We live in a world where time is of the utmost importance.
Just about every-one has a watch that they carry to keep an
accurate check on their time through-out the day.  Every home has
a clock and most often one or more in each room.  In many instances
races are decided in hundredths of seconds.  Man has time measuring
devices that can measure time to millionths of a second.  

     Time has become a very important asset in our modern world. 
This seems amazing when not that many years ago man measured time
by the seasons:  Spring [planting season];  Summer [growing
season];  Fall [harvest season];  and Winter [rest season].  But as
man scurries about checking the time to keep the schedules of his
busy life, he has over-looked one of the most important time pieces
that modern man possesses, and that is the Bible.  The Bible not
only records time from a historical stand-point, it contains the
events that we witness every day of our lives.  It also contains
the prophetic word that records God's time until He returns to set
up His kingdom on the earth.  Jesus revealed to John on the Isle of
Patmos:

     "And sware by Him that liveth for ever and ever, who
     created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the
     earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and
     the things which are therein, that there should be time
     no longer:"  *** Revelation 10:6

     So the Bible records man's time until there will be time no
more.  God measures time by days, not man's physical days, but by
His days of creation.  God's creation took six days.  On the
seventh day He rested.  The question then arises:  "Was the next
day after He rested the eighth day, and every day after that a day
higher?"  Men who have a carnal understanding of God's Word would
have us believe God's days of creation were man's twenty-four hour
days.

     Peter was given the keys to the kingdom, and if we want to
understand kingdom truths, then we must use the keys given to Peter
to open the Spiritual truths of God's Word.  Peter, by the
anointing, wrote:

     "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that
     one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a
     thousand years as one day."  *** II Peter 3:8

     One day in God's time is 1000 years, and one thousand years is
one day.  When God entered into His rest on the seventh day, He
remained in that seventh day rest, waiting for His creation man,
through His plan of salvation and redemption, to enter into that
rest with Him.

     The writer of Hebrews spoke of God's creation entering into
that rest with him:

     "For He spake in a certain place of the seventh day of
     this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all His
     works.

     And in this place again, If they shall enter into my
     rest."  *** Hebrews 4:4-5

     The Seventh Day rest is directly ahead of us.  As the writer
of Hebrews proclaimed, there are those who will enter into that
Seventh Day rest with Him.  The question was asked, "What day was
it after the end of God's seventh day of creation?"  It was the
first day for His creation man.  Man has proceeded through five of
God's creation days.  Today we are at the end of the sixth day of
God's creation.  The Seventh Day, or the day of rest, is on the
horizon.  The light of that day is beginning to spring forth in the
hearts of his re-created man.  

     God anointed Paul to write:

     "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: 
     old things are passed away;  behold, all things are
     become new."  *** II Corinthians 5:17

     The word creature should be translated "creation".  Those in
Christ are a new creation.  Old things have passed away and behold
all things have become new.  One thing that must pass away before
we can become that new creation is our old understanding and our
old denominational, doctrinal teachings with their carnal
teachings of man's understandings of God's Spiritual Word.

     We must come to a new understanding of God's Word, a Spiritual
understanding of what Jesus and the apostles wrote in the New
Testament, and just as important, what Moses and the prophets wrote
in the Old Testament.

     John recorded Jesus' words:

     "Search the scriptures;  for in them ye think ye have
     eternal life:  and they are they which testify of me." 
     *** John 5:39

     We are to search the scriptures. John was not referring to the
New Testament because John did not write his five books recorded in
the New Testament until the late eighties or early nineties;  some
fifty years after Jesus arose off the earth.  Yet Jesus anointed
him to write "Search the scriptures" because they testified of Him. 
He was referring to the Old Testament.  It was the writings of
Moses and the prophets that testified of Jesus.

     After His resurrection, Jesus met two men on the road to
Emmaus:

     "And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He
     expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things
     concerning Himself."  *** Luke 24:27

     Jesus started at Moses, the first five books of the Bible, and
continued through the prophets quoting the scriptures concerning Himself. 
We need to recognize that the whole Bible is the gospel of Christ.

     For us to understand what time it is, we must recognize some
Spiritual truths in the Word so that we may have confidence that
what is written is true and that we can depend on God's Word and
put our trust in what it reveals.

     Mark recorded Jesus' Words:

     "But take ye heed:  behold, I have foretold you all
     things."  *** Mark 13:23

     Jesus stated, "Behold, I have fore-told you all things."  The
word all means "all inclusive, nothing left out, nothing to be
added".  If, as Jesus proclaimed, He has foretold us all things,
then what has been left out?  And where did He foretell us all
things?  It is in His Word.  We have His words recorded in the New
Testament and the Old Testament, and they are they which testify of
Him.  So we must depend on the Word which contains the whole
counsel of God.

