Shalom and good afternoon, I believe in letting Scripture interpret Scripture. To begin let's review. The passage to which you are referring is...
“Elohim made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also” — Genesis 1:16 (NASB)
If you will notice here, the Torah says one of these two great lights is greater than the other. The Torah also says here that the greater light governs or rules the day and the lesser light governs or rules the night. Here is where Scripture will interpret Scripture to answer your question for it is written...
“Give thanks to Yehovah, for He is good, For His lovingkindness is everlasting. Give thanks to….Him who made the great lights, For His lovingkindness is everlasting: The sun to rule by day, For His lovingkindness is everlasting, The moon and stars to rule by night, For His lovingkindness is everlasting” — Psalm 136:2 & 7-9 (NASB)
In my opinion, based upon what the Scripture says in both Genesis and the Psalms, the two great lights Elohim created on the fourth day of creation are the sun and the moon. As for the light on the first day of creation, I believe that is the spiritual light of the Messiah that Elohim revealed on account of the spiritual darkness (Hebrew "choshek") that was over the surface of the deep.
Baruch Hashem Adonai,
David ben Ephraim
Hi,
Only your last sentence prevented me from being able to press the like button.
Only one other sentence was even remotely missing anything.
Is it not possible, according to your wonderful work, that the lesser light to rule the night is the stars and the moon?
I have always taken the lesser light, thinking little, as being only the moon.
Your words seem to make more sense, Biblically, to be both the stars and the moon now.
When the moon is not seen for most of the nights, where are the lesser lights to rule the night?
Also, please. When God said: Let there be light, is it not possible that He also was light that was seen?
Is He not possibly the light before the sun and the stars and the moon came to be?
Is He not possibly, the light before, that illuminated the earth?
If it is so, then that which faces Him, is day, and that which is away is night.
Only rotation. Only rotation of the earth, with no land mass above the mile or more thick waters yet. Only rotation would then result in a night and a day.
That earth, originally set on nothing, might have been rotating then.
LOVE,