The Power of the Wisdom of Three as it Relates to Christian Holy Week

It is a well known fact that the Jewish Torah and the Christian Bible are both filled with obvious and some not so obvious references to the power behind the number three.  Numerology was the way of life in ancient cultures.  Numbers, like words, meant something.  The number three means unified perfection.

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1. The first one, not so obvious to most, is that Jesus was the final ruler of the Jewish line of Abraham. His birth marked the end of three fourteen generation eras (42 generations – 3 X 14 = 42, 4+2 = 6, the base of which is 3).  Starting with Adam, the first tri-generational period ends with the Father of Faith, Abraham.  The second ending with King David, The Patriarch of the Messiah, and the third beginning with the Jews being exiled into Babylon known as the Great Scattering ending with the Messiah or Christ, Jesus.
2. Each of the three (3) eras lasted approximately one thousand years.  It took three millennia for the coming of the Messiah.
3. Historically, together with Shavuot (“Pentecost”) and Sukkot (“Tabernacles”), Passover is one of the three (3) pilgrimage festivals (Shalosh Regalim) during which the entire population of the kingdom of Judah made a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem.
4. His first visit to the holy city as an adult was at the age of twelve (12, 1+2 = 3, the base is 3). In Jewish culture, a boy reached adulthood at twelve. In the Bible, we find the story of him staying behind without the knowledge of his mother and father.  His crucial return to the city at thirty-three, took place exactly twenty-one years later (21. 2+1 = 3, the base is 3).
5. At the age of thirty (30 – 3+0 = 3 the base number), He started his public ministry.
6. Jesus publicly preached for three years (3)
7. Jesus was thirty-three years of age on his last visit to the Temple. (33 – the total is 6, the base number is 3) The week before Jesus’ crucifixion he entered into Jerusalem on the Sunday before the Jewish Feast of Passover.  During the twenty-one years of his adult life, it is believed, that as a faithful Jew, he returned each year for this holy festival.
8. He celebrated the ritual of what is now known as the Last Supper with his disciples. The bread used for the meal was blessed, broken, and shared (3 acts).
9. The bread was unleavened, meaning it was made of only three ingredients: flour, salt, and water. (3 ingredients) Another interesting fact is that the place of his birth, Bethlehem, means, House of Bread. In biblical times, many of the towns surrounding Jerusalem, were formed and names because of what they could provide to the city.  The early residents of Bethlehem were likely bakers for the city.
10. Three factions had a say in Jesus’ trial; the Roman government, the Jewish Leadership, (the Sanhedrin was the great court consisted of seventy-one members, seventy leaders and the high priest. The reason the membership was not seventy-two strong was because the final judge was Yahweh), and the crowds of Jewish citizens.
11. Judas was paid thirty (30, 3+0 = 3) pieces of silver
12. Peter denied Jesus three times (3).
13. Jesus suffered three bodily inflictions while still alive during his Passion; he was bruised, scraped and beaten, he was crowned with thorns, and he was nailed to the cross. (3)
14. During the carrying of the cross, he fell three times (3).
15. At the crucifixion he was nailed in three points on his body. (3)
16. There were three (3) people crucified that day.
17. Pilate wrote an inscription to be placed on the cross above Jesus’ body using three (3) languages, Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
18. He died at three o’clock (3), the Jewish ninth hour of the day (9 – the base number is 3).
19. He rose from the dead on the third day! (3)
20. The women who discovered the tomb empty did so in the first hour of the day, 6:00am.
21. By His Life, Death, and Resurrection (3) from the dead, Jesus, bestowed upon each of us the inheritance of Eternal Life.

If this is my last post, I want all to know there was only one purpose for all that I have written; to have made a positive difference in the lives of others.

Anthony “Tony” Boquet, the author of “The Bloodline of Wisdom, The Awakening of a Modern Solutionary”.

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