In John 11:39, Martha warned Jesus that if he removed the stone from Lazarus’ tomb, there would be a “stench.” After all, three whole days had passed since his death. To be in the belly of a whale for that length of time was a sure sign that Jonah could only have lived if God willed it so otherwise, he really should have been dead.
“Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish” ( Matthew 12:40). He created a bridge between ideas with the three-day motif - the temple as a building versus the temple as his body. While it was not humanly possible to rebuild a structure such as the temple over a long weekend, Christ was about to do something more incredible - rise from the grave. “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” ( John 2:20).Īs the day of his crucifixion loomed, Jesus told his disciples that he would “be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day” ( Matthew 17:22-23). The Jews were incredulous because they took him literally. Jesus declared in John 2 that if the temple was destroyed, he would raise it again in three days. Threefold repetition stands in for an eternity of praise. There will be no other object of praise but God. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed” ( Revelation 15:4). When we are in Heaven, Jesus alone will delight us. “Our delight-filled praise not only glorifies God and gives him pleasure, but also lovingly points others to the same glory we’re seeing and the same delight we’re feeling - because we always praise (to others) what delights us.” Repetition implies importance,” explains Jon Bloom. “When God repeats himself, pay attention.
Worship is a constant - we are all worshipping something all the time, be it health, looks, family, or money - but in the perfect Kingdom of God, worship will ceaselessly be devoted to God.
In Revelation 4:8, four creatures “never cease to say ‘Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!’” The Apostle John is seeing a vision of the end of the corrupt world as we know it, to be replaced by one in which the Lord is praised ceaselessly.
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Out of context, this sounds like nagging, but with the benefit of the full picture, one recognizes that each time Peter promised to feed Jesus’ sheep, the Messiah was redeeming his earlier denial emphasizing that Peter could leave his guilt behind. Peter did not believe his Savior denied that he could ever reject the one whom he had followed so devotedly. Jesus told Peter that the rooster would crow after he had denied Jesus three times ( Luke 22:34). Scripture emphasizes certain statements by repeating them three times. This also speaks to God’s great love - to make us and redeem us, not because God needed to but because he wants us. The Lord is not relying on us to be perfect in our mortal lives in order for him to determine the proper time to send his Son back.Įvery aspect of eternity rests on God’s shoulders alone because he is complete without us. Sin will not undo the plans God has made and Satan is not as powerful as Jesus. This wholeness is critical to the faith itself, for it reminds us that Jesus is the Son of God and rose to be with him in Heaven.īy way of contrast, “in Revelation, we see an evil trinity: Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet.” But Satan’s evil threesome is not equal to the Holy Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. “Typically,” commented Hope Bolinger in her article on the subject, “three means something complete and good.” The Hebrew is “shelosh.” No relationship or symbol in the Bible reflects this better than the Trinity itself.įather, Son, and Holy Spirit together are “perfect and whole,” reflecting the self-sufficiency or “aseity” of God. Here are some ways one will find it represented and some reasons for the significance of the number three in the Bible. “Three” is thematically significant, one of Scripture’s most important numbers. When one number seems to be repeated symbolically, that is no coincidence.
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