What is Light?
Class Notes for Friday, 11-3-2006
  1. INTRODUCTION:
    1. Today, we will talk about the artificial, engineered, created gift to the Universe, which we commonly call "Light".  This is Light in the literal sense, not the allegorical sense.  But first, we should understand why this is so important, and it is because it is the first thing Jesus made on Day 1 of Creation.
  1. WHO IS JESUS? (He is the Creator of the Dwelling of Light.)
    1. Exodus, Chapter 20, Revised Standard Version: (notice how God often introduces himself with the phrase "I AM")
      1. "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
      2. "You shall have no other gods before me.
    2. John, Chapter 1, King James Version: (All things were made by The Word)
      1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
      2. The same was in the beginning with God.
      3. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
    3. John, Chapter 1, King James Version: (Jesus IS the Word)
      1. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
      2. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
    4. John, Chapter 3, New International Version: (Jesus came from Heaven)
      1. No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.
    5. John, Chapter 3, New International Version: (John the Baptist speaks of Jesus)
      1. He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth belongs to the earth, and of the earth he speaks; he who comes from heaven is above all.
    6. John, Chapter 5, New International Version: (John the Disciple speaks of Jesus)
      1. For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
    7. John, Chapter 8, New International Version: (Jesus is the great "I AM")
      1. "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!"
    8. John, Chapter 10, New International Version: (Jesus explains that He and His Father are one God; and the only God for that matter)
      1. I and the Father are one."
    9. John, Chapter 14, New International Version: (Jesus would prefer that you understand that He and the Father are the same God, but at least believe in Jesus for the sake of His miracles themselves.)
      1. Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.
      2. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well.  From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
      3. Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us."
      4. Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time?  Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.  How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
      5. Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?  The words I say to you are not just my own.  Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
      6. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.
    10. John, Chapter 16, New International Version: (Notice that Jesus says that the Counselor WILL NOT come unless Jesus Himself goes.  It is indeed one "I AM" God, with three personifications.)
      1. But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
      2. When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:
      3. in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me;
      4. in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer;
      5. and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.
    11. John, Chapter 16, New International Version: (Jesus explains where He is from again.  He is fully man, and Infinite God.)
      1. I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father."
    12. John, Chapter 17, New International Version: (Jesus explains His Glory.)
      1. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
    13. John, Chapter 18, New International Version: (The power of the name "I AM".)
      1. When Jesus said, "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground.
  2. HOW MANY DIMENSIONS ARE THERE REALLY? (more from John 20)
    1. John, Chapter 20, New International Version: (Jesus enters a closed locked sealed room, but how?)
      1. Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.
      2. So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!"  But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it."
      3. A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them.  Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!"
      4. Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands.  Reach out your hand and put it into my side.  Stop doubting and believe."
      5. Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!" (Thomas the Disciple testifies that Jesus is the Great "I AM".)
      6. Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
    2. A two dimensional world called Flatland. (Tape on the floor and cut-out these images for the kids to add to the floor)
    1. A three dimensional world is where we live.
    2. Jesus operates in four or more full-size dimensions. (compare what we can do as the "creators" of  our two dimensional Flatland, versus what Jesus can do as The Creator of our three dimensional universe)
      1. Nothing can be hidden.  Neither our actions, nor even our thoughts.
      2. If the plane of the paper is bend toward us, we can be equally close to all points on the curved plane at the same time.
      3. Just as Light from our three dimensional world hits the plane of a two dimensional world, Light also could come from a spot in four dimensional space to our three dimensional universe.
  1. JESUS MADE THE DWELLING OF LIGHT AND THEN HE MADE THE STARS
    1. Job, Chapter 38, Revised Standard Version: (It is a Trans-dimensional phenomenon)
      1. "Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness,
      2. that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home?
      1. What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, ... (note that this is a single place)
        • Look at what verses 19 and 20 could be saying; light comes from a non-obvious source!  Perhaps light originates from outside our three dimensional reality.  Maybe photons are like an empty energy capsule that, when charged with heat energy, reach out of our three dimensional reality into the dwelling of light's reality to capture and carry back pure light here to dissipate it.  To complete their "photonic journey", the photon energy capsule, now depleted of light, deposit themselves in the place of darkness.
        • Pass-out the Egg Shells of Light; a physical model of a Photon (Easter Eggs with the word PHOTON printed upon them).
    1. Genesis, Chapter 1, King James Version:
      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.
        • What an amazing thing!  Light itself needed to be created!  We know that light has a dual nature of being both a particle and a wave.  Called Photons by Einstein in 1905, their particle nature appears to be in our three dimensional reality, while their wavelength and constant speed characteristics (regardless of the speed of the observer) seem to be driven from a fourth or more dimension that is beyond our three dimensions.  Jesus writes the laws of the universe, and makes something we tend to think would just naturally occur anyway.  It didn't just happen to be here; Light needed to be created!
    1. Genesis, Chapter 1, King James Version: (Jesus made the sun, moon, and stars AFTER making Light, so the Dwelling of Light was made to shine directly upon the Earth for the first three days of Creation.)
      1. 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:
      2. And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
      3. 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.
      4. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
      5. 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.
