Christ Is the Search Light for Lost Ships at Sea

*The light of Yahweh *is the breath of Adam, *searching the depths *of every darkness *in the bowels of his death. 

Proverbs 20:27 (NKJV)
27 The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, Searching all the inner depths of his heart.  

*[The light of Yahweh] literally, this is referencing the presence of Christ’s life in the world, but it is associated here with the lamp or candle that burns in the temple and lights up its inner chambers (Ex.25:31-40; 27:20; 30:8; 35:14; 39:37; Lev.24:1-4). But all of this, in the temple and tabernacle, was to demonstrate the earthly presence of Yahweh (1Sam.3:3; 2Sam.21:17). Yet it is pointing forward to the human figure and presence of the Spirit of the Lord, in the person and life of Jesus Christ, in the ministry of his death and resurrection to atone for sinners (Jn.1:4-5, 9-10; 1:6-8). Therefore it is ‘the light of life,’ in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, who was that burning lamp searching the hearts that seek to enter the presence of Yahweh in the death of their sin (Jn.5:31-35; Mk.1:1-4; Mal.3:1; Ex.23:20-23), for it is he alone who is to be the death of death in the ministry of crucifying sin (Matt.1:21-23; Isa.7:14; 8:8). It is Christ who guides them into death by the peace of his reconciliation that he made with God on behalf of sinners (Rom.7:1-6). 

*[is the breath of Adam] literally, the inspiration of Adam in his death, that is, the breath of his soul. This is viewing Adam theologically as he is under sin and death in the deep and dark recesses of his soul and not as he was in the beginning before he saw himself in death (Rom.3:9-20; 7:7-12). The soul that sins shall die as God has promised to him who eats of the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil (Ezk.18:4; Gen.2:15-17; 3:1-5; 3:6-8, 22-24). But it’s also the answer as to how Adam lives (Gen.3:16-21; Pr.20:28). Adam himself, here, is not theologically viewed as a sinner by inspiration of this text, for ‘the light of Christ’ is his breath (Gen.2:7; Job.33:4; Ezk.37:5; Dan.5:23; Mk.15:39; Rev.11:11; Jn.20:22). Adam is named here because he represents the imputation of sin and death to every man (Rom.5:12; 1Cor.15:45; 2Cor.5:21), but he is also the type of Christ who was to come (Rom.5:14) that will represent the sons of God (Lk.3:38). Therefore the general Hebrew word that is used for humanity is not applied here by which it represents every living man, but what is used here is the specific proper name that applies to the spiritual race of men whose names are those written in the Lamb’s Book of Life (Rev.13:8; 21:27; 1Cor.15:45). Because in theology, the soul of man is created dead in trespasses and sins (Rom.5:19), and the breath of God and the light of Christ is not in them who sin (Jn.8:12; 2Tim.1:10; Eph.2:1-10; 1Jn.3:14). Only Christians are the light and life of the world (Matt.5:13-16; Lk.16:8; Jn.11:9; Phil.2:15; 1Thess.5:5). The human race is not born naturally with this ‘light of life’ but is created in darkness (Jn.3:3-12; Isa.45:7). They are like still-born children, theologically speaking, separated from the life of God (Eph.4:18); from what is said to be the breath of God (1Jn.5:12; 2Tim.1:1), also known as the commonwealth of Israel (Eph.2:12). They are without a lamp that is burning in the temple of Yahweh (Rev.2:5; 11:4; 18:23; 21:23). There are no churches in Disney’s fantasy land (Matt.6:23).  

