Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Psalm 91:6 KJV
To appreciate why destruction wasteth at noonday, there are several foundational items that have to be laid first. Because noonday is connected to the sun, we have to examine “the sun”, as it’s used in scripture and seek to understand its connection to waste (death, ruin).
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Scripturally, apart from the natural application, the sun is used in reference to God, man and the devil. The context of Psalm 91:6 is God saying to man that when we trust in him, we won’t need to fear death because he will shade/cover us from it. This is what it means for him to protect us from “the destruction that wasteth at noonday”. How do we know that death (waste) that comes at noonday is because of the sun? Because we see God declaring that he will not allow the sun to smite us:
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
Isaiah 49:10 KJV
This is a God protecting us from the light and heat of the fake sun, the light of darkness, the one we walked under till the true light (John 1:9), i.e. the sun of righteousness, rose in our hearts:
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Noonday is the sun at it’s highest point, the heat of the sun is hottest at that time. The sun at noonday, is the devil at the height of his power. His power is death!
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
Hebrews 2:14 KJV
But we all walked under his power i.e. we were all dead, till Christ came and blocked that light from shining on us, and promised that that sun will never again “light on us”. Said another way: never again will we die.
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
Revelation 7:16 KJV
Prior to the coming to Christ, we were all blind, thinking we could see, walking and stumbling in total darkness, but thinking it’s noonday, dead but thinking we were alive.
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
Isaiah 59:10 KJV
Thankfully, God had promised to bring judgment at noonday:
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Psalm 37:6 KJV
Righteousness and judgment comes “as the noonday” because both came through Christ sacrifice on the cross. The sacrifice of the cross in one sense represents the Sun of righteousness of Malachi 4:2, rising in our lives, but in another sense, it’s where we see the noonday of the light of God’s love i.e. the full measure of God’s love:
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, [18] May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; [19] And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Ephesians 3:17-19 KJV
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8 KJV
At the cross, the noonday power of the devil, which is death, clashed head on with the noonday power of God, which is love, and when it was over, the light of the devil’s noonday sun (death) had to descend as God declared:
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
Amos 8:9 KJV
Jesus was on the cross at the sixth hour (sixth hour is the Jewish way of saying 12 noon) when the earth was darkened:
And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
Luke 23:44 KJV
It’s only when we come to the cross of Christ, does the light of the noonday sun of darkness cease to light and heat our world. For through the cross, a new sun is raised in our sky, the sun of righteousness. Through the cross, we are abiding under the noonday of God i.e. the breadth, and length, and depth, and height of his love.
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But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
Malachi 4:2 KJV
