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I wonder if you’ve ever lived in a part of the world where you can watch big ‘thunderstorms’ develop far away on the horizon, and move toward you across the sky? Those small clouds grow larger and larger, darker and darker, then before long the wind starts to swirl around you, lightning starts to flash, and then booming thunder, loud enough to rattle the windows and thump your chest. Soon comes the rain, a penetrating, pelting rain and raining so hard you can’t see 50 feet in front of you! Or maybe the wind is blowing so hard the rain is horizontal not vertical! Do you know those types of powerful thunderstorms? Have you ever been caught in something like this, and it was so ferocious you were terrified?
Let’s rejoin the apostle John as he is writing the first of his three letters. John is describing something like one of those thunderstorms, only not a weather event but rather a spiritual darkness.