Of all the expansions in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, few are as beautiful as the Four Nights passage on Exodus 12:42. The Aramaic says there are four nights written in the Book of Memorials before the Lord of the world.
The first night was when He was revealed in creating the world. The second night was when He was revealed to Abraham at the Covenant Between the Pieces. The third night was when He was revealed in Mizraim, His hand killing all the firstborn of Egypt and His right hand saving the firstborn of Israel. The fourth night is the one that has not yet come — when He will be revealed to liberate the house of Israel from among the nations.
The pattern is staggering. Creation, covenant, Exodus, final redemption. Each happens at night. Each happens on the same calendar date. The rabbis understood this as a claim about the nature of God's intervention in history. The great turning points of the world do not happen at noon. They happen in the dark, in the hours when most of creation is asleep, when only the watchers — human and angelic — are awake to notice.
The Targum closes by tying the concept to Moses's teaching. This is the "Night of preservation from the destroying angel for all the sons of Israel who were in Mizraim, and of redemption of their generations from their captivity." Every seder night, Jews re-enter this liturgical structure — one night that holds four nights inside it.
The messianic reading of the Four Nights became foundational for later Jewish mysticism. The seder is not only a commemoration; it is an anticipation. The fourth night is still ahead.
Takeaway: Four of the most important nights in history share one calendar date. When you sit down to the seder, you are sitting inside all of them.