On 12/30/08, I went with Ben to the park. I had a peculiar awareness of the sun shining above my head. It was almost as if the sun and the sky were a painted mural behind me. It was as if they were not real. Later, I believe what I saw was the corruptibility of these elements similar to what Paul speaks of in 1 Cor. 15:53.
I wrote this above comment almost seven months ago. This thought dawned on me, no pun intended. I believe this is what I saw.
Genesis 1:14-16,
14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16 Then 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.
Prior to verse 14 light existed because He said in verse 3, “Let there be light.” He did not say, “Let there be light created by the sun.” That occurred 11 verses later. I believe the effulgence of His glory was the light, Rev. 21:23, 22:5; 1 John 1:5, prior to the radiance and photons emitted from the sun.
Prior to this, I recall having an awareness of this creation not be what I call real, but the unseen being the reality. Paul saw this as well. His words are more fitting. Read 2 Cor. 4:18, “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.” So, the revealing truth was the sun and everything I saw would only exist for a season or a certain duration.
Scientists say the sun is about 4.5 billion years old and in about another 5 billion years it will die. What 9,500,000,000/∞ = ? James says this life is but a vapor, James 4:14.
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