SECRET Deeper Meanings in Common Bible Stories!

did you know that the wise men's gifts to baby Jesus actually represents three different characters and predicts what Jesus would become did you know that at the very moment Jesus died something else was also killed that fully deepens the crucifixion narrative or did you know that the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit arrived is actually a reversal of a famous Old Testament story in Genesis you know the drill by now today we've got five more Bible stories with deeper meanings I've been reading more books lately to try and make these videos the highest quality

they can be so if you learned something on this journey why not consider subscribing it really really helps out jesus' death is the most important and profound Act of love in all of history but as we know many strange things happened as Christ was being crucified did you know that jesus' death coincides with a very special event in Jewish history not only to the day but even to the very hour a paper by humph and wton used astronomical calculations to reconstruct the Jewish calendar don't worry that went over my head too and found that jesus'

death was on a day called Nissan 14 not the car brand but the Jewish calendar month this happened to be when the Passover Festival would take place a period to remember the time when the Jews were saved from the angel of death by painting their door frames with blood the angel of death passed over their houses painted in red and stopped to slaughter the unpainted houses of the Egyptians but the Jews didn't use any ordinary blood to save them from that day God specifically requested the blood of a lamb unblemished male and 1-year-old the Passover

Festival lasted from Nissan 15 to 22 so get this the day on which the unblemished Lambs was sacrificed was none other than Nissan 14 the day before Passover not only were the unblemished Lambs sacrificed the very same day of jesus' death but it happened at almost the same moment the unblemished Lambs were sacrificed in unison at Twilight the moment the sun disappeared Beneath The Horizon in the same way John's gospel suggests that Jesus died in the late afternoon leaving very little space between these events in other words Jesus died at the same time as the

unblemished Lambs a timing impossible to ignore in light of what Jesus accomplished being the final and ultimate lamb who was slain for the sins of the world so that when the final Passover of judgment occurs we too can be saved not by the blood of Lambs but by the blood of Christ well it turns out the wise men who visited Jesus as a child may have been even wiser than we first thought initially the gifts they present seem unfit for a baby boy gold frankincense and myrr certainly valuable and worth a bit of money but

not helpful in raising a baby well what if I told you that these gifts actually represent three individuals and give huge Clues as to who Jesus would become when he grew up the wise men were Magi from the the East Persia to be specific they were often highly regarded and some worked in politics and governance for the throne some of the Magi may have even been King makers men responsible for electing a new King this is significant in their visit to the newborn King Jesus no doubt upon arriving in Bethlehem the Magi worshiped Christ and

offered him gifts the first of the gifts is an easy one to guess in fact the wise men kind of gave it away in their opening lines gold has always been a gift Fit For A King when the queen of shabbar visited King Solomon she brought lots of gold and precious stones so the first person represented is a king the next gift may seem unfamiliar to us but it certainly wasn't unfamiliar to the ancient Jews in the worship of Yahweh Moses was commanded to burn incense daily this incense consisted of the ingredients listed here and

was considered to be a pleasing Aroma to the Lord frankincense represented jesus' role as our great high priest it foreshadows how he would someday enter the temple and offer the ultimate sacrifice for sins greater than any incense or animal and similarly to a priest he lives to intercede for us at the right hand of God Bridging the Gap between God and man so the second person represented is a high priest the final gift is the most unusual my was definitely not something given to baby boys it's used in the Old Testament as a tool of

worship in the temple by priests but was more commonly used as an eming oil to prevent the dead from decomposing my Finds Its way into the crucifixion narrative not once but twice the first time is when Jesus is offered a drink of wine mixed with myrrh if you want to learn more about this and other deeper meanings around jesus' death I'd suggest watching this video the second is during his burial where Nicodemus invested a ridiculous 1.4 millionar into the anointing of Christ's body and for more information on that story I'd suggest watching this video mer

tells are something sobering about Jesus he was a baby born to die the gift he received at the beginning of his life was returned to him in the end my represents the third and final individual the Savior all three roles were perfectly fulfilled in Christ's life death and Resurrection all four of the New Testament gospels either quote elude or Echo something from the Old Testament and since you guys asked for it today I'll be sharing those connections hooray Matthew may be the most obvious of the four because it opens with the genealogy a theme incredibly

common throughout the Old Testament that also lists many significant characters I know I'm guilty of skimming over these lists but Matthew wants us to read his gospel through the lens of these figures when he mentions people like Abraham Ruth David Rahab we ought to recall the promises made to those characters and notice their ultimate fulfillment in Christ Mark opens his gospel with the direct reference to Isaiah 40: 3:5 and follows up by introducing John the Baptist the one who would prepare the way for Christ's arrival he hearkens back to Isaiah the most precise of all

