OK, I Know about the Typology of John chapters 2&3 and the Creation account. But

[NotWorthy]

I didn’t know this!

If you will recall regarding Typology, there was a correlation between the Creation account and John’s Gospel.

the wedding at Cana took place on the 7th day from the first day in John’s Gospel which would be in verse 19. Day #2 is the “next day” of John 1:29; day #3 is “the next day” of John 1:35; day #4 is the “next day” of John 1:43 and “3 days later” in John 2:1 yields the 7th day.

So, after 7 days of Creation, we have the marriage between Adam and Eve. And after 7 days of the New Creation in St. John’s Gospel, we find ourselves at another wedding. And of course, the only two names mentioned are Jesus (the 2nd Adam) and Mary (the New Eve).

I’ve known of this typology and loved it for several years, now.

But I never took it further until I read this on AgapeBibleStudy.Com.

On the 7th day of the first Creation God presided over the wedding of Adam and Eve.  After Adam and Eve’s fall from grace, when He surveyed His Sanctuary at the hour of communion between God and man, He found that sin had contaminated the Eden Sanctuary and the world.  God judged Adam and Eve in allowing sin to enter the garden Sanctuary where man communed with God, expelling the unclean offenders from His holy place.

In St. John’s Gospel, after “the 7th day” wedding at Cana, God the Son came to commune with man in the Jerusalem Temple. Finding sin present, He cast out that which was unclean from His holy Sanctuary. Jesus’ act of cleansing the Temple Sanctuary is symbolically reminiscent of the first expulsion of offenders out of the Sanctuary that was Eden.

 

[NHInsider]

Very cool indeed!! I love it that you can read Scripture for 50 years and not even begin to exhaust the riches. . . .

Thanks for sharing this!

 

[ryanoneil]

There is also the purpose of six stone jars which is outlined in Num 19:11-22 , which stipulates that any Israelite defiled by contact with the dead must be purified with water on the third and seventh day.

Which makes me think of our washing in baptism and the imagery of dying and rising with Christ in baptism. Also, the transformation of water into wine anticipates the transubstantiation of wine into blood which points to the marriage supper of the Lamb in heaven.

The symbolizm is amazing! Even how the abundance of wine in his first sign IS a sign of the messianic age.

**On this mountain the LORD of hosts will provide for all peoples A feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines. (Isa 25:6)

And then, on that day, the mountains shall drip new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk; And the channels of Judah shall flow with water: A fountain shall issue from the house of the LORD, to water the Valley of Shittim. (Joel 4:18)

Yes, days are coming, says the LORD, When the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the vintager, him who sows the seed; The juice of grapes shall drip down the mountains, and all the hills shall run with it. (Amos 9:13)**

 

[NotWorthy]

There is also the purpose of six stone jars which is outlined in Num 19:11-22 , which stipulates that any Israelite defiled by contact with the dead must be purified with water on the third and seventh day.

YES!!! I’ve always noted that the wedding took place on the 3rd AND the 7th day, by reckoning… and I found it odd. I noticed the connection, but couldn’t put two and two together. The closest I got was that:
6 is the sign of what? Incompletion? Rebellion?

It seems the purification rights of the Old Covenant are incomplete.

Which makes me think of our washing in baptism and the imagery of dying and rising with Christ in baptism. Also, the transformation of water into wine anticipates the transubstantiation of wine into blood which points to the marriage supper of the Lamb in heaven.

The symbolizm is amazing! Even how the abundance of wine in his first sign IS a sign of the messianic age.

**On this mountain the LORD of hosts will provide for all peoples A feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines. (Isa 25:6)

And then, on that day, the mountains shall drip new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk; And the channels of Judah shall flow with water: A fountain shall issue from the house of the LORD, to water the Valley of Shittim. (Joel 4:18)

Yes, days are coming, says the LORD, When the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the vintager, him who sows the seed; The juice of grapes shall drip down the mountains, and all the hills shall run with it. (Amos 9:13)**

That is truly amazing! Thanks for the info!

 

[ryanoneil]

Your Welcome!