I linked a few weeks back to some posts by Peter Enns in which he mentions that in both the flood and the exodus plagues, judgement is seen as a return to primordial chaos. The point was well made and securely-grounded.
I think the same is also seen at the cross when the sun is darkened - it's Genesis 1 in reverse: the sun is (effectively) blotted-out and the earth returns to the chaos of darkness.
Maybe those instances help to clarify the nature of God's judgement upon sin, that it results in de-creation, in chaos and an absence of meaning and order and vitality and the associated anguish of such a state.
