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“AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN “WOE TO YOU WHO DESIRE THE DAY OF THE
THAT DAY, SAYS THE LORD GOD, LORD! FOR WHAT GOOD IS THE DAY OF THE
‘THAT I WILL MAKE THE SUN GO LORD TO YOU? IT WILL BE DARKNESS, AND NOT

DOWN AT NOON, AND I WILL LIGHT…IS NOT THE DAY OF THE LORD
DARKEN THE EARTH IN DARKNESS, AND NOT LIGHT? IS IT NOT VERY
BROAD DAYLIGHT…’”
Amos 8:9 DARK, WITH NO BRIGHTNESS IN IT?”
Amos 5:18-20

Amos is foreseeing the multi-prophesied “Day of the Lord” as not only a day of SPIRITUAL darkness,
but also days of PHYSICAL darkness! How this harmonizes with Jesus’ intention to “shorten the days”
from 24 hours to at least 12 hours, if not even 8 hours! Consider the magnitude of what was happening
on earth when God, at times, brought PHYSICAL darkness upon the earth:

OLD TESTAMENT EXAMPLE: NEW TESTAMENT EXAMPLE:

(JUDGMENT UPON EGYPT) (JUDGMENT UPON SIN)

“THEN THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, “…THEN THEY
’STRETCH OUT YOUR HAND TOWARD HEAVEN, THAT CRUCIFIED HIM….
THERE MAY BE DARKNESS OVER THE LAND OF EGYPT, NOW FROM THE SIXTH HOUR
UNTIL THE NINTH HOUR
DARKNESS WHICH MAY EVEN BE FELT…THERE WAS THERE WAS DARKNESS
THICK DARKNESS IN ALL THE LAND OF EGYPT THREE OVER ALL THE LAND.”

DAYS, THEY DID NOT SEE ONE ANOTHER…” Matt. 27:35,45
Ex. 10:21-23

There is enough pattern in the Scripture to see that when God’s judgments are in progress,

He often marks it with periods of PHYSICAL darkness! So will it be in the tribulation! These are days

of great judgment upon Israel, upon the world, and upon Antichrist and his kingdom!

“…WHEN YOU SEE THE THEN THERE WILL BE GREAT
‘ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION,’ TRIBULATION, SUCH AS HAS
SPOKEN OF BY DANIEL THE PROPHET,
NOT BEEN SINCE THE
STANDING IN THE HOLY BEGINNING OF THE WORLD
PLACE(WHOEVER READS, LET HIM
UNTIL THIS TIME,
UNDERSTAND) … NO, NOR EVER SHALL BE.

“UNLESS THOSE DAYS WERE SHORTENED,
NO FLESH WOULD BE SAVED;
BUT FOR THE ELECT’S SAKE

THOSE DAYS WILL BE SHORTENED.”

Matt.24:22

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We have looked at WHAT Jesus intends to do, let us now look at WHY He will do so.
(1) Jesus is going to shorten the days. (2) He will do so for the sake of “the elect.”