Isaiah 60:20 Your sun shall no more go down; neither shall your moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be your everlasting light… I. THE SOURCE OF THE LIGHT. "The Lord." This is true even of the present world. The light which reason sheds on our path is a ray of His kindling. But here, in this world of ours, there are generally intermediate sources through which the light we have is conveyed to us. It does not come directly from God. In the heavenly world, however, it will be different. There, every intermediate agency will be done away, and the light that shines will shine immediately from God. There are four things symbolized in the Bible by this word "light, ' and all that we shall know or possess of each of these four things in heaven, we shall know or possess through Jesus. 1. Knowledge (Psalm 119:130). 2. Holiness (Romans 13:12). 3. Happiness (Psalm 97:11). 4. Beauty or glory (John 17:24). In this lower world we know how true it is that there is no beauty or glory that the eye takes in for which we are not indebted to the light that shines from yonder natural sun. In heaven Jesus is the Sun that shines on all. II. THE CHARACTER OF THE LIGHT. Three elements of it are mentioned in our text. When we decompose the light of the natural sun, seven rays or colours are the result of the analysis. But these seven we know may be resolved into three — the red, the yellow, and the blue. Thus there is a trinity of rays of elements in the light which the natural sun is pouring forth continually And it is an interesting thing to find that when we come to analyze the light of the heavenly world, the same feature is found to mark it. 1. There is one ray in this light which may be called the continuous ray "Thy sun shall no more -o down neither shall thy moon withdraw itself.' 2. We have here a perpetual ray. "An everlasting light. To speak of the perpetual, as well as the continuous nature of this light, is not a distinction without a difference. You may have light that is continuous for a season even when you know that it cannot be perpetual. 3. The third ray may be characterized as a joyous ray. "The days of thy mourning shall be ended." (R. Newton, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. |
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