Why the Sun gets ashamed and the Moon confounded

One has frequently mentioned the sun in the upright position as the sun shining sevenfold and the moon shining as the sun; and in the reversed position as the sun black as sackcloth of hair and the moon turned to blood. 

As stated in Genesis, these "great lights" are to be for "signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years" (Genesis 1:14). In other words, they are to be symbolic indicators of the health of the Church as to charity, the good of love, the sun; and of the health of the Church as to faith, the understanding of truth, the moon. 

They are indicators of times and seasons and days -- which days are states -- in the Church as witnessed by the eyes of God, which see the dead mummies inside the magnificent sarcophagi; which see the waxing cold of love and the dying of the light. 

Now see another way of expressing the sun and moon in the reversed position, for your instruction and confirmation: 

"Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously" (Isaiah 24:23).

People get confounded as to their minds, intellectually confounded; hence does God modify the predicate of the mind, the moon, with confounded. People get ashamed as to their hearts, emotionally ashamed; hence does God modify the predicate of the heart, the sun, with ashamed.

Just as Nicodemus who came to Jesus by night could only understand natural births when spiritual births are meant; so do the Nicodemuses of the Old Church will tend to see astronomical phenomena when spiritual indicators are meant. The prophecies are to be read spiritually, not naturally, or they will slam shut in your face.

We have already seen how the sun is ashamed as an indicator that a group of people is in evils, for shame is a predicate of the heart; and how the moon is confounded as an indicator that a group of people is in errors, for confounded is a predicate of the mind. The fact that this ashamed/confounded condominium of sin and error does not involve any mere astronomical occurrence may be seen clearly in the later verse which outright states the matter minus two out of four of the predicates:

"Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish" (Isaiah 41:11).

We began with some mention of the sun black and as sackcloth of hair and the moon turned to blood. It shines clearly enough from the above verse that the astronomical phenomena such as the sun ashamed as to its charity and the moon confounded as to its faith signify states of the Church and of spiritual life in groups. It may therefore also be clearer now when we turn to the more enigmatic images of a blackened sun and bloodied moon, that apocalyptic imagery which we often see paired with epic disasters and Hollywood films. But this is the apocalypse of the world. The apocalypse which is revelation says rather: these are states of the Church as to the good of love in its hearts and the truth of faith in its minds.

The Lord had this and loudly to declare: "His" people were black-hearted and bloody-minded, an eclipse of all His will and mind. There was no conjunction of charity and faith within them, thus no covenant, thus no marriage, thus no sons of truths and daughters of goods proceeding from that marriage in their generations. 

They were burnt up root and branch, their consciences were seared and their waters embittered. Dragons made their beds there, and there too made the owl its nest. The Pharisees and Sadducees, the Babylonians and the Chaldeans, were there too, in that city which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt. All this just as the bride and bridegroom went into the little wooden door while on the other side another bride and bridegroom came out of the original door; in that great city where two witnesses get slain, and good and truth are not done for their own sakes but with exchanging of gifts and for a reward. A nation shall receive the Kingdom, and bear the fruits thereof:

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