Last week in our journey through the book of John we looked at how five prophetic pictures were fulfilled by Jesus’ burial. (see previous post 5 Prophetic Pictures Fulfilled by Jesus’ Burial: John 19:38-42) Today we’ll look at the resurrection and what to me is one of the most amazing prophetic pictures fulfilled by Jesus during the scene at the empty tomb.
Mary Magdelene Mourning
Mary Magdelene goes to the tomb. It’s still dark when she goes, so the Jewish Sabbath, which concludes at sunset, would have ended just hours before. Jewish tombs were often sealed by a heavy disk shaped stone that would require several men to roll away, and Mary expects to find such a stone. But to her surprise she finds the stone has been moved and the tomb is open.
This is bad news to Mary, she’s alarmed because she doesn’t know what’s become of the body of her Lord. So she runs to Simon Peter and “the one whom Jesus loved” as John calls himself. And she tells them,
“They took the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they’ve laid him.”
Peter and John Race to the Tomb
So Peter and John start running for the tomb. John, who was probably younger, outruns Peter. John stands outside the tomb, perhaps wanting to avoid making himself unclean by touching a dead body. He stoops down and takes a quick look inside and sees the linen cloths lying there.
Then Peter arrives and he just goes right inside the tomb, and he too sees the linen cloths lying there. The face cloth which had been on Jesus’ head wasn’t lying with the linen cloths but it was rolled up or folded up in a place by itself.
Then John decides to go inside and he saw and he believed.
As an aside, something that interests me about what we’ve seen so far is, in the original Greek, there are three different words used for look or see in verses five, six, and eight. In verse five when John stoops down and looks inside, while he’s standing outside, the word for look is “blepei” and it means a glance or a quick look. In verse six where Peter went inside and saw the linen cloths the word for saw is “theorei” and it means to hypothesize, examine, or scrutinize. In verse eight when John goes inside the word for saw is “eiden” which means to look with understanding and insight. So perhaps John understood that Jesus had risen from the dead. (Or, because of the next verse, it could be they just believed the body was missing.)
Continuing on, verse nine says, they hadn’t yet understood the Scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead. Then the disciples went back to their homes.
But . . .
What Mary Sees
But, Mary stays there. She’s weeping and grieving outside the tomb. And as she’s weeping and grieving she stoops down to look inside. And what she sees is amazing. She sees two angels in white, one on either end of where Jesus’ body had been.
What Mary Magdalene sees here astounds me, because it reminds me so much of the Ark of the Covenant. Could it be that the Ark was a prophetic picture of the scene inside Jesus’ empty tomb?
“And you shall put into the ark the testimony that I shall give you. You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat. Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends. The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you. There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you . . .”
Exodus 25:16-22
I’m not a Bible scholar but this prophetic picture seems so beautiful and also so obvious to me. Here are seven ways I see the Ark of the Covenant as a prophetic picture of the scene in Jesus’ empty tomb.
- In Exodus we see two angels, one on either end of the mercy seat above the Ark of the Covenant. In the empty tomb we see two angels, one on either end of where Jesus had lain.
- When sacrifices were made, the High Priest would sprinkle blood between the two angels on the Mercy Seat to atone for the sins of Israel. (Leviticus 16:14) In the empty tomb, there would have been Jesus’ blood there between the two angels, to atone for my sins, and yours.
- The manna was found inside the Ark of the Covenant. (Hebrews 9:4) In Jesus we find God’s true bread of life from heaven that gives life to the world. (John 6:32-33)
- Aaron the High Priest’s staff that budded was found in the Ark. (Hebrews 9:4) After His resurrection Jesus became our High Priest. (Hebrews 4:14-15)
- The stone tablets of the law were found in the Ark of the Covenant. (Hebrews 9:4) In Jesus, God’s law was fulfilled. (Matthew 5:17-20)
- In Exodus God’s mercy seat is covering the testimony. In Jesus’ death and resurrection all believers find God’s mercy.
