SALVATION FOR THOSE WHO CHOOSE THE LIGHT

"Jehovah is my light and my salvation.  Of whom shall I be in fear?" -PSALM 27:1.


JEHOVAH is the Source of the sunlight that makes life possible on earth.  (Genesis 1:2, 14)  He is also the Creator of spiritual light, which dispels the death-dealing darkness of Satan's world.  (Isaiah 60:2; 2 Corinthians 4:6; Ephesians 5:8-11;  6:12)  Those who choose the light can say with the psalmist:  "Jehovah is my light and my salvation.  Of whom shall I be in fear?"  (Psalm 27:1a)  However, as happened in Jesus' time, those who prefer the darkness can only expect an unfavorable judgment. -John 1:9-11; 3:19-21, 36)

In the days of Isaiah, most of Jehovah's covenant people rejected the light.  As a result, Isaiah saw the destruction of the norther kingdom of Israel as a nation.  And in 607  B.C.E., Jerusalem  and its temple were destroyed and the inhabitants of Judah carried off into exile.  However, those who listened to Jehovah's Word were strengthened to resist the apostasy of those days.  Regarding 607 B.C.E., Jehovah promised that those who listened to him would survive.  (Jeremiah 21:8, 9)  Today, we who love the light can learn much from what happened back then. -Ephesians 5:5.

Next time: SALVATION FOR THOSE WHO CHOOSE THE LIGHT -The Happiness of Those in the Light

The Watchtower, 2001