     Luke wrote the book of Acts, and by the Holy Spirit He gave us
Spiritual insight as to what God spoke to the early church.  Jesus'
disciples asked if He would at this time restore again the kingdom
o Israel, *** Acts 1:6.  Jesus answered them:

     "It is not for you to know the times or the seasons,
     which the Father hath put in His own power.

     But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is
     come upon you:  and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in
     Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto
     the uttermost part of the earth."  *** Acts 1:7-8

     The disciples wanted to know if God was going to restore the
kingdom again to Israel at that time.  Jesus stated that it was not
for them to know the times and seasons which the Father had put in
His own power.  He did not conclude what He had to say with that
statement.  His next word was  "BUT".  But means there is more to
add to the prior statement.  God revealed through Luke that, "Ye
shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you." 
The Father had placed the knowledge of the times and seasons in His
power.  When the Holy Ghost comes upon us, we receive that power
which contains the knowledge of the times and seasons.  The
apostles received that knowledge because they were obedient to
Jesus' words.  Luke recorded:

     "And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: 
     but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued
     with power from on high."  *** Luke 24:49

     Those who received the power tarried in Jerusalem until they
were endued with that power from on high which contained the
knowledge of the times and seasons.  We, too, receive this
knowledge when we are endued with this same power from on high.

     One of Jesus' disciples came to Him and asked Him,  "Why
speakest thou  unto them [the multitude] in parables"  Jesus' reply
was:

     "Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of
     the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given."  ***
     Matthew 13:11

     It is not given to the multitude to know the mysteries of the
kingdom of God.  It is given only to His disciples, those who are
following the anointing, hearing the Father's voice and are
obedient to His Word.

     Today many would have us believe the multitude is going to be
saved.  But Joel tells us:

     "Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision:  for
     the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision." 
     *** Joel 3:14

     When the day of the Lord comes, the multitudes are still in
the valley of decision, vascilating between the way of God and the
ways of the world, ever learning, never able to come to the know-
ledge of the truth, *** II Timothy 3:7

     Paul informs us through the Spirit:

     "Now we have received, not the spirit  of  the world, but
     the Spirit of God;  that we might know the things that
     are freely given to us of God."  *** I Corinthians 2:12

     We have been given the Spirit of God that we might know the
things freely given of God.  God does not want us to be ignorant of
His Word, His will or His times and seasons.  God has given us His
Word that we may know the times and seasons, so that we may
understand His seventh 1000 year day of creation.

     By checking the chronology of the Bible, we know that the
flood happened about 1000 years after man was expelled from the
garden.  God raised up Noah to protect  His whole living creation
on the ark, except those in the waters.  This was the end of the
first day of His creation.

     Around the year 2000 Abraham was born.  Abraham was called
"The Father of Faith".  Abraham taught "One God", and as Josephus
informs us, Abraham was forced to flee from the Ur of the Chaldees
and settle in a strange land that God had promised to His heirs.
This was the end of the second day of creation.

     Around the year 3000 David was called "a man after God's own
heart".  David was our example of a "repentant heart".  This ended
God's third day of creation.


     Around the year 4000, Jesus was born of a virgin, fathered by
the Holy Spirit of God.  He was the living Word of God sent to
mankind to bring God's salvation plan to His fallen creation.  This
was the end of God's fourth day of creation.

     The 5000th year was the beginning of what is known as the
"Dark Ages" when Christianity and morality were about extinguished. 
This was the era when many of the false religions began to get
their foothold in the earth.  This was the end of God's fifth day
of creation.

     At the beginning of the 6000th year, the light of the glorious
gospel of Christ was again ignited.  Revival broke out in many
parts of the earth, and many great men of God truly showed signs
and wonders in the earth.  The New World was discovered.  Since
that time every discovery and invention that has given us our
modern way of life were established.  None of our modern
conveniences were know to man before that time.

     God's grace and wisdom has truly been poured out upon His
creation man.  But as we come to the end of this age, we are
beginning to witness the darkness settling back over His creation,
and God has been all but extinguished from man and his thought
processes.  

     We are truly witnessing again the events of the tower of
Babel, where man's languages have been confused.  Every trade has
its own language and those on the outside cannot communicate with
those in their particular trades.  This is certainly true with the
computer industry.  Without a knowledge of computer terms, one
cannot communicate. Our languages today have certainly been
confused.  We are very quickly coming to the end of the sixth day,
and the seventh day is on the horizon.

