Yeah! And there was light! What light? As Jigger said the sun, moon, and stars were not made for another three days.
Bo pointed out that God is light...
So? "Let there be light! and there was a 'revelation of God!!
The misconception that "the sun, moon, and the stars were not made for another three days", or on "the fourth day", is a common one. At Genesis 1:1, it clearly states: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."(
King James Bible) Thus, the heavens, composed of the sun, moon, stars and the earth, were created "in the beginning." At Genesis 1:4, the Hebrew word
’ohr for "light" is used, whereas at verses 14-16, the Hebrew word
ma·’ohr´ is used for "light". What is the meaning of each, since both can mean "light" ?
The Hebrew word
’ohr means
light in a general sense (and is used in six other places, Gen.1:18, Judges 19:26, Neh 8:3, Ec 2:13, Ec 11:7) whereas
ma·’ohr´means the
source of light. Genesis 1:4 says that "God saw the light (
’ohr ), that it was good: and God divided the light (
’ohr ) from the darkness."(
King James Bible) Day four saw dramatic changes: “Then God continued, saying, ‘Let there be lights (
ma·’ohr´) in the expanse of the heavens to divide between the day and the night, and they shall be for signs and for seasons and for days and years. Also they shall be for lights (
ma·’ohr´) in the expanse of the heavens to give light (
’ohr ) upon the earth’; and gradually it came to be so. Accordingly God proceeded to make the two great lights (
ma·’ohr´), the greater light (
ma·’ohr´ ) as a ruler of the day, and the lesser light (
ma·’ohr´) as a ruler of the night, likewise the stars.”(Genesis 1:14-16,
Watts)
Hence, on day one, light in a general sense, or diffused light,
gradually (or "proceeded to make.” Hebrew,
wai·ya´‛as. Progressive action indicated by the imperfect state) came to be visible to the earth, penetrating the cloud layers that surrounded it. The rotating earth thus began to have alternating day and night. (Gen 1:1-3, 5) As a result, "God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night."(Gen 1:5,
King James Bible) The sources of that light (
ma·’ohr´) still remained invisible from the earth. During the fourth creative period, however, a notable change took place. The sun, the moon, and the stars were now made “to shine upon the earth.” (Genesis 1:17) “God proceeded to make” them in that they could now be
seen from the earth.
It is also of interest that the Hebrew word rendered “make” (Hebrew
‛a·sah´) in Genesis 1:16 is not the same as the word for “create” (Hebrew
ba·ra’´) used in Genesis chapter 1, verses 1, 21, and 27. “The heavens” that included the luminaries ("greater and lesser lights") were created long before the “first day” even began.