*[searching the depths] literally, to search out the bowels of darkness. Christ came to us as the light of the world to seek and save the lost (Jn.8:12; 9:5; Lk.19:10). What Solomon is saying here is that we are like food in the belly of Hades (Death) that is prepared for destruction (Rom.9:22; Matt.25:41; Job.26:6; Ps.18:5; 116:3; Pr.1:12; Isa.5:14; 14:11, 15; 28:15; 38:18; Jon.2:2). Likewise, we can’t observe the dark recesses and corners of our bowel movements with the naked eye, but we can understand the effects of how it feels inside as the food decays and rots away on the inside, being transformed into our body of destruction (Rom.7:23-24). In other words, you can’t see it by your own image that you are dead on the inside (Matt.23:27), but out of the abundance of your heart, the mouth of sin and death speaks (Matt.12:34; Lk.6:45; Mk.7:14-23; Rom.3:13-14). So it is referring to the body of death that houses our dead soul (Rom.7:7-25). Christ is looking for those lost spirits imprisoned and enslaved by its image but searching by the light of his own image for those that have been forsaken in the darkness and bowels of Adam’s death (1Pet.3:19; Ps.16:10; 22:1; 86:13; Isa.28:18; 57:9). We were Adam’s posterity, in his bowels, if you will, when he sinned. However, Adam could not rescue his children by his own breath (1Cor.15:45), that is, by his own death (Job.33:23; Gal.3:20; 1Tim.2:5). Adam required a substitute. And since we were caught in his death, we need a substitute also (Gen.3:22). I could plow a lot harder here to cultivate out the hardness of our human inability, but I think our previous proverb already gave a sufficient answer to the purpose of that truth. This is speaking of light, not so much with the intent to expose the darkness (Gen.1:2; Jer.4:23), but to fill the hunger of its void (Dt.28:48; Neh.9:15; Matt.5:6; Jn.6:35), (that is, the bowels of darkness in their grumbling emptiness (James 5:9; 1Pet.4:9; Lam.3:39; Ps.106:20-26)), with the light of Christ’s life. This light is to fill more than it is to expose (1Cor.4:11; 2Cor.11:27). It is to fill the bowels with purpose, with the food that produces energy to live the Christian life (Jn.4:34; Matt.22:4; Lk.6:21; Jn.6:26; Rom.15:13-14; Eph.3:19; Col.1:9). 

*[of every darkness] literally, the continuation of the bowels of the belly, but in conjunction to the ‘dark room’ of the holy context of the Jewish temple (2Chr.7:1; Isa.6:1; Ezk.10:4; 43:5; Hag.2:7; Rev.15:8; Ezk.9:3-11). So this is viewing the body of death as the temple of Yahweh when the presence of the sacrificial lamb is slain, and the darkroom lights up by the glory of the Mediator and Intercessor of their souls (Jn.2:16-22; Isa.8:20; Ex.26:33; 30:6; Lk.23:45; 2Cor.3:14-16; 4:3; Heb.6:19; 9:3; 10:19-22; Num.6:22-27). Literally, this is what gives life to Adam’s death in the substitution of the lamb of God (Jn.1:29). The lamp of the temple shines into this dark room when the veil is removed, and the face of Christ radiates the whole temple (Matt.6:21-24; Lk.11:33-36; Num.8:3; 1Sam.3:2-4; 2Sam.22:29). Therefore Christ is the light of life that searches out all the elect names that have been lost in Adam’s bowels of death, to light up their death with his life and light through his atoning sacrifice poured out into us for everlasting life (Rev.14; Ex.28:30; Lev.8:8; Dt.33:8; Ez.2:63; Neh.7:65). Just as our Gentile names are represented by the pillars of the names of the Apostles, so shall the children of the 144,000 heads of the tribes of Israel that survive the great tribulation represent the names of their children written in the Lamb’s Book of Life (of their generation) (Rev.21:14; Dt.29:29; Rom.8:19; Mk.13:30). But you can be most certainly be assured that every name that was written by the Father’s right hand will be saved from the second death (Jn.10:28-29; Rev.2:11; 20:6, 14; 21:8). 

*[in the bowels of his death]. adjectively, again, in theological conjunction with the construct of ‘the body of death.’ By looking at the following proverb, we can see that this light of Christ is what preserves the breath of Adam by filling his darkroom (his bowels) with mercy and truth. These are attributes that preserve Adam in his death (Rom.8:11). So by the lovingkindness, that is, the sovereign electing love of God (Rom.11:16-22), the children of Israel, (in Solomon’s context), continue to abide as Adam’s offspring (Rev.12:17; 22:16), being preserved to live a self-controlled life by the love of God that restrains them (2Cor.5:12-17); and more specifically the king (representative) of these children (Jn.1:14), to rule his own kingdom in the same image of mercy and truth as Yahweh has in power over the death of his death (Jn.10:18; Matt.5:48). When the presence of Christ is in the bowels of our nature, then Adam bears spiritual fruit to God. He has offspring that will continue to uphold the Lordship of Christ and has children of light and not of darkness (Hos.9:16; Ezk.17:8; Matt.3:8, 10; 13:23; Lk.8:15; Jn.15:4, 5, 8, 16; Rom.7:5). 

*[The light of Yahweh is the life of Adam, illuminating the bowels of his every darkness]*