---Darkness begins June 3^rd at 5:00 p.m. EST.

---Rapture at Pentecost but we do not know the exact date.

 

Jesus used the word midnight only three times as recorded in the Bible.  The first in the parable of the ten virgins, the second in relation to watch for His coming, and the third in the parable about a man seeking bread from his neighbor and then related that to asking God for the Holy Spirit.

 

 Jesus said:

“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children; how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?” Luke 11:13

 

My thinking has been that God would immediately withdraw the Holy Spirit when the sun first goes dark for the three days and that people would not then be able to receive the Holy Spirit.   I am probably wrong in thinking that because Jesus does say, “I say unto you, though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.”  (Verse 8)  This is saying to me that the Holy Spirit will be available to those who ask even during the three days of darkness.

 

So, people who sincerely want to believe in Jesus will have the opportunity to be saved during this period of darkness.  Darkness came upon the whole earth for three hours after Jesus was crucified, so darkness is something God will do in order to give a stern message to the world.

Please note that I have underlined the word “ask”.  People have been led to believe that they have received the Holy Spirit automatically by publicly walking down an isle indicating that they will believe in Jesus or that by studying everything they can get their hands on, but Salvation is a free gift from God and it must be asked for because it is the Holy Spirit that enables us to believe the Truth, Jesus.  The Holy Spirit leads us to the Truth; we cannot get there by our own knowledge or efforts.