THE DARKENING OF THE SUN

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THE DARKENING OF THE SUN

In Matthew 24:29 Jesus said, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light…”

Revelation 6:12, 17 echoes the words of Jesus, “…and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood…For the great day of his wrath has come, and who shall be able to stand?”

We think of the sun actually becoming black, and the moon really turning into blood, but I believe that the Word of God is conveying to us that there will be darkness in the land—the opposite of light.

In Exodus 10:21-23, the last plague God sent upon the Egyptians was darkness, “…and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days…but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.” Darkness speaks of the judgment of God upon sin.

There was darkness when Jesus was on the cross, at the time that the judgment and wrath due all mankind was poured upon Jesus. “And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened…” (Luke 23:44-45).

“The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come…The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining” (Joel 2:31, 3:15). . Isaiah 60:2 says “For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people;”

Jeremiah 13:16 “Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.”

Ezekiel 32:7-8 “…I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark: I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the lord God.”

Isaiah 13:9-10 “Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger…for the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.”

It is a literal darkness that covers the land in the last days – not necessarily a physical darkness but a spiritual darkness – A TIME WHEN PEOPLE CANNOT SEE THE TRUTH OF GOD RIGHT BEFORE THEIR VERY EYES!

Amos:9-12 “And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day; …Behold, the days come, saith the lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, and they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
Isaiah 59:2, 9-10 “But your iniquities have separated between you and your God…Therefore … we wait for light, but behold obscurity, for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night…”
Ephes. 4:18 “Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:”

But if we follow Jesus, we will be able to see the truth, for He assured us, “I am the light of the world; he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life” (John 8:12).

Read all of 1 Thessalonians 5:2-9, but in particular verse 2 says, “..the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.” Those who are in the night – in darkness – will not see the day of the Lord coming! Verses 4-5,9 go on to say, “But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness…For God hath not appointed us to wrath.”

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