What was the light before the sun in Genesis ch.1? The Bible teaches that there was light for daytime on the first three days of creation week, and the celestial bodies (sun, moon, and stars) weren’t made until day four. Isaiah 60:19-20 and Revelation 21:22-26 state that at the end, when God creates a new world, there will be no sun, moon, or stars, and that God will illuminate the universe with His glory. So things return to the way they were before Creation Day 4, as described in Genesis 1.
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The Sun Standing Still in Joshua 10
According to Joshua 10:12-14, Joshua was at war and asked God for more daylight by praying that the Sun and Moon would “stand still”. We can interpret this literally as the Sun and Moon standing still, but that wouldn’t be correct from an astronomical perspective. The Sun does move relative to the solar system; however, since the Earth is parented to the Sun via its orbit around the Sun, the Sun is already still relative to the Earth’s movement. The Moon does move relative to the Earth, but it takes a month, not a day. So, God stopping the movement of the Sun and Moon wouldn’t have made a difference in daylight since the day-night cycle is governed by Earth’s self-rotation on its own axis and not the movements of the Sun and Moon. How should we interpret this?
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