The Mourning for an Only Son
Posted By Joe on March 8, 2010
We've covered a few "Biblical gems" recently like the genealogy of Noah and the story of Rahab and the spies.
I ran across another one today that I've glossed over in the past while reading the book of Amos. It amazes me how many of these wonderful gems are tucked into the Word of God.
"It will come about in that day," declares the Lord God, "That I shall make the sun go down at noon and make the earth dark in broad daylight." --Amos 8:9.
On the one hand, you might read this thinking that it's related to end-time prophecy and certainly there are those implications. But when else did the sun go down at noon?
Now from the sixth hour darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour. --Matthew 27:45.
We miss this because we don't tell time like this anymore. The "sixth hour" is noon by our modern reckoning. More on this verse in a moment. First, back to Amos.
"Then I shall turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth on everyone's loins and baldness on every head." --Amos 8:10.
Obviously, the thought here is grieving. But look at what the rest of Amos 8:10 says:
"And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and the end of it will be like a bitter day." --Amos 8:10.
What was the rest of the passage from Matthew 27? A few verses after Matthew 27:45 we read:
And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. --Matthew 27:50.
It was the day of the cross. It was the day that God grieved over His only Son. It was the day that the perfect, sinless Lamb of God was made sin for all the world so that you and I won't have to spend all eternity separated from Him! It was the day that our mourning could be turned to joy that we don't have to die in our sins!
May He Increase!
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