Frequencies of Creation: What Sound, Light and the Unseen Realm Reveal About God

Based on Bible Mysteries Podcast Episode 297: Frequencies of Creation | Sound, Light, Energy and the Spiritual Realm

Modern science has given names and measurements to things mankind could not see for most of human history. Sound travels in waves. Light exists across a vast electromagnetic spectrum. Radio signals, infrared, ultraviolet, microwaves, X-rays, and countless other forms of energy surround us even though our natural senses perceive only a fraction of them.

These discoveries are remarkable, but man did not create the laws that make them possible. He discovered laws already established within creation.

Scripture takes us back to their source.

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” — Genesis 1:1

God designed creation with order. Sound, light, energy, and information operate according to laws established by the Creator. What modern science describes in terms of waves and frequencies may offer a fascinating glimpse into that order.

This does not mean frequency is the source of God's power. God is the source of all power. Nor does Scripture tell us that God created the universe through physical frequencies as we understand them.

But Scripture does reveal something extraordinary about creation from its very beginning.

God spoke.

Frequencies of Creation and the Spoken Word

Genesis 1:3 records:

“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”

The Hebrew expression translated “God said” is amar Elohim. The word amar means to say, speak, or utter.

Again and again throughout Genesis 1, we read, “And God said.”

In our physical world, speech produces sound, and sound has frequency. Does this mean God's creative command traveled through the universe as an acoustic sound wave?

Scripture does not tell us.

There may not even have been an atmosphere capable of carrying physical sound as we understand it. We should therefore be careful not to reduce God's creative power to a scientific mechanism.

What Scripture does emphasize is the power and authority of His Word.

Psalm 33:6 declares:

“By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.”

Then verses 8–9 add:

“Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.”

God could have created silently. Yet Scripture repeatedly tells us that He spoke, and creation responded.

Jesus Christ Is the Word Who Created All Things

The connection becomes even more powerful when we turn to the Gospel of John.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” — John 1:1–3

The Greek word translated “Word” is logos. Its meaning extends beyond a simple spoken sound. John identifies the Word as a Person.

Jesus Christ is the eternal Word.

John 1:14 tells us:

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us…”

Think about what this means.

The One through whom matter was created entered the matter He created. The Creator became flesh and dwelt among His creation.

Paul confirms Christ's role as Creator in Colossians 1:16–17:

“For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible… all things were created by him, and for him:

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”

Everything ultimately points back to Jesus Christ.

Sound does.

Light does.

Energy does.

The visible creation does.

The invisible creation does.

Scripture does not say that God created by “frequency.” It says He created by His Word—and Jesus Christ is that eternal Word through whom all things were made.

The Power and Operation of God

The Bible also uses interesting language when describing God's power.

First Corinthians 1:18 states:

“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”

The Greek word translated “power” is dunamis, meaning force, miraculous power, ability, or strength.

Colossians 2:12 uses another term:

“Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.”

“Operation” is translated from the Greek energeia, meaning effectual or powerful working. It is also the source from which we derive the English word energy.

Modern physics gives energy and power specific technical meanings. Scripture is not presenting a physics lesson. It is describing the mighty and effective working of God.

The God who created us also has the power to make us a new creation through Christ. The same passage points us to God's mighty operation in raising Christ from the dead.

The mechanism remains God's business.

The power belongs to Him.

Sound, Music and the Created Order

Sound was also incorporated into worship.

Psalm 33:1–3 commands God's people to rejoice, sing, and praise Him with musical instruments:

“Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.”

Music appears even in Scripture's description of the heavenly realm.

When God questioned Job concerning the creation of the earth, He asked:

“Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.” — Job 38:4

Then He described what happened when the foundations were laid:

“When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” — Job 38:7

There was singing and shouting associated with the heavenly host.

Ezekiel 28 also describes the King of Tyrus, whom we believe to be a reference to Lucifer, with “tabrets” and “pipes” prepared in him from the day he was created.

Music was part of God's created order. Yet, like so many good things God created, it can be corrupted and used for purposes contrary to Him.

This is an important distinction. The problem is not sound. The problem is not music. The problem is what fallen beings do with what God created.

Light and the Frequencies of Creation

Sound is only one part of the discussion. Light presents another remarkable connection.

Genesis 1:3–4 says:

“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.”

First John 1:5 makes an even greater statement:

“God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.”

We believe the darkness described in Genesis 1:2 is connected to divine judgment between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. One possibility, therefore, is that when God commanded, “Let there be light,” He was commanding light to shine through the darkness rather than creating His own light at that moment.

Whatever the physical mechanism, Scripture repeatedly uses the contrast between light and darkness to reveal spiritual truth.