The Seventh  Day  and  the Third  Day

     God measures time in two ways in His Word:  one from His
creation, and one from the birth of Jesus.  If we measure time from
the creation we are coming into the Seventh Day.  If we measure
time from the birth of Jesus we are coming into the Third Day. 
Both are the same day in the Bible.

     God has given us many guideposts in His Word.  Jesus spoke:

     "And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in
     the days of the Son of man."  *** Luke 17:26

     "...As it was in the days of Noah..."    Noah lived 950 years. 
So all 950 years were the days of Noah.  But God used Noah as a
time piece that we may know the times and seasons.

      Five The Number of Grace

     When Noah was 500 years old, it was said that Noah found grace
in the eyes of the Lord, *** Genesis 6:82.  It was the beginning of
Noah's 500th year, when God commanded him to build the ark.  It was
the beginning of the 5000th year, when Jesus, the Word was made
flesh, and came and dwelt among us,  bringing Grace and Truth upon
the earth, *** John 1:14.

     Noah was 600 years old when the ark was completed.  God told
Noah to enter the ark and God sealed him in, *** Genesis 7:11.  At the
end of Noah's 600th year, God destroyed all His creation except
that which was in God's protected place, those on the ark.  God's
judgment will come again at the end of His Sixth Day, or the end of
His 6000th year of creation.

     Noah was on the ark for 375 days;  one year and 15 days,
according to our calendar.  God's Word records that it was the six
hundredth and first year that Noah took the covering off the ark
and earth was dry, *** Genesis 8:13.  

     When Noah walked off the ark on to a cleansed earth, it was
the beginning of Noah's 700th year, or the beginning of his  7th 
day of existence.  Our Seventh Day will be the day when we begin to
live in a cleansed earth, having entered into His day of eternal
rest.  So as it was in the days of Noah so shall it be in the days
of the coming of the Son of man.  God has shown us so many ways
that we may know the times and seasons.  These rev-elations must be
Spiritually discerned.  

     Another example God has given us is Israel entering into the
promised land.  God spoke to Joshua:

     "And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the
     ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests
     the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your
     place, and go after it.

     Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two
     thousand cubits by measure:  come not near unto it, that
     ye may know the way by which ye must go:  for ye have not
     passed this way heretofore."  *** Joshua 3:3-4

     Israel was to follow their ark about two thousand cubits.  The
cubit is the measure of a man, *** Revelation 21:17.  Man measures
time by years.  So, Spiritually we are to follow our ark about two
thousand years, or two Spiritual days.  These two days are the
church age.  

     Jesus is our Ark of the Covenant.  John, the beloved disciple,
wrote:

     "And He is the propitiation for our sins:  and not for
     ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." *** 
     I John 2:2

     Jesus is our propitiation for sin.  The word propitiation
means "mercy seat".  The mercy seat was the covering on the ark of
the covenant.  This is where God met with man once a year between
the Cherubims.  

     Natural Israel was to follow their ark about two thousand
cubits into their promised land, and we are to follow our ark, the
Lord Jesus Christ, into our promise land, the kingdom of God about
two thousand years.  The church age is about over and the kingdom
age of man is about to begin.

     In the past the church had little understanding of overcoming
our last enemy, death, *** I Corinthians 15:26.  Their only hope was
dying and going to heaven.  But God's hope for His people in this
time is not dying, (*** Psalm 118:17) but living and entering into His
presence.

     The Third Day and the Seventh Day are referred to as "The Day
of the Lord" throughout the Bible.  The prophet Hosea spoke of the
third day:

     "After two days will He revive us:  in the third day He
     will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight.

     Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: 
     His going forth is prepared as the morning;  and He shall
     come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain
     unto the earth."  *** Hosea 6:2-3

     Hosea spoke that it is after two days, or in the Third Day
that God would revive us.  The word revive is the Hebrew word HAYA
and means "to restore to life again, or to live forever".  When
Hosea spoke of God reviving us, He was speaking of resurrection
life.  Paul wrote:

     "Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: 
     that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the
     glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in
     newness of life.

