Chapter Eighteen/Earthquakes in the Lord's Day-A Time of Darkness - Continue

 In a spiritual sense, such a darkness was prophesied for ancient Israel. Jeremiah warned: "A desolate waste is what the whole land will become, and shall I not carry out a sheer extermination? On this account the land will mourn, and the heavens above will certainly become dark." (Jeremiah 4:27, 28) In 607 B.C.E. when that prophecy was fulfilled, things were dark indeed for Jehovah's people. Their capital city, Jerusalem, fell to the Babylonians. Their temple was destroyed and their land was abandoned. For them, there was no comforting light from heaven.  Rather, it was as Jeremiah mournfully said to Jehovah: "You have killed; you have shown no compassion, you have blocked approach to yourself with a cloud mass, that prayer cannot pass through." (Lamentations 3:43, 44) For Jerusalem, that celestial darkness meant death and destruction. 

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