About 'the Sign of Jonah'...
Aug 4, 2014 22:49:14 GMT
Post by Goldenfleeced on Aug 4, 2014 22:49:14 GMT
I think that I should say a 'word' about this, since it seems appropriate to the times, and it would also seem that 'we' are somewhat confused as to just exactly what this means...
Matthew 16:4
King James Version
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah." Then He left them and went away.
This is what we know... 'the sign of Jonah,' though; that's what we don't know. But I have an idea...
These are the page notes from my own copy of the Scofield Reference Bible, where I turned for the passage that I just quoted from the book of Habakkuk... coincidentally...
It says this: (2) To the man "under the sun," the natural man, who of necessity judges from appearances, 'sheol' seems no more than the grave,- the end and total cessation of, not only the activities of life, but of life itself (Eccl.ix. 5,10) (3) But scripture reveals 'sheol' as a place of sorrow (2 Sam xxii 6; Psalm xviii 5, cxvi 3), into which the wicked are turned (Psalm ix. 17) and where they are fully conscious (Isaiah xiv. 9-17; Ezekiel xxxii. 21;) see especially Jonah ii. 2, where the belly of the great fish was to Jonah that 'sheol' is to those that are therein. The 'sheol' of the OT and the 'hades' of the NT are identical...
So... what that would seem to mean is that 'somebody' spent 'three days' in Hell... and then, they got thrown back up, into the 'land of the living,' where he is going to be asked to prophecy... testify, if you Will...
And, calculating one day at roughly 1000 years... that means that about three thousand years ago, somebody was 'swallowed up,' so let's see...
The 'swallowing up' alive of the sons of Korah occurred contemporaneously with the 'Exodus,' which, according to Wikipedia... lol... happened somewhere on, or near, the year 1313 BCE...
The Seder Olam Rabbah (ca. 2nd century CE) determines the commencement of the Exodus to 2448 AM (1313 BCE). This date has become traditional in Rabbinic Judaism.[35]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus
And, here we are... at 2014 years past that point, which makes about... three thousand years, more or less (or even, 'a time, and times, and half a time,' you could/might say)... and out flops our poor Jonah...
Like some strange kind of a Holy Diver...
Matthew 16:4
King James Version
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah." Then He left them and went away.
This is what we know... 'the sign of Jonah,' though; that's what we don't know. But I have an idea...
These are the page notes from my own copy of the Scofield Reference Bible, where I turned for the passage that I just quoted from the book of Habakkuk... coincidentally...
It says this: (2) To the man "under the sun," the natural man, who of necessity judges from appearances, 'sheol' seems no more than the grave,- the end and total cessation of, not only the activities of life, but of life itself (Eccl.ix. 5,10) (3) But scripture reveals 'sheol' as a place of sorrow (2 Sam xxii 6; Psalm xviii 5, cxvi 3), into which the wicked are turned (Psalm ix. 17) and where they are fully conscious (Isaiah xiv. 9-17; Ezekiel xxxii. 21;) see especially Jonah ii. 2, where the belly of the great fish was to Jonah that 'sheol' is to those that are therein. The 'sheol' of the OT and the 'hades' of the NT are identical...
So... what that would seem to mean is that 'somebody' spent 'three days' in Hell... and then, they got thrown back up, into the 'land of the living,' where he is going to be asked to prophecy... testify, if you Will...
And, calculating one day at roughly 1000 years... that means that about three thousand years ago, somebody was 'swallowed up,' so let's see...
The 'swallowing up' alive of the sons of Korah occurred contemporaneously with the 'Exodus,' which, according to Wikipedia... lol... happened somewhere on, or near, the year 1313 BCE...
The Seder Olam Rabbah (ca. 2nd century CE) determines the commencement of the Exodus to 2448 AM (1313 BCE). This date has become traditional in Rabbinic Judaism.[35]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus
And, here we are... at 2014 years past that point, which makes about... three thousand years, more or less (or even, 'a time, and times, and half a time,' you could/might say)... and out flops our poor Jonah...
Like some strange kind of a Holy Diver...
