3 - Divine Completeness

In the pages of Scripture the number three repeatedly signals the fullness of divine purpose and presence, most clearly seen in the triune nature of God as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. This same completeness marks the resurrection of Christ on the third day, fulfilling the sign of Jonah who spent three days in the belly of the great fish, and it undergirds the baptismal command to invoke the threefold name upon every believer. Through these patterns the number three reveals how God's redemptive work reaches its perfect expression in the life, death, and rising again of the Savior.