New Light from the Old Testament, (1 Kings: 17) So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth. And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah. And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him. And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son? And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed. And he cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son? And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again. And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth. And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is truth.” Here we see how the God Yahujah reaches out in compassion to the widow and her dead child. Here we see also that the prophet Elijah is given the gift of revival in the raising up of the widow’s child. This is a foretelling of the story of Jesus in the New Testament raising up his dead friend Lazarus. And here we see that the Old Testament God is a God of compassion and mercy, not the vengeful and punishing God so many misconstrue him to be. God is God whether in the Old or the New Testament Bible. This is a very important revelation of the nature of Yahujah. He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. And on that fact we can rely completely.

The Creation of Light

John 1, New King James Version (NKJV)

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.

He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word became 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.

John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’” And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

I love physics. In college I made an A in my five hour physics class at Washburn University, and I loved it. I am especially drawn to quantum physics, the science of matter and light. In the science of quantum physics, or quantum mechanics, physicists now understand that light was the first element of the creation of the universe, and that light was the thing out of which everything that exists is created.

Let’s go back to the book of the evangelist John. What did he say in the beginning? He said that God created light, and then created everything else in the universe. Have we finally come around to the knowledge of God’s creation? It would seem so.

The evangelist said that “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” So out of light, God created you and me and placed us in the Garden of Eden, which was also created out of light, the basic particle now known in quantum physics. But even before that, God created light, and according to the witness of John, that light is Jesus Christ—the Word. I am now seventy-four years old, and I am just now learning, along with science, about the relationship between light and the creation of matter.

Just think of it—John knew about this 2000 years ago. John understood that God created light and everything that exists. How did he know that? He could only have known it if God revealed it to him, right?

So today I ask myself why. Why didn’t I know this before? The answer must be that God had not yet revealed it to me as he did to John. You see, we can know nothing unless God reveals it to us. He uses our physical senses, our parents, and our teachers to do the revealing, but the source is always the same—God himself.

So if we want to know something, whatever it is, all we need to do is to go to God, the source of all knowledge, and ask. As it is written, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened." (Matthew 7:7-8, NKJV)