The Fire has come: On the third day: Pt 9

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Today we again will examine the present work of the Holy Spirit in preparing us to become a bride of the Lord. In our last blog we wrote about a prophetic word found in the book of Hosea chapter 6 which reveals the Lord's heart for us in these last days. Let us review it!

Hos 6:1-3 Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him. And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth. (ASV)

The Basic Bible version of verse 3, And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

The word of God in Hosea tells us that after 2 days God would revive us. Revival is the word that is synonymous with the second day or the years of the 20th century. In the first and second day after Christ's death and resurrection the Lord knew that His church would need to be revived. Revival is what everyone in the second day has prayed to come to the Lord's church to revive her out of her sleep.

Beloved, this is hard to hear for many of our readers, revival is not what is God is sending in this hour, God may blow His Spirit in nations and locations as He wills, and they will have God's manifested presence as they have up to now. However: There is a deeper work of God as the answer to what we need in this hour and it is not revival. It is a revolution or a complete change.

This revolution is something we have not seen before and it comes from the Lord appearing to those who are seeking as a Refining Fire and fuller's soap. This appearing of the Lord in the Spirit that we have written about from Revelation chapters 1-4 is going to revolutionize our life as on the day of Pentecost but greater. Every rival in the last 2000 years had a beginning and an ending point. Revival has a purpose in the first two days of the new covenant,up until now, but for those who have an ear to hear what the Spirit says to the church, they are entering into the third day that is now here.

There is a present work of the Holy Spirit in the third day that is "much different and deeper" than in the first two prophetic days of the church age. Again, I want to hearken back to the words of Jesus to illustrate this point and then continue the discussion on the "present work of the Holy Spirit in this dawning moments of the third day. Beloved, The second day is coming to close but it is still here for most of the church, but to those who have an ear to hear what the Spirit is saying to the church, the third or seventh day has begun now. This overlapping of the days is what God told me was called, "the anointing of the moment."

It is quite difficult to understand the overlapping of days in the Lord's time frame, but the only way I can describe it is like the 400 year of silence between Malachi and John the Baptist. When John the Baptist came on the scene to preach the message of repentance and the coming Messiah, he stood at the threshold of the closing of the 4th prophetic day and the beginning of the 5th day.

No one in their time knew or could see the changing of the day. John was commissioned to be a "voice crying it the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord. He open the door and became a "prophetic bridge" between these two days. For those who received his message and were baptized, they entered into the beginning moments of the new day. John and all those who came entered into the new at the midnight hours of the new day. John waited for the one who's shoes he wasn't able to carry. John was a voice between the two days connecting them together until Jesus became manifested. Then John's testimony was that I must decrease and He must increase.

I could write so much on this topic, but I must take you to the last verses of the Book of Malachi and its prophetic announcing of the "anointing of the moment" or the bridge in our time between these two days. Mal 4:5 See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared. Mal 4:6 And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse. In Mathew 11 Jesus describes John the Baptist ministry in this manner:

Mat 11:8 But what went you out to see? a man delicately clothed? Those who have fair robes are in kings' houses. Mat 11:9 But why did you go out? to see a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet. Mat 11:10 This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you. Mat 11:11 Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. Mat 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist till now, the kingdom of heaven is forcing its way in, and men of force take it. Mat 11:13 For all the prophets and the law were in force till John. Mat 11:14 And if you are able to see it, this is Elijah who was to come. Mat 11:15 He who has ears, let him give ear.

John the Baptist was a "doorway" between the old and the new covenant. He proclaimed the "anointing of the moment" to his generation. "The message was "repent, the kingdom of God is at hand." His message was, "prepare ye the way of the Lord, make the crooked places straight."
He was a forerunner for his generation. That voice is being heard once again in our generation as well. There is a voice beginning to cry in the wilderness of our day, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord, but different and deeper. For this voice is announcing the Omega God is here and His finishing work is about to revealed.

At the end of the 6th day and the entrance to the 7th day, a bridge is being declared and built. An anointing of the moment is here to lay a extension between that which is, and that which is to come. The day happens at a midnight hour! That hour was recognized when John began to proclaim the coming of the Lord. Today it began declaring the "coming of the Lord in the Spirit' first to the church, and the revelation of the end -time events that will usher Him in the physical.
One of the signs of this coming is that the Spirit of Elijah, that forerunner spirit would begin to turn the hearts of the Father to the sons, and sons to the Fathers. Beloved, in 2007 and 2008 we are witnessing this with our own eyes as the Fire of God comes in our midst. There are testimonies of this work from Colorado to Arizona and many other places as well.

