Temptation in the Wilderness- Jesus spends 40 days in the wilderness, fasting and facing temptation by Satan.
If you never in your life go in the wilderness and live alone, truly alone, for 40 days - then you have never gotten out of society and faced yourself, your god…
- alone means no technology, no entertainment. Just you and nature and god.
If you have never done this, then you don’t really know who/what you are and you haven’t gained distance from this world to actually be able to live “in it but not of it”
- Moses spent 40 days on Mount Sinai with God
- Elijah spent 40 days and nights walking to Mount Horeb
- God sent 40 days and nights of rain in the great flood of Noah
- The Hebrew people wandered 40 years in the desert while traveling to the Promised Land
- Jonah's prophecy of judgment gave 40 days to the city of Nineveh in which to repent or be destroyed
- Jesus retreated into the wilderness, where He fasted for 40 days, and was tempted by the devil.[145] He overcame all three of Satan's temptations by citing scripture to the devil, at which point the devil left him, angels ministered to Jesus, and He began His ministry. Jesus further said that His disciples should fast "when the bridegroom shall be taken from them", a reference to his Passion.
- It is the traditional belief that Jesus lay for 40 hours in the tomb, which led to the 40 hours of total fasting that preceded the Easter celebration in the early Church