     For if we have been planted together in the likeness of
     His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His
     resurrection:

     Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him,
     that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth
     we should not serve sin."  *** Romans 6:4-6

     When we have truly been baptized into Jesus' death, and the
old man is crucified, and the body of sin has been destroyed, then
we will witness that glorious, resurrection life that Hosea spoke
about.  The word "body" does not speak of our physical body.  It
speaks of our sinful nature that must be destroyed, so that we no
longer serve sin in our carnal nature.  As Paul revealed, "Those
who are truly dead are set free from their sinful nature".  Paul
continued:

     "Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no
     more;  death hath no more do-minion over Him."  *** Romans
     6:9

     Death will have no more dominion over those whom God will
revive.  And as Hosea revealed, God is going to revive His people
on the Third Day.  Hosea continues, "God will raise us up, and we
shall live in His sight."  There is no eternal life outside the
presence of God.  Hosea stated that if we are to live, we must live
in His sight.  In that time death will have no more dominion in our
lives.  Then, as Paul wrote to the Corinthians:

     "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."  ***
     I Corinthians 15:26

     Death has always been the enemy of man.  Death will be
overcome on the Third Day.  Hosea did not say this happening would
be automatic for all believers.  He qualified our being revived by
stating, "then shall we know IF...".  The big IF in all this is IF
we follow on to know the Lord.  In his letter to the church at
Philippi, Paul had this same concern in his own walk with God. 
Paul cried:

     "That I may know him, and the power of His resurrection,
     and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made
     conformable unto his death;"  *** Philippians 3:10

     Paul's heart's cry was to know Him and the power of His
resurrection, the power of the Christ working in his life, changing
him, killing off the old carnal man with his attitudes, his lusts,
his shortcomings and his weaknesses.  Paul's whole desire was to
walk in the power of Christ, to be in the fellowship of His
suffering.  Certainly Paul came into that fellowship, because no
man in recorded history ever suffered as Paul.  Paul also wanted to
be made conformable unto His death.  Paul was not speaking of his
physical death, but by suffering he could bring about the death of
the old man, the Adam nature of fallen man.  Paul wrote to the
Galatians:

     "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live;  yet
     not I, but Christ liveth in me:  and the life which I now
     live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,
     who loved me, and gave Himself for me."  *** Galatians 2:20

     Paul was crucified with Christ.  Again, Paul was not speaking
of his physical death, because he said, "I live".  Paul was not
living his own life.  He was allowing Christ to live through him. 
Truly Paul was one who followed on to know the Lord.  When it came
time for Paul to lay his head on the chopping block, Paul simply
stated:

     "For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my
     departure is at hand.

     I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I
     have kept the faith:"  *** II Timothy 4:6-7

     Paul stated that it was the time for his departure from this
life, that he had fought a good fight, and that he had finished his
course and had kept the faith.  Paul had followed on to know the
Lord.  He was not as some today, blaming satan for his every
circumstance.  Paul knew his time and his task was complete.  The
circumstances of his death mattered little.  

     Hosea continued with a great promise to those who follow on to
know the Lord.  Hosea stated, "His going forth is pre-pared as the
morning".  The way has been prepared for those who follow on to
know the Lord as the morning, not after they die, but in this
lifetime.  The morning brings a New Day.  The Third Day is that New
Day.  Those whom God has prepared their way before Him will walk
into that New Day.  

     God promises that those who walk into that New Day will
receive the rain [anointing], the latter and the former rain
together.  This speaks of the Double Portion Anointing that God
will send upon His people.  This anointing will enable them to do
the greater works that Jesus proclaimed that they would do, *** John
5:20.  The apostle James spoke of this Double Portion Anointing:

     "Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the
     Lord.  Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious
     fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until
     he receive the early and latter rain."  *** James 5:7

     We are admonished to be patient and wait for the coming of the
Lord.  This is not speaking of His second coming, but for the
anointing that He is going to send upon His harvest.  The harvest
is His precious fruit in the earth.  This same Double Portion
Anointing is the same revelation that God gave to the prophet Joel:

     "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the
     Lord your God:  for He hath given you the former rain
     moderately, and He will cause to come down for you the
     rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first
     month."  *** Joel 2:23
    
     The first month Joel spoke of is the beginning of that New
Day, the Seventh Day of creation.  Jesus also spoke of this harvest
through the pen of John:

     "Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh
     harvest?  Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and
     look on the fields;  for they are white already to
     harvest."  John 4:35

     Jesus informed us to look up to the fields.  He stated that
His fields are white already to harvest.  The fields from which God
will receive His harvest are white already.  This harvest has
already come to  maturity before the time of harvest.  His harvest
will come from those who are white, ready to harvest.  The word
white is the word KEUKOS.  It does not mean "ripe", but it means
"glistening white, having a brilliance of its own".  

