PROPHESIES WE MISS

PROPHECIES WE MISS

                “Come; let us return to the Lord. For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bandage us. He will revive us after two days; He will raise us up on the third day that we may live before Him. So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; His going forth is as certain as the dawn; and He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.” Hosea 6:1-3

                If you look up the word “Third” in your Strong’s you will be amazed at how many things happen on the third day. The biggest event of course was when Jesus rose from the dead on the third day, but if we look at the Bible with a prophetic pair of glasses we find a huge amount of prophetic symbolism in types and shadows that tune us in to our Lord’s plans and purposes. Let’s take John chapter 2 as an example.

                “ And on the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee and the mother of Jesus was there; and Jesus also was invited, and His disciples to the wedding. And when the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what do I have to do with you? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”  Now there were six stone water pots set there for the Jewish custom of purification, containing twenty or thirty gallons each. Jesus said to them, “Fill the water pots with water and they filled them up to the brim. And He said to them, “ Draw some out now and take it to the head waiter” And they took it to him and when the head waiter tasted the water which had become wine, and did not know where it came from,( but the servants  who had drawn the water knew), the head waiter called the bridegroom and said to him, Every man serves the good wine first, and when men have drunk freely, then that which is poorer; you have kept the good wine until now.” John 2:1-10

                So we have a sequence of events here. First of all it tells us that this was the third day. The third day after what?  Well, as we look back into the previous chapter, we see that it was on the third day after Jesus had been baptized by John in the Jordon River, after which He also received the baptism of the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, and declared as the Son of God by the Father’s voice from heaven.

                On the second day He called His disciples and on the third day they attended a wedding feast. Here we see a picture of the church, being baptized in water for the remission of sins and then being filled with the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost and then after 2 days (2000 years) we will enjoy the marriage of the Lamb to His Bride. But there is more. There were 6 stone pots. (Six is the number of man, who by nature has a heart of stone.) Jesus had the servants fill these stone pots with water.              (Water represents the Holy Spirit.) And it says that the servants filled these stone pots to the brim, to the very top. So when the water, which has now turned to wine, is taken to the bridegroom, he comments that the best wine has been saved for the last.

                Now we must observe several things about this story. The stone pots were first filled to the brim with water, representing the Holy Spirit. These pots held 20 or 30 gallons each, so Jesus supplied the guests who had already had wine to drink, with somewhere between 120 and 180 gallons of wine. Water gives life, but wine makes you drunk and if you have an abundance of wine, it will change you. It will change the way you walk and the way you talk and you will begin to feel love for each other that normal inhibitions would hold in reserve. You will party a little louder and express joy a little louder and you will stop caring what is happening in the rest of the world for now the wedding feast will become everything.

                In other words, we received the Holy Spirit (water) at Pentecost, but on the third day that water is going to turn into wine and it will fill us to the brim and it will take us over and change the way we walk and the way we talk. It will restore to us the brotherly love that has been cooped up by our self-conscious reserve and we will come to a place where the marriage to the Lamb will be our only focus.

                The stone pitchers had been used for purification and so the wedding guests, having first been purified were now ready to partake of the new wine that will be served at the last.

                If we don’t have prophetic minds, we tend to read these stories as just stories in the life of Jesus and we don’t see the great pictures of truth that are being served to us.

                We are now approaching the third day. We have lived for 2 days on the wine of Pentecost, which Paul tells us in 2 Cor. 5: 5 was given to us as an earnest, or a pledge of greater things to come.

                So the great harvest at the end of the age is going to be attended with an anointing of the Holy Spirit that is said to be seven times greater than Pentecost. Pentecost was given to purify us and to equip us for service, but when that greater anointing falls near the advent of the wedding feast of the Lamb, then it will intoxicate us with God’s presence. It will change the way we walk and talk and act. It will change the way we love and it will cause our focus to be on only one thing… the return of our Bridegroom.