When Christ commissioned Paul, He sent him:

“To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God…” — Acts 26:18

Paul was not carrying physical light into the world. He was carrying truth—the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The imagery moves us beyond physics.

God is light.

Christ is truth.

Satan is associated with darkness and deception.

A Reality Beyond Human Perception

One of the most fascinating lessons from modern science is how little of physical reality our natural senses actually perceive.

Many waves and signals can pass through our environment without our seeing or hearing them. Their invisibility does not make them unreal.

That provides an interesting analogy for something Scripture has told us all along: reality is not limited to what human beings can naturally perceive.

Colossians 1:16 explicitly speaks of things “visible and invisible.”

This does not mean the spiritual realm is simply another band on the electromagnetic spectrum. Scripture never says that.

But creation itself demonstrates that something can be completely real while remaining outside the range of human perception.

Second Kings 6 provides a remarkable biblical example.

Elisha and his servant were surrounded by the Syrian army. The servant saw the enemy and panicked.

Elisha responded:

“Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.” — 2 Kings 6:16

Then Elisha prayed:

“LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see.”

God opened the servant's eyes.

Suddenly:

“The mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.”

Notice what Elisha did not ask.

He did not ask God to send an army.

He asked God to open the servant's eyes.

The heavenly host was apparently already there.

Did God expand the servant's range of perception? Did He remove some barrier preventing him from seeing the spiritual realm?

We cannot know.

Scripture simply tells us that God opened his eyes, and he saw what had previously been invisible to him.

When the Creator Speaks Creation Responds

Jesus demonstrated His authority over creation during a violent storm on the Sea of Galilee.

Matthew 8:26 records:

“Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.”

The disciples responded:

“What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!” — Matthew 8:27

That word obey is significant.

Creation responded to its Creator.

The same Christ whom John identifies as the Word through whom all things were made stood in a boat and commanded the creation He had made.

Could He have calmed the sea without speaking?

Certainly.

Yet once again, Scripture records Him speaking.

Genesis tells us, “God said.”

Psalm 33 tells us, “He spake, and it was done.”

The Gospels show Christ rebuking the winds and the sea.

Revelation 19 ultimately presents the returning Christ with a sword proceeding from His mouth.

Again and again, Scripture directs our attention to the authority of His Word.

The Prince of the Power of the Air

There is another side to communication and information.

Ephesians 2:2 describes Satan as:

“The prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.”

The word translated “power” here is exousia, which carries the idea of authority or jurisdiction. The Greek aēr, translated “air,” refers to air or atmosphere.

The word air itself does not mean information.

But there is an interesting biblical pattern.

From the beginning, Satan has worked through words.

His first recorded words to Eve were:

“Yea, hath God said…?” — Genesis 3:1

First he questioned God's Word.

Then he contradicted it:

“Ye shall not surely die.” — Genesis 3:4

God spoke truth.

Satan introduced corrupted information.

Jesus later said of the devil:

“He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him… for he is a liar, and the father of it.” — John 8:44

The technology has changed dramatically since Eden. Humanity now communicates through radio, television, satellites, Wi-Fi, cellular networks, social media, streaming video, music, and countless other systems built upon properties God placed within creation.

Those means of communication can transmit truth.

They can also transmit lies.

The pattern remains the same.

The Battle Between Truth and Lies

We can speculate endlessly about frequencies.

Did ancient civilizations possess knowledge of sound or magnetic energy that has since been lost?

Were frequencies involved in constructing massive ancient structures?

Can fallen angels manipulate aspects of creation mankind does not yet understand?

Could emerging technologies play a role in the prophetic events of the last days?

Those are fascinating questions.

But they are not the point.

The danger comes when fascination with the mechanism causes us to lose sight of the Creator.

The spiritual conflict revealed throughout Scripture is ultimately a conflict between truth and lies.

Satan asked, “Yea, hath God said?”

Jesus answered the larger question when He declared:

“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” — John 14:6

Satan points mankind away from Christ.

God's Word points us directly to Him.

The Frequencies of Creation Point to the Creator

We may someday discover aspects of God's creation that currently seem impossible.

There may be laws governing the physical universe that mankind has barely begun to understand.

And there are certainly realities in the spiritual realm that remain hidden from our natural senses.

But we do not need to understand every mechanism of creation to know the One who created it.

Romans 5:8 tells us:

“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

The One who created heaven and earth became flesh.

The eternal Word entered His creation.

The One through whom all things visible and invisible were made went to the cross to pay the penalty for our sins.

God raised Him from the dead by His mighty power.

And Jesus Christ will return.

Sound, light, energy, information, the visible universe and the invisible realm may contain mysteries beyond anything we currently comprehend. But all creation ultimately points beyond itself.

It points to Jesus Christ—the Word, the Truth, and the Creator of all things.