as indicative of bitterness.

Deut 29:23 [And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone, and salt, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

Judg 9:45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

Jere 17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, [in] a salt land and not inhabited.

• Salt was put into a city after it was conquered, and that would leave the place uninhabitable afterwards, since the salt would ruin the chances for crops to grow in the land.
• But in the end ...

Reve 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

• All that will be left to remain forever will be the Christian people of God.
• Waters represent peoples.
• No more saline waters.
• No more Seas.
• No more sinners.

Reve 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

• Nothing but crystal clear water issuing forth from the throne.
• What a contrast!
• From a dark world of salt water to a world with no night and only fresh, crystal clear water!

• This life can only exist through one means.
• God SPOKE light into the World.
• John said this about that light...

John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

• The WORD created all things.
• And here we see that the WORD is Jesus Christ.
• And that WORD was the light of all men.
• You must come to Jesus, for He is the WORD of God saying, "Let there be light."
• When God said, "Let there be light" He was saying, "Let there be a Saviour, called Jesus Christ."
• And He shone in darkness.
• After He shone, It was as if he said "Let there be fresh water". Since waters, or people, were separated.
• Some waters were removed from the saline water and raised up to become fresh water.
• With their Hearts, people believe (Rom. 10:10).

• There is a veil over our hearts leaving us in darkness.
• The only way to see that veil removed is to turn our hearts towards Jesus.
• The veil is removed, and we are freed in liberty.
• And we begin to see a sight our hearts never saw before.
• We behold the glory of the Lord after our hearts are turned to Jesus.
• And a miracle happens.
• Bit by bit, we are changed into the same image that we are looking at -- the Son of God.
• The blast of His light is what our spirits longed for and we never knew it.
• It burns away all the darkness... it DRIVES away the darkness.
• In prayer, you are turning into His image.
• In worship to Him, your heart is directed in His direction, and therefore you are beholding His glory and are also being changed in those times.

Gene 1:2 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.

• God's Spirit is moving before the faces of your hearts.
• Paul said, "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord."
• Open up your Heart, by turning to Him.
• All you have to do is turn to Him.
• And then the work begins.
• When you hear the Word preached, you will experience a change from then on.
• Though you heard the Bible taught time and time again, it only changes you when your heart is turned towards it.
• Turn is noted in the Bible also by the term "REPENT"
• A turn around.
• The First thing Peter told people to do to be saved was "Repent."

Reve 4:6 And before the throne [there was] a sea of glass like unto crystal: