Hey - Light, The Essence of God

Send your light and your truth to guide me, to lead me to your holy mountain, to your home (Psalm 43,3)!

The 5. letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Hey (h) symbolizes a window. 

In the Song of Solomon it is written about the beloved of the bride: Behold, he stands behind the wall of our house, he looks in through the window, he glances through the lattice. My beloved speaks and says to me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. My dove, in the hiding places of the rocky crevices,
in the secret places of the cliffs, let me see your figure and hear your voice. Your voice is sweet, and your figure is lovely (SOS 2:9b-10 and 14).

Jesus, our bridegroom, does not only want to hear our voice, but he also wants to see our figure. When we are singing and dancing for him, then we praise him with our voice and our figure.

While Daniel the Prophet was a captive in Babylon, he prayed three times a day and his windows were opened in the direction of Jerusalem (Daniel 6,10b). Babylon is not only a name for a city and an empire, it is also a name for the headquarters of Satan. When we are living there, where the throne of Satan is (Rev. 2,13), then we should fix our eyes on Jerusalem, on the headquarters of God, and let the light come in us, because the teachings go out from Zion and the Lord’s word goes out from Jerusalem (Is. 2:3b); because the command is a lamp and the teachings are a light (Proverbs 6:23a). As light comes through the window into the house, in the same way light comes in our innermost parts through the word of God.
John the Apostle saw in his vision seven lamps of fire, burning before the throne of God, which are the seven Spirits of God (Rev. 4,5 and Is. 11,2). The human received his spirit from God, and so even the spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching and examining all the innermost parts of his being (Proverbs 20:27).

The lamp of fire, the burning torch and the golden seven-branch candlestick, the menorah, are symbols used for praise dance. 

 

The menorah was a furnishing in the tabernacle of Moses and later in Solomon’s temple. It was a symbol, a prophetic sign for Jesus, Yeshua in Hebrew, as the Light of the world. He who follows
Jesus will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life (John 8:12). In the Book of Revelation it is written that Jesus walks among the seven golden lampstands which symbolize churches (Rev. 2:1b).

God wants us to arise for him, to shine for him and he wants his glory to become visible upon us (Is. 60:1). For Zion’s sake we shall not be silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake we shall not keep quiet, until her righteousness goes forth like the dawn and her salvation shines like a burning torch (Is. 62:1).

When we dance before God and humans with symbols of light like torches, lamps and candlesticks, then we declare these spiritual verities before the physical and the spiritual world.

We confess: God is light and in him there is no darkness at all (1. John 1:5).