Proverbs 22: 20-21 says, “Have not I written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge. That I might make you know the certainty of the words of truth; that you might answer the words of truth to them that send to you?”
“Pay attention to these excellent saying of three-fold things. For within my words you will discover true and reliable revelation. They will give you serenity so that you can reveal the truth of the word of the one who sends you.” TPT
One of the first things that we learn in our Christian faith is about the Excellent Oneness of our God as He moves as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Oh Lord. Our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! These three are knitted as One but move in different functions as three persons to represent God’s Fullness. We need to receive revelation and understanding through counsel, wisdom and knowledge to grow up into the fullness of His image that we were created to be.
God has placed all things beneath His feet and anointed Him as the head over all things for His church. This church is His body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all. Ephesians 1:22-23
Father, out of Your honorable and glorious riches, strengthen Your people. Fill their souls with the power of Your Spirit so that through faith the Anointed One will reside in their hearts. May love be the rich soil where their lives take root. May it be the bedrock where their lives are founded so that together with all of Your people they will have the power to understand that the love of the Anointed is infinitely long, wide, high, and deep, surpassing everything anyone previously experienced. God, may Your fullness flood through their entire beings. Ephesians 3:16-19
God was pleased that all His fullness should forever dwell in the Son. 1 Corinthians 1:19
You see, all that is God, all His fullness, resides in His body. Colossians 2:9
We desire for God and His Kingdom to be represented on this web site in a multitude of counsel. This is a three-fold covenant of the words of truth used especially of the Words of God in the Old Testament. Young’s Literal Translation says, “have I not written to you three times…?” The Jerusalem Bible adds, “Have I not written for you thirty chapters…?” The number thirty reveals the principle of coming to maturity or coming to the throne. It is also a number denoting priesthood.” In the New Testament the “word” is “logos” (G3056 a word uttered by a living voice; the sayings of God).
Jesus was a Prophet, Priest and King. We can see in both his spiritual and earthly heritage that David operated also as prophet, priest and king.
The patriarch Joseph and the monarch David were thirty years old when they ascended to their places of rulership. The priests began to minister at the age of thirty. The heavens opened over the head of the prophet Ezekiel when he was thirty. The Pattern Son Jesus came to the river Jordan and began his public ministry at the age of thirty. The child was born at Bethlehem, but the Son was given at the Jordan.
Call to Me and I will answer you, and tell you [and even show you] great and mighty things, [things which have been confined and hidden], which you do not know and understand and cannot distinguish. Jeremiah 33:3
There are many times that the word excellent is used in scripture but we want to zero in on this particular meaning.The Hebrew word for “excellent things” in Proverbs 22:20 is from the root word shalosh (#7991) and means “a three-fold measure, a triple (as a musical instrument), a triangle (or perhaps a three-stringed lute), a general of the third rank (upward, the highest).” It is translated in the King James Version as “captain, instrument of music, (great) lord, (great) measure, prince, and three.” It is taken from the word (#7969) meaning “three, third, thrice.” Thus, these “excellent things” are three-fold things! Truths dealing with three dimensions. This is the manner, in which, the Father has written His counsels and knowledge that we might know the certainty of the words of truth.
You will see on this web page demonstration in three-fold truths. If
the Proverbs contain keys to understanding riddles and mysteries (Prov. 1:2-6), then we have one of those keys given to us here. God speaks in threes, for he is a triune God. We have a body, soul, and spirit. God lived in a three-room house (outer court, holy place, and the chamber of the Holy of Holies). These three-fold dimensions are throughout the Bible. We see David had three mighty men as told in 2 Samuel 24:13-16.
For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as on earth. 1John 5:7-8.
There are three times God’s people are to gather to celebrate great periods of God’s annual feast days of worship. They are the Spring Festivals (Passover, Days of Unleavened Bread and First Fruits), the Summer Festival (Pentecost) and the Fall Festivals (Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement and Feast of Tabernacles). Exodus 23:14-17. The Spring Festivals tell of Jesus’ first coming and the Fall Festivals tell of His second coming. You will find it takes all seven feasts to describe the fullness of the Lord.
There are hundreds of examples in the Word that the Spirit of God demonstrates and teaches in threes. May this be a season that you are quickened to excellence and allow the Lord to align you in a whole new way. God is described, in the very beginning of the book of Revelation, as a Being “who is, and who was, and who is to come” (Revelation 1:8).
Can you begin to see yourself as one who is in the present, co-laboring with God, who was in the beginning with God, and who is to come with the King of kings and Lord of lords to rule and reign with God. Yes, we are assured that the saints who have received the Kingdom, will possess the Kingdom forever, even forever and ever. Daniel 7:18
Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!
Written by Billie Alexander
Co-Founder, Limitless Realms Int’l Ministries
