The Creation of Light

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 28, 1869

The Creation of Light.

THE first act of creation was to call into existence, in a chaotic state, the heavens and the earth, i. e., our earth and the worlds above us. The second great creative act was to give existence to light. How either of these acts could be wrought is altogether above our comprehension. When the first act was wrought it was profound darkness. That act marked the beginning of the first day. From that point till the creation of the light was the night which formed the first or dark part of the first day, the creation of light marked the first morning. And observe how much like morning now, this first morning was. Light and darkness were mingled, i. e., it was twilight. Then God divided the light from the darkness, and it became perfect day. Is it not likely that God thus lighted up one side of the globe, and then caused this to successively light every part of the earth, by the revolution of the earth on its axis?