Often times there is great misunderstanding about the transition between these days, and I have heard some begin to teach about this third day from a position of "superiority" over others. This so grieves the Holy Spirit. The important thing to understand about the Third day is that it is a "divine shift " not a new movement or teaching to be marketed. It begins with a shift or change of priorities, plans, purposes in our lives to come into absolute oneness with the Lord's purposes for our lives.

In the second day we have grown much in knowledge about the Lord, but we have not really grown in the knowledge OF THE LORD! The knowledge I speak of is not an intellectual biblical study of the Lord, but a heart to heart fellowship in and with the Lord. At the close of this second day, the Christian bookstores are filled with all the "knowledge about the Lord." In 1992, A word was given to a brother that the "Lord was going to be dissected no more." He said to this brother that the church has cut Jesus into pieces in their understanding. Most churches kept the parts of Him they like and threw the rest of him away.

The Lord spoke to this brother that day would brings a great famine in the land, not for bread or for water, but for the REAL LIVING WORD OF GOD! The Lord said, I will be dissected no more! In the first two days of the church age, the church started with a blaze of Glory from the day of Pentecost for the first 200 years, but then something happens within her.

The relationship with the Lord Himself gets replaced by a religious system until Martin Luther comes with the message of saved by grace alone and establishes a reformation in the 1500's. In His day, the knowledge of the Lord was only obtainable by Catholic Priests. The Catholic Church leadership taught in Luther's day that only the priests could understand the things of God and the bible. They believed the people were not spiritual enough to know God for themselves.

Martin Luther was a man of the "anointing of the moment." He was in a place between two periods of time. One period of time, the dark ages of the church was coming to a close and a new day was dawning of the knowledge of the Lord. He literally stood at the half way point of 3000 years since the word of the Lord came to him in the 1500's. God's revelation to him that one can not be saved by being good enough, but by grace alone through faith in the atonement of Jesus blood was a monumental shift of priorities, plans and understanding. Truly this was a "Holy Revolution!" It was not a revival. Why? Because this revolution has not ceased. Today millions have been saved by the revelation of that is by "grace you have been saved, through faith. It is not of yourselves, but it is a gift from God lest any man would boast."

This revelation of the knowledge of God changed the face of the earth and started a series of restorational truths over the last 500 years. Bishop Bill Hamon writes about this in many of His books. Check out Christian International website for books on this topic. What I want to discuss today is our present transitional period of time. Even though we have much knowledge about the Lord, we to in a sense have been in a spiritual period of dark ages. That is the purpose of revival to wake us up from the dead and put us on the path again. We know there was the revival of the evangelists in the 1600. 1700's. The 1800's had tent revivals through out America and the world.

In 1900 another "anointing of the moment" came at Azusa Street. In a little back room shack people began to seek the face of God earnestly again and stayed in prayer like in the upper room until the Holy Spirit Baptism poured out upon them. This outpouring of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit was not a revival, but another revolutionary point in church history. It was a revolution because it has not ended either.

Coincidentally, it began at the beginning of the 1900's or just before the change of the day that would come 100 years later. Today there are hundreds of millions of people baptized in the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, prophesying, etc. Though many in the Body of Christ would like to reject this outpouring, it just does not go away, nor can it go away.

It is a real moment in History because with this outpouring of the Holy Spirit, signs and wonders started to be seen again above initial salvation. People were healed of diseases, cancers and all types of sickness. Devils were again being cast out of people. The Lame were walking, the blind were seeing because God sent out His power upon His thirsty ones again.

This again was a prophetic word uttered by Jesus that parallels the word in Hosea chapter 6. Listen to the words of Jesus again. Luke 13:32 And he said unto them, Go and say to that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am perfected.

I want you to notice the "present work of the Holy Spirit" in the first two days. Jesus tells the Pharisee's to go tell that fox. Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures, TODAY AND TOMORROW! Beloved Reader, this speaks of two days! Today and Tomorrow I cast out demons and perform cures. Along with salvation this is most of the knowledge that the church has of the Lord. The non-Pentecostals know salvation, the Pentecostals know gifts, power, etc. Beloved, Hosea chapter 6 and Luke 13:32 does not end with these signs as the last picture of the Lord. PRAISE GOD.

