In the Bible, darkness stands for evil: people “loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil” (John 3:19). Scripture traces evil both to human desire (James 1:14-15) and to “the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 6:12). Psalm 139:12 and Daniel 2:22 say darkness hides nothing from God, John 1:5 says the light “shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it,” and Revelation 21:25 says the new Jerusalem will have “no night…
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