Isaiah 25:7

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

The veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom.

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.

“You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. It shall be the work of a skillful workman.

But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.

Also the Levites will no longer need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service.”

It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, ‘Let’s go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Armies. I will go also.’

From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

You shall put the ark of the covenant in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.

He built twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built them for it within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of Yahweh.

The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

They went out and preached that people should repent.

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh.”

Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in with his sons; and they shall take down the veil of the screen, cover the ark of the Testimony with it,

Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing.

For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;