From the beginning

Foretold

Jesus said Moses wrote about Him. It is not a secret code. It is a lot of page: a line, the numbers He counted, the signs He named, and the days He appointed.

Walk it the way the text walks. The Hebrew is still on the page. When a preacher stretched a name, or forced a number, we say so.

The line

It runs from a garden to a town, in the order the text already walks.

01Seed02Names03Nations04Priest05Ram06Joseph07Scepter08I AM09Lamb10Bread11Rock12Curtain13Goat14Serpent15Prophet16Redeemer17House18Pierced19Stone20Immanuel21Branch22Egypt23Bethlehem24Donkey25Silver26Covenant

The numbers

It counts a week, a wait, and a people, then fourteen generations, ten words, a third day, seventy, and a tally.

SevenFortyTwelveFourteenThird dayTen wordsSeventy447

The signs

He named them Himself: a fish, a star, a prophet, a rest, and a bow.

JonahStarElijahSabbathBow

The days

These are appointed times: first fruit, fifty days, booths, and a year of release.

01First fruit02Weeks03Booths04Jubilee

The signs · 01 of 05 · Jonah · Matthew 12

The sign of Jonah

He named the sign Himself. He would be three days down. Then a city has to decide.

The text
A wicked generation asks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

The word

יוֹנָה

Jonah, dove, the prophet who went down (yonah)

Walk this word

What happens

  1. 01He runs the other way

    Jonah 1:3

    Go to Nineveh. Jonah pays the fare to Tarshish instead. He goes down into the boat, away from the presence of the Lord.

  2. 02Three days in the fish

    Jonah 1:17

    The Lord appoints a great fish. Jonah is in its belly three days and three nights. From the deep he prays.

  3. 03A city turns

    Jonah 3:5

    He walks into Nineveh with a short sermon. The people believe God. The king sits in ashes. The city is not swallowed.

  4. 04The only sign you get

    Matthew 12:39

    They want a sign. He names Jonah. As Jonah was three days in the fish, the Son of Man will be three days in the heart of the earth.

  5. 05Something greater than Jonah

    Matthew 12:41

    The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation. They repented at Jonah’s preaching. Something greater than Jonah is here.

Read it this way

Jonah is a prophet. God tells him to go to Nineveh, a city he hates. He runs the other way — down into a boat, down into the sea, down into a great fish. From the deep he prays. The fish spits him onto dry land. He walks into Nineveh. The city turns.

Teachers later ask Jesus for a sign. He says they get one: Jonah. As Jonah was three days and three nights in the fish, the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Then a city has to decide. The fish is not the point. The grave is.

Then it is named

The other room. Same line. A Person with a name.

Matthew 12:39Luke 11:30

Some sayJonah is a children’s fish story. Any link to Jesus was added later.

The teachers asked for a sign. He gave them Jonah, out loud. The secret was that they would not believe it when it happened.

Open Jonah 1

The copies sometimes differ — that is Witness. Words you already say out loud sit in Words with weight. Foretold is what the page already says. It is not a decoder ring.