Luke 23:44 (NIV) “It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon”
Amos 8:9 (NIV) “In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.”
Amos 8:10 (NLT) “I will turn your celebrations into times of mourning and your singing into weeping. You will wear funeral clothes and shave your heads to show your sorrow— as if your only son had died. How very bitter that day will be!”
Job 30:26 (NIV) “Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.”
Not only did the dissiples experience physical darkness after Jesus died, but it appeared that their Saviour and their Christ was died. They were captured in darkness. They were reminded of what life without Christ would be. They had to reminded of John 3:19-21 (NIV) “This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
As the Light of the world is put to death—when all of the sins of the world are placed upon Him—darkness covers the land, signifying the attempt of sin and death to smother and eradicate the light. For three days, the world remained in spiritual darkness and utter hopelessness, until the third day—when Jesus burst forth from the darkness, defeating sin and death. At that moment and forevermore, Light has reigned victoriously, having defeated all the forces of darkness once and for all.
As the day dawns and the resurrection is confirmed, the incredible news of man’s first day of freedom and forgiveness of all sins—becomes reality. Light saturates the earth with God’s glory, as Jesus has triumphed over all darkness. In the death and resurrection of Jesus, as God had promised, all people who have been born on the earth have the opportunity to have all their sins removed and obtain eternal life.
“Christ is the Light of the world. God is light, and Christ is the image of the invisible God. One sun enlightens the whole world; so does one Christ, and there needs no more.” -Matthew Henry Commentary, Concise
John 1:9-10 (NIV) “The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.”
John 1:4 (NIV) “In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind”