- “There I will meet you,” God says in Exodus, “. . . between the two cherubim . . .” And between the two angels is where Jesus had lain. And Jesus is where God meets us.
Wherever you put the original construction of the Ark of the Covenant historically, hundreds if not thousands of years before the events in today’s passage occurred, in Jesus’ empty tomb we see how God painted yet another prophetic picture of the New Covenant.
Next week we’ll look at what Mary heard.
Notes:
Image of The Ark of the Covenant via picryl — Public Domain
Hi, another one you missed is that Jesus was wrapped in linen grave clothes for burial but they were left neatly folded in the grave, just as the High Priest did for the ark in the tabernacle (he wore linen to go into the most holy place and left them folded in the tabernacle when he left).
2 Timothy 3:14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
You are here professing as if you got it on your own you caucus NEVER broke down the scriptures like this you got this from MY people the greatmillstone hebrew israelites group.. that consists of the so called afro people (slave descendants) and the latinos and native americans of south, north, middle america and canada and also the west africans NOT the hamites in the midst of them…
West africa is where the israelites were before being shipped to america and the rest of the world, the israelites also come from spain as well and other parts of europe where they were called moors…
And also some of the irish, scottish, sicilians are also israelites because of their forefathers being moors on their father side.. the movie true romance with quinton terrontino also explains that “sicilians are spawns of n#gg#rs” it actually says that in the movie and i believe that and know that to be biblically true cause you are what your father is in the bible not 2% this and 30% that and 50% this and 8% this and 10% that etc.
Numbers 1:18, Ezra 2:59… You are your fathers seed and tribe, Judges 21 also explains that only 600 men of benjamin were left so they had to create the entire tribe of benjamin by making children with the manasseh and ephraim women…
Anyway you caucus had the bible since freaking before 1492 and yall NEVER broke down that The Lord MY Lord by the way is symbolically the ark of the covenant… you stole our breakdowns… I pray i am a witness against you on this on and you will NOT get away with this…
2 Timothy 3:14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
Not only do you caucus steal our style, dress code, rap, rock and roll, jazz, blues, breakdance, house music, disco music, banjo, country music, walls=dancing… our talk slang etc. but now yall stealing our scriptures.. I will NOT stand for this and you WILL be mentioned to the LORD and Lord by me for this brazen theft…
If you didnt steal it from us hebrew israelites then you have nothing to worry about if you did and did NOT pay your homage and our dues.. you will not here the last of this from me…
Romans 13:7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
But ill say this if you come in the name of that caucus cesar borgia you will be met with.. but if you come in the TRUE name and SKIN COLOUR and HAIR TEXTURE of MY Lord and MY LORD GOD you will be spared… cause then it is not up to me.. ill just say that… so you can reflect on yourself… and His words… not mine…
Mark 9:38 And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.
39 But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
I am not going to STOP you even IF i could… even IF i had literally FBI courses and CIA courses etc. i wouldnt stop you.. and i dont i am just giving examples.. i will even say this…
2 Timothy 3:14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
Continue …but remember WHO you learned them from and dont go AS IF it is The Holy Spirit gave YOU this breakdown.. cause then you are in trouble… portraying AS IF YOU did this breakdown… cause then you are being a THIEF! That builds on another man his foundation…
Romans 15:20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man’s foundation:
We already build this breakdown.. do not build upon “our” foundation…
The reason im angry is that you caucus NEVER taught this, NEVER, EVER, EVER ,EVER, EVER and since My Elder Apostles At Greatmillstone taught this all of a sudden i see you caucus teaching things that yall never taught before…
I have seen caucus christian cesar borgia followers now all of a sudden break down the book of revelation EXACTLY how we break it down and i think to myself… you caucus had this bible for hundreds of years in your stolen posession and yall NEVER broke down these scriptures..
