Bro. Clarence,
On the subject of the EVENING, let me add my cents worth. To use G-d's own 
definition of the evening, "And the (evening - [darkness]) and the (morning
- [light]) were the first, second, third, etc, day.
Our word EVEN might mean between, the word in Hebrew this is translated from 
means dusk. The priest were to light the lamps from EVENING to MORNING. This 
is when it was dark, not after 12:00 while it was still day.
The patriarchs would stroll through their fields at the time of the evening, 
in the cool of the day. Noon time is anything but cool.
The time of the coming of the EVENING was and still is celebrated by the Jews 
at the correct time of day. When the sun is descending below the horizon and 
darkness is enveloping the land.
Paul said to "let not the sun go down (disappear) on your wrath." In other 
words, do not end one day and begin another while anger has control of you.
The lighting of the candles in Jewish homes commemorates this very aspect of 
giving this light to a darkened world. Light a candle while it is day, no 
difference. Light a candle as dusk falls across the land, see the majesty of 
G-d's creative purposes.
Night cometh when no man can work. Light a candle, evening has fallen.
Please forgive me if I seem flip. I don't mean to. Take a look at the Jew's 
time honored traditions. They might of added many fences to the Torah that we 
do not agree with or understand, yet their foundations are usually true and 
firm.
No. I do not agree with all their traditions, but neither do they. There are 
many, sometimes heated debates over these issues, but the going down of the 
sun aspect has never changed in thousands of years.
--- GEcho 1.00
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