40 Days from Resurrection to Ascension

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From Christ's resurrection to ascension is 40 days. Why 40 days?

Acts 1:3, 9 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: ... And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

10 days after ascension was Pentecost when the Spirit was poured out.

Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

So, why not 35 or 45 days? Why 40 days?

The brief answer is it corresponds to the 40 days from His birth to presentation at the temple.

Luke 2:22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present [him] to the Lord;

Cyril of Jerusalem confirms the 40 day period.
" the Temple into which He was then carried up on the fortieth day:"
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf207.ii.xvi.html

Lev 12:2, 4 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean. ... And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.

7 days and 33 days is 40 days. So,

Birth from Mary to presentation (redemption of the first-born) is 40 days.

Pidyon haben - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Presentation of Jesus at the Temple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

'Birth from death' to ascension is 40 days.

PS. I know there's lots of 'unpacking' to do here, but wanted to put this 'out there' for your thoughts, comments.
 

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To lay out the parallel:

fall-
physical birth-first day of tabernacles (sunday)
circumcision-8th day (last day of same feast) (sunday)
40th day is redemption/presentation (thursday)

spring-
passover-death
unleavened bread-burial
resurrection-first fruits
meets with apostles sans Thomas (sunday)
all apostles-8th day (sunday)
40th day is ascension (thursday)



The New American Commentary Volume 2: Exodus - Douglas K. Stuart - Google Books
 
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Blue Letter Bible - Lexicon
Strong's Number H705 matches the Hebrew אַרְבָּעִים ('arba`iym), which occurs 136 times in 124 verses in the Hebrew concordance

Blue Letter Bible - Lexicon
Strong's Number G5062 matches the Greek τεσσαράκοντα (tessarakonta), which occurs 22 times in 21 verses in the Greek concordance

Mark 1:13 And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to Him.

Acts 1:3 to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.

Acts 7:30 "And when forty years had passed, a Messenger of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.
 
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From Christ's resurrection to ascension is 40 days. Why 40 days?

Acts 1:3, 9 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: ... And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

10 days after ascension was Pentecost when the Spirit was poured out.

Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

So, why not 35 or 45 days? Why 40 days?

The brief answer is it corresponds to the 40 days from His birth to presentation at the temple.

Luke 2:22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present [him] to the Lord;

Cyril of Jerusalem confirms the 40 day period.
" the Temple into which He was then carried up on the fortieth day:"
NPNF2-07. Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen - Christian Classics Ethereal Library

Lev 12:2, 4 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean. ... And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.

7 days and 33 days is 40 days. So,

Birth from Mary to presentation (redemption of the first-born) is 40 days.

Pidyon haben - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Presentation of Jesus at the Temple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

'Birth from death' to ascension is 40 days.

PS. I know there's lots of 'unpacking' to do here, but wanted to put this 'out there' for your thoughts, comments.

This is like assembling the whole Bible ... Jesus follwed the path of the calling out and the calling into that is layed out, the difference being he finished the work.
 
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This is like assembling the whole Bible ... Jesus follwed the path of the calling out and the calling into that is layed out, the difference being he finished the work.

Well, there was no possibility of the Law working (finishing anything), but it was a typing, a written for our instruction (Paul).

The reality is Christ who followed the pattern, being the Lamb, bread, firstfruit, tabernacling.

What I'm trying to do here is answer why He specifically took 40 days from resurrection to ascension. Some believe it refers to 40 days of fasting or Moses on the mount, etc, but I believe it ties to the 40 days from His birth to Joseph/Mary redeeming Him.

To redeem is to buy back. As the first-born male not of Levi, He was dedicated to God. Joseph had to redeem Him, 'buy Him back' from God.

From resurrection to ascension is likewise 40 days, does redemption also figure here? Except He sent to us the Spirit.
 
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We can not pin this down to one thing or cause it to be measured, as he is all things to us. With that said, and to throw some stuff out there, each forty days/years/years old/cubits/ sockets of silver/baths/ etc. (also the hundredfold/thousand, of the same) you see relate to the coming forth of something, or the process of time, as the forty days and the ten days after the feast of Pentecost (50) opens to all flesh, or is poured out upon all flesh, ten being the number of the law which speaks to the wilderness or the wandering around which Jesus fulfilling after his baptism (in the cloud) came into the land in the power of God. Truth over laps and is weaved in scripture and in creation like a garment that is without seam, to pull on one part is to open the whole from the point of reference from where it is seen, if that makes sense.

As far as the point you are making, you could read that (what opens the matrix, etc.) into it from the point of the levitical priesthood but Jesus did not need to be redeemed, he was the price for the redemption or the cost that was counted to build the house from before the world was.
 
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We can not pin this down to one thing or cause it to be measured, as he is all things to us. With that said, and to throw some stuff out there, each forty days/years/years old/cubits/ sockets of silver/baths/ etc. (also the hundredfold/thousand, of the same) you see relate to the coming forth of something, or the process of time, as the forty days and the ten days after the feast of Pentecost (50) opens to all flesh, or is poured out upon all flesh, ten being the number of the law which speaks to the wilderness or the wandering around which Jesus fulfilling after his baptism (in the cloud) came into the land in the power of God. Truth over laps and is weaved in scripture and in creation like a garment that is without seam, to pull on one part is to open the whole from the point of reference from where it is seen, if that makes sense.

As far as the point you are making, you could read that (what opens the matrix, etc.) into it from the point of the levitical priesthood but Jesus did not need to be redeemed, he was the price for the redemption or the cost that was counted to build the house from before the world was.

