The Power of Darkness, Part One

"When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness," (Luke 22:53).

"To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God..." (Acts 26:18).

"Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness..." (Col. 1:13)

"For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee," (Isaiah 60:2).

We live on a dark, fallen planet.  There is no question that evil men are waxing worse and worse.  There is much confusion over what is right and wrong.  People no longer discern the difference between good and evil.  Our moral compass is broken.  Many even in the Church have taken on a humanistic worldview and no longer rely on the Bible as their source for understanding truth and how we should live this life.  Television has been called the devil-vision and hell-a-vision as programs
continually spew out debaucheries, blasphemies, perversions, violence, adulteries, lies, immoralities,
witchcraft, liberal political agendas, etc.  Christianity is mocked and God's name used in vain.  There is no fear of God.   As the darkness increases it would seem like we're losing the battle; but be assured, we're not!

A number of attempts had been made to kill Jesus before the time appointed for him to die. Read the story of one such attempt in Luke 4:28-30.  The angry mob had literally thrust Jesus out of the city and "led him unto the brow of the hill whereon the city was built, that they might cast him down headlong" (v. 29).  How did He escape?  It was not the hour for the power of darkness to prevail.  In another incidence recorded in John 8, Jesus' message so upset the Jews that they took up stones to cast at him, meaning to stone him to death.  Yet He escaped, "going through the midst of them" (vs. 59).  How?  It was not the hour for the power of darkness to prevail.

When the "hour, and power of darkness" came into the life of Jesus, he understood that God had a purpose for it and that he would have to submit.  It would appear that the darkness would destroy Jesus by beating, whipping, bruising, crucifying, piercing the Son of God.  Yet, for all that the power of darkness was allowed to do, it could not overwhelm the Light!  Instead, He gained all power over all the power of the enemy.  He died and rose, never to die again. 

We know what darkness is.  We've experienced its power of sinful pleasures and addictions.  We've eaten the fruit of disobedience.  We enjoyed the lust of our flesh, the lust of our eyes and the pride of our lives.   As sinners, we were not just living in the darkness, we were the darkness! (Eph. 5:8).  We were of our father, the devil (John 8:44).  We were under his power and did not have the ability to break free on our own.  God send His Son to translate [pick up and carry] us out of that kingdom and into His own.

We know that darkness pre-existed creation.   The darkness predates our world; it predates mankind.  The origin of sin, sickness, death,  misery, emptiness, depression, confusion, and all the evil that darkness represents is not of this earth.  What is the source of darkness?

"I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil:

I the Lord do all these things,"  (Isaiah 45:7). 

"God is light, and in him is no darkness at all," (I John 1:5).  How then could a holy, righteous, pure and loving God create darkness and evil?  It only makes sense by looking at the original language of scripture (using a concordance) and by the revelation of the Spirit of God.

There are different words used in Isaiah 45:7 for "form", "create", and "make".   So, let's look first at clues from the concordance:

1.    Form - [3335, yatsaq] - to "pour out", to melt or cast as metal; by extens., to place firmly, to stiffen or grow hard.
2.    Create - [1254, bara] - to "cut down"; select, choose, dispatch
3.    Make - [6213, asah] - to do, accomplish, execute (-ion); exercise, labor, procure, maintain, perform, prepare, provide

What do we make of these definitions? 

 1.    Light was "formed", or poured out.   Light poured out of God and that which was "formed" was cast into the image from which it came.  Hence, He is the "Father" of lights.  

2.    He "created" darkness and evil.  Something was "cut down" for darkness and evil to be "created".  We know that Lucifer and one third of the hosts of heaven were cut down, or thrown out of heaven after pride and self-exaltation was birthed within the archangel (we'll do a full teaching on that later).  When God created angels they were given a faculty called "free will" or "volition".  Man would also be given this faculty which leads to the ability to select or choose.  Without being given a "choice", angels and men would be mere puppets.  God wanted us to love and serve Him willingly and out of love, not because we were forced to.  

3.  Peace was "made".  When God made man and placed him in the Garden of Eden, He also placed the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil within man's reach.  The only commandment man had to keep at that time was "do not eat of this tree".    It was mankind's test of obedience and he failed.  Yet God made peace with fallen man.  He provided coats of skin even though man lost his paradise.  God prepared from the very beginning to bring forth the One who would become the Prince of Peace and restore mankind back to Himself.   It took much labor to provide for our peace and reconciliation, but God maintained a people through whom He would accomplish His will.

