Genesis 1:3-5
Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. 4And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
Matthew Henry: “[Observe] That the light was made by the word of God’s power. He said ‘let there be light’; He willed and appointed it, and it was done immediately. The word of God is quick and powerful. Christ is the Word, the essential eternal Word, and by Him the light was produced, for ‘in Him was light, and he is the true light, the light of the world’…
John 1:9
“That was the true light which gives light to every man coming into the world”
John 9:5
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
The divine light which shines in sanctified souls is wrought by the power of God, giving the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ, as, at first, ‘God commanded the light to shine out of darkness’…
2 Corinthians 4:6
‘For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.’ “
Clay Miller: Nothing supernatural in Scripture should surprise us after we learn from the very beginning the power of God. This first chapter is more designed to demonstrate the God we are dealing with than it is to merely inform us of origins. God can do whatever He pleases.
Jesus is God. Read John 1 and Hebrews 1. Those among many other passages clearly demonstrate the deity of Christ…which is why Scripture also speaks of worshipping Jesus and it does so without a blush. He is God.
The act of creation is a physical metaphor, or analogy of what God does to a dead soul. The soul is without form and void…purposeless…and God says, “Let there be light and there is light shining in our hearts giving us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ!.
