A Great Light

A Great Light

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. Isaiah 9:2 (KJV)

The Amplified Bible renders this verse this way:

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great Light; those who dwelt in the land of intense darkness and the shadow of death, upon them has the Light shined. Isaiah 9:2 (AMP)

The people spoken of by the prophet are those of the nation of Israel in a time when even the religious children of God were estranged from God by their stiff necked rebellion and selfish ambition, God sent His only begotten Son to call them to Himself.

The "land of the shadow of death" being spoken of was specifically the nation of Israel and could be understood in this hour as any nation in the same condition today.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16 (KJV)

To them, the Light Himself came to, nagahh, illuminate them. He came to reveal Himself in and through His son.

Today He has sent His Holy Spirit to convict of sin and, through every believer, to call whosoever will unto Himself. His call is not just to the Jew as at the first but to both Jew and Gentile the world over.

I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Romans 11:11 (KJV)

The way to salvation is now open in Christ Jesus to all who call upon His name. The Light has come. Let us welcome Him.

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:17-18 (KJV)