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John 12:36
"While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of
Light."

Observe now a great tragedy of modern Christendom. Many are those who have
become witnesses of the light. They were walking in darkness and they saw the light of
Christ. Many are content to remain in this place and merely give testimony to the light they
have witnessed in the person of the Son of God. Yet witnessing the light is not the whole
purpose of God. God did not stop after day one of creation and then rest on the second day.
He did declare that the light was good, and so it is good to recognize that the light of God
was manifested in the life of Yahshua. However, if the saints are to progress onto the sixth
day when man is formed in the image of God, they cannot camp out on day one. They
cannot be content to merely see the light of day one and then wait until God takes them to
heaven. They must have Christ formed in them.
This is perhaps the greatest manifestation of the apostasy of the hour we live in. The
saints are preached a gospel that makes them professors of the light while failing to bring
them to a place of transformation. They have light, but they are still formless and void,
lacking a conformity to the image of Christ. Light is shining upon them, but it is merely
exposing the ruin of their lives, and the saints call this ruin good. God did not call the state
of the earth good on day one of creation. He merely called the light good. If you do not allow
God to bring you past the place of seeing the light to a place where you too bear the image
of the Heavenly, then you have fallen short of God’s desire and have failed to attain to the
plan of God that you should bear His image and His likeness.
Of day two of the re-creation of the earth we read:

Genesis 1:6-8
Then God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it
separate the waters from the waters." God made the expanse, and separated the
waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the
expanse; and it was so. God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and
there was morning, a second day.

On day two we observe water covering everything. There is not yet any mention of dry
land. Waters in Scripture are symbolic of death, and, after giving testimony of the light of
Christ, man is to be baptized, which is to be fully immersed in water.

Acts 8:36-37
As they went along the road they came to some water; and the eunuch said, "Look!
Water! What prevents me from being baptized?" And Philip said, "If you believe with
all your heart, you may." And he answered and said, "I believe that Yahshua Christ
is the Son of God."

Acts 22:16
"Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.”

On day two, not only do we see water being prevalent, but we also see separation being