Genesis 1:3-4
God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
In Exodus, God instructs (the word Torah means instruction) Moses on precisely how to build the Tabernacle.
Parshat Pekudei (Exodus 38:21–40:38) describes the manufacture of the vestments of the priests and high priests which were described in the previous portion of Tetzaveh, where God instructs Moses how these garments are to be assembled.
God instructs on the very specific materials, dimensions & shapes and certain colors that are to be used to construct the Tabernacle. The Holy of Holies is covered in a special way. What is it about all of this design the suites God's taste? Is this about accommodating God or receiving God?
Light travels through a 186,282.397 miles through a vacuum (space) at exactly 983,571,056 feet PER SECOND! Through the vacuum of space, all light, regardless of wavelength or energy, travels at the same speed.
Each of the gem stones and each of the dyes God specified in the making of the Tabernacle have a certain color. What is it about the colors of the Tabernacle that God's wants us to see?
I think the answer has something to do with light. Light is most accurately described by frequency and wavelength.
Regardless of the object, color is it's own thing. In science terms, light, is both a frequency and a wave. Each color is a particular frequency with a particular wave. Color is a universal language. Light powers our planet.
What scientists call photons, we call light. Photonics deals with the science behind light waves. Quantum physics deals with the behavior of nature at and below the scale of atoms. A Photon is a particle representing a quantum of light or other electromagnetic radiation. A photon carries energy proportional to the radiation frequency but has zero rest mass.
There is an ancient secret science that is rooted in the Torah and Prophets which explains the "radiance" of the Creator and all of his creation. In my personal opinion, Yeshua was fully aware of this science and as I see it, his teachings are extremely entwined with the great teachings of this supernatural science regarding the Light that God bestows and what His creature's recieve.
UV radiation constitutes about 10% of the total electromagnetic radiation output from the Sun. The photons of ultraviolet have greater energy than those of visible light. Short-wave ultraviolet light is ionizing radiation; it damages DNA and sterilizes surfaces with which it comes into contact. Ultraviolet light is also responsible for the formation of vitamin D in most land vertebrates, including humans.
Violet is made up of the colours blue and red. Those are two of the colors in the dyed wool. Purple is also made from red and blue. When the dyed fabrics threads are woven together with the white linen I would imagine the color that the fabric would have given off from a distance would be the color violet.
The Holy of Holies, where the Ark was placed, was covered with such think fabrics that the inside would have been completely dark. It was pitch darkness year round. The light outside is totally separated from the darkness inside. That means there was zero interference from ANY frequency of VISIBLE light EXCEPT the holy light provided by that seven-fold lamp stand in the outer tabernacle when the veil was pulled back. Inside the holy of holies, there was only darkness. This is THE PLACE where the priest would meet with God. It was inside this inner sanctuary of the Tabernacle, where there was no zero light interference where the Shekhinah (God's presence) appeared.
Light also played a part in how the High Priest made decisions. The אוּרִים (Urim) and תֻּמִּים (Thummim) also known as the "Lights and Perfection" are two gem stones that were built into the breastplate worn by the ancient Hebrew Temple High Priest. They were a means of casting lots. They would look for which one would light up. In effect the light frequency would be seen as a sign from Hashem. Kind of a "true or false" or "yes or no" outcome to a question. In a sense, they were consulted like an oracle of Adonai.
Isaiah 54:11-12
“O afflicted, desolate, and comfortless, behold, I will set thy stones in antimony, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. I will make thy pinnacles of agate, and thy gates of carbuncle, and all thy wall of precious stones.”
Blue Sapphire:
Israel, prophecy and precious stones are closely linked in the bible. The sapphire in particular is a stone with an ancient spiritual significance for Judeo-Christianity.
Exodus 24:10
And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
The Flag of Israel is comprised of:
| White | Chesed (Divine Benevolence)[18] |
|---|---|
| Blue | It symbolizes God's Glory, purity and Gevurah (God's severity)[19][20] |
The blue stripes are intended to symbolize the stripes on a tallit, the traditional Jewish prayer shawl. The Star of David is a widely acknowledged symbol of the Jewish people and of Judaism. In Judaism, the color blue symbolises God's glory, purity and gevurah (God's severity). The White field represents Chesed (Divine Benevolence). The history behind the source of the original dye for the color blue is an interesting one.
