JESUS CHRIST: GOD-MAN - Vital Christianity

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Another similar prophecy is found in Isaiah 49:
"It is too small a thing for you to be My servant to restore the tribes of Jacob
and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for
the Gentiles, that you may bring My salvation to the ends of the earth" (Isa 49:6).
Again the person of Jesus fulfills this prophecy:
"For my eyes have seen your salvation, which You have prepared in the sight
of all people, a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your
people Israel" (Lk 2:31-32).
This description appears five times in the first chapter of John (Jn 1:4-5,7-9). His
uniqueness is stressed in verse 9: "The true light." Jesus Himself claimed:
"I am the light of the world" (8:12).
"Light" is often used in the Hebrew Scriptures to refer to Jehovah God. The psalmist
affirmed:
Son:
"The Lord is my Light and my salvation" (Ps 27:1).
Similarly Isaiah says:
"Jehovah will be to you an everlasting light" (Isa 60:19-20).
The coming Messiah is equated with the glory of Jehovah:
"Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon
you. See darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples,
but the Lord rises upon you and His glory appears over you. Nations will
come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn" (Isa 60:1-3).
John speaks of Jesus as light in the opening verses of his gospel to refer to the incarnate
● "light that darkness has not understood" (Jn 1:5).
● "The true light that gives light to every man" (v. 9).
John, in his introduction to his first epistle, uses this term that he has already used in his
gospel:
"God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all" (1 Jn 1:5).