"Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days./Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth."
'Give a portion to seven' shall explain the miracle of loaves and fishes, draught of fishes, the last supper as well as the first supper by the risen Christ.'when the morning was come' and the number of fishes are in multiples of Three! this passage Jn.21.4-15) serves as the book end to the draught of fishes in Lk.5.1-11. Here the disciples forsake their former lives while the risen Christ gives them a foretaste of what awaited them in heaven. Curiously the lake in which they plied their trade is one and the same. ' the lake of Gennesaret,'in the John's gospel is the sea of Tiberias; one lake has three names and is associated with the Son of man.
In his death he went to the lower part and preached to those who were bound. The eight explains the gospel preached there. The 24 elders represent the gospel of God.8x3=24.
We shall now take up the significance of the five loaves and two fishes.. What we are looking for are the number of baskets. What is significance of Three Twelve and Seven? The Son, the Word and the Law respectively.
"And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude." (Mt.14.19)
Jesus as the bread from heaven. So he looks upto the heaven establishing the connection,- the word is sound as well as sign, he blesses according to the Covenant, breaks the loaves. Notice the crucial part. He is empowering the disciples and they are distrbuting what Jesus hands over to them."And they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full."(v.20) They are priests and kings in the day of regeneration. These 12 baskets ful refer to their priesthood. Same broken body.
"Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days./Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth."
'Give a portion to seven' shall explain the miracle of loaves and fishes, draught of fishes, the last supper as well as the first supper by the risen Christ.'when the morning was come' and the number of fishes are in multiples of Three! this passage Jn.21.4-15) serves as the book end to the draught of fishes in Lk.5.1-11. Here the disciples forsake their former lives while the risen Christ gives them a foretaste of what awaited them in heaven. Curiously the lake in which they plied their trade is one and the same. ' the lake of Gennesaret,'in the John's gospel is the sea of Tiberias; one lake has three names and is associated with the Son of man.
In his death he went to the lower part and preached to those who were bound. The eight explains the gospel preached there. The 24 elders represent the gospel of God.8x3=24.
We shall now take up the significance of the five loaves and two fishes.. What we are looking for are the number of baskets. What is significance of Three Twelve and Seven? The Son, the Word and the Law respectively.
"And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude." (Mt.14.19)
Jesus as the bread from heaven. So he looks upto the heaven establishing the connection,- the word is sound as well as sign, he blesses according to the Covenant, breaks the loaves. Notice the crucial part. He is empowering the disciples and they are distrbuting what Jesus hands over to them."And they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full."(v.20) They are priests and kings in the day of regeneration. These 12 baskets ful refer to their priesthood. Same broken body.
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