                Shortly before Jesus returns it will appear that we have run out of wine. Our churches seem to be mostly dead. There is a blanket of lethargy over the people. Only a few are able to break through this heavy fog that keeps us in mundane routines with little hope of revival. But like the head waiters at the feast, we must seek the Lord, for at the appointed time, He will do as He has promised and He will fill us to the very brim and He will turn our water into wine and there will be an overabundance of wine.

                “For these men are not drunk as you suppose, for it is only the THIRD hour of the day: “There is that word “Third” again and with it the promise of the Father.

                “… but this is what is spoken through the prophet Joel: “And it shall be in the last days,” God says, “That I will pour forth of My Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your old men shall dream dreams; even upon My bond slaves, both men and women I will in those days pour forth of My Spirit and they shall prophesy.”

                Now up to this point Peter has been talking about the first Pentecost, but from this point on he begins to list things that did not happen on that day saying: “And I will grant  wonders in the sky above and signs on earth beneath, blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood BEFORE the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come. And it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

                Here we have a picture of the conditions that will exist on earth when the last Pentecost is poured out. It is the great harvest at the end of the age and I want to ask you something: Should we really ignore the signs in the sun, moon and stars that we have been witnessing over the past few months and years? Many of these signs will not happen again for 100 years, if ever. Some of them; like the Revelation 12 sign has never happened and will not happen again. The star of Bethlehem just showed up for the first time in 2000 years and probably won’t appear again for another 2000 years.

                Is it any coincidence that God has raised up the Messianic movement at this very time to make the church aware of God’s appointed feasts? No… everything in Bible prophecy is patterned after the Feasts and we need to know and understand what God is doing in our world today. We tend to get all involved in the politics of things, and if we like the president or not, or how things are going in the world, but it is far more important to understand God’s agenda and to trust Him with the details, because He is certainly in control and Bible prophecy is going to unfold exactly as He has pronounced it.

                Our part is not to worry about God’s part, but to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom and when we have done that, the end will come.

                I can’t tell you how much time we have left. To me it appears that we are entering into a period of time called the “Great Shaking, as mentioned in Hebrews 12:25-29. For instance: God has called America to be a sheep nation and He gave us two missions. One is to take the Gospel into the entire world and the second was to protect Israel.

                The last five presidents have carried America down a failed road toward global government and as a final act or number of acts of rebellion, we embraced abortion, gay marriage and we abandoned Israel and if Hillary would have made president, our nation would have been overtaken by the Jezebel spirit and we would have been handed over to the globalists lock, stock and barrel. I can say that because the Clintons are part and parcel of the New World Order along with its morality, its Luciferian worship, its demon spirits and its antichristian agenda.

                Whether you like Donald Trump or you don’t, God needed a “bull in the china closet” to turn things around and to rescue us, if only momentarily, from certain destruction. It required far more that the normal insipid politics of Washington to turn things around. I say that realizing that God may have chosen to fulfill both good and bad prophecies. But in the process God has saved America as a sheep nation by restoring our position with Israel. And there are plenty of precedencies set in the Bible where God used unexpected people to carry out His purposes.

                Sin is going to be exposed in the church as well as in our nation and there will be a great draining of eth swamp in the religious world as well as the political world.  Many religious institutions will bite the dust in days and months to come for they are failing to preach the Gospel or to warn the people. Nor do they any longer preach a message of repentance, and forgiveness by the blood of Jesus, or death to self so that we might live fully unto God. They now preach a Gospel of convenience and half measures.

                So, we who aspire to be among God’s Remnant must pray that God will purify our hearts with the Holy Spirit and fire and the washing and regeneration of the Word and we must then begin to pray that these stone pots, these human vessels will be filled to the brim with the Holy Spirit and that water turned into wine so that it will begin to change the way we walk and talk and the way we love and  to bring us into the intimacy of relationship that will prepares us as a Bride adorned for Her Husband.