The meanings of darkness and night as they appear in a prophecy spoken by Jesus are topics, today. Also, there is more on how death as the end of pain and suffering relates to self-will and sin. A “Yahoo! Answers” writer using ID “pray for the world.” (Level 7 with 68,843 points, a member since April 15, 2011) posted the following:
Christians, what did Jesus mean by night coming when no man can work?
John 9:4 (ESV)
4 We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
THE BATTLE AXE: The End of Pain? (06/10/2013)— (6) Self-will in created beings and living creatures is defiled by sin and made spiritually unclean. Saying this another way: will in temporal beings (those who are not eternal) decays and rots; and ones spiritual endowment from GOD is diminished. Through the influence of sin upon self-will (we say, will-power), it is now widely-held error within the awareness of created beings and living creatures that GOD is an arbitrary cause of death, that death occurs randomly and serves no purpose, and that the end of GOD will bring the end of death. Ones desire for their own continuity and permanence as well as that for their loved ones cannot be satisfied through operations of human will. Sin results in death by blocking and interrupting divine growth, learning, maturation, and perfection.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 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. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. (1st Thessalonians 5: 1-11, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Jesus Lives! (05/04/2013); Time Before The Sun? (04/14/2013); The Obedience of Jesus? (04/15/2013); Did Jesus Know? (12/22/2012); The True Miracle (12/23/2012)
“pray for the world.”, many mature Christian believers who deeply love Jesus as our Redeemer and Savior would agree that anyone who desires a full and mature knowledge of the Gospel, should also consider the following points:
(1) Throughout the holy writings, day and night are recurring conditions in human experience, and the natural world. Day is the time of light when meaningful work and honest activity may be completed. As an extended period dominated by darkness, many repeatedly choose night as the time to commit sins, and pursue pleasures that are offenses against GOD. Transgressors gain a heightened confidence that, cloaked and covered by night, they will remain anonymous, their wrongdoing will not be detected or interrupted, they will have greater opportunity to escape, and, even when seen by witnesses, they will not be easy to identify in the light.
(2) Along with blindness, darkness and night also speak to ignorance of revealed truth from GOD. In addition to preaching a prophetic message, teaching from the holy writings, and witness as his ministry from GOD, Jesus performed works that included exorcism (i.e., casting out devils and unclean spirit beings that attempt to conceal themselves from divine sight by hiding within human bodies, who debase and defile their hosts), forgiving the condemned in judgment, healing the blind, and raising the dead.
(3) Because of depression, despair, and sorrow without godly hope, death is spoken of in the world as darkness, and night. (The earth is the creation of GOD; the world is the man-made system for exchange and survival upon the earth.) Through Jesus Christ, mankind receives the demonstration of resurrection, the promise of eternal life, and the expectation of unending light provided by the permanent presence of GOD.
There is far more to be said, correctly applied, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, (4) Jesus prophesied his own death as unavoidable, and highlighted the truth that the continuing work of his disciples and apostles as vessels of the Holy Spirit would be the primary spark of GOD upon the earth until the time of his second coming.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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