2 Samuel 23:4
"And He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds..."
Sun and light are crucial to life on this earth. The LORD made it so, and He uses them in many parts of Scripture to describe Christ and His work.
God uses the sun, the light, and the contrasting darkness to create vivid pictures of Christ's death and resurrection. In Luke 23:44 we see at Christ's death on the cross in the middle of the day, the Father caused darkness to fall, not just over the area where He died, but over the entire earth, "And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth."
As foretold in Malachi, Christ triumphed over the forces of darkness by rising like the sun from His righteous death, "But unto you that fear My name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings." (Malachi 4:2)
The Word of God also tells us that, in the new earth, there will be no need for a physical sun or moon because Christ will be our Light, "And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the Glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the Light thereof." (Revelation 21:23)
In the spiritual darkness of this world, these pictures are a strong comfort for His children. The light from the sun or a lamp on a dark night are reminders of Him, the Word of God, our Sun of Righteousness, our Lamp, our Light of Life, "Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the Light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life." (John 8:12)
"Thy Word is a Lamp unto my feet, and a Light unto my Path." (Psalm 119:105)
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