Need to know.
Why were they called the Dark Ages?
Not because the sun ceased to shine, but because the light of God’s word was hidden.
The Bible says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalm 119:105). It also says, “The entrance of Your words gives light” (Psalm 119:130). When the word of God is suppressed, spiritual darkness follows.
That is exactly the picture given in Revelation 11. God’s two witnesses — the Old and New Testaments — were to prophesy in sackcloth for 1260 days (Revelation 11:3). In prophecy, this same period is also given as 42 months and a time, times, and half a time (Revelation 12:6, 14; 13:5; Daniel 7:25). Applying the day-for-a-year principle, this points to the 1260 years of papal supremacy, from 538 to 1798.
And notice the imagery: in Scripture, sackcloth is connected with darkness. Revelation 6:12 says the sun became “black as sackcloth of hair,” and Isaiah 50:3 says, “I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.” So when the two witnesses prophesy in sackcloth, Revelation is showing us more than suffering. It is showing us a time when the light of Scripture was obscured, when truth was covered over, and when the world was left in spiritual darkness.
That is why the period is rightly called the Dark Ages.
A striking historical example is the Council of Tarragona (1234), which decreed:
“Also we decree that no one shall have in his possession any books of the Old or New Testament in Romanic (i.e., vernacular). And if anyone has them… let him give them over to the Bishop of the place that they may be burned…”
This is the picture of the age:
the word of God chained, the witnesses clothed in sackcloth, and the light hidden beneath darkness.
Yet God’s word was never extinguished.
Even in sackcloth, the witnesses still prophesied.
Why were they called the Dark Ages?
Not because the sun ceased to shine, but because the light of God’s word was hidden.
The Bible says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalm 119:105). It also says, “The entrance of Your words gives light” (Psalm 119:130). When the word of God is suppressed, spiritual darkness follows.
That is exactly the picture given in Revelation 11. God’s two witnesses — the Old and New Testaments — were to prophesy in sackcloth for 1260 days (Revelation 11:3). In prophecy, this same period is also given as 42 months and a time, times, and half a time (Revelation 12:6, 14; 13:5; Daniel 7:25). Applying the day-for-a-year principle, this points to the 1260 years of papal supremacy, from 538 to 1798.
And notice the imagery: in Scripture, sackcloth is connected with darkness. Revelation 6:12 says the sun became “black as sackcloth of hair,” and Isaiah 50:3 says, “I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.” So when the two witnesses prophesy in sackcloth, Revelation is showing us more than suffering. It is showing us a time when the light of Scripture was obscured, when truth was covered over, and when the world was left in spiritual darkness.
That is why the period is rightly called the Dark Ages.
A striking historical example is the Council of Tarragona (1234), which decreed:
“Also we decree that no one shall have in his possession any books of the Old or New Testament in Romanic (i.e., vernacular). And if anyone has them… let him give them over to the Bishop of the place that they may be burned…”
This is the picture of the age:
the word of God chained, the witnesses clothed in sackcloth, and the light hidden beneath darkness.
Yet God’s word was never extinguished.
Even in sackcloth, the witnesses still prophesied.
Need to know.
Why were they called the Dark Ages?
Not because the sun ceased to shine, but because the light of God’s word was hidden.
The Bible says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalm 119:105). It also says, “The entrance of Your words gives light” (Psalm 119:130). When the word of God is suppressed, spiritual darkness follows.
That is exactly the picture given in Revelation 11. God’s two witnesses — the Old and New Testaments — were to prophesy in sackcloth for 1260 days (Revelation 11:3). In prophecy, this same period is also given as 42 months and a time, times, and half a time (Revelation 12:6, 14; 13:5; Daniel 7:25). Applying the day-for-a-year principle, this points to the 1260 years of papal supremacy, from 538 to 1798.
And notice the imagery: in Scripture, sackcloth is connected with darkness. Revelation 6:12 says the sun became “black as sackcloth of hair,” and Isaiah 50:3 says, “I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.” So when the two witnesses prophesy in sackcloth, Revelation is showing us more than suffering. It is showing us a time when the light of Scripture was obscured, when truth was covered over, and when the world was left in spiritual darkness.
That is why the period is rightly called the Dark Ages.
A striking historical example is the Council of Tarragona (1234), which decreed:
“Also we decree that no one shall have in his possession any books of the Old or New Testament in Romanic (i.e., vernacular). And if anyone has them… let him give them over to the Bishop of the place that they may be burned…”
This is the picture of the age:
the word of God chained, the witnesses clothed in sackcloth, and the light hidden beneath darkness.
Yet God’s word was never extinguished.
Even in sackcloth, the witnesses still prophesied.
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