VI: The Prophets' Visions

The Light of the City

Yahuah's uncreated, never-dimming light

Root
Isa 60:19-20 · 'or (H216)
Old Testament chain
  1. Ps 36:9
  2. Isa 2:2-3
  3. Isa 24:23
  4. Isa 60:3, 19-20
  5. Zech 14:7
  6. Rev 21:23
  7. Rev 22:5
New Testament
Rev 21:23; Rev 21:24-26; Rev 21:25; Rev 22:5

"In thy light shall we see light" (Ps 36:9). Isaiah promises, "The sun shall be no more thy light by day... but Yahuah shall be unto thee an everlasting light" (Isa 60:19), and Zechariah sees a day where "at evening time it shall be light" (Zech 14:7). The city needs no sun, moon or night: its light is uncreated, direct and never dimming. "The glory of Elohim did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof" (Rev 21:23), where the Greek behind the KJV's "light" is luchnos, lamp: Yahuah is the light, the Son the lamp that bears it. The nations walk in it and bring willing worship, not tribute paid under duress.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 359–361, 373