I was reading about Jesus's death and how Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus quickly prepared Jesus's body before the "day" of Passover began at twilight. In Genesis 1, the concept of a "day" is recorded as evening and morning, in that order. So, a "day" (24 hour period) begins with "night" and then the "day" (light). So, I think the concept of a day could be modeled as a sinusoidal function, specifically: -sin(2πx), where x represents the fraction of the day (a 24 hour period) and a negative ordinate value represents "night", and a positive ordinate value represents "day" (light), as shown in the figure below:
I think it is significant that Jesus was resurrected at daybreak, the beginning of the "day" (light). Perhaps the magnitude of the ordinate value could represent how far away "God's people" are from His presence. For example, in the beginning (x = 0), God walked with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The "night" could be the time of the Law, and during reign of the latter kings of Judah and Israel (e.g., x~0.25), God's people had strayed pretty far from Him, but then Ezra and Nehemiah rallied a comeback. And when Jesus walked the earth (x = 0.5), people were pretty close. And then people drifted during the middle ages (x~0.75), the Crusades, etc. But over the past five hundred years, there have been various reformers and revivals, and so we could see ourselves in the greatest revival the world has ever seen, just on the cusp of Jesus's return (x = 1).
Heavenly Father, thank you for the patterns that you have embedded into time and space. I love the beauty of your patterns. Holy Spirit, I want to join you in your flow. Come, Lord Jesus. I love you.
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