day no. 15,262 continued... endarkenment

Isaiah 5:20

Woe unto them that call darkness for light and light for darkness

We refer to the medieval time period as the dark ages and modern time period which followed it as the enlightenment, The story goes that the days were dark in medieval times until modernity flipped on the light switch and enlightened us all. We now live in the light because the dark days are over.

But the medieval world lived in broad daylight. Those days referred to as dark, were actually lived in the light of God's revelation. The sun was God's sun and the day was for working in His will and the night for submitting it to Him in rest.

The enlightenment invented artificial light. This light was only useful after hours or in a dark room, however, so modernity built large, windowless buildings that blocked out the sun for the sake of showing off their light bulbs. They also paraded them around in the evening, celebrating the light they had brought to that dark world called night. Again, this man-made light was utterly useless in broad daylight, mind you, like a candle competing with the sun.

In order to validate their light, they threw shade at the days before its invention. The period before artificial illumination was therefor deemed dark.

We assume ourselves enlightened and our medieval ancestors endarkened, but we have it wrong. They were living in broad daylight while we live in cellars.

We are living in a dark age.

We are living in days of willful ignorance and unrestrained arrogance. We have shut out the light in order to worship under the haze of our own. We spend our days indoors by cold artificial light and our nights strutting by the dim light of them. But our party tricks only work in the dark, which is how we like it although we still know enough to call our night "day" while throwing shade at the light of medieval days gone by.

Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

We have forsaken the sun for the sake of our torches. But our torches burn up or burn out.