There is something BIGGER AND MORE, that must come forth from the Lord to fulfill the words He said from the cross, "IT IS FINISHED!" In Luke 13:32 Jesus adds, and the third day I am perfected." (ASV) Another translations says, "On the third day, my work will be complete." (BBE) On the third day there is going to be a completion of the work Jesus started. The work we have written extensively about found in Malachi chapter 3: 1-3. Jesus the refining fire was again going to come to His house (you and me) of those who are seeking Him.

This coming or presencing of the Lord would not be like we knew Him in the "today and tomorrow." This coming would be so different Malachi writes, "who can endure the day of His coming, and who can stand when He appears." The writer infers that the Lord who we are seeking is coming to manifest Himself in such a way that everything we have known about Him will not be good enough to endure or stand in during the coming days. For when He(Jesus) comes He shall come as a REFINING FIRE AND FULLER SOAP!

The real meat of this word is what these past 9 blogs have been about. For when He (OR WHEN HE APPEARS) comes there is a "finishing work" that must come. This work begins at the close of the second day with a call to come and sup with Him and Him with you. This calls allows you to enters the third day, because there is a door standing open in heaven. Revelation 4:1! And a voice calls like a war trumpet, Come up here!"

It is this voice of the "come up here", that the Lord is interested in us embracing. The Lord desires us to come up out of the natural carnal life where we are at the end of the age to where He is and "be seated in heavenly places with Him." We must invite Him in not as savior, but as a FLAME OF FINISHING FIRE, that has come to complete the work He started in us.

For this to happen in our lives we can no longer dissect and pick and choose the parts of the Lord we like and throw away the rest. We can not rest our faith on church or on our own church doctrine alone. For much of what we believe is still in part and incomplete for the fullness has yet to be revealed to us fully! We are not to throw away the tenants of faith as Paul writes to the Hebrews in chapter 6:1-3

For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God, The teaching of baptisms, and of the putting on of hands, and of the future life of the dead, and of the judging on the last day. Now we will do this, if God lets us. It is now the time of the "if God lets us." The third day has begun.

It is important we understand our timing as I have written before, and what day and time we are in. Some of you reading this word are at the end of the second day, hungering for more of God but just may not know what that is. Some of you have entered the third day and realize a great change is needed in the church, and you are pressing in to find what that change is. Others have tasted the third day and will never be the same. The tasting of the third day causes you to come out of living in the outer courts, or day one. It causes you to have gone past the Holy Place with all it's gift in day two. It brings you to the place where you find the "access"through the veil of His flesh into the Holy of Holies or the Third day.

The Baptism of Fire birthing in this moment in time is the work of Godthat is needed to have us enter fully into this third day. This is where we learn to live and abide with Him forever and ever. In Malachi 3:3, the word of God says, that the Lord will thoroughly purge the Sons of Levi, (the priesthood) and purify them like gold and silver! He is doing that in those called into the flame right now sothat they may bring to Him offerings of righteousness as the Priests of the Lord.

These offering are the finishing work of God in our heart. They are the offerings of absolute obedience and surrender to His will. These offerings come from a heart that knows that they "are not their own anymore, but have been purchased with a price." These offerings are given from a pure heart that can see God. A heart that can know God for who He is and what He desires! Offerings that come from an absolute love sick heart abandoned to the Lord Himself.

I am not sure why I have to explain the timing of these things and the transition between these two days, but I must to help clarify the "present work of the Lord in each day." In Luke 13:32-33 Jesus says, "on the third day I will be perfected." He was already perfected! He was the perfect Lamb of God who was slain. He gave His life perfectly to death to be raised up on the third day.

What does this little utterance mean to you and I? Jesus said I will be perfected on the third day. Hosea 6:1-3 speaks of what that perfection is, and why the Fire has to come now to do it. I pray you have ears to hear this, for many of you are still doubting this present work of God. If you dont' jump into the flame of God soon, you may find yourself on the outside trying to get in to the wedding feast.

Hos 6:1 Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help. Hos 6:2 After two days he will revive us , (what is the definition of revival? Raising the spiritual dead and giving us life. This is the work Jesus is doing on the today and tomorrow.) This is what revival has brought us in the first two days of the church age, but there is a third day dawning now!"and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him. (BBE)

Another version of this scripture says, "After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him." (ASV) This is the word the Body of Christ needs to hear and embrace, and what the present Fire is preparing us for. Hosea declares that, "That He will raise us up, and we will live before Him." Not when we die, though that is included, but a "spiritual lifting" that will bring us up to the "spiritual full position" we are to have as full grown sons. As full grown sons and a bride to the Lord we are truly prepared for our ministry with the Lord to the nations as a WITNESS!

