'Can't start a fire without a spark'

Music critic: “ ‘Dancing in the Dark’ is a song by Bruce Springsteen which is about darkness. The song talks about how we are all dancing in the dark, trying to find our way out. It is a metaphor for how we are all trying to find our way in life and how we sometimes have to go through difficult times before we can find the light.”

From a website: “The phrase ‘darkness feeds off light’ is often used metaphorically to describe how negative forces, emotions, or entities can thrive on the presence of positive energy, truth, or goodness. It suggests a dynamic where the very things that bring clarity, hope, or strength can be exploited or consumed by opposing forces.”

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Here is an outtake from tonight’s Bible study at my church:

Jude 1: [6] And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

Notice they’ve got some fallen angels that are reserved under "everlasting chains under darkness." The darkness is the chains.

Just like it says at the beginning of Genesis 1: [2] And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
[3] And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Darkness disables the functioning of the angelic creation. You know why angels are associated with stars? They need light to function.

You put them in the dark . . . How good do you function in the dark? Have you ever been in absolute darkness? You know, you live in a city like this and can’t imagine. You live in dimness, but you can’t imagine darkness.

You go down to central Illinois, you go down to Ridge Farm, Ill. (farm town, population 735) in September, it gets DARK down there.

One time we were riding back to Morris Chestnut’s farm, and there’s only about 4-5 farmhouses in a mile stretch of land and the rest of it is just fields, and you get out there on a moonless night and it’s DARK.

One of the guys with us, we asked, “What’s the matter?” and he said, “Somebody going to jump on me!” and we said, “There ain’t nobody out here; just corn, maybe a deer or two.” But in the dark, you get the heebie-jeebies.

If you want to get into real darkness, you go into a cave. One time our family went to Lookout Mountain and went down to the cave there to see Rock City and the falls, and you get down there about halfway and the guy turns the light out and you know, all you want to do is hold onto the wall. Because it’s dark. It immobilizes you.