If we read these verses with an eye to the gospel of Christ, (and surely in the present hour it were a folly to read them otherwise), how graciously do they describe the first dawnings of a day of grace upon every poor sinner's soul. Reader! hath the day-spring from, on high visited you? Surely then I need not describe the darkness and gloominess your soul found itself in, when to your view darkness covered the earth, and gross darkness the People. Jesus himself is described, as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds. 2 Samuel 23:4. And so he is indeed to every precious blood-bought son and daughter of his; when by his Almighty arm, that soul is brought out of the darkness and shadow of death, and delivered from the terrors of an alarmed conscience, in beholding the fulness and suitability Of Jesus for salvation. Never was there a season like this, in the experience of the believers life; neither any after it, even-to the years of many generations!
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Joel 2:2-3
2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of manyb generations.
3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.