Each of the 12 gemstones on the breastplate represents one of the tribes of Israel. There is disagreement on what the gems in the Breastplate actually were, but the most comprehensive studies suggest that they may have been (1st row) Carnelian, Peridot and Emerald, (2nd row) Garnet, Lapis Lazuli and Quartz, (3rd row) Yellow Zircon, Banded Agate and Amethyst, (4th row) Citrine, Onyx and Green Jasper.
Many sagely commentators focus on the relationship between each stone and the tribe whose name was inscribed on it, associating the color and other qualities of the gem with the virtues of its respective tribe.
"Gemstones are inanimate matter, yet they shine and impart radiance. The stones of the breastplate thus empowered the Jews to refine their coarse animalistic souls and make them shine. Similarly, words of prayer may on their own be “inanimate,” but through imbuing them with feeling, each word becomes a dazzling gem." Rabbi Yehuda Altein
Colors are important to people. We start our day choosing the colors we want to wear. We start a new home choosing colors. We like to pick out the color of our car. We notice the colors in the sky. Spring is marked by colorful flowers and birds. Color is everywhere in our lives. The source for all those colors, including our ability to see and recognize them, is a gift from God. They are made possible by light.
When white light is passed through a glass prism it splits into its spectrum of 7 colors. The spectrum in order is: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red. These are the colors of the rainbow that God showed us after the flood, when rain came down for the first time.
Genesis 9:11-17
And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud.
A New Testament Case for God as Light -- Ultra-Violet Light and the Shroud of Turin:
There are puzzling enigmas regarding the image on the Shroud that is believed to have been Yeshua's burial Shroud.
- The image is only on the uppermost surface of the fibrils, thus it could not have been formed by chemicals.
- The image shows the whole body, however not all areas of the cloth came into contact with the whole body.
- The image was not produced by vapors from chemicals or vapors from the corpse itself.
- There is a double image on both the front of the cloth and on the back, but no image in the middle of the cloth, implying that the cloth collapsed into a mechanically transparent body.
One theory is the image was created by intense vacuum ultraviolet radiation that produced a perfect three-dimensional negative image of both the frontal and dorsal parts of the body wrapped in it.
The startling discovery of an image on both the front and back of the cloth implies that the cloth collapsed into and through the body. There is no scientific explanation of how this could have happened unless the body became mechanically transparent, causing the cloth to collapse into it. If the cloth did collapse into the body, then the ultraviolet light would have completely surrounded the body. This would produce a double image on both the front and the back of the cloth, but nothing on the fibers in the middle.
The last enigma concerns the bones of the hand which appear visible—as if they were encased in flesh. The process that formed the image recorded both the inside of the hand (the skeleton) and the outside of the hand (the flesh surrounding the skeleton) at the same time.
This again implies that somehow the body covered with the Shroud became mechanically transparent, and that the cloth collapsed into and through this body. If it had not done so, the image would only be of the outside of the body.
Scientists studying the data state:
“Currently, the known laws of physics cannot explain how a decomposing body can emit an intense burst of vacuum ultraviolet radiation. Furthermore, they cannot explain how such a body could become mechanically transparent and emit light from every three dimensional point within it.”
The most recent scientific evidence makes it clear that the image on the well known Schroud of Turin involved a burst of electromagnetic energy.
Some scientists have deduced that vacuum Ultra-Violet radiation is the only possible explanation for the image’s formation. First, in order to turn linen into a perfectly photographically sensitive material you need light radiation. However, it must be without any accompanying heat radiation.
The formation of the Shroud’s image would take several billion watts of light radiation, which exceeds the maximum output of any source of UV radiation known today. If the accompanying heat energy had been present, the cloth would have vaporized in less than 1/40 billionth of a second.
Teams of independent experts have concluded:
“In particular, vacuum ultraviolet photons account for the very thin coloration depth, the hue of color and the presence of image in linen parts not in contact with the body."
Despite the breakthroughs, scientists are still unable to replicate the Shroud’s ‘impossible image’ – that is, the high-resolution, photographic-negative, 3-D image that appeared on the cloth after the wounds, blood flows and blood clots had formed.
It is reasonable to infer that there is some transphysical cause for the emission of this kind of radiation. After all, Jesus was not just raised from the dead, His body changed from a physical one to a glorified transphysical one. Remember, He was able to pass through solid doors, but He was not a ghost; the apostles touched Him, and He ate with them.
Luke 2:30-32
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;
2 Peter 1:19
There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.
Revelation 22.5
Shout out to Bobby H:
Revelation 22:16-17
“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”
And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” (BA) And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.