     This usage of "white" was used to denote the angels clothing
at the tomb.  It was used to describe the head and hair of Christ
in Daniel 7:9 and Revelation 1:14.  The word "white" also describes
"innocency, purity, and righteousness".  God is going to pour out
His Double Portion Anointing on those who are "white" to harvest,
those who are innocent.  It is not because they have been forgiven
their sin, but because through a change of mind and the killing off
of the old man, they have ceased from sin to be-come that new
creation in Christ Jesus.  These have followed on to know the Lord. 
The way has been prepared for these to walk into that New Day, the
Third Day or the Seventh Day that is coming upon the earth.  Peter
wrote that Jesus was our example that we should follow:

     "For even hereunto were ye called:  because Christ also
     suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should
     follow His steps:"  *** I Peter 2:21

     If we are to get to where Jesus is, on the right hand of the
Father, then we must follow in His steps.  There is no other way to
the Father,  *** John 14:6.

The Marriage Supper at Cana

     John recorded Jesus' first miracle at Cana.  As we view this
miracle we are given an example of what God is going to do with
those who follow on to know the Lord:

     "And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of
     Galilee;  and the mother of Jesus was there."  *** John 2:1

     The Marriage Supper at Cana was celebrated on the Third Day. 
Jesus and His disciples were called to this marriage:

     "And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith
     unto Him, They have no wine."  *** John 2:3

     When they wanted wine they were told, "They have no wine". 
Wine is the anointed Word of God, the true teachings of the Word. 
It is the Anointed Word which God's people need if they are to
follow on to know the Lord.  

     As Jesus looked around He saw some water pots:

     "And there were set there six waterpots  of stone, after
     the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two
     or three firkins apiece."  *** John 2:6

     There were six waterpots which the Jews used for ceremonial
washing.  These water pots were stone.  Most of the waterpots used
in that time were made of fired clay, not stone.  Six is the number
of man.  These waterpots were stone, not hardened clay.  Hardened
clay reveals those who have been hardened to God's Word and His
way.  These stone waterpots were made of the living stones which
Peter revealed:

     "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a Spiritual
     house, an holy priesthood, to offer up Spiritual
     sacrifices, accept-able to God by Jesus Christ."  *** I
     Peter 2:5

     These waterpots are those lively stones that God is building
up into a Spiritual house.  


The Two and Three Firkin Stone Waterpots

     These waterpots were two and three firkins apiece.  A firkin
is a liquid measure of about nine gallons.  We must take note that
there were no one firkin waterpots at this marriage in Cana.  The
word Cana means "zealous".

     As we search for the Spiritual understanding of this Third
Day, we must begin to understand that the words that Jesus spoke
were Spirit and they were life, *** John 6:63.  Furthermore we must
come to the understanding that the events that are used in God's
Word have a Spiritual interpretation also.

     These lively stones were two and three firkins apiece.  The
Spiritual significance of the two and three firkins is understood
through Moses' Tabernacle.  Moses' Tabernacle  was given to us as
a perfect picture of God's salvation plan for man.  In Moses'
Tabernacle there were three areas:  

          1 -  The Outer Court
          2 -  The Holy Place
          3 -  The Most Holy Place

     The first position in Moses' Tabernacle was the Outer Court. 
This represents the one firkin area.  This is where man deals with
his sin on the bra-zen altar and the laver.  These vessels
represent our forgiveness of sin and water baptism.  This is as far
as many have gone.  They have not moved on to a Spiritual
intervention in their lives.  These remain in the one firkin area,
and will not be part of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.  

     To come into the two and three firkin area of Moses'
Tabernacle requires a desire to go on to know the Lord through the
Spirit.  It requires a move into His Spiritual realm of understand-
ing. Those who become these living stones will allow themselves to
be malleable:  broken, crushed, molded, and reformed by the washing
of water by the Word through the cleansing fire of the Spirit. 
Those who have been gospel hardened by their denominational
doctrines, where they can only hear what their denomination system
says is truth, will be rejected by the potter.  These turn away
from anything and everything the Spirit is trying to do in their
lives.  

     Paul relates what our relationship with the Spirit must be:

     "Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none
     of His."  *** Romans 8:9b

     Jesus instructed the servants at the wedding:

     "Fill the waterpots with water.  And they filled them to
     the brim."  *** John 2:7

     Jesus told the servants to fill the waterpots with water. 
Water is the Word.  The servants filled these stone waterpots to
the brim with the  Word of God.  Those who are following on to know
the Lord are filling themselves to the brim with the Word of God. 
God cannot use through you what you do not have in you.

     "And He saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the
     governor of the feast.  And they bare it.