My Elders had this since the 1970s… and now in 2024 i see this page that was set up in 2020… this is crazy… ill make a screenshot of this entire page just so i can have the proof that someone is breaking down these bible scriptures that is NOT according to the caucus his ORIGINAL ways of breaking down scriptures…
The caucus is still pushing vampire blood drinking abomination movies and christmass satanic flying reindeer movies and bunnies that lay eggs and nobody makes debunking videos about them but as soon as we make videos showing The LORD and His Son The Lord are two dark skinned man with woolly sheep like texture hair then all people wanna now debunk our biblical truths…
Why dont yall fight against yall unholy feast days of egg laying bunnies and flying reindeers… nobody fights against that.. at least not the majority… i seen athiest caucus also celebrating bunnies laying eggs and flying reindeers with their children and family.. yet they also celebrate loki and his animal children, one is a snake, a wolf, a half dead skeleton girl and a 8 legged horse.. THAT is what the caucus believes in and i find NO videos debunking that bullshit but many try and debunk the hebrew israelites… John 15:19-23, John 17:9-12
John 15:19
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
And i laugh cause those are feast days they wanna lyingly associate with the bible… which are lies… bunnies laying eggs is “ashtaroth” (also depicted as norse lies valkyries) and flying reindeers is “nimrod the cushite” aka baal… wall street bull charging that so called brave little girl is child sacrifice symbology
Anyway enough typing… as i said…
2 Timothy 3:14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
You better pay dues where dues is supposed to be paid.. starting in your mind openly confessing where you got this from and if you got it from The LORD HIMSELF then you have nothing to worry about…
Acts 5:38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
I will not forbid it or try and stop you in any form shape shift or way.. but i see you show CAUCUS effeminate angels and thus your world is caucus build.. i have a problem with you.. and you are going to PAY for that…
John 7:38
38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
John 8:32
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
You caucus are going to PAY for pushing caucus cesar borgia jesus freakazoid…
2 Corinthians 11:4
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
You have ANOTHER jesus and MOST of my people are bearing your lies upon their shoulders.. but me? I cant wait for your judgement…
Psalm 58:10-11
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
I want my reward…
Joshua 10:13
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Ezekiel 25:12-14
12 Thus saith the Lord God; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God.
Psalm 137:7-9
7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Obadiah 1:10 For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the Lord hath spoken it.
You caucus are edomites.. and you will pay…
Zechariah 11:5
Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the Lord; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
Our shepards of our race that are in these mega churches are all bought and payed for by edomites in rulerSHIT… the TRUE prophets and pastors and apostles of the LORD and Lord are waking up Ezekiel 37:1-14 in the midst of all yall… while the caucus world is falling beautifully…
Jeremiah 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
The caucus race (edomite nation) is falling.. im from the 90s and i saw that almost 9 out of 10 caucus=edomite families were couple families but now 2 out of 10 are single caucus female mother parent homes… and the edomite females now have different baby daddies instead of one husband and their daughters count down their 18th birthday with a clock set on 00:00 to make an onlyfans account which will be the future mothers of the caucus race… there are literally 17 year olds counting down on social media the min. they turn 18 to register an onlyfans account… your lands are being destroyed from within… and your caucus lands shall fall, USA, EU, AU and just everywhere the caucus is… (the edomites)
Leviticus 19:29
29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
Hosea 4:13-14
13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
Amos 7:17
17 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
Every curse is now turning on the caucus (edomites) our enemies throughout history in the real world not some fantasy made up we all need to love each other bullsh*t
Preparing for Holy week this year(2023) I was reading about Mary seeing the two angels at either end of where Jesus’ body had laid. I immediately had a visual image of the ark of the covenant and realized that all those years the Israelites had been worthing the symbol of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I then tried to find if anyone had made this connection, because I had never heard it before. And here it is!
That’s fascinating! Hopefully it was the Holy Spirit that did that. God bless you during Holy week Mike!