Messianic prophets to demonstrate that Jesus is the son of God and his kingdom has finally arrived on Earth Luke 1 is massive and has many connections to different parts of the Old Testament but draws many links specifically to the story of Abraham the birth of Jesus is connected to the birth of Isaac and many of the characters are similar to Abraham in different ways Luke closely mirrors Abraham's story throughout his characters to remind us of the Covenant made that would be fulfilled in Christ's coming John has an iconic opening taking strong inspiration from Genesis 1:1

his goal in the first 18 verses is to demonstrate that Jesus is the son of God and in him is life in fact he's always had life since the very beginning the theme of light and darkness is replicated by John as an illusion to Exodus 33 where God could not show his face to Moses in John however Jesus comes as the one to reveal the true nature and identity of the god once veiled from us in the Old Testament proving Christ is God himself before the birth of Jesus a decree was announced forcing Mary and

Joseph to return to their Hometown Bethlehem I must admit this is a part of the story I often skim over but there are very interesting connections between this decree and another famous biblical decree that change how we understand the Nativity Story in the year 583 BC the Jews had suffered for decades under the occupation of the Babylonians but when Babylon was conquered the Persian king Cyprus made a decree that caused Great rejoicing amongst the exiled slaves the Jews were free to return to their home country and rebuild the city of Jerusalem now these two biblical

decrees may seem insignificant or even unrelated what I have to reveal may change your mind the parallel stories are recorded in Ezra and Luke first we see that both decrees were issued by rulers of the current world Empire Persia and Rome respectively they both involve movements of a large number of people in fact both decrees encapsulate the world in its totality it seems then there's an unusual coincidence in the wording of these particular sentences there's three identical Greek words used to describe the locations that were being traveled through the broader goal in both cases being

Judah itself both texts make strong reference to Bethlehem it being the first of 15 towns mentioned from verse 21 and of course being the location of the birth of Christ but there's more the concept of registration is also present in both stories most notably in Nehemiah 75 where it seems that all the returned Exiles were registered similarly to Luke's account of the Nations being registered in their Hometown but I've saved the best connection for last in Ezra 52 two characters come together to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem they are zerubabel and Joshua they're

certainly not the characters we learn about in Sunday school and I'm not talking about Joshua from The Book of Joshua either but they are incredibly significant in this parallel zerubabel was a descendant of David an ancestor of Mary the mother of Jesus Joshua is a name that can also read Yeshua in Greek or Jesus Joshua was a man who served as a Priestly figure in Luke 2 we read of the birth of the royal son of David given the name Jesus combining the two postexilic figures into one person a king and a priest not to

mention that in the list of names recorded in Ezra 2 of The Returned Exiles The Only Name mentioned four times the most by far is Joshua or Yeshua translated to be Jesus the Ezra passage not only has a prominent focus on Bethlehem the town of David and zerubabel the son of David but even the name Jesus appears more than any other rising to our attention as well in light of the Divine Scriptures it seems Luke wasn't simply alluding back to Ezra but Ezra was in fact preempting what was to come the passage in Ezra gave

deliberate prominence to terms relating to the name lineage and birthplace of the Messiah we all recall the moment of the holy spirit's powerful arrival in Acts 2 where the walls shook strong winds blew and the disciples began speaking in foreign languages they'd never learn learned but did you know that there's a similar story in Genesis namely the construction of the city and Tower of Babel the parallels here are quite remarkable starting with the condition of the people After the flood a great grandson was born to Noah named Nimrod he was a mighty man and founded

a number of prominent cities the first of which was named Babel Babel was a glorious City the climax of human progression and civilization they became so proud of their Construction that they set their sights on something greater they planned to build a tower to reach the heavens but notice the reason why they wanted to make a name for themselves but they also wanted to stay together for they feared that they would be scattered across the world otherwise God had commanded Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply to fill the whole earth instead the bites

were insistent on staying together and becoming more and more secure in their City the tower was built from a heart of Defiance to God in contrast the Disciples of Jesus were commanded to remain in Jerusalem for the holy spirit's arrival for the express purpose of spreading the gospel to the ends of the Earth instead of disobeying God's commands they remained in Jerusalem for 10 days and received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost but look carefully at what happens as a result in Babel the people's language is confused and God scattered them throughout all the Earth moving

forward his command to the first humans the world was United in sin and was scattered for righteousness in the same way the world in Acts was divided by sin until it was reunited by the holy spirit for righteousness where God first confused all the languages of man he then United them back through the life-changing message of the gospel of Christ so that it could once again go out and be spread to the ends of the Earth thank you guys so much for watching if you've got any deeper meanings of your own please leave them in

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