Postby BrotherArnold » 29 Feb 2008, 02:52
There are some people that honestly do not understand that darkness came before light, just as some people honestly do not know there right hand from their left. Perhaps the following will help.
In the beginning YHWH created the heaven and the earth. 2And the earth was without form, and void; and DARKNESS was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of YHWH moved upon the face of the waters.
Notice DARKNESS is first mentioned here and I would like for you to watch was happens to this darkness.
3And YHWH said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4And YHWH saw the light, that it was good: and YHWH divided the light from the DARKNESS.
Please stop right here and ask yourself what DARKNESS was the light divided from? The darkness that came before the light, or some future darkness as some suggest. Take your time and meditate on this if it takes you several days are several years some people can pick up on things quicker than others. Some people can just read it and believe what it says, others try to make a Revelation out of it. Here it is again,
In the beginning YHWH created the heaven and the earth. 2And the earth was without form, and void; and DARKNESS was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of YHWH moved upon the face of the waters.
3And YHWH said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4And YHWH saw the light, that it was good: and YHWH divided the light from the DARKNESS.
Notice the darkness that the light is divided from is the darkness that was here before the light, not some future darkness as some suggest. i.e. the darkness was here in the BEGINNING "before" He said let there be light and divided the light from it.
5And YHWH called the light Day, and the DARKNESS he called NIGHT. And the EVENING and the morning were the first day. (24hr period)
Notice that the DARKNESS that he called NIGHT is the "SAME" DARKNESS that was here "BEFORE" the light that he CALLED DAY and "That" darkness was called "NIGHT. Therefore it became night BEFORE it became light, in the day that YHWH created the heavens and earth and the process is repeated up unto this day in which we live. And when Moses is giving the account of creation and looking back and says it BECAME evening and it became morning day one, he is referring to the evening darkness that came before the light came, not some darkness that came after the light.
In order to get a sunrise to sunrise day, you must "Ignore" the DARKNESS that he called NIGHT and refuse to believe that it was here BEFORE the light because it is VITAL to the sunrise theory. They have to deny the darkness that was here before He said let there be light and say it WAS NOT part of the first day. But they are so many Scriptures that disprove the sunrise theory, as all the above.
You ask, "Why not just leave it, day and night? Why add morning and evening?
RESPONSE; after separating the light from the darkness He named the light day and named the darkness night, and these were two separate units of time of 12 hours each but when He says the evening and the morning were the first day, He combines them both into one unit of time of 24 hours. People recognize the 12 hour day but refuse to recognize the Broader definition of the day of 24 hours.
The sunrise proponents has TWO endings of the 24 hour day, one sun set/evening and another ending at sunrise/morning. We believe the 12 hour day and the 24 hour day both ended at evening/sundown and by default another 24 hour period begins. Evening always ends the day but sunrise or morning never ends the day. There's no scripture where a day ever ended at sunrise.
You ask about how many evenings. I believe originally there's only one scriptural evening and that is the one that ends the day and it still exists. As time went on and man wanted to be more specific for purposes of meetings etc., they came out which such terms as midday, midnight, twilight, noon, between the evenings before sunup (Exodus 16), between the evenings at the going down of the sun (Deuteronomy 16) etc. this way people would not have to wait on someone all day or all night because they could be more specific with their appointments, and by the time of the New Testament they were using hours that would fluctuate and now we have minutes and seconds. At least this is the way I see it for now.
Hope this helps
Lunar Sabbaths is one of the most provable doctrines in Scripture...
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