     When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was
     made wine, and knew not whence it was:  but the servants
     which drew the water knew;  the governor of the feast
     called the bridegroom, *** John 2:8-9

     The miracle at the Marriage Supper was that the water in those
stone waterpots was turned to wine.  These are the two and three
firkin waterpots who have filled themselves to the brim with the
Word of God.  These have moved into the Holy Place and are readying
themselves to enter into the Holy of Holies into the presence of
the Father.  Today is the Day of Preparation.  Our lamps must have
the extra vessel of oil.  God is going to anoint His Word and turn
it into new wine in these prepared vessels.  Joel spoke of that
day:

     "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
     mountains shall  drop down  new wine, and the hills shall
     flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow
     with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house
     of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim."  ***
     Joel 3:18

     "...The mountains shall drop down new wine..."   Those who
dwell in Zion, the high places in God, the two and three firkin
areas, are going to come forth with the anointed Word.  The
anointed, effervescent Word of God is going to flow from their
innermost being as living waters.  This new wine will not be put in
old wineskins, but in that new creation man that God is bringing
forth in the earth.  

     This new wine was taken to the governor of the feast.  The
governor of the feast is always the Father.  When the governor of
the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, he called the
bridegroom,"  *** John 2:9

     "And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set
     forth good wine;  and when men have well drunk, then that
     which is worse:  but thou hast kept the good wine until
     now."  *** John 2:10

     The Father asked why the bridegroom had saved his  good wine
until last.  It is this new wine in new wineskins that the
bridegroom has saved until last.  This new wine is going to enable
His body to do the greater works that Jesus revealed through the
pen of John:

     "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me,
     the works that I do shall he do also;  and greater works
     than these shall he do;  because I go unto my Father." 
     *** John 14:12

     Those who follow on to know the Lord will do the greater
works.  Jesus will enable His people to do these greater works
because we will have a greater anointing, the Double Portion
Anointing, the Early and Later Rain anointing that God is going to
bring upon the earth.  

     God has saved this good wine until last.  He is going to turn
the Word of God in each of His prepared vessels, into the Living
Word.  This is the new wine that the bridegroom will present to
Himself as a glorious church without spot or wrinkle, holy and
without blemish, *** Ephesians 5:27.

     As Jesus was called to the Marriage Supper at Cana, God has
promised this same calling in His prepared people, those who have
dealt with their old, carnal nature and have become holy and
without blemish:  

     "And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are
     called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.  And he
     saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God."  ***
     Revelation 19:9

     "...Blessed are those who are called to the Marriage Supper of
the Lamb..."   Jesus revealed that many are called, but only a few
are chosen, *** Matthew 22:14.  Those who are chosen will be those who
are called in this hour of time to come out of self and self rule,
These are those who have allowed the Word of God to change them
from being those vessels of hardened clay into stone waterpots,
These are those who have desired to move into the two and three
firkin area of Moses' Tabernacle.  These are stone waterpots filled
to the brim with the life-giving Word of God, who will become that
river of life, bringing life to everything it touches.  This great
feast of God takes place on the Third Day.


Jesus' Transfiguration

     Jesus revealed another Spiritual truth when He went with His
disciples into the mountain, and was transfigured before them:

     "And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John
     his brother, and  bringeth them up into an high mountain
     apart,"  *** Matthew 17:1

     This was after six days, or on the Seventh Day.  

     "And was transfigured before them:  and His face did
     shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the
     light."  *** Matthew 17:2

     Jesus was transfigured before them.  The word transfigured is
METAMORPHOO and means "to be changed into another form".  His face
and His clothing became white as light.  This is the same personage
of Jesus that Daniel saw:

     "I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and Ancient of
     Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the
     hair of His head like pure wool:  His throne was like the
     fiery flame, and His wheels as burning fire."  *** Daniel
     7:9

     Jesus was also revealed in this same form to John on the Isle
of Patmos:

     "His head and His hairs were white like wool, as white as
     snow;  and His eyes were as a flame of fire;"  ***
     Revelation 1:14

     The disciples were allowed to wit-ness the risen, transfigured
Christ in all His glory.  This was recorded so that we may know how
He will be revealed to all those who will stand in His presence on
the Seventh Day.

     "And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias
     talking with Him."  *** Matthew 17:3

     Moses and Elijah appeared and spoke unto Jesus:

     "Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is
     good for us to be here:  if thou wilt, let us make here
     three tabernacles;  one for Thee, and one for Moses, and
     one for Elias."  *** Matthew 17:4

     Peter wanted to know if they should build three tabernacles. 
A tabernacle is a temporary dwelling place.  As we begin to realize
whom these three men represent, we can understand that we have a
choice as to where we can dwell in our temporary existence in the
flesh.  First we see Jesus, the Word, made flesh:

     "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we
     beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of
     the Father, full of grace and truth."  *** John 1:14

     Jesus represents those who choose to remain in their fleshly
existence.  Moses represents those who choose to remain under the
law.  Elijah represents those who follow on to know the Lord
through the anointing of the Holy Spirit.  

