DARKNESS
AMEN PODCAST
Alex and Lokelani Wilson
5.0 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Darkness at the Cross | Matthew 27:45
When the sky went dark at noon, it wasn't just a weather event—it was God marking the moment His wrath fell on Jesus for our sin.
In this episode, we explore the darkness that covered the land during Jesus's final three hours on the cross. We dive into what darkness meant in the Old Testament, why God dwells in "unapproachable light," and how the fear of the Lord is actually the beginning of knowing Him.
Jesus entered the impenetrable darkness of God's wrath so we could walk in His light. This changes everything.
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| 0:00.0 | Aloha and welcome back to Amen podcast. I'm Looki al-A-Lani and today Alex is walking us through |
| 0:05.3 | Matthew 27 verse 45 where darkness covers the land as Jesus hangs on the cross. This just is |
| 0:12.8 | this is it not this just. Aloha and welcome back to Amen Podcast. |
| 0:29.2 | I'm Lookiolani, and today Alex is walking us through Matthew 2745, where darkness covers the land as Jesus hangs on the cross. |
| 0:31.9 | This isn't just about the sky going dark. |
| 0:34.8 | This is about what happens when the light of the world takes on the weight |
| 0:39.0 | of our sin. So grab your Bible and let's dig in. Amen. We're going to start a little series on |
| 0:46.8 | the death of Jesus and walk really slowly through these last three hours on the cross. So Jesus |
| 0:53.0 | gets on the cross at 9 a.m. And then in verse 45 of |
| 0:58.2 | Matthew 27, which says, now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over all the land until the |
| 1:04.0 | ninth hour. 12 o'clock, it goes dark. And then it's dark from 12 to 3 p.m. And so as we look at these hours on the cross, |
| 1:14.6 | we're looking at something in theology called PSA, right? We've talked about this before. Penal |
| 1:19.5 | substitutionary atonement. Penal meaning legal. We legally were indebted to God because of our sin. |
| 1:26.1 | We owed him. He gave us this life to reflect him to live as his imagers on the earth. |
| 1:32.7 | We didn't do that. |
| 1:33.8 | We wanted to run our own show. |
| 1:36.5 | And so we legally are indebted to God. |
| 1:38.6 | The wages of our sin is death. |
| 1:41.0 | Jesus pays that by how. |
| 1:42.9 | Being our substitute, standing in our place, dying our death, |
| 1:46.9 | taking our wrath to do what? To make us at one with God, at onement, atonement, penal, substitutionary, |
| 1:56.8 | atonement, PSA. This is all happening between these three hours on the cross. When the sky goes |
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