      6. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
  1. EVIDENCE THAT PHOTONS TRAVEL TO THE DWELLING OF LIGHT AND BACK AGAIN.
    1. Quantum Tunneling is the original faster than light experiment.
    1. An article on Light traveling at 310 times faster than normal in an experiment in Princeton, New Jersey, where physicists sent a pulse of laser light through cesium vapor.  This could indicate that the dwelling of light is a point source that is simultaneously close to all points in our three dimensional reality.  In other words, this experiment shows that the dwelling of light could perhaps be "fooled" and load photons at the destination, rather than the origination.  This only works for single wavelength light.
  1. THE TEN PLAGUES OF EGYPT (What can be done by man versus fallen angels)
      1. Exodus, Chapter 7, Revised Standard Version: (rod changed to snake and imitated, though not actually a plague, it was scarier than snakes on a plane to be sure)
        1. And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
        2. "When Pharaoh says to you, `Prove yourselves by working a miracle,' then you shall say to Aaron, `Take your rod and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.'"
        3. So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did as the LORD commanded; Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.
        4. Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same by their secret arts.
        5. For every man cast down his rod, and they became serpents.  But Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
    1. Exodus, Chapter 7, Revised Standard Version: (water changed to blood and imitated)
      1. Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded; in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, he lifted up the rod and struck the water that was in the Nile, and all the water that was in the Nile turned to blood.
      2. And the fish in the Nile died; and the Nile became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
      3. But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts; so Pharaoh's heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them; as the LORD had said.
    1. Exodus, Chapter 8, Revised Standard Version: (plague of frogs and imitated)
      1. And the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, `Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come upon the land of Egypt!'"
      2. So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
      3. But the magicians did the same by their secret arts, and brought frogs upon the land of Egypt.
    1. Exodus, Chapter 8, Revised Standard Version: (gnats made from dust; the Finger of God)
      1. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, `Stretch out your rod and strike the dust of the earth, that it may become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.'"
      2. And they did so; Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there came gnats on man and beast; all the dust of the earth became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.
      3. The magicians tried by their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not.  So there were gnats on man and beast.
      4. And the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God."  But Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them; as the LORD had said.
    1. Exodus, Chapter 8, Revised Standard Version: (swarms of flies, but not for the Israelites)
      1. Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and your servants and your people, and into your houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand.
      2. But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there; that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
      3. Thus I will put a division between my people and your people. By tomorrow shall this sign be."'"
      4. And the LORD did so; there came great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and in all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by reason of the flies.
    1. Exodus, Chapter 9, Revised Standard Version: (cattle died, but not for the Israelites)
      1. But the LORD will make a distinction between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt, so that nothing shall die of all that belongs to the people of Israel."'"
      2. And the LORD set a time, saying, "Tomorrow the LORD will do this thing in the land."
      3. And on the morrow the LORD did this thing; all the cattle of the Egyptians died, but of the cattle of the people of Israel not one died.
    1. Exodus, Chapter 9, Revised Standard Version: (boils on men and animals, and the Egyptian Magicians can do nothing)
      1. And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of ashes from the kiln, and let Moses throw them toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
      2. And it shall become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and become boils breaking out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt."
      3. So they took ashes from the kiln, and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses threw them toward heaven, and it became boils breaking out in sores on man and beast.
      4. And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.
    1. Exodus, Chapter 9, Revised Standard Version: (hail stones, but again not for the Israelites)
      1. Then Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven; and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth.  And the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt;
      2. there was hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
      3. The hail struck down everything that was in the field throughout all the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and the hail struck down every plant of the field, and shattered every tree of the field.
      4. Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, there was no hail.
    1. Exodus, Chapter 10, Revised Standard Version: (Locusts)
      1. So Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night; and when it was morning the east wind had brought the locusts.
      2. And the locusts came up over all the land of Egypt, and settled on the whole country of Egypt, such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before, nor ever shall be again.
      3. For they covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
    1. Exodus, Chapter 10, Revised Standard Version: (The dwelling of light is shut-off in Egypt.  The Photonic pressure drops because they are never filled.)
      1. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt."
      2. So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;
      3. they did not see one another, nor did any rise from his place for three days; but all the people of Israel had light where they dwelt.
    1. Exodus, Chapter 11, Revised Standard Version: (The deaths of the oldest sons)
      1. And Moses said, "Thus says the LORD: About midnight I will go forth in the midst of Egypt;
      2. and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sits upon his throne, even to the first-born of the maidservant who is behind the mill; and all the first-born of the cattle.
      3. And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever shall be again.
      4. But against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, not a dog shall growl; that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.
  1. REVELATION; 1/3 LESS LIGHT
    1. Revelation, Chapter 8, Revised Standard Version: (Light can be shut off as it was in Egypt, or just scaled-back)
      1. The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light was darkened; a third of the day was kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.
  1. HELL - A PLACE TO AVOID
    1. Job, Chapter 38, Revised Standard Version:
      1. From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken.
  1. WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT?
    1. How much would you believe a newspaper that had a bad front page leading story?  You naturally would be tempted to discredit the rest of the newspaper.  Light is to be understood by the Christian as a major creation, and we must give credit to Jesus, to whom it is fully due.  We also must understand the inerrant nature of the Bible, and to never underestimate the power and truth of God's Word.
    2. Matthew 24:35 (NIV) Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
  1. OTHER READING:
    1. How Old is the Earth According to the Bible?
    2. Raven Eye for the Sinner Guy
    3. The Windows of Heaven and the Physics of Creation
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