     We can live under the Law:  Moses' Law or Man's Law;  trying
to please God by adhering to some Law.  But Paul wrote to the
Galatians:

     "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you
     are justified by the law;  ye are fallen from grace." 
     *** Galatians 5:4

     Those who are trying to keep the law are fallen from God's
grace.  These are those who try to follow man's religious laws. 
Paul asked:

     "Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments
     of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye
     subject to ordinances,

     Touch not; taste not; handle not;

     Which are all to perish with the using;  after the
    commandments and doctrines of men?"  *** Colossians 2:20-22

     All man's ordinances, commandments, and doctrines will perish. 
Only the true anointed Word of God will survive.  Jesus revealed:

     "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not
     pass away."  *** Matthew 24:35

     God's words are eternal and will never pass away.

     The last place we can dwell in this temporary existence is
represented by Elijah's presence.  Elijah represents our Spiritual
existence.  Paul wrote the Galatians:

     "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the
     Spirit."  *** Galatians 5:25

     Not only do we need to learn to live in the Spirit.  We also
need to learn to walk in the Spirit.  Our walk before God must be
separated.  In his letter to the Romans, Paul revealed:

     "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die:  but if ye
     through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye
     shall live."  *** Romans 8:13

     Those who live in their fleshly existence will die as Jesus
had to die that He might become the author of eternal salvation. 
*** Hebrews 4:9.  We, too, must die to our fleshly existence if we are
to become partakers of that eternal salvation.  We must strive for
this final change if we are to live after the Spirit and not after
the flesh.  

     God's eternal glory was revealed to His disciples on the
Seventh Day.  Those who are in His presence on that day will
witness God in all His glory:

     "While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed
     them:  and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said,
     This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased;  hear
     ye Him."  *** Matthew 17:5

     A bright cloud overshadowed that mountain.  A bright cloud is
God's glory.  His glory descended and overshadowed all that was
being revealed that day.  Then the voice of God revealed for the
second time who Jesus was, and gave a commandment to all who
desire to stand in His presence.  That commandment was "Hear Ye
Him".

     "And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their
     face, and were sore afraid."  *** Matthew 17:6

     When Jesus' disciples heard this voice, they fell on their
face in reverential awe.  Standing in the presence of men who had
passed the earthly scene hundreds of years prior did not have this
effect on them.  But the Father's voice caused them to fall upon
their faces.  We, too, are to know the Father's voice.  Jesus
related:

     "And when He putteth forth His own sheep, He goeth before
     them, and the sheep follow Him:  for they know His
     voice."  *** John 10:4

     Those who know His voice will stand in His presence if they
are obedient to that voice.

     "And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be
     not afraid.

     And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man,
     save Jesus only."  *** Matthew 17:7-8

     Jesus told His disciples to "arise", to lift up their eyes off
their earthly existence.  When they lifted their eyes, or raised
their vision, they saw no man, only Jesus.  When we get our eyes
off our earthly condition and raise our vision, we, too, will get
our eyes off man, and only  see  Jesus,  Jesus in His creation man. 
We will no longer view His creation as man sees it, but we will see
His creation as God sees it.  This is promised for the Seventh Day. 

     Jesus revealed the Seventh Day to John on the Isle of Patmos:

     "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind
     me a great voice, as of a trumpet,"  *** Revelation 1:10

     John was in the Spirit on the Lord's day.  The Lord's Day is
the Seventh Day, the "day of the Lord".  If we ask those who desire
to keep the law of the Sabbath, they will tell you their sabbath is
the seventh day, and the seventh day is Saturday.  Those who have
been freed from the Law will relate that their Lord's day is
Sunday.  Man needs to have his spiritual eyes opened to the truths
in God's Spiritual Word.  Jesus was not referring to a day of the
week, but a day in His creation.  God had translated John through
time to the Seventh Day of His creation.  The revelation Jesus gave
John would transpire in the time of the Seventh Day:

     "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him,
     to shew unto His servants things which must shortly come
     to pass;  and He sent and signified it by  His angel unto
     His servant John:"  *** Revelation 1:1

     Jesus informed John that this was a revelation of Himself, and
that these events would shortly come to pass.  The word shortly
means "directly, speedily and quickly".  It has been 1900 years
since the revelation was given to John, and even in God's time 1900
years would not be deemed shortly, directly, speedily or quickly.

