Summary

The Three Hours Darkness Word on the Week 18th April 2026.
This Blog completes a trilogy of supernatural happenings at the cross. The previous two, The Torn Curtain and The Empty Tomb are relatively well known miracles, the first welcoming God’s people to worship freely and the second to follow faithfully their Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
The Three Hours of Darkness covered the whole land. It lasted from noon till 3.00 O’clock. Its epicentre was the Cross on which Jesus hung. There is no recorded speech during that period. The powers of evil were abroad.
The Prince of this world was at large (John 12 Verses 31/3). His stock in trade is sin. These sins are committed when we break one of the 10 commandments. The Bible has a number of other sin lists. These are primarily found in the New Testament and highlight behaviours hindering holiness and spiritual growth, such as sexual immorality, idolatry, greed, hatred, and pride.
We are told that all sin is firstly against God (Psalm 51 verse 4), then against my fellow human. In this battle which began with our first parents disobeying God in the Garden of Eden, we come to the place where “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us” (2 Corinthians 5 Verse 21). He experienced, for the first time, that disgusted feeling that you know so well that follows sin. This is now placed on God’s lamb.
What is happening to Jesus during the darkness? He is suffering for the first time the full weight of the world’s sin. He is known as God’s Lamb (John 1 verse 29) who takes away the sin of the world. This is what sacrificial love looks like. This lasted till the last drop of Jesus’ blood was shed. Jesus made a full atonement to God for sin. And it was all for my sins and yours.
The Apostle Peter saw clearly what Jesus had done and wrote; “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed (1 Peter 2 verse 24).
You may love sinning and to be asked to die to it would be to become a new person. The Bible sees it as all-inclusive and calls it a new birth (John 3 verse 3). Seek God in Prayer and get advice from a believer to walk in love and in fellowship with God and Man.