There are secret principles you will need to understand as we go deeper: 

1.     God did not speak the darkness or the evil into existence.  They are part of an unspoken creation. 

2.    The darkness and the evil did not come out of God's being.  Because words are spirit and anything that God says carries His character and nature, He had to find a way to create darkness and evil without either speaking it.   God is not evil.  He is holy, righteous and just.  He is love.

The apostle Paul tries to bring understanding to this concept in Romans Chapter Seven.  When speaking about the Law, he states that he would "not have know sin, but by the law".  He is not saying that the law is sin, but that the law made him conscience of something outside of itself.  The darkness and evil makes us aware of something outside of God.   It's a difficult concept to grasp.  Please pray for the Holy Spirit to bring illumination and revelation.
   
Let's talk about light and dark as natural phenomena for a moment.  In the natural, all light leads back to a source:  the sun(light); a flashlight; lamp light; candle light; fire light, etc.   You can flick a switch and turn on a light bulb.  But you can't flick a switch and turn on darkness.  You can't locate an earthly source for darkness.  You can only create a dark room or other place by shutting out the light.  God separated the light from the darkness and gave darkness a time to prevail.  Therefore, evening comes; darkness comes.  Yet even in the darkness, God gives us the light of the moon and stars.  In the darkness we form sources of light by which to see.  The darkness comes because the sun "goes down" and disappears beyond the horizon.  It's still shining somewhere; and it will come back around again.  But in the meantime, in the natural, you are living in an hour and power of darkness.  You cope with it because you find sources of light.

But what of spiritual light and darkness?  All true spiritual light comes from the "Father of lights" (James 1:17).  Many Christians believe that when Satan and the host of fallen angels
were cast out of heaven, they were thrown into the earth and that is why the earth was covered with darkness and was without form and void.  What we know for certain is that Satan showed up in the Garden of Eden in the serpent who was used to tempt Adam and Eve to disobey God.  With that one act of disobedience, the power of darkness entered into the human experience.

Next week we will ask and answer more questions about the darkness and the Day of the Lord that is coming.

"Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light," (Amos 5:18).

 

"And God Said...And God Made"

^{Genesis 1:14-19}

¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

¹⁶ And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

¹⁷ And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

¹⁸ And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ And the evening and the morning were the fourth day."

*****

"And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him," (Col. 3:17).

Words.  They carry the power of life and death (Prov. 18:21).  Humanity is the only part of God's creation with which He shares the power of the spoken word.  How do we handle this gift?  James warns us that we should not with the same mouth bless God and curse men who were made to be in the image of God (James 3:9-10).

"And God said..." (vs. 14). Who was God speaking to?   We know from St. John, Chapter 1, that it was Christ who made all things that were made "and without him was not anything made that was made.  In him was life; and the life was the light of men," (vs. 3,4). The Father had released the Christ when He initially said, "Let there be Light".   It was at that time that Christ's spirit came forth from the Father to do the creative works on the earth.   "All things were made by him."  

This same Christ was in the earth throughout the Old Testament; yet, He did not have a human body to "tabernacle" or live in.   A dwelling place was established for Him in the midst of His people by the commandment of the Father and had to be built according the heavenly pattern (e.g., Ex. 25).

 ^"And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.

 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people." (Lev. 26:11-12).

So then Christ has been here since "before the world began" (John 17:5).  When God  said to Him, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven..", those lights came forth from His being.  He is called in the New Testament the "Father of lights":

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning," (James 1:17).

There is a difference between creating something and "fathering" someone.  We are known as the "offspring" of God (Acts 17:28-29).   John 1:13 says that we were "born" of God.  Ephesians 2:10 says that we were created in Christ Jesus.  Many scriptures refer to believers as the Body of Christ.  And then there are those that reveal us as the "children of the Light" [Luke 16:8; John 12:36;  Eph. 5:8; I Thess. 5:5].  The Son of God is called the "everlasting Father" (Isa. 9:6).

There is a difference between creating something and "fathering" someone.  We are known as the "offspring" of God (Acts 17:28-29).   John 1:13 says that we were "born" of God.  Ephesians 2:10 says that we were created in Christ Jesus.  Many scriptures refer to believers as the Body of Christ.  And then there are those that reveal us as the "children of the Light" [Luke 16:8; John 12:36;  Eph. 5:8; I Thess. 5:5].  The Son of God is called the "everlasting Father" (Isa. 9:6).

"And God said..." (Gen. 1:14); "...and it was so," (Gen. 1:15).   God spoke and the Word concluded a work.  Now we move on to the next several verses.

"And God made..."

Read Genesis 1:16 again.   The sun, moon and stars do not come into physical existence until God "makes" them.  In the making of these natural lights, for the third time His purpose is to have light to rule over darkness.   The greater light (the sun) rules the day and the lesser light (moon) rules the night along with the stars that were made. In the making of the stars I wonder if there was a star made for each of the "lights" of verse 15. 

