The Hour of darkness was time and space of three hours on the cross as Christ hung waiting for his body to die. His tongue dry, and the thieves beside him gnawed their tongues in agony as darkness filled the earth. Christ felt the darkness and the pain and not until the final hour of darkness did he cry out Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani, interpretated my God, my God why has thou forsaken me. In other gospels including this one in Mark, a drink of vinegar was offer to those on crosses during this time frame to sooth the pain, but Christ would refuse it. And then Christ would give up his Ghost. The hour of darkness a time of torment, a time the sin of the world was felt upon the cross, the evilness of man. The other two could not handle the torment, despite the forgiveness of sin of one. Despite the hope of paradise. Christ with stood the pain to deliver his word one last time of my God my God why have you forsaken me.

No one wants to talk about the suffering on the cross, nor the pain of nails in his hands that would not be removed or deaden, only the torcher of hanging on the cross in full up right position was felt. If you ever watched the show Survivor and some of the games they play, for endurance and for immunity, you will find that some games are pure torcher because of positions that have to be held to win the game. Some failing to reach the next level do not holding the position and loosing their balance, however imagine holding that position of torment and not having the choice to loose. Jesus had no choice but to face the pain as he hung on the cross. The angels at any moment could of removed him, but he knew the outcome of what he was doing, that he would be the winner over sin and death. The reward coming through his death, to victory through the resurrection.

The sixth to nineth hour of Christ on the cross was the final pain and agony of dying, and yet Christ not only did this but felt the power of God forsakening him as he descended in to the grave to set the captives free from the power of darkness. What does that mean, but that all that look to Jesus would be saved. God's spirit had to leave the body of Jesus for him to die. The physical man Jesus had to give up God's spirit in order to die, the power of the Spirit keep Jesus living on the cross despite his suffering, until his ghost is given up. His word declaring his death on the cross. Declaring it was finished, the work he was there to do.

I do not care how old we are upon hearing the story of the cross retold and relived yearly, we can help but understand the hour of darkness not only being physically seen through the sun being darkened like eclipse, but the point the Son of God no longer needed to prove who child he was. On his death the earth did quake and the veil in the temple was torn, a symbol that separation of man and God was no more. A soldier seeing and witnessing these events cried out this must of been the Son of God. In Amos 8:10 it is a depiction of only Son dying with the sinner. The land of Egypt revenged by the killing of God's first born son.

Can God be revenged, the answer is no, for they think they can destroy the word of God but by Sunday God Son is resurrected. Egyptians did not live again, in fact after the first born son was slain, the pharoah and his men were destroyed by the rushing back of the red sea. The covering the sin by the Red sea. What is the covering of blood about, the covering of failing to rely on God's holy Word/Son of God. To rely on what God says he will do. The sin of man is looking to their own means of a solution and not to God. I do not think God was expecting man to not to try and not use scientific means to help in aiding victims of Coronavirus, but I think he desire man to look to him for enabling them to find a quick solution. If you think how many lives lost compared to how many have survived, it is a miracle and how many walk with it unknowingly and their body repairs itself, because of God's design.

God revenge on the world is coming not because of believers but because of unbelievers refusing to hear the truth of his design, his word, and his ability to show man the cure through scientific means. God has not want man to forget the power of his word, or his ability to deliver. Yes we mourn for lost of life in all situations, but do we celebrate the victory of God's power to over come diversity and sin.

Was God admiting sin with his Son's death, or only trying to stop the persecution of his people, who were not at fault for his actions. When God cast Adam, Eve and Satan out of his house, he was only getting rid of opposition in his home. There is point and I am coming too. God can not be punished by man, not even cast out of our land. Why because the hour of darkness, including the hour of darkness at the betrayal was ordained by God. The hour of torture was allowed by God. Satan used man to try and destroy God one last time, and failed to accomplish his goaled. God allowed those moments of extreme torment to allow us to know he knows our pain in this world, to allow us to know that if we cry in torment as the theives on the cross, if we believe we are still in paradise upon our death. We are not the Son of God nor have the power of enduring His suffering for our sin.

How will you handle your hour of darkness, is only with endurance of faith in Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit. I know going through my own pain, I was very very human in how I felt and how I tried to control the pain myself. In my darkest moment of pain, I ask God to either take me home or to heal me. It is the darkest hour of our life, when we know God's power to deliver us into his embrace, deliverance or endurance to handle our cross through God's power. Don't be ashamed of the journey when you fail, it only a testimony of your humanity. It might hurt and you will feel sorrowful for it, but that not who you have to be or remain as.

Dear Heavenly Father, give me grace to endure my journey in life, to live it pleasing to you, because you died on the cross for my sins and sins of the world, for anyone that would believe would be saved. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study:

Amos 8:8-14 KJV
8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

Revelation 16:10-11 KJV
10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

Luke 22:53 KJV
53 When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.