The Lord in His wisdom gave humanity a spectrum of His light, which He spoke into being at the dawn of creation. The three primary colors of light (red, blue, and green) all add and subtract to give us the full visible spectrum of light from white down through all the colors of the rainbow and all colors of creation to black.

The Word of God made all light. Jesus, in his high priestly prayer, addressed God saying, “Your Word is Truth.” And many poetic analogies tie light to truth. This makes light and the colors of light in this diagram a fitting metaphor for Truth.

Primary Colors of Light

What is interesting about light is that we see truth based on whatever light we have seen and can see. When we see a new color, reality gains another layer of meaning. Many people who suffer from colorblindness only lack one of the three receptors, so they cannot see red, blue, or green, and the various shades that influence the color perception of the majority.

God’s truth has a similar dynamic. Some people define truth as God’s written word, or as whatever the church says, or however the Holy Spirit leads a person. All three are valid places for truth to be found– after all, the Bible of God is called the “Word of Truth,” The Holy Spirit is called the “Spirit of Truth,” and the Church is called “the Pillar and buttress of the Truth.”

Many Christians have grown up with one or two of these acknowledged as valued sources of truth, but not all. Some churches laud the “Spirit of Truth” in his anointing, life-giving fire, others pour over the “Word of Truth” as the basis of all faith and practice, while still others lift high the church as the “Pillar of the Truth.” All three are correct, yet each is incomplete without the others.

• Holy Spirit Anointing–Those who only see the red-spectrum of truth read scriptures and treat one another based on the internal moving of a mysterious Spirit, whom Scripture and Body must test to prove. These easily fall into the fleshly corruption that twists the Spirit’s leadings to our own devices, and does not rightly handle the Word of Truth, nor rightly love the Body of Christ.
• Bible Accuracy— Those who only see the blue-spectrum of truth clinically talk with the body, and nod to the work of the Spirit, but they keep Truth dry like the ink on the page, and confined to the line upon line of the Scriptures which were written for the purpose of revealing the Son, Jesus Christ. They hold the form of godliness, but deny its power, and promote dead literalism.
• Church Authority–Those who only see the green spectrum treat the church as God’s kingdom on earth, and those who sit on the seat of leadership as the ones who dictate the truth to the people. These have no place for “unpredictable” Spiritual movements or Biblical accuracy, which call them by their fickle names. These fall by the sin of pride from the height of the pillar meant only for Jesus.

Secondary Colors of Light

Color blindness, though, is rarely so singularly myopic. It often incorporates the full use of two photoreceptors with the lack of one. This blindness bears out in this Scope of Truth as well. These also represent the three secondary colors of light: yellow, magenta, and cyan.

• Empowered Body Life–Those who do not see the importance of biblical accuracy in the truth, may have the power of the Holy Spirit at work among the members of their body, but there will be erroneous compromising their ability to stay in step with the Spirit of Truth, because He always moves in agreement with the revelation of the word of Truth.
• Biblical Empowered Loners–Those who do not see the importance of the church’s buttressing the truth may have the power of the Holy Spirit, and biblical accuracy, but they will not be effective for the Kingdom, because the Kingdom is built in human lives and hearts. This individual will be schismatic rather than preserving the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
• Bible-based Community–Those who do not see the importance of the Holy Spirit’s anointing may have biblical accuracy, and a tight-knit community of faith and love, but they will be powerless to bring fresh revelation of the Son of God by the Spirit of God in ordinary daily life, and special works of power, wisdom, and insight.

The Center of Truth: Jesus Christ Crucified

Now, when it comes to those who see with all color receptors, the combination of all colors of light is white, and this is the center that all who can see light can perceive. This is where we find the Intersection of Truth, where Truth is Alive, at its source and Truth itself embodied: “Jesus Christ Crucified.” (1 Cor. 2:2) This is all Paul wanted to know among the Corinthians. Each of these color receptors combines to see Jesus fully in all his glory.

• Jesus— according to the Bible: Yeshua, Salvation, situated in the story of God saving His people. Jesus is no less than what the Scriptures bear Him out to be, and this is a lifetime of depth, width, height, and length to pursue. Jesus is the Way the Truth and the life.
• Christ–the word Christ means “anointed,” the one upon whom the Spirit of truth and of God rests. The one who would would belong to Christ Jesus must himself have the same Spirit. By this Spirit we are proven that we are empowered for the same purpose of the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Crucified–the church, the body of Christ, embodies Jesus, as the pillar of the truth, and the only time Truth was truly elevated effectively for salvation, was on a cruel and shameful cross which simultaneously juxtaposed our utterly sinful rebellion, and God’s indomitable love. This is the basis for the life of the Church, and the cruciform shape of every Christian life from beginning to end.

When all of these come together, we see the white light of God’s truth revealed in the person of Jesus Christ freshly, biblical, and powerfully for the salvation of all and the glory of His name.

A Riddle for Prophets

Now, for all who would pursue love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, especially that they may “prophesy” in accordance with 1 Corinthians 14 and Revelation 19:10, this is for your meditation.

The difference between the first and the second is the Greek words at the center. Revelation 19:10 says that “the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” The point for your meditation is that the word for testimony is μαρτυρία. “Oh, that all of God’s people were prophets!” Numbers 11:29