PAGE 10 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST(LIGHT AND DARKNESS)

YESHUA, JESUS WARNS OF A COMING DARKNESS IN THE END TIMES. HE SAYS IN LUKE 17:

"IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE DISTRESS OF THOSE DAYS, THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT..."

BUT THE LIGHT OF THE MESSIAH, YESHUA, WILL BREAK THROUGH THE SKY, LIKE THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT, WHEN HE COMES BACK TO EARTH A SECOND TIME TO RULE AND REIGN. YESHUA DESCRIBES IT IN LUKE 17:

"FOR THE SON OF MAN IN HIS DAY WILL BE LIKE THE LIGHTNING WHICH FLASHES AND LIGHTS UP THE SKY FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER."

THE DARKEST OF THE NIGHT IS RIGHT BEFORE THE SUN RAYS HIT THE EARTH AT DAWN. ISAIAH PROPHECIES ABOUT THIS TIME AS WELL.  THE PROPHECY IS RECORDED IN ISAIAH 60, A PROPHECY THAT IS PARTIALLY FULFILLED AT YESHUA'S FIRST COMING:

"ARISE, AND SHINE, FOR YOUR LIGHT HAS COME, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD RISES UPON YOU.  SEE DARKNESS COVERS THE EARTH AND THICK DARKNESS IS OVER THE PEOPLES, BUT THE LORD RISES UPON YOU AND HIS GLORY APPEARS OVER YOU. NATIONS WILL COME TO YOUR LIGHT, AND KINGS TO THE BRIGHTNESS OF YOUR DAWN." ISAIAH 60: 1-3

GOD USES THIS METAPHOR OF LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS, WHICH IS NOT JUST SYMBOLIC BUT IS REAL, TO CONVEY THE STATE OF UTTER HOPELESSNESS AND DISTRESS WE ARE IN WITHOUT THE LIGHT OF YESHUA, JESUS; WITHOUT GOD, WE ARE IN CHAOS. IT IS NOT A QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT WE CAN GET TO HEAVEN WITHOUT JESUS THAT MANY SAY TODAY, IT IS THE FACT THAT WE ARE IN THE DOMINION OF DEATH AND DARKNESS WITHOUT HIS SAVING LIGHT. HE IS THE SALVATION FROM THIS STATE AND THAT IS WHY HIS NAME IS YESHUA.

AFTER GOD ESTABLISHES THE LIGHT OF THE MESSIAH ON EARTH HE SEPARATES IT FROM THE DARKNESS:

"GOD SAW THAT THE LIGHT WAS GOOD, AND HE SEPARATED THE LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS. GOD CALLED THE LIGHT 'DAY' AND THE DARKNESS HE CALLED 'NIGHT.'" GEN 1:5

ON EARTH, BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE ANIMALS OR MAN, THERE IS IN EQUAL PARTS, EVIL OR DARKNESS OF SATAN AND THE GOODNESS OR LIGHT OF YESHUA. GOD  GAVE THE ANIMALS LIFE AND SATAN BROUGHT DEATH TO THEM. THIS EXPLAINS WHY THE FOSSIL RECORD SHOWS ANIMAL DEATH AND EXTINCTIONS BEFORE THE CREATION OF MAN. ALL AROUND US WE SEE THE ABSOLUTE BEAUTY OF CREATION AND WE SEE THE EVIL AND DESTRUCTION AS WELL. YESHUA SPEAKS OF THIS DIVISION AS WELL:

"AS LONG AS IT IS DAY, WE MUST DO THE WORK OF HIM WHO SENT ME. NIGHT IS COMING, WHEN NO ONE CAN WORK." JOHN 9:4

"ARE THERE NOT TWELVE HOURS OF DAYLIGHT? A MAN WHO WALKS BY DAY WILL NOT STUMBLE, FOR HE SEES BY THIS WORLD'S LIGHT.  IT IS WHEN HE WALKS BY NIGHT THAT HE STUMBLES, FOR HE HAS NO LIGHT." JOHN 11: 9,10

"YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE THE LIGHT JUST A LITTLE WHILE LONGER. WALK WHILE YOU HAVE THE LIGHT, BEFORE DARKNESS OVERTAKES YOU.  THE MAN WHO WALKS IN THE DARK DOES NOT KNOW WHERE HE IS GOING. PUT YOUR TRUST IN THE LIGHT WHILE YOU HAVE IT, SO THAT YOU MAY BECOME SONS OF LIGHT." JOHN 12:35

ELOHIM, THE GOD OF GOODNESS AND LIGHT, IS SOVEREIGN OVER HIS CREATION AND ALLOWS THIS EQUAL DIVISION BETWEEN THE EVIL OF SATAN AND THE GOODNESS OF YESHUA FOR THE FUTURE GOOD OF ALL OF CREATION. ONE COULD SEE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LIGHT AND THE DARKNESS. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED.  THIS SEPARATION WILL HAPPEN AGAIN IN THE FUTURE. MALICHI 3:17 THEN ONCE MORE YOU SHALL BE ABLE TO SEE THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED, BETWEEN THOSE WHO SERVE GOD AND THOSE WHO DO NOT." THE WICKED WILL BE JUDGED AND THE RIGHTEOUS BLESSED.  THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL MIXED THE TWO UP - NO DISTINCTION - CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE