Natural objects referenced as this coloration include hair, marble, skin, the sky, the sun and the sun and moon together (Matthew 5:36, Leviticus 13:31, Esther 1:6, Job 30:30, 1Kings 18:45, Proverbs 7:9, Revelation 6:12, Joel 2:10). The color black can also represent the deceitful treatment of Job's friends (Job 6:16), God's judgment (Zechariah 6:2, 6) or affliction, calamity, adversity or suffering for one's sins (Lamentations 4:8, Job 3:5, 30:26, Psalm 107:10, 143:3, Isaiah 5:30, 8:22, Joel 2:6, Zephaniah 1:14 - 15, Revelation 16:10).īlack can also signify punishment that is eternal for disobeying God (Matthew 8:12, 22:13, 25:30), a place of temporary restraint for disobedient angels (2Peter 2:4) or Satan, his ways and the power of evil (Acts 26:18, 1Thessalonians 5:5). It can signify the location of the dead (Job 3:5, 10:21 - 22) or where some evil spirits will spend eternity as punishment for their rebellion (Jude 13).
It can mean famine in general (Jeremiah 14:1 - 2, Lamentations 5:10), famine because of war (Revelation 6:5), mourning and sorrow (Job 30:28, 30, Jeremiah 8:21, 14:2), or a period of time when no revelation (spiritual light) comes from God (Micah 3:6). Its use in Scripture lends itself to the below meanings. The words translated as this color and its very similar references such as "dark," "darkness," etc. Appearances of the color blackīlack (blackish, blackness), in the King James Bible, is found 26 times. People sometimes wear dark clothes when they are mourning the death of someone they love. In Western cultures today darkness symbolizes death and mourning. Lucifer became a spiritual version of this physical phenomenon when he took all the light God gave him and turning it into darkness.
In the physical universe, a black hole is a celestial object whose massive gravity pulls in all matter, including light, yet itself remains dark.
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