"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness....
Woe to those who are
wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight!"
Isaiah 5:20-21
The darkness of
evil
"Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the
Lord, and their works are in the dark;
They say, 'Who sees us?' and, 'Who knows us?'”
Isaiah 29:15
"They do not know, nor do they understand;
They walk about in darkness;"
Psalm 82:5
“Jesus
said to the chief priests... 'Have you come out, as against a
robber, with swords and clubs?... But this is your hour, and
the power of
darkness.”
Luke 22:52-53
"...when the sixth hour had come, there was
darkness
over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth
hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, 'Eloi, Eloi,
lama sabachthani?' which is translated,
'My God, My God,
why have You forsaken Me?'"
Mark 15:33
"...there was
darkness over all the earth.... Then the
sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in
two.
And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He
said, 'Father,
into Your hands I commit My spirit.’
Having said this, He breathed His last."
Luke 23:44-46
"Those who
sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,
Bound
in affliction and irons—
Because they
rebelled against the words of God,
And
despised
the counsel of the Most High,
Therefore He brought down their heart with labor;
They fell down, and there was
none to help.
Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He saved them out of their distresses.
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,
And broke their chains in pieces.
Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness,
And for His wonderful works to the children of men!"
Psalm 107:10-15
God's comfort in
the midst of a darkness
"...God
Who commanded light to shine out of darkness...
has
l
shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of
the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."
2 Corinthians 4:6
"Arise,
a
shine; for your light has come!
And
the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.
For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
And deep darkness the people;
But the Lord will arise over you,
And His glory will be seen upon you.
The
Gentiles shall come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your rising."
Isaiah 60:1-3
"The
people who walked in darkness Have seen a great light....
For unto us a Child is born, unto us a
Son is given;
And
the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor,
l
Mighty God,
Everlasting Father,
Prince of Peace."
Isaiah 9:2-6
"All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was
made that was made.
In Him was life, and
the life was
the light of men. And
the light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness did not
comprehend it." John 1:3-5
"Jesus spoke to them... 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
"Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?...
If I say, 'Surely the darkness shall
fall on me,
”
Even the night shall be light about me;
Indeed, the darkness
shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as the day;
The darkness and the light are both alike to You."
Psalm 139:6, 11-12
"Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness;
He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous."
Psalm 112:3
"...when I fall, I will arise; when I sit in darkness,
The Lord will be a light to me."
Micah 7:8
“For You are my
lamp, O Lord;
The Lord shall enlighten my darkness....
As for God,
His way is perfect;
The word of the Lord is proven;
He is a shield to all who trust in Him."
2 Samuel 22:29, 31
“I,
the Lord, have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand;
I will keep You
and give You as a covenant to the people,
As
a light to the Gentiles, To open blind eyes,
To
bring out prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness....
I am the Lord, that is My name;
And My glory I will not give to another,"
Isaiah 42:6-8
"If you extend your soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul,
Then your light shall dawn in the darkness,
And your darkness shall be as the noonday.
The Lord will guide you continually,
And satisfy your soul in drought and strengthen your bones;
You shall be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail."
Isaiah 58:10-11
God created
darkness for His good purpose
"I will give you the treasures of darkness
And hidden riches of secret places,
That you may know that I, the Lord,
Who
call you by your name,
Am the God of Israel."
Isaiah 45:3
"I will bring the blind by a way they did not know;
I will lead them in paths they have not known.
I will make darkness light before them,
And crooked places straight.
These things I will do for them,
And not forsake them."
Isaiah 42:16
"I am the Lord, and there is no other;
I form the light and create darkness,
I make peace and
create calamity;
I, the Lord, do all these things.’"
Isaiah 45:6-7
"The Lord
a
reigns; Let the earth rejoice.... Clouds and darkness surround Him;
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne."
Psalm 97:1-2
“...the
mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness,
cloud, and thick darkness. And the Lord spoke to you out
of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but
saw no
form;
you only heard a voice.
So He
declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform,
the Ten Commandments...."
Deuteronomy 4:11-13
“And you, child
[John the Baptist], will be called the prophet of the Highest;
For
you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His
ways,
To give
knowledge of salvation to His people by the remission of their sins....
