SUNSET-SUNRISE
And he shall be like the light of the morning when the sun rises…
(2 Samuel 23:4)
In John, Christ spoke, saying:
“I am the light of the world.
He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness
but have the light of life.”
(John 8:12)
“As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
(John 9:5)
But as it says in Job:
He is driven from light into darkness
And chased out of the world.
(Job 18:18)
The sun is the secular light of this world just as the Son is the Spiritual light. But there is a correlation between the sun and the Son in the same way there seems to be a conflict between light and darkness.
In a way, the light was “chased out of this world” when Christ was crucified. This occurred during the latter part of the afternoon as…
…from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over the land.
(Matthew 27:45)
So at the crucifixion of Christ the dying of the Son was paralleled by the fading away of the sun. And as the light left, darkness enveloped the earth. Without the Son, darkness reigned. And it has been so ever since.
But the sun doesn’t stay down forever, for in the morning it returns and once again darkness flees and light shines forth. It was about that time of day when the Son arose and demonstrated the light of eternity to the world. And as the sun returns each day, so shall the Son return once more to drive away the darkness forever.
The sunset corresponds to the Son being driven into darkness and the sunrise to Christ returning in His glory. Therefore, no matter how difficult events may seem now, there is always morning on the horizon and the promise of the Son’s return. As it says in the Psalms:
…Weeping may endure for a night,
But joy comes in the morning.
(Psalm 30:5)
And that is always something to think about.
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