Ark of Jesus
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One of the most astounding things about the Bible is how deep the connections are.
For example: Noah's ark rested on the same day as Jesus was resurrected--thousands of years before, as a pre-anniversary.
Take Genesis 8:4:
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
The seventh month is renumbered to be the first month in Exodus 12:2:
2 "This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year..."
How do we know the month that was renumbered is the seventh month? Exodus 13:4:
4 On this day, in the month of Abib, you are going out.
The numbering went like so: Tishri (1), Cheshvan (2), Kislev (3), Tevet (4), Shevat (5), Adar (6), Abib (7).
Jesus was crucified on the 14th of the first month, see John 19:14:
14 (Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover, about noon.) Pilate said to the Jewish leaders, “Look, here is your king!”
Passover occurs on the 14th of the first month (Abib/Nisan), see Exodus 12:6:
6 You must care for it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community of Israel will kill it around sundown.
He rises again three days later, on the 17th of the first month (Acts 10:40):
40 but God raised him up on the third day and caused him to be seen
Which happens to be the seventeenth of the seventh month in Genesis, exactly when Noah's Ark rested from the days of wrath, ending a phase of judgment and beginning a phase of Edenic life.
All credit to Chuck Missler. Translations in NET.
For further study: Noah's Ark is a foreshadowing of Jesus: one door (Jesus is the one door), covered in pitch both inside and out (the word for pitch is mostly used as ransom across Scripture), God's protection from His own wrath (God shut the door on the Ark, and Noah was safe within).