Myth, Mystery & Prophecy of the Three Days of Darkness
Why is the number three so important in end of days prophecy?
In my last blog, I wrote that Dr. Paul LaViolette proposed that the first three days of the coming Earth catastrophe would be the most intense. Three days seems to appear quite often in prophecy and in the Bible. In fact, Jesus mentions three days 21 times in the Bible. In the Old Testament, Moses commanded that a horrible darkness fall over Egypt and it stayed for three days. Matthew 12:40 states: “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” Jesus was said to be in the tomb from Thursday to Sunday. On the day Jesus was crucified, there were three hours of darkness starting at noon ending at three PM. Darkness represents the sin of mankind. Jesus knew the third day was important as it represents God’s pattern of establishing new life and a new covenant with humanity.
The number three seems to keep showing up. How does the number three show up in end of days prophecy and lore?
Anna Maria Taigi was an Italian Catholic who had several ecstatic experiences where she said God and Jesus spoke to her. She was beatified in 1920. The following is what she allegedly was told.
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia
“There shall come over the whole earth an intense darkness lasting three days and three nights. Nothing can be seen, and the air will be laden with pestilence which will claim mainly, but not only, the enemies of religion. It will be impossible to use any man-made lighting during this darkness, except blessed candles. He, who out of curiosity, opens his window to look out or leaves his home, will fall dead on the spot. During these three days, people should remain in their homes, pray the Rosary or beg God for mercy. All the enemies of the Church, whether known or unknown, will perish over the whole earth during that universal darkness, with the exception of a few whom God will convert.”
Anna Maria wasn’t the only Catholic to hear the word of God. Padre Pio, who was an Italian Capuchin friar and priest, was canonized a saint in 2002 for his work with the poor and because he had stigmata. He was also able to bilocate. It is said that American and British pilots in WWII saw Padre Pio in the sky holding out his stigmata hands right before they were to bomb the city of San Giovanni Rotondo. Their targeting equipment malfunctioned causing the bombs to miss their target and the planes returned to base on their own! An Italian Air Force General witnessed the events. My father was in WWII in Italy and told me that he saw Padre Pio in one of the churches.
The original uploader was Manfredonia at Italian Wikipedia.derivative work: MisterNox - Transferred from it.wikipedia to Commons.www.vatican.va, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=129862676
Here is what Padre Pio wrote about the three days of darkness.
“Keep your windows well covered. Do not look out. Light a blessed candle, which will suffice for many days. Pray the Rosary. Read spiritual books. Make acts of Spiritual Communion, also acts of love, which are so pleasing to Us. Pray with outstretched arms, or prostrate on the ground, in order that many souls may be saved. Do not go outside the house. Provide yourself with sufficient food. The powers of nature shall be moved and a rain of fire shall make people tremble with fear. Have courage! I am in the midst of you. …Hurricanes of fire will pour forth from the clouds and spread over the entire Earth. Storms, bad weather, thunderbolts, and earthquakes will cover the Earth for two days. An uninterrupted rain of fire will take place. It will begin during a very cold night. The wind will roar and carry with it poisonous gases which will be diffused over the entire Earth. After three nights, the earthquakes and fire will cease. The sun will shine again.”
Ray Sanford, who wrote Fatima Prophecy: A Psychic Channels the Controversial Prophecy of Fatima for the New Age, interpreted what the children saw in the miracle of the sun. They said they saw the sun spin three times. Ray said that this event represented the three days of darkness in the Bible.
Drunvalo Melchizedek holds degrees in physics and arts from the University of California at Berkeley and has studied over 70 teachings from indigenous tribes and others from all over the world. In his book, The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life Volume 2, Drunvalo writes about the time of the geomagnetic pole shift. He goes into great detail about what to expect during the phase prior to the pole shift which usually lasts from three months to two years. Similar to others, he writes that once the shift begins, the 3-D world will disappear.
He was told by the Taos Pueblo Native Americans that five to six hours before the shift, dimensions start to overlap. Things may appear out of nowhere and you may see colors that you have never seen before. He, like others, suggest to not touch any of these things. He adds that anything synthetic and not natural, such as plastic, will become unstable. Hence, he says that you should not be in your home during this time. Being in nature is much safer, unlike what Anna Maria Taigi and Padre Pio say.
The color changes continue and soon everything becomes white light. You begin to feel that you are white light. The white light changes to clear light and you can see objects again only they look metallic and like they are made of gold. The gold reality will turn transparent and you will be able to see through objects.
The gold will soon become dull and dark. You will find yourself in total darkness and nothing is visible. Drunvalo calls this the void between dimensions. This darkness usually lasts for three days before a brilliant white light, brighter than the one before, comes to herald in the new world, or as he puts it, the “new birth.”
The idea of a new birth is similar to what Jesus said was important about the third day, that is the beginning of a new life and a new covenant. Biblically, the number three signifies completeness. In this case, it is the completion of one world and the beginning of the next. Three is also associated with creativity which is needed at a time of rebirth.
Like all life on Earth, there is a time for birth, life, and death and then the cycle repeats. And so it is with the Earth.