There are numerous places in the Old and New Testament scriptures that
reference three-days that are prevalent with significance in pointing to the future
Messiah Jesus Christ. After
the crucifixion of Jesus Christ,
when Jesus Christ's Earthly body was placed in the burial tomb, then Jesus Christ spent
three-days
accomplishing many things while His body stayed in a state of death which would
be resurrected after the third day.
Some Biblical Scholars mention that there is more for us to discover from the
time that Jesus Christ spent in lower Sheol,
the prison reference of 1 Peter 3:19, that we will learn at the
Great White Thrown of Judgment
on what Jesus Christ said to the Fallen Angels. This author agrees and
would speculate the theory that Jesus Christ show cased His Victory over the
specific actions of the Fallen Angels that were in prison there. The
imprisoned Fallen Angels would not have known what occurred at the
Crucifixion Event. See the
topic on the Nephilim for learning on
why these specific Fallen Angels were in prison in lower Sheol.
The Holy Spirit is the true author that was guiding authors of all the
scriptures. The Holy Spirit's use of three-days in the scriptures show
expositional consistency in the sixty six books written by over forty authors.
The expositional consistency is how forgeries of any writings in history were
always easily eliminated.
The scriptures below are just some of the many references to three-days in the Bible which points
the consistency of three-days and the significance of it to God for the
Crucifixion Event, and the patterns
of three-days. The
Crucifixion Event is the Greatest Prophetic Event of History.
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Old
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Messianic? |
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Genesis 1:9-13 |
9 And God
said, Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry
ground appear. And it was so. 10 God
called the dry ground land, and the gathered waters he called seas.
And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, Let the land produce
vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit
with seed in it, according to their various kinds. And it was so.
12 The land produced vegetation: plants
bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed
in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was
good. 13 And there was evening,
and there was morning the third day.
This is known as
the day of double blessing. God blessed each day except for the 2nd
day, which was Monday. Not that there was anything wrong with Monday,
it was just not blessed as good . The on the third day, God says it is
good twice. Many Jewish weddings are held on Tuesday in the hopes of a
double blessing. |
Yes |
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3 |
Genesis 22:4 |
It took
3 days for Abraham to reach
the destination to offer Isaac up a burnt offering.
It shows that Abraham trusted God to bring Isaac back from the dead,
figuratively speaking. At the moment that God told Abraham he was
to sacrifice Isaac, then Isaac was dead in Abraham's eyes. When
God stopped Abraham hands after
the third day of the initial pronouncement, it models the same as Christ
being resurrected from the dead. |
Yes |
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3 |
Genesis 42:17 |
Joseph was in the pit
for most likely 3 days, in Genesis 37:24, before being sold by his
brothers. He was considered dead by his brothers during that
period. We can infer the three-days by how Joseph handles his brothers during
the testing of their visit to Egypt to buy food.
And he put them all in custody for three-days. |
Yes
(in the model sense) |
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4 |
Genesis 42:18 |
And Joseph said unto them the
third day, This do,
and live; for I fear God: |
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Exodus 19:11 |
and be ready by the
third day,
because on that day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight
of all the people.
There are four
references to 3 days in this chapter. |
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Joshua 1:11 |
Pass through the midst of the camp and
command the people, saying, 'Prepare provisions for yourselves, for with
three-days you are to cross the Jordan, to go into the land which
the Lord your God is giving you, to possess it.' |
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Joshua 2:16 |
She said to them, "Go to the hills so the
pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there
three-days
until they return, and then go on your way." |
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8 |
Esther 4:15-17 |
15 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:
16 “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in
Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for
three days, night or day.
I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to
the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”
17 So Mordecai went away and carried out
all of Esther’s instructions. |
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9 |
Jonah 1:17 |
And the Lord appointed a great fish to
swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish
three-days
and three nights.
From Jonah
2:2, Jonah is praying from depth of Sheol which is the grave. In other
words, it appears that Jonah had died in the belly of the fish and God
resurrected him. |
Yes |
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10 |
Hosea 6:1-2 |
1 Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he
hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
2 After two days will he revive us: on
the third day he will raise us
up, and we shall live before him. |
Yes |
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2 Kings 20:1-6 |
1 In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Set
your house in order, for you shall die and not live.' 2
Then he turned
his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, saying, 3
“Remember now, O
Lord, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a
whole heart and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept
bitterly. 4 Before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of
the Lord came to him, saying, 5 “Return and say to Hezekiah the leader
of My people, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of your father David, “I have
heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will heal you.
On
the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord. 6
I will add
fifteen years to your life, and I will deliver you and this city from
the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own
sake and for My servant David’s sake.’ |
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New
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12 |
Matthew 12:40 |
For as Jonah was three-days and three
nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three-days and
three nights in the heart of the earth. |
Yes |
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13 |
Mark 9:31 |
For he taught his disciples, and said unto
them, The Son of man is delivered up into the hands of men, and they
shall kill him; and when he is killed, after three-days he shall
rise again. |
Yes |
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14 |
Luke 2:46 |
After three-days they found him in
the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and
asking them questions. |
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15 |
John 2:1-11 |
1 On the third day a wedding took
place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus mother was there, 2
and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
3 When the wine was gone, Jesus mother said to
him, They have no more wine. 4 Woman,
why do you involve me? Jesus replied. My hour has not yet come.
5 His mother said to the servants, Do
whatever he tells you. 6 Nearby
stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial
washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. 7
Jesus said to the servants, Fill the jars with water ; so they filled
them to the brim. 8 Then he told them,
Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet. They did
so, 9 and the master of the banquet
tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize
where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water
knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10
and said, Everyone brings out the choice wine
first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to
drink; but you have saved the best till now. 11
What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs
through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in
him.
Notice that we do not know why it was the third day but it
is significant as the Holy Spirit mentioned it. Also notice that this
water is the water of purification for the high priest that Jesus used
to turn into wine. |
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John 2:19 |
Destroy this temple, [of His body] and in
three-days I will raise it up. |
Yes |
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1 Corinthians 15:3-4 |
3 For I delivered to you as of first importance
what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the
Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and
that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, |
Yes |
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18 |
Luke 9:22 |
saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things
and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be
killed and be raised up on the third day. |
Yes |
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19 |
Luke 24:7 |
The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands
of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again. |
Yes |
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20 |
Luke 24:21 |
But we were hoping that it was He who was going to
redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since
these things happened. |
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21 |
Luke 24:46 |
The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on
the third day, |
Yes |
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22 |
Acts 9:7-9
Saul who become Apostle Paul blinded on Damascus
road |
7 The men who were traveling with him stood
speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one. 8
Saul rose from the ground, and although his eyes
were opened, he saw nothing. So they led him by the hand and brought him
into Damascus. 9 And for three-days he was
without sight, and neither ate nor drank. |
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Revelation 11:9 |
And they (Two
Witnesses) of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations
shall see their dead bodies three-days and an half, and shall not
suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
Notice the
3.5 days, which is the same amount of time that Jesus was dead before
being resurrected. |
Model |
