Darkness

Darkness (, meaning "the dark";, meaning "darkness") is the absence of light. Darkness is used as a symbol of ignorance and spiritual blindness. Mankind has long associates darkness with danger and evil. It is also a metaphor for the place of everlasting punishment. Darkness is specially noted on three occasions in the scriptures:


 * 1) At the period of creation.
 * 2) The plague of darkness in Egypt.
 * 3) The darkness at the hour of crucifixion.

The plague of darkness in Egypt


Egypt was plunged into a darkness lasting three days (a recurrent motif in the Bible symbolic of the time that Jesus Christ would lie dead before His Resurrection). This was a slam against the king of Egyptian gods, called Ra or Re or Amun-Re.

Darkness at the crucifixion
The supernatural darkness that was reported in the crucifixion of Jesus was not a metaphor. Actually it was a real historical event based on eyewitness accounts and independently corroborated by multiple highly skilled ancient historians. Three evangelists, one of them an eyewitness to the event (Matthew), recorded the period of darkness that occurred from the sixth hour until the ninth hour: