
Spoke 4
John 4 Time and Death
Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I
say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to
harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal:
that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. And herein is
that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye
bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
John 4
The Fourth Day
The verse above contains the first occurrence of the Number Four in the Book of John.
This coheres with the Fourth Day of Creation when God made the "sun, moon, and stars" for
"signs, and seasons, and days, and years."
These four reasons are profoundly integrated with the symbolic meaning of the Number 4 and the
geometry of Scripture (cf.
Four Weak and Beggarly Elements).
Reaping Eternal Life
The theme of sowing and reaping eternal life forms a |