Hi keypurr, regarding that post there are seven dips or plunges in the one immersion as revealed through the Prophet Elisha when he tells the leper Naaman to go dip or "plunge" seven times in the Jordan River. These seven dips or plunges are also symbolized in the traditional seven steps into the Jewish mikvah which tradition still exists to this day.
1 Corinthians 10:1-11 KJV
1. Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2. And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
3. And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4. And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
5. But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6. Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Exodus 15:6-12 KJV
6. Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
7. And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
8. And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
9. The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
10. Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
11. Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12. Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
The Sea is the Sea of Reeds, (Yam Cuwph) which although it be a literal place surely is written as symbolic typology for future generations as Paul likewise teaches. Yeshua himself undergoes this immersion also, but it is on dry land because it is symbolic, and he does so when the Father calls His Son out of Egypt, (a symbolic passing through the Sea of Reeds). In fact Yeshua undergoes all seven immersions, which are one, because they are also likened to seven symbolic dips or plunges of immersion in the Yarden River, 2 Kings 5:14, where "seven dips" may also be understood as "seven strokes", sheba` pa`miym, which have a connection to the seven strokes of the sprinkling of the blood in the Atonement ceremonies of Leviticus 16 and the seven strokes of Revelation 15:1 which are not the orges-angry-wrath of Elohim but rather the thumos-passion-fury of Elohim, (there is a critical difference if you study how orges and thumos are employed in their contexts).
Seven plunges of the one immersion:
1) The Reed Sea : the Exodus : Hosea 11:1 : Matthew 2:15
2-3-4) Three plunges at Yarden under Yochanan the Immerser
5) Forty Days fasting and the temptation-testing under the Satan
6) The Cloud of YHWH at the Transfiguration : Luke 9:34-35 : Nahum 1:3
7) Golgotha : Matthew 20:22-23 : Mark 10:38-39 : Luke 12:50
Originally then the three Synoptic Gospel accounts most likely recorded three separate "plunges" at the immersion of Yeshua, with three separate statements that have now been conflated, (note likewise that there are similar statements from the Father made at the Transfiguration event wherein one account the Father calls Yeshua not His Beloved but His Chosen One). The symbolic seven steps of the mikvah were also at one time witnessed in the book of Acts but have somehow found their way out of what most now call their canon. No doubt the statement was found to have been "too Jewish" by the early Romish church but likewise also it would surely have disrupted the newly forming "Eternal Son" doctrine which was emerging in the early stages of cultus trinitarius. :crackup:
Acts 12:1-10 Codex Bezae Translation
Now about that time Herod the king put forth his hands to afflict certain of the Church in Judaea. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And when he saw that his laying hands upon the faithful pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. And those were the days of unleavened bread. And when he had taken him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him; intending after the Passover to bring him forth to the people. Peter therefore was kept in the prison: but much prayer in earnestness about him was made by the church to God about him. And when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards before the door were keeping the prison. And behold an angel of the Lord stood by Peter, and a light shined in the cell; and he nudged Peter on the side, and awoke him, saying, Rise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And he did so. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee and follow me. And he went out and followed; and he wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; for he thought he saw a vision. And when they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth into the city, which opened to them of its own accord, and they went out, and went down the seven steps, and passed on through one street; and straightway the angel departed from him.
http://www.bible-researcher.com/bezae-acts.html
The above "seven steps" are the symbolism of the seven steps into the mikvah. This is the commencement of the conversion of Simon Peter prophesied through Yeshua in Luke 22:31-33 and John 21:15-19 and, thus, makes the Acts 12:1-10 passage utterly supernal in meaning.
Hi Zeke, well said imo, but even moreso than what you have said the Ohel-Tent of Meeting in the Septuagint was originally the personal "Tent" of Moshe the man of Elohim. Yhoshua-Yeshua the Son of Perpetuity never went out of the Tent which is again supernal typology now having been misunderstood and-or altered by the Masoretes:
Exodus 33:7-11 LXX-Septuagint (Brenton Translation)
7. And Moses took his tabernacle and pitched it without the camp, at a distance from the camp; and it was called the Tabernacle of Testimony: and it came to pass that every one that sought the Lord went forth to the tabernacle which was without the camp.
8. And whenever Moses went into the tabernacle without the camp, all the people stood every one watching by the doors of his tent; and when Moses departed, they took notice until he entered into the tabernacle.
9. And when Moses entered into the tabernacle, the pillar of the cloud descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and God talked to Moses.
10. And all the people saw the pillar of the cloud standing by the door of the tabernacle, and all the people stood and worshipped every one at the door of his tent.
11. And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as if one should speak to his friend; and he retired into the camp: but his servant Joshua the son of Naue, a young man, departed not forth from the tabernacle.
http://biblehub.com/sep/exodus/33.htm
