“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee” [Isaiah 60:1]

“For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. [Isaiah 60:2]

"Arise, and shine, for the Light is come to you." Rise, and shine, the Light has come. The Word, Light, is vindicated again. The Light vindicated again, God's Word, so that you can see God manifested in His promise of the Light of the day, or the Word given to this age, see, these promises that's made for this day, these promises that was said by the prophets, and by Jesus Himself. In this day! "God, in sundry times..." Hebrews 1, "God, in sundry time, in divers manners spake to their fathers through the prophets, but in this last day through His Son, Jesus Christ." [Shalom, Sierra Vista AZ, 64-0112]

“God, in the beginning, separated the light from the darkness, and that's again what God is a doing. God separates light from dark. "In the beginning," He said, "let there be light." Now, remember, there can be no light outside of the Word of God. The very sun out there is the Word of God, vindicated. There was gross darkness upon the earth, fog and mist upon the earth, and God said, "Let there be light." Now what if no light come? Then it wouldn't do Him no good to speak. But when He said, "Let there be light," and light come into existence, vindicating that His Word was right. That light we live by today. And the only Light that we can have today, in the church, is God vindicating His Light to this generation.”[Shalom, Phoenix AZ, 64-0119]

“So, it's the Light of the hour, so we can rise and shine. The Light shines upon us again today, the Word is being made manifest. It's the Light.  Just like that light's shining out there, the sunshine, this morning. That's God's spoken Word, there's nothing else can give light like that. There's nothing can do it. Any artificial light burns out in a little bit, and bulbs and everything else. But that never fails, for it's the spoken Word of God made manifest. Little denominational creeds will bust a bulb, and blow a bulb, and knock a fuse, and everything else. But the Word of God shall never fail! It'll be Itself, always, the Word.” [Shalom, Sierra Vista AZ, 64-0112

“No life can come outside of light. Light produces; light produces life. There can be no life outside of light, natural or spiritual. And only Light can come by the Word of God. God's Word is the Light when It's manifested. It's just a Seed laying here, as God planted all the seeds. Our bodies was on the earth before the... well, well, before there was any light here, any life here, or anything; It only taken His spoken Word to bring it into existence, just like it did botany life, or tree life, what, or whatever life there is to be.” [Turn On The Light, Phoenix AZ, 64-0125]

“Nothing can live, natural or spiritual, without His Light, and His Word is Light and Life. But when He sends His Light and makes It known to the people, and then It is rejected, then what about that? "Behold My servant, Whom I have delighted in." He's the Light to the Gentiles. He's the Light to the world. He was the Light of the world, but He was rejected. That's the sad part.  And it meets that condition every time that God manifests His Light, the world itself rejects that light. Why? It's written right in the Bible. Each age, God has lotted so much of His Word for each age, and He always sends somebody to manifest that Word.” [Turn On The Light, Phoenix AZ, 64-0125]

“We as Christians are only reflecting Him. The moon only reflects the sun, in its absence. And the believer only reflects the Son of God, in the absence of the Son of God. It's the Light of the Bible, the Scriptures, being vindicated in our lives, the Word that makes Light in darkness. You are candles that sets upon a hill. That ain't the sun; it's a candle. The candle just takes the place of the sun, just shows a certain amount of light. We are God's children, we are sons and daughters of God, only by the Spirit with portion. He had It without a portion. We are a star that's shining, all of us together make a Light to the world, but He is the entire Son that reflects the Light to every star. Hallelujah!” [The Harvest Time, Phoenix AZ, 64-1212]

“The hour is upon us, darkness, gross darkness. Gross darkness on the people now, that's what it is. What does it all mean? Where we standing? What hour are we in? How close are we to the Coming? Well, you say, "When all they have a revival."    "Fear not, little flock, it's your Father's good will to give you the Kingdom." What does it mean? God has begin to separate the Light from the darkness, see, pressing it behind, like He did in the beginning, to show the dawn of a new day. The Church Ages are fading out. God is pressing the darkness into a place, it has to do it, to fade out the church organizations, fade out the world. The world is covering the thing over, and worldlyism has took the whole thing. Then isn't God right? By worldly things, and worldly dressing, and worldly acting, and worldly living, it's the world! You are not of the world, little children. You are of Heaven. This is not your Home. Why should I look, to us older people, try to look back and get young again? We can't do that. But we're looking forward, not looking back. Looking here, what has been, and we want to know what's going to be. And we're looking for that hour, pressing for it.” [Shalom, Sierra Vista AZ, 64-0112]

“It seems like that gross darkness has settled upon the people till they think the only thing there is to do is to go to church and be a pretty good person, put your name on the book, and some little mysterious thing, "God will twist the key when you die, and change that spirit in you, to Him." You're mistaken. When you die, that spirit that's on you, that's the way you'll forever be. And remember, the Pharisees, Sadducees, and so forth, was very religious people.” [Shalom, Sierra Vista AZ, 64-0112]

“Let me tell you. Don't refuse the Light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which brings the warming rays of the Holy Ghost upon you, makes you a new creature in Christ Jesus. Don't try to walk in some glare of another age. Now, that glare might have been alright in the other age, it might a-been alright for them. It proved so in the day of our Lord Jesus. He was the Scriptural Light of that day. He was the Light. He wasn't the Light until He come on the earth to vindicate the promised Word. You know, He said there, "John was a bright and shining light, and you loved to walk in his light for a season." Certainly, because John had been prophesied by Isaiah, seven hundred and twelve years before his birth, that, "A voice of one would be crying in the wilderness." And then also Malachi, the last of the prophets, four hundred years before his coming, in the 3rd chapter of Malachi, he said, "Behold, I send My messenger before My face, to prepare the way." Here was John on earth, making that written Word live. He was the voice of one crying in the wilderness, and he also was preparing the way before the Messiah. And Jesus said, "You loved to walk in his light, because He was that light, bright and shining light." And John, he said, "Now I must decrease, my light must go out, because (why?) I have served my time that's prophesied of me. Hear ye Him! He is the One. Follow Him." It living in that day, it proved this.” [Turn On The Light, Phoenix AZ, 64-0125]

“Why don't you come to Christ, be filled with the Light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, His resurrecting Power that can set you free, and make you a candle that sets on the hill? No matter how dark it gets. Say, "Well, why should we do it? The rest of them..." Listen, right now is the time to let it shine, when it's the darkest. That's when Light shines better, is when It's in darkness. We must always let the Light shine where it's dark. Prophet saying, "Gross darkness would be upon this people," and it certainly is the Truth. Now we find out what made the moon reflecting the light.” [Shalom, Sierra Vista AZ, 64-0112]

Our Bible Study Subject for December 2008: "Arise, shine; for thy light is come"

We pray that you will arise and shine with the Light of this day.
Remember us also in your prayers, that our scarce resources will be directed to where it is needed the most.