When Darkness is the Last Word
or Suffering as the Most Holy Place
The content of this post has been revised and included in Bible Matrix II: The Covenant Key.
_______________________________________
See also James B. Jordan, In the Fish or The Church as Tomb.
Extra note: At Passover, the lamb or kid was slain at midnight. At Atonement, the blood was presented during the day but in the darkness of the Most Holy Place. At the crucifixion, midday became midnight, and the Temple veil was rent in this darkness. Atoning blood is presented in the dark.
Pic: Jonah by Michael O’Brien, www.studiobrien.com
Artist Commentary: Jonah the reluctant prophet is swallowed by the whale, and will soon be spewed out onto a shore. In the belly of the whale he must surely feel that his life and his mission have ended. Yet in a sense he is about to be born.
