Luke 22-24

It took me about 18 minutes to read this passage. Starting at noon on Good Friday the city of Jerusalem was in darkness. Total darkness. I wonder if it was a darkness that could be felt? I wonder how similar this darkness was to the darkness in Egypt that lasted three days? (Exodus 10:21-22) The big difference was who was impacted by this darkness. During those three days in Egypt Israel had been spared the darkness. Now during these three hours of darkness it is Israel who are the oppressors.  It is God who is the one being beat down. It may have looked like the light of God's promise was being extinguished, but we now know that this was the darkness just before the dawn of God's glorious new day; the day of Jesus' resurrection.
Stuart