Jesus was of Judah. He was the first-born male. He was set apart for God's service, but Israel operating under Levitical priesthood since Exodus, no one of any tribe could serve the temple. Instead, all first-born males had to be redeemed (bought back from God). 5 shekels of silver (probably Joseph used the money from the earlier men of the east visit).

Luke 2:22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present [him] to the Lord;

That was at 40 days after His birth.

33 1/2 (or 30 1/2) years later in the spring He was the Lamb slain, taking the penalty for us, providing the payment (death).

3 days later He is resurrected (birthed out from death). 40 days later He ascends. What's paid, if anything? The Spirit? Later, Peter says to the lame man, I don't have gold/silver (to redeem you?), but I give what I have, in the name of Jesus Christ, get up and walk. The guy was set free.

Just trying to see if there's a connection between the two sets of 40 days and redemption. Thinking out loud.
 
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why do we always need to look for symbolism. Isn't the fact he ascended simply enough.

Sometimes I think we have a tendency to look to hard for things and see patterns when they may not really be there.



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p.s. 40 days, 39 days, 41 days, it does not matter the only thing that matters is that he ascended.
 
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Jesus was of Judah. He was the first-born male. He was set apart for God's service, but Israel operating under Levitical priesthood since Exodus, no one of any tribe could serve the temple. Instead, all first-born males had to be redeemed (bought back from God). 5 shekels of silver (probably Joseph used the money from the earlier men of the east visit).

Luke 2:22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present [him] to the Lord;

That was at 40 days after His birth.

33 1/2 (or 30 1/2) years later in the spring He was the Lamb slain, taking the penalty for us, providing the payment (death).

3 days later He is resurrected (birthed out from death). 40 days later He ascends. What's paid, if anything? The Spirit? Later, Peter says to the lame man, I don't have gold/silver (to redeem you?), but I give what I have, in the name of Jesus Christ, get up and walk. The guy was set free.

Just trying to see if there's a connection between the two sets of 40 days and redemption. Thinking out loud.

The price and the purchase are one in the same, our soul. The connections will come together for you, just don't labor for them, allow him to open them to you, in you.
 
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why do we always need to look for symbolism. Isn't the fact he ascended simply enough.

Sometimes I think we have a tendency to look to hard for things and see patterns when they may not really be there.



Steve

p.s. 40 days, 39 days, 41 days, it does not matter the only thing that matters is that he ascended.

Why did he have to die on a cross, why is the son of God the Word of God, why, why a moon, sheaves and a sun bowing down, why a garden, why the death in one and the final burial of Adam (last Adam), in a garden, why did Mary suppose he was the gardner until at his voice she turned to see him, why did he make the earth to turn revealing a sunrise that never had to rise, but always was ... does it matter, no it's all just dialogue, in the end it is love God, love your niebhor, love your enemy.
 
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why do we always need to look for symbolism. Isn't the fact he ascended simply enough.

Sometimes I think we have a tendency to look to hard for things and see patterns when they may not really be there.



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p.s. 40 days, 39 days, 41 days, it does not matter the only thing that matters is that he ascended.

Why 40 days until presentation/redemption of the first-born male not of Levi? That may be chance. But not 40 days to ascension.
 
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is it ... To me, it is life or death. This, to assume we know, is what clogs up the well and reveals our nakedness, and therefore our sin remains or has a place or habitation in us.

In the meantime, have you anything to add to the OP?
 
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In the meantime, have you anything to add to the OP?

The difference between the two is the feminine and the masculine, Levi equates to the third of three (which pattern is throughout scripture) and is that which stands between us and our father, as a Moses (which is still prevalent in the church today as it was in the wilderness, as it was before the moment of Jesus' ascension), which can not cause you to enter in. The levitcal was a multiplying of the ministry of Moses, and even though when the children of Israel entered into the land they still remained in the mentality of the wilderness. They all form one pattern or converge as it were in the revealing of one son, which truth is being revealed in us. Even to the point of Isaac who was thirty years old when he took Rebeeca to wife. The things/truth overlap each other in picture form ... consider the ear rings of gold the calf was made out of, at the foot of the mountian that became an Hagar and her son or the perception of truth (not partakers of the promise), as the servant sent by Abraham to get a wife for his son with an ear ring, along with the braclets for the hands of Rebecaa of ten shekels, the law that drew her into the land of promise, yet herself never entering into this because the price was not paid yet or the work not finished in their mentality.

The five shekels can be seen both in the masculine and the feminine in the woman at the well and her five husbands and the parable of the richman and his five brothers or the five steps (which reveals our nakedness) of the pool of solomon. It is the perception of the five senses. The things have to do with his son being revealed in us and not something that is without. It's all part of the language of God that is in picture form, and the pure language that he is returning by turning to us.

I can write very little of what I see in this, and very little of even one angle of it because it comes to me from all directions (in scripture) all at once, in the form of a blessing that my soul can not contain and why I said to you (not to belittle you or your understanding) he will open it in you. If this has not happened to you, when it does you will understand what I mean. No son is less than another.
 
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Jesus did resurrect Nisan 23th, that is 40 days to the day before Pentecost.
Jesus celebrates passover the night after Nisan 14th; was arrested the mornig of Nisan 15th, was crucified Thursday 20th Nisan; and rsurrectes Sunday 23th in First Fruits. Then we count 40 day until the day before Pentecost.
 
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