To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow
of death,
To
guide our feet into the way of peace.”
Luke 1:76-79
[Speaking in a vision to Saul/Paul on the way to Damascus] "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
But
rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this
purpose,
to make you a minister and a witness both of the
things which you have seen and of the things which I will yet
reveal to you.
I will
deliver you from the Jewish
people, as well as from the Gentiles,
to whom I
now send
you,
to open their eyes, in order
to turn them from
darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God,
that
they may receive forgiveness of sins and
an inheritance among
those who are sanctified
by faith in Me."
Acts 26:15-18
Man's response to
His grace leads to judgment or salvation
"...this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the
world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their
deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light
and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be
exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his
deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."
John 3:19-20
"...let us
therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let
us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly,
as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness,
not in
lewdness and lust,
not in strife and envy. But put on
the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh,
to fulfill its lusts."
Romans 13:12-14
"...for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And
what communion has light with darkness?
And what accord
has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an
unbeliever?
And what agreement has the temple of God with
idols? For
you
are the temple of the living God.... 'Therefore, come out
from them and be separate..."
2 Corinthians 6:14-17
"...walk worthy of the Lord,
fully pleasing Him... giving thanks to the Father
who has qualified us to be partakers of
the inheritance of
the saints in the light.
He has delivered us from
a
the
power of darkness
and
conveyed us into the kingdom of the
Son of His love,
in whom we have redemption through His blood..."
Colossians 1:10-14
"For
you were once darkness, but now you are
light in the
Lord. Walk as children of light...
finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather
expose them...."
Ephesians 5:8-12
"Jesus said to them, 'A little while longer
the light
is with you.
'Walk while you have the light, lest darkness
overtake you; 'he who walks in darkness does not know where he
is going. While you have the light, believe in the light,
that you may become 'sons of light."
John 12:35-36
"Jesus cried out and said,' He who believes in Me, 'believes not in Me
'but in Him who sent Me.
And
he
who sees Me sees Him who sent Me. I have come as a light
into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in
darkness."
John 12:44-46
"He who loves his brother abides
in the light, and
there is no cause for stumbling in him.
But he who
hates his brother is in darkness and
walks
in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes."
1 John 2:10
“'Therefore
their way shall be to them like slippery ways;
In the darkness they shall be driven on and fall....
For I
will bring disaster on them,
The year of their punishment, ' says the Lord."
Jeremiah 23:12
"Give glory to the Lord
your God before He causes
darkness,
And before your feet stumble on the dark mountains,
And while you are
looking for light,
He turns it into
the shadow of death...." Jeremiah 13:16
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is
good, your whole body will be full of light.
But if your
eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If
therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is
that darkness!"
Matthew 6:22-23
"[Jesus] said to him,‘
Friend, how did you come in here without
a wedding garment?
’And he was
speechless. Then the
king said to the servants, ‘
Bind him hand and foot,
take him
away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.’
For many are called, but few are chosen.'”
Matthew 22:12-14
“Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not
darkness."
Luke 11:35
"For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor
hidden that will not be known.
Therefore whatever you have spoken in the dark will be heard
in the light...."
Luke 12:2-3
"...God is light and in Him is no darkness
at all.
If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and
walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
But
if we
walk in the light as He is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another, and
the blood of Jesus Christ
His Son cleanses us from all sin."
1 John 1:5-7
"But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy
nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the
praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His
marvelous light."
1 Peter 2:9
End-time Darkness
"In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book,
And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of
darkness.
The humble also shall increase their joy in the Lord,
And
the poor among men shall rejoice In the Holy One of Israel.
For the
terrible one is brought to nothing...."
Isaiah 29:18-20
“The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
And it shall come to pass that
whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be
saved."
Joel 2:30-32
[Repeated by Peter] "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
And it shall come to pass that
whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be saved.’"
Acts 2:20-21
"But you, brethren, are
not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a
thief.
You are all
sons of light and sons of the day. We
are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us
not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be
sober."
1 Thessalonians
5:4-6