END - TIME PROPHECIES of the  BIBLE
 
DAVID HAGGITH
 
 
Another mystical form of the symbolism of "days" can be found in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  For two days Jesus lay dead to the earth, but he arose from the dead at the dawn of the third day.  Could this foreshadow his appearing dead to the world for two millennia followed by his return  and the resurrection of his saints from the dead at the dawn of the third millennium?  It would seem odd that the three days for the most important event in Christian history should be purely arbitrary, lacking any symbolic value.  Not only are these three days counted in more than one part of the New Testament, but they are celebrated in the form of Easter as regulary as the Jews celebrated the sabbath month.  It would be entirely consistent, on the other hand, for the three days of the new creation in Christ to have the same sacramental value as the seven days of the old creation story:
 
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth.
 
( Hosea  6:1-3 )
 
 
These verses were quoted earlier as being a hidden prophecy about the death and resurrection of Christ, the firstfruits.  In light of all that's been said, might these verses have a second hidden meaning: that Israel was torn apart for rejecting the Messiah but the jews will return to him after two millennia and God will revive them,  and in the morning of the third millennium,  he will resurrect them and live with them face- to- face and bless them like the blessing of freshly fallen rain --- along with all of his other saints?  Like a fractal, the days of the crucifixion may be a pattern that spreads across all of history since the time of Christ, a divine imprint on the events of humankind.
 
 
(pg. 388, 389) Millennium
 
 
 
From T.J.