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Darkness
and God says, “Let light be”; and light is.
(Genesis 1:3) LSV
When God said, let light be, the lamb of God was slain from the foundation of the world. That’s why it went dark at the end of the first day, the second occurrence of darkness that we have to account for, called night.
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And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
(Matthew 27:46) KJV
Jesus wasn’t forsaken, but his separation from God the Father by total darkness was a picture of two things:
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Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
(Matthew 27:45) KJV
Another picture that we have which is part of the symbolism of Christ on the cross is that darkness came upon the world in the middle of the day. Things on Earth are patterned after things in the heavens.
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The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
(Genesis 1:2) ESV
The nature of free will is such that an individual can choose light or darkness. How can there be free will unless a choice is available? The Lord had to create a universe in which darkness exists.
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And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
(Genesis 1:4) KJV
On rare occasions we encounter someone who has an inkling of what we’re doing, harmonizing science with the Bible, and they ask an intelligent question about it. The intelligent question was this:
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Now the message that we have heard from his Son and announce is this: God is light, and there is no darkness at all in him.
(1 John 1:5) Good News Translation
In the beginning God the father is Alpha, the proton (Hydrogen, H+) which is light. The Holy spirit is omega Oxygen (ΩO2-). These are the elemental spirits of the universe H+ and ΩO2-, Alpha and Omega.
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Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
(Isaiah 5:20) ESV
The parallels between light and good vs. darkness and evil are stated throughout scripture. Isaiah laments people who try to make you believe that good is evil and evil is good, and who put darkness for light.
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For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
(2 Corinthians 5:21) NKJV
Christ had to become sin for us. This has a meaning which goes beyond the symbolism of Christ on the cross. It goes back to the nature of the matter of which the universe is made.
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He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
(Job 28:3) KJV
During the formation of planet Earth, the action of the particles moving to form the core of the Earth is pictured in the sense of sinking into darkness and obscurity.
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And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? ( Matthew 27:46 )
Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross was the symbolic fulfillment of the sacrifice that was made on the first day when God said, Let there be light, and caused formerly pure water to become corrupted with the general messiness that is necessary for life to form.
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Matty (Headwind) 