- We know that Jesus has a star.  "Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him," (Matthew 2:2).

- Many times God declared that Abraham's seed would be as numerous as the stars of heaven. (e.g., Gen. 15:5; 22:17; 26:4).

- In Joseph's dream his family was represented by the sun, moon and eleven stars (Gen. 37:9).

- Judges 5:20 says that the stars of heaven "fought" against Sisera.

- Job 38:7 says that the "morning stars sang together" and that the "sons of God shouted for joy".

No man can number the stars.  Yet God knows each one of them, tells them apart and names them all.



  

 "He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names," (Psalm 147:4).

In Psalm 148:3 the stars of light are commanded to praise the Lord.  Daneil 12:3 speaks of the wise shining as the brightness of the firmament and that those who turn many to righteousness shine as stars forever and ever.  The glorified Christ reveals to John on the Island of Patmos that He holds in his hand the seven stars and then explains that the stars are the angels of the seven churches.

We do not worship stars.  There needs to be those in the Body of Christ assigned by God to study the stars as the wise men did and who understand by the wisdom of God that the Messiah had been birthed into the earth. 

"And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars" (Luke 21:25).  If no one in the Body study's God's heavens, we will miss the signs He places in the sun, moon and stars.  

Read Genesis 1:17 again.  Notice that after God makes the sun, moon and stars it says that he "set them in the firmament of the heaven."  He specifically places them in constellations or wherever He purposed them to be.  God pronounces His work as good.   Light has now been given to the earth in at least three dimensions to rule over the darkness:  the Light of Christ; the light of His children;  the light of the sun, moon and stars.

There's a mystery of God hidden in the heavens.  Is anyone looking up to understand and reveal it?

We cannot talk about the light without also addressing the darkness over which the light was sent to rule.  Next week we will explore The Power of Darkness.

"And It Was So"

We now come to Day Four of Creation, part one. 

^14 "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so," (Genesis 1:14-15).

What God speaks His spirit makes come to pass.   "...And it was so."   This declaration of finality is repeated six times in this chapter (verses 7, 9, 11, 15, 24, 30).  Afterward, God's Spirit moves on to the next creative work.

One of Christ Jesus' names is Alpha and Omega, representing the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, being the Beginning and the End.   His name is not Alpha or Omega; He's both Alpha & Omega at the same time.   That is important to understand simply because it means when God begins something He is simultaneously ending something else.

For example, on the Cross Jesus cries out, "It is finished," (John 19:30).  He did not say, "I am finished."  He completed his earthly assignment only to enter into another dimension of service for His Body.  He is our High Priest who ever lives to make intercession for us (Heb. 7:25). 

When God's Word declares, "And it was so," the Alpha and Omega is completing something in order to start something new.   With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Genesis verses 14-15  and see what God accomplished before stating, "and it was so."

A.    "God said, Let there be lights...".  We are dealing here with a spoken word of God.   This is the second time God is directing light(s) into a specific location.   When He first said, "Let there be light" in verse 3, and "THERE" was light.  Where was "there"?  Answer:  into the dark waters over which His Spirit had been hovering face to face above the surface.   Where is He now directing multiple lights to go?

B.     "...let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven...".   So we see that these lights did not go into the waters, but rather, into the heaven. 

 If you're imagination takes you were mine did, you will automatically assume that these lights in the firmament of the heaven are the stars of heaven.   They are not!  At least, they are not the "physical stars" that can be seen with the human eye.   Stay with me and you'll understand.  What is the purpose of these lights being placed in the firmament?

C.    "...to divide the day from the night...".   Didn't God already separate the day from the night on Day One of Creation?  So, why the need to do it again?  

Acts 15:18 says, "Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world."  God already knows that He is going to make man.  The Omniscient One already knows that man is going to fall into darkness and will need light to shine.  Man will find himself separated from God and unable to hear the voice of God clearly.  God will be "invisible".   The Light of God will be incomprehensible.  Nevertheless, God was releasing "lights in the firmament of heaven...".   Their purpose?

D.     "...and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years."   Notice that these lights are not for measuring a twenty-four hour period of time.   These lights are marking time on earth differently...prophetically and seasonally. 

 The lights in our world are not just natural, but spiritual.  The first part of God's work on Day Four of Creation is in the spoken realm: "God said...".   Although God's Word and Light carry the power to make things manifest physically, often times the spoken Word of God does an "unseen" work.  Jesus stated that He is building His kingdom within us.  We can't see it because the Word of God declares that the kingdom of God does not come with observation because it comes within us (Luke 17:20-22). 

