Then God Said, "Let There Be Light"

The eternal Word of God was in the beginning as the agent through which creation was spoken into existence. All things which came into being did so through the Word. Light itself illuminated the darkness of creation when the Word communicated that which was in Him, not merely as involuntary emanation, but by His eternal will.

By His sovereign will, God spoke and it was. Time as we know it began, of which this light itself is inseparably connected. And although science has recently come into more discovery of this, that connection has always been on these pages of Scripture, as Genesis intricately connects light and time with that by which it is named: “Day.”