Imagine two adjacent rooms. One is illuminated by a bright light. The other is in darkness.
Open the door between the two rooms. What happens?
Does the darkness invade the lighted room? No. Quite the opposite: the light pushes back the darkness.
Such is the fundamental truth of Epiphany. As John 1:5 puts it, "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it."
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