Friday, September 16, 2016
What Day Is It?
Asking that question of anyone here in America would most likely bring about an answer based on the day of the week or the date, and an inquisitive look. If I ask this question here in writing, most likely I am not looking for that obvious of an answer. One might ask why does it matter? That answer is simple, but in answering we will generate additional questions to answer. What is a day and how do we know? A day is defined in the bible. Specifically it is a cycle of darkness to light.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Notice there was a heaven and earth, but now specific form to the earth. In fact as we continue to read we will see that the whole earth was covered with water. And God’s Spirit moved freely on the water. Then He creates light. He likes it, but somehow He has a plan to have the light and the darkness not be the same thing. We started with darkness, light is created, then divided away from the darkness. Darkness, then light, was the pattern established. We know from what follows that there was some sort of cycle to this because He repeats the phrase “evening and the morning of the second day”, “evening and the morning of the third day”, and so on. So a day begins with darkness and goes into the light. This pattern should remind us of creation, and of course of the Creator. To do otherwise chips away at our remembrance of the first day of creation. This light and darkness cycle continued through day three. The darkness light cycle were accomplished without the sun and the moon.
Tomorrow we will address what day it is even further.
Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are King. Praise the name Yahuah! Let us be Your people to establish Your covenant in the earth. Send us now Your overwhelming provision such that we cannot contain it and it overflows to those around us. Forgive us our sins. Heal us up on the inside and outside. Deliver us from the evil that is here to steal and destroy, and strike it down. Restore unto Your people one hundred times one hundredfold, and hundreds of hundreds of hundreds, that which has been taken, held back, or restricted in any way from us. Rise up yet this day, O King, and show us a sign for good that all men might know that You alone have done this. We ask all these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.