When is the beginning of a new day (part two)

 

 What separates one day from another is it not a period of darkness which is called night? And what is the rationale for the separation? Day is the period designated for man to do his work as alluded to by Jesus who said, “I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world" (John 9:4-5)

The night is designed for the human body to rest; it is the time when the metabolic regeneration process of the body takes place in order to recuperate, rejuvenate and reenergized the body to be able to face the challenges of the following day.  Therefore, if a new day begins either at sunset or at midnight how logical it is for the recuperation, rejuvenation and reenergizing of the body to take place when the body has not released, discharged or exerted the energy it has stored up?

Furthermore, the source of light in the physical realm is the sun, but darkness on the other hand has no source, it is actually the absence of light, for as long as light is present there is no darkness. On the spiritual realm, Jesus Christ is the source of light as we have been duly admonished saying; "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth" (1John 1:5-6).

Now in the spiritual realm the source of darkness is Satan the devil as illustrated by Jesus Christ who said; "And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed" (John 3:19-20).

And the source of evil is Satan the devil as we have been duly instructed saying; "You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it" (John 8:44).

It is also important to note that, light and truth are synonymous and darkness and lies are also synonymous and therefore, darkness and lies originated from Satan the devil when Lucifer the light bringer fell into perdition and became darkness.

Now, since darkness is the absence of light it is clear that day preceded the night which is made abundantly clear by the scriptures which states; “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. God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness" ( Genesis 1:16-18).

I normally use the game of cricket as an analogy to help resolve this paradox which has so many innocent and sincere believers bamboozled. The example I use is the “caught and bowled” scenario in the game of cricket where a bowler bowls to a batsman and the batsman hits the ball back to the bowler and the bowler catches the bowl. Although the bowler first bowled to the batsman before the batsman hits the ball back to the bowler who catches it, the dismissal of the batsman is not recorded as bowl and caught but rather caught and bowled, despite the fact that the ball was first bowled before it was caught.

 This is the same analogy that is in effect with the evening and morning controversy. It is not because the evening and the morning is recorded as being the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth day that one should assumed that a day begins in the evening.

One may not have noticed it but if you study the word carefully, you will see that evening is not associated with the seventh day, it simply says; “And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown” (Genesis 2:1-5).

I therefore beg to ask the question, since it is clearly stated that on the sixth day God created all living creatures of the earth according to its kind and finally man, then the evening and the morning were the sixth day, where did the evening of the seventh day fall ! Was it at the beginning of seventh day or at the end of the seventh day?

This conveys a lot of meaning which many people has not yet understood; what this denotes is that, the Lord’s Sabbath’s are not associated with darkness, they begin at the dawn of day and ends at sunset. Night and day also represents two literal kingdoms which govern this world, the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness.

For example, we were all born under the dominion and ruler-ship of the kingdom of darkness, but when one is converted and has accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, we are admonished to: “give thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins” (Colossians 1:12-14).

We have been admonished saying; “Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them: For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light” (Ephesians 5:6-8).

We have been further warned saying; “But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are neither of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night: But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation” (1 Thessalonians 5:4-8).

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So then, beginning a new day at sunset is a sign of spiritual ignorance, but to begin a new day at midnight is to be under the sway and dominion of the kingdom of darkness because this was introduced to the world by the Roman Empire to whom Satan gave his power, his throne and great authority.

Now, let us look at some other biblical examples to prove without any shadow of doubt that a new day does not begin either at sunset or at midnight.

To be continued stay tuned

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Lucius Joseph