(Ver 1.1) After I learned this information that I have been attemting to teach to you, it changed my perspective on much of the Bible.  I started to understand a lot more of the parts that use to be very hard to follow.  I hope that you too are beginning to see some glimpses of the light of how the scriptures harmonize and fit together.  We have been discussing the two different realms or spiritual states of the human heart.  Those who are in darkness and those who are in the light.  We have seen that Jesus Christ represents the sun and we are beginning to understand how the word of God causes Christ to arise and shine into our hearts.  I think it is a good time to talk about the identity of the moon. 

Gen 1:16  And 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.

I once heard a minister say that the church is the moon (lesser light).  That we are the one’s that live now in this dark world and we are to rule over it.  Of course on the surface I understood what he was trying to say but he got it all very wrong.  We are certainly in the world, but we are not of this world.  In fact if you look at scripture it says we are seated with Christ in heavenly places (Eph 2:6).  No, just think about all of the the known moon’s characteristics.  The moon is a lifeless chunk of rock that has no ability to do anything.  The light it shines at night does not originate from itself, no it is simply a reflection of the light from the sun.  Some would say that fits the church, we don’t have any ability within our self but we depend upon Christ who gives us the ability to do whatever.  Of course that is true, but let’s take the analogy deeper.  The moon is lit in the sky in different phases.  The moon goes from completely lit to completely dark.  How does that fit the church?  Are you saying God shines on us sometimes and sometimes He doesn’t?  Or are you saying man hides from God so that God cannot shine on him?  Either one doesn’t really make any sense to me.  The moon is also only lit on one side.  There is a dark side of the moon that we don’t see.  Is this descriptive of the church?  Does the church only show the world the part they want to see and hides the part they don’t want people to see in the darkness.  That shouldn’t fit a true Christian in the church either.  These are major problems to the moon being the church from my view point.

Gen 1:18  And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

We know from reading Genesis 1:18 that the sun rules the day and the moon rules the night.  We could also say that the moon rules the darkness.  Night and darkness are synonymous terms.  Here is a scripture that should help to clear up the confusion of is the moon the church.  Let’s look at a verse in Ephesians 6:12:

Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Did you see what that this verse says?  Who is this verse talking about?  It is speaking of Satan and his demonic forces.   These are the spiritual forces that are our enemies and as this verse states, they rule the darkness, not the church.  In fact the Bible tells the church that we are not of the darkness (John 12:46), it also says what association has light with darkness (1 Th 5:5), meaning there should be none.  You are welcome to study this subject in more depth, because I did not attempt to give you every scripture that there is on the subject.  My goal is to point you in the right direction and help you learn.  God Bless you and I hope you enjoyed Day 4.  I’m sure I didn’t cover everything, but I hope I helped you to see some new things in the Word of God.