The Father of lights is an ancient Jewish expression for God as the Creator, with “lights” referring to the sun, moon, and stars. (See also Genesis 1:14-19.)
Commentary from the MacArthur study Bible, notes for James 1:17.
Father of lights
Moon
Idolatrous Worship of the Sun, Moon and Stars
God gave them up, judicially abandoning the people to their sin and idolatry. The context here is Israel’s idolatrous worship of the sun, moon and stars (the host of heaven), which began in the wilderness and lasted through the Babylonian captivity.
Commentary from the MacArthur study Bible, notes for Acts 7:42.
What Man Can Do
Sustaining life to the moon and back,
this is what man can do.
Buying and selling men, women and children for the love of money, greed,
this is what man can do.
The heights of heaven and the depths of hell-
this is where man is and where man will be.
but they set an ambush
to kill themselves;
they attack their own lives.
Such are the paths of all
who pursue gain dishonestly;
it takes the lives of those
who profit from it.
Proverbs 1:18-19
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