Midnight

Midnight is, the transition time period from one Day to the next: the moment when the date changes. Midnight marks the beginning and ending of each day… Think On This, a digital clock shows 11:59 p.m. and it shows until midnight; at the instant of midnight it changes to 12:00. Simultaneously, the p.m. changes to a.m.! strictly speaking, a.m. does not apply to the instant of midnight which separates p.m. and a.m.; refer to midnight at the start of a given date. So at midnight, the New Day has begun…the morning has not yet arrived, but I am in my new day!!

The Bible too speaks of the midnight hour in a very comparable sense - Midnight is the turning point when one day is ended and another begins. Midnight is often compared to the time when this life is ended and eternity begins.

The Bible records an incident that happened at midnight in the book of Acts, chap. 16:25-31, "At midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bands were loosed. And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved."

It was the midnight hour for the jailor…the old day had ended and the new day has already begun…. because had he gone through with his decision to kill himself he would have been ushered into eternity without Christ, without God, and without hope. But at that moment Paul called to him and he came and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? and the answer was given, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. So he was spared from an eternity of misery and woe at midnight.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments

the following verses speak of midnight

1. Exo 11:4 And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:
2. Exo 12:29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
3. Jud 16:3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
4. Rut 3:8 And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.
5. 1 Kin 3:20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
6. Job 34:20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.
7. Psa 119:62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
8. Mat 25:6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
9. Mar 13:35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
10. Luk 11:5 And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves;
11. Act 16:25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
12. Act 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
13. Act 27:27 But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;