Have you noticed it was only three days journey from slavery to freedom? Moses said to Pharaoh, “Let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God” - Exodus 3:18. It was only “three days’ journey” that the Ark of the Covenant would go ahead of the Children of Israel in the wilderness, “searching out a place for them to rest.” And it was a “three day” journey for the disciples of Jesus, between the horrors of the Cross and unimaginable despair, to such rejoicing at His resurrection that the world still celebrates His victory over death.
Dear friends, we’re in the middle of our own “three days’ journey”. Even Israel knows her “three days’ journey” is nearing its fulfilment… “Come, and let us return to the LORD: He has torn, and He will heal us; He has smitten, and He will bind us up. After two days He will revive us: in the third day we shall live in His sight” – Hosea 6:1,2.
From the beginning of His public ministry, Jesus forewarned His disciples, multiple times, saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day” – Luke 9:22. In the glory of His Presence, such news didn’t quite sink in. Their despair at His death was bottomless … until Jesus arose and “showed Himself alive after His sufferings by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.” – Acts 1:3.
It’s always darkest just before dawn – and dawn is about to break for our "three days' journey."
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