Living Light

God is Light (I John 1:5).  God is the source of all life.  Without light, things cannot grow; they cannot live because light and life go together.   What I am saying is this:  Light is alive!  It must be alive in order to spawn life in created things.   For something to be alive, the life must be contained within a 'body' - whether a natural body or a spiritual body.  

When God spoke, "Let there be lights..." He was releasing spiritual light and life even as He had released the Christ when He said, "Let there be light" in Genesis 1:3.  Christ did not just get here when Jesus was conceived by the  power of the Holy Spirit overshadowing the Virgin Mary.  He was the Spirit of the Lord spoken of throughout the Old Testament.  He came upon the prophets of old and empowered them to write holy scriptures and to be His mouthpiece.  He was Israel's manifested pillar of fire by night and cloud by day.  He did not return unto the Father until after he had received his earthly body ("...a body hast thou prepared me," Hebrews 10:5) and died upon the Cross, and commended His spirit back to the Father.

"And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ," (1 Cor. 10:4).

Christ manifested in various ways to His chosen people, yet He did not have His own body.  He has always been Emmanuel, God with us.   You need to comprehend this before you can receive the revelations that are coming.

Beloved, I submit to you that the lights that were set in the firmament of heaven to "give light upon the earth" (vs 15) and that are for signs and seasons and days and years, are not the natural, but spiritual lights - even the lights that represent the lives of the children of the Most High God. 

We were placed in heavenly places before we were born. Like Jesus, we didn't have a body.  God told the prophet Jeremiah,

"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations,"  (Jeremiah 1:5). 

Jesus makes a profound statement in John 20:21, "...as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you."  Even as?  Meaning, in the same way in which I was sent into the earth, even so I send you into the earth.   Did He not also say in John 17:14, "...they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."

Are not God's people set in this world to be lights that shine upon it?  You are still spiritually seated in heavenly places  (Eph. 2:6), even while you live in your season upon the earth.  Even in the book of Isaiah do we not hear the prophet saying, "Arise, shine for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee" (Isaiah 60:1).  "And" is a conjunction joining to separate things: peanut butter and jelly; mashed potatoes and gravy; salt and pepper; thy light and the glory of the Lord.

Does not God give people upon the earth for seasons, signs and wonders?  Has He not marked time by the coming and going of certain ones upon the earth at appointed prophetic times?  Look at Methusaleh who lived to be 969 years old.  As long as he lived, the flood could not come.  No man has ever lived longer.  God used this man as a sign.  In His compassion, he extended the life of Methusaleh longer than any other in order to give men as much time as possible to repent.  Nevertheless, man's heart was continually wicked.  Methuselah's life was God's "season of mercy".  When the life passed, judgment came and the floods were loosed.     Moses was a sign.  So many of God's people leaders, judges, prophets, etc. were called into the earth to fulfill a certain purpose at a specific time.   Their life and their death set specific things in motion.  God used the prophet Hosea to marry a harlot and have three children who would each represent a sign to His people Israel even through the names that were chosen for them.  Enough.  You get the picture.

This may be a lot to meditate on for some.  We will not deal with all of Day Four in this blog.  Let's wrap up verse 15:

"...and it was so."

By now I believe you're beginning to understand.  God concluded the first part of His work on Day Four and emphasized that something had been finished.   Therefore, what is about to take place in verses 16 & 17 is not the same work that He just accomplished.    We'll break it down in the next blog.

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Let There Be Light!



^3 "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light," (Gen. 1).

 In our last session we began laying a foundation for this series of revelations on the light.  "In the beginning" is a phrase used both in Genesis 1:1 and St. John 1:1.   As we began comparing the account of creation, we saw from John 1 that the word God spoke in the very beginning was Christ; the same word that became flesh and dwelt among us.

 God's word is spirit and life (John 6:63).  Because God is Light, when His word enters your spirit, it brings light also:

"The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple," (Psalm 119:130).



 

Jesus told us that he came to give us life more abundantly (John 10:10).  He said to the Father, "I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world," (John 17:14).  By giving us His word, He has given us his spirit, his life, and his light.  In other words, He has given us Himself.  Truly we are heirs of God, meaning, we inherit God!  Those who are joined to the Lord become one spirit.  His Light within us [Christ in us the hope of glory, Col. 1:27] dispels our darkness.

 

"For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light," (Eph. 5:8).

 

Do not be fooled by the darkness.  There is a power to see in the dark and to believe that the darkness is light simply because you can see.  

 

"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

²³ But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" (Matthew 6:22-23).

