Tenebrae. Darkness between Good Friday and Resurrection Day.
Two lessons from this sign:
- “Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to
Him, ‘Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.’ But He answered and said
to them, ‘An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet no
sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet; for just as
JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA MONSTER, so
will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the
earth. The men of
- “Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the
stomach of the fish, and he said, ‘I called out of my distress to the
LORD, and He answered me. I cried for help from the depth of Sheol; You
heard my voice. For You had cast me into the deep, into the heart of the
seas, and the current engulfed me. All Your breakers and billows passed
over me. So I said, “I have been expelled from Your sight. Nevertheless I
will look again toward Your holy temple.” Water encompassed me to the
point of death. The great deep engulfed me, weeds were wrapped around my
head. I descended to the roots of the mountains. The earth with its bars was
around me forever, but You have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my
God. While I was fainting away, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came
to You, into Your holy temple. Those who regard vain idols forsake their
faithfulness, but I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving.
That which I have vowed I will pay. Salvation is from the LORD’” (Jonah
2:1-9). Cry out for salvation from the only One Who can give it: “And
there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven
that has been given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Out of the darkness, Light is coming
for all who repent, believe, and follow the One Who gave the sign of Jonah. “I
have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not
remain in darkness” (John 12:46).
Out of the darkness, repent,
believe, and follow the One Who is Light and enables us to make the confession
of Jonah (2:9): “After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude
which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and
tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white
robes, and palm branches were in their hands; and they cry out with a loud
voice, saying, ‘Salvation to our God [the confession of Jonah, the confession of the Church] Who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb’”
(Revelation 7:9,10).
“For this reason also, since the day
we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be
filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and
understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him
in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the
knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might,
for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to
the Father, Who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in
Light. For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the
kingdom of His beloved Son, in Whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins”
(Colossians 1:9-14).
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