On the third day we won't be "doing witnessing" anymore. We will be a WITNESS, and then the end shall come! Are you excited yet. All this intense fire, all this inner dealing and purifying and circumcising of our hearts is not for nothing, but to become something, THE FINISHED WORK OF THE LORD. In the first and second day, He is curing and driving out devils, in the third day He will complete the work He has started in us. PRAISE GOD forever!

On the third day something NEW happens, HE WILL RAISE US UP. This is what the beginning 3 chapters of Revelation prepare us to do. They describe the intense revelation of Jesus Christ as He is, as a refining fire and fuller soap. This is the OMEGA or finishing revelation of Christ that will complete us in Him. This revelation of Jesus as He is in His Glory is the entrance way into His heartbeat and to see Him face to face.

Without a shift or a change, we can never enter into the fullness of the Lord. We can not because He said He is coming for a bride without spot or wrinkle. He will never negate His word or lower His standards which says, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." It is the purity of the heart He makes in us that will make us a Bride without wrinkle of spot! This pure heart is a SPIRITUAL POSITION which can only come about as we enter the "anointing of the moment." This entrance is into the very FLAME OF GOD!

Beloved, listen to the promise of the THIRD DAY to us. "HE WILL RAISE US UP, THAT WE MIGHT LIVE BEFORE HIM!" (Hosea 6:2) What an honor beloved to be raised up out of the state of luke warmness and loosing our first love found in Revelation chapters 2 and 3 to becoming a "spiritual place for the Lord to dwell fully" granting us direct access to His heartbeat and His desires. This direct access and receiving His desires in our hearts and obeying them is what He calls, "THAT YE MIGHT LIVE BEFORE ME!"

In the first two days,(2000 years) God has been discected by men in the pursuit of the intellectual knowledge of who He is. This intellectual pursuit of knowledge of God (LOVE) without experience gets so embedded in the church, that the church looses their first love for Him and must repent or loose His presence in her midst. Beloved that He says to Laodecia, "that you say you are rich and in need of nothing, but you are poor, blind, and naked." What a heart breaking thought that our Jesus is standing on the outside of the door to our hearts (the church) trying to get back in. He is knocking on our hearts at the close of the second day and beginning of the third day to get back in to His house where he belongs. His cry is for us to share a deep heart to heart relationship as we sup together with Him. This is what it means to begin "TO LIVE BEFORE THE LORD AND WITH THE LORD" from His perspective.

In these first two days, He is working miracles and deliverance, yet we (His body) still doesn't even know Him personally as He desires." Yet in the midst of this, He opens a door for us to see Him in a new way,and He reveals His desire for us to come up into this heavenly place of oneness as a bride and bridegroom with Him. He even shows us the way up is through REFINING FIRE!

I recieved this word from a brother today to confirm this in my heart. There has to be a cutting away of the flesh between these two days to finish and live in the Spirit of God. This cutting away is to develop our senstivity to the whispers and desires of the Lord and bring Him instant obedience from a pure heart of love. This will bless His heart like nothing else.

Then Beloved, we will truly know Him in His fullness and not discect Him into parts any more! The Flame of God has come to prepare a bride to go up and be with Him ,and to go forth on the earth with her leaning upon Her Beloved. The third day is NOT ABOUT REVIVAL, but about ANOTHER REVOLUTION! Let us read once again this Holy Revolution:

Hos 6:3 And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth." This new day will cause us to receive and do something new, HAVE KNOWLEDGE AND TO GO AFTER THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD! (THIS IS WHAT ETERNAL LIFE REALLY IS, TO KNOW HIM THE ONE TRUE GOD AND JESUS CHRIST THAT HE SENT. JOHN 17:3) NOT THE ONE WE DISCECT FOR OUR PLEASURE, BUT THE LORD OUR GOD WHO WAS, AND IS, AND IS TO COME!

We will expand on this thought next time, for we need to continue seeking His wisdom, "his going out is certain as the dawn." This is what the Lord is having me to speak and explain to those who have ears to hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The message being that between theclose of the second day and beginning of the third day there is an "anointing of a moment" "a spiritual bridge being made in the spirit of the forerunner," to enter the third day. The day begins with a REFINING FLAME, THE SON OF GOD IN OUR MIDST!

Don't miss your timing beloved to get into the Flame of God and be refined like gold. It is worth it and more. It is happening now to those who have an ear to here. IT IS AS CERTAIN this very moment as the DAWN that is arising in our midst.

Until Next time,

SHALOM!