Darkness:
The plague (the ninth) of darkness in Egypt (Exd 10:21) is described as darkness "which may be felt." It covered "all the land of Egypt," so that "they saw not one another." It did not extend to the land of Goshen (ver. 23).
When Jesus hung upon the cross (Mat 27:45; Luk 23:44), from the "sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour."
On Mount Sinai, Moses (Exd 20:21) "drew near unto the thick darkness where God was." This was the "thick cloud upon the mount" in which Jehovah was when he spake unto Moses there. The Lord dwelt in the cloud upon the mercy-seat (1Ki 8:12), the cloud of glory. When the psalmist (Psa 97:2) describes the inscrutable nature of God's workings among the sons of men, he says, "Clouds and darkness are round about him." God dwells in thick darkness.
Darkness (Isa 13:9,10; Mat 24:29) also is a symbol of the judgments that attend on the coming of the Lord. It is a symbol of misery and adversity (Job 18:6; Psa 107:10; Isa 8:22; Eze 30:18). The "day of darkness" in Joe 2:2, caused by clouds of locusts, is a symbol of the obscurity which overhangs all divine proceedings. "Works of darkness" are impure actions (Eph 5:11). "Outer darkness" refers to the darkness of the streets in the East, which are never lighted up by any public or private lamps after nightfall, in contrast with the blaze of cheerful light in the house. It is also a symbol of ignorance (Isa 9:2; 60:2; Mat 6:23) and of death (Job 10:21; 17:13).
Darkness:
Darkness: Created by God
Darkness: Originally Covered the Earth
Darkness: Separated from the Light
Darkness: Called Night
Darkness: Degrees Of, Mentioned
Great
That may be felt
Thick
Gross
Outer or extreme
Darkness: Effects Of
Keeps us from seeing objects
Causes us to go astray
Causes us to stumble
Darkness: Often Put for Night
Darkness: Called the Swaddling Band of the Sea
Darkness: Cannot Hide Us from God
Darkness: The Wicked
The children of
Live in
Walk in
Perpetuate their designs in
Are full of
Darkness: Miraculous
On mount Sinai
Over the land of Egypt
At the death of Christ
Before the destruction of Jerusalem
Darkness: Illustrative Of
Greatness and unsearchableness of God
Exd 20:21; 2Sa 22:10,12; 1Ki 8:12; Psa 97:2
Abstruse and deep subjects
Secrecy
Ignorance and error
Job 37:19; Isa 60:2; Jhn 1:5; 3:19; 12:35; Act 26:18
Anything hateful
A course of sin
Heavy afflictions
Job 23:17; Psa 112:4; Ecc 5:17; Isa 5:30; 8:22; 59:9
The power of Satan
The grave
The punishment of devils and wicked men
Darkness:
is spoken of as encompassing the actual presence of God, as that out of which he speaks,-the envelope, as it were, of divine glory (Exodus 20:21; 1 Kings 8:12). The plague of darkness in Egypt was miraculous. The darkness "over all the land," (Matthew 27:45) attending the crucifixion has been attributed to an eclipse, but was undoubtedly miraculous, as no eclipse of the sun could have taken place at that time, the moon being at the full at the time of the passover. Darkness is also, as in the expression "land of darkness," used for the state of the dead (Job 10:21-22) and frequently, figuratively, for ignorance and unbelief, as the privation of spiritual light (John 1:5; 3:19).
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