…and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures… After that, He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once… 1 Corinthians 15:4,6
What you have been and are about to continue reading is a word the Lord gave at the beginning of 2021 called “It’s the 21st year!” It became this multi-faceted, powerful expression over the year decreeing through faith what God was saying to those who have ears to hear, and these series of posts reflect those many aspects. This is the ninth entry.
Jesus and 21
There was an unexpected discovery about Jesus through all of this ado about the number of the 21st year. After doing some research, a relationship became obvious in that twenty-one interconnects Biblically throughout Jesus’s life.
It has been written that He appeared in twenty-one locations throughout Scripture. Of all the time that He walked on the earth, there were twenty-one specific places recorded. Areas are linked to the number.
He also worked twenty-one years of His life. At age twelve, He announced, “Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” Jesus said this as if they should have already known. He came to do a great work, and He felt compelled to stay out at age twelve, which is interestingly the mirror number of twenty-one.
We know that He began His ministry at age 30, but He started working His Father’s business at age twelve, continuing until His death.
33 (age of Christ’s death) minus 12 (the age He began doing His Father’s business) equals 21 years He worked.
21 and the Resurrection
There is something about the biblical use of the number twenty-one and Christ. And still, there was another twenty-one connected with the Lord.
It is recorded that He made twenty-one appearances to believers in His resurrected body, indicating that the number twenty-one testifies to His resurrection.
In the Bible, the number 21 is associated with resurrection – death and rebirth. It is the end of one cycle and the beginning of a new one. We see the same idea reflected in modern-day traditions, where twenty-two ends the process of childhood and begins the new adulthood cycle.
21 represents God’s spiritual nature, and this number explains the fullness of the Holy Trinity, which is 7 (The Heavenly Father), x 7 (the Son), x 7 (the Holy Spirit).
Jesus’s life on the earth was relationally connected by the number 21.
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