 

As we stated in our last session, in the beginning when God directed His light into the dark, murky abyss of putrid water over which His Spirit had been brooding, He did not destroy the darkness, but rather, He separated the darkness from the 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," (Genesis 1)

Notice that God saw goodness in the light, but the scripture does NOT say that "he saw the darkness, that it was good."   Remember a key to unlocking certain revelations to come?  I shared it with you last week:  What God doesn't say is significant and powerful for a purpose.  We'll discover that in the weeks to come.

The darkness was not destroyed by the light, but it was divided from the light.  How?  I used to conceptualize the separation by distance, but it is not.   Think about it.   How did God divide the light and dark?  He did it by giving each its own time.   In other words, there is a time for light to shine that's call Day.  And a time for darkness to prevail that's called Night.   Notice that the "evening and the morning were the first day".   Our "day" is backwards from God's.  We start in the morning and end our day in the evening.  However, God counts a day as starting in the evening and ending in the light.

A few concepts are introduced in these verses:

1.     SEPARATION.  This is going to be a key concept.  The initial work of creation was to bring about a separation of darkness from light. What is the first work God does in the life of a newborn believer in Jesus? 
       SEPARATION.  He immediately translates you out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of His dear Son (Col. 1:13).  To "translate" you means He picks you up and carries you out of the darkness and sets you in a place prepared for you in His kingdom!  Glory to God!
2.    TIME.  God dwells in eternity, but He set time in motion upon the earth. 
3.    A DAY.  It is greatly debated as to whether or not the "week" of creation was a literal seven day week.   We will give evidence from scripture that will help you draw your own conclusion.  
4.     NAMES.   God names things.  He give the light a name, "Day" and the darkness a name, "Night".   Man who is made in the image of God is the only part of His creation that has also been given the ability to name things.

 

"And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof," (Gen. 2:19).

 

Let's take a closer look at what God does on day two of creation:

 

^6 "And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
⁷ And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
⁸ And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day."

Notice the same concepts are repeated?

1.     SEPARATION.  God separated waters.  How?   The Word of God (Christ) was instructed to go into the waters ("let THERE be light").   Now that he's in the midst of the waters, the Father directs the Word (His Son) to create a "firmament in the midst [or middle] of the waters".   Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible defines a "firmament" as "an expanse; the visible arch of sky".  Can you picture it?  Christ was in the midst of the waters causing an expanse of space, air, sky to push half of the waters above the expanse while the other half remained beneath.
2.     TIME as marked off again as a "day".
3.     NAME.  The expanse or firmament was given a name.  It had not been there before.  It was brought up out of the midst of the waters.  What was the firmament called?   Heaven.  This is obviously not the heaven where God's throne is or from which He dwells, but rather the atmospheric circumference of what will be named "Earth" (vs. 10.).

Go back to Genesis 1:1 for a moment:  "In the beginning God created the heaven...".   Yes, He did.  And verses 6-8 show us how He created it.  Remember we said that the first verse was like an introduction to what God was going to do and that the rest of the chapter shows us how He did it?
He created the heaven by bringing it forth from the midst of the waters.  I have another profound series of teachings entitled, Something About the Waters.  In that series we share a stream of revelations about waters from Genesis to Revelation.  Suffice it to say here that every creative work of God was done through waters.  He moved upon the face of the deep in the very beginning and then sent His Spirit into the waters because He needed to do something to the waters before He could do something through the waters.

So, we see that heaven (or sky) is a created thing.  It was created on day two.  One more thing to tuck into your spirit before we move on: the four-word phase at the end of verse seven, "...and it was so."  Those words tell us that the work was completed, done, finished.  Afterward God names the work that He just ended:  Heaven.

Let's look at day three of creation:

^9 "And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
¹⁰ And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
¹¹ And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
¹² And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
¹³ And the evening and the morning were the third day."

1.     SEPARATION.  God called for the gathering of waters into one place so that dry land could appear.  In other words, He separated the waters from the land enough so that for the first time, that which had been beneath the waters and concealed by the waters was now made visible:  land.   That land was saturated with waters. God called forth vegetation upon the land that had been saturated in water.
2.     TIME is again marked as a day.
3.     NAME.  God called the dry land "Earth".   The gathering of waters, "Seas".  

Are you seeing the pattern?  Next week we will look at day four of creation week and we'll explode some revelations into your spirit.   This week's blog is laying a foundation and giving you some ground work for what's to come.

Please review last week's blog.  Listen to the playback of our conversation regarding it.  The playback number is 530-881.1299.  Access Code is 448699#.  The reference number for last week's call is 4 followed by the # sign.

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^14 "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so."


¹⁶ And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
¹⁷ And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
¹⁸ And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
¹⁹ And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.