     But with Spiritual understanding we do see that as the Seventh
Day of God's creation approaches, these events will shortly come to
pass.  The whole Christian community senses that the seals are
being removed from the book that contains the wrath of God.  As
soon as the last seal is removed, then the wrath of God will be
revealed.  

     The trumpets announcing the wrath of God are beginning to
sound.  The time is shortly to come to pass when the bowls
containing the wrath of God will be poured out.  Those who have
hidden themselves and have sought refuge in their earthly
condition will call for the mountains and rocks to fall on them to
hide them from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, ***
Revelation 6:16.  And as Jesus revealed to John:

     "And in those days shall men seek death, and  shall not
     find it;  and shall desire to die, and death shall flee
     from them."  *** Revelation 9:6

     What time is it?  It is time for those who are called by His
name to awake out of their Adam sleep as Paul wrote to the Romans:

     "And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to
     awake out of sleep:  for now is our salvation nearer than
     when we believed."  *** Romans 13:11

     It is time God's people wake up to the hour in which we live. 
The completion of God's salvation plan for man is nearer than when
we first believed.  God promised He would shake the earth, but not
the earth only, but the heavens also, *** Hebrews 12:26.  The earth is
the flesh realm.  The heavens are the Spiritual realm.  God is not
only shaking our lives in the physical, but also in our Spiritual
walk in Him. 

     Why is God shaking His people?  God is shaking His people to
awake His virgins out of their sleep, *** Matthew 25:5.  The prophet
Isaiah spoke of God's desire for His body in this last hour of
time:

     "Arise, shine;  for thy light is come, and the glory of
     the Lord is risen upon thee."  *** Isaiah 60:1

     It is time to arise and shine because God is ready to pour out
His glory on those who know the times and the seasons.  We need to
look up and get our vision off of our earthly existence and off
those around us, because as God spoke to Joshua, "..for ye have not
passed this way heretofore."  *** Joshua 3:4

 
Questions

1.   What is one of the most important time pieces that modern man
     possesses? 

2.   What must we do to understand Kingdom truths? 

3.   What is one thing that must pass away before we can become
     that new creation? 

4.   Where did the Father place the knowledge of the times and
     seasons?       

5.   What are two ways God measures time in His Word? 

6.   Who is our Ark of the Covenant? 

7.   What will enable God's people to do the greater works that
     Jesus proclaimed they would do? 

8.   What was Moses' Tabernacle given to us as a perfect picture
     of?  

9.   What does the word METAMORPHOO, translated "transfigured"
     mean? 

10.  Why is it time to arise and shine? 



Answer Key


1.   What is one of the most important time pieces that modern man
     possess?        The Bible

2.   What must we do to understand Kingdom truths?

     We must use the keys given to Peter to open the Spiritual
     truths of God's Word

3.   What is one day in God's time equal to?       1000 years


4.   Today we are at the end of the________ day of God's creation.
     Sixth

5.   What is one things that must pass away before we can become
     that new creation?

     The denominational, doctrinal teachings from the carnal mind
     of men's understanding of God's Word

6.   Where did the Father place the knowledge of the times and seasons?
     In His power


7.   To whom is it given to know the mysteries of God?

     His disciples who are following the anointing, hearing the
     Father's voice and are obedient to His Word

8.   As we come to the end of the age, what are we beginning to
     witness?
                Darkness settling back over God's creation

9.   What are two ways God measures time in His Word?
     1.  From His creation
     2.  From the birth of Jesus

10.  When Jesus came to earth and dwelt amongst us. it was the
      beginning of what year in God's timing?         The 5000th year

11.  Who is our Ark of the Covenant?       Jesus

12.  What does the word "propitiation" mean?      Mercy seat

13.  What age is about over, and what age is about to begin?
     The Church age,  The Kingdom age

14.  Who will death have no more dominion over?
     Those whom God will revive

15.  What will enable God's people to do the greater works that
     Jesus proclaimed they would do?      The Double Portion Anointing

16.  In the scriptures, what is wine a type of?
     The anointed and true teachings of the Word


17.  What was Moses' Tabernacle given to us as a perfect picture of?
     God's salvation plan for man

18.  What does the word METAMORPHOO, translated "transfigured" mean?
     To be changed into another form

19.  What will survive when all man's ordinances, commandments and
     doctrines perish?     Only the true anointed Word of God

20.  Why is it time to arise and shine?
     Because God is ready to pour out His glory on those who know
     the times and the season

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