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3-28-2021 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalm 91:1-16

Text message: Exodus 19:10-11

Title of the Word: Be ready against the third day and seventh day!

          It is important to know that the deep will of God is contained in every single letter in every word in the Bible.

         This week, we have the time to meditate on the plan of time of God through the third day and seventh day in the words of God.

Apostle Peter reminded us of the time of God saying, “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.”(2Pet. 3:8)

         First of all, while looking into the words spoken of the third day, we are able to realize through the anointing of the Holy Spirit led by the Spirit why there are written  about the third day in so many places.

         In the text that we already read today, ” And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai..” (Exodus 19:11), before saying, ” And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,” (Exodus 19:10).

          In these words, the spiritual message to prepare for the third day should be heard for the Christians living in holiness in the end times today.

         The prophet Hosea prophesied against the Israelites of what would happen in the third day:

” I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.” (Hos 5:15-6:2).

       Hosea’s prophecy says the fact that Jesus, whom the Israelites rejected and did not believe, died on the cross by their hands, rose again on the third day, and was sit in his place in heaven that is  the right side of God. Also, for the last two thousand years (two days for God) because of their sins, after being severely persecuted, they finally shall enter into the great tribulation, which is the time of Jacob’s trouble, and when they cry out to the Lord in the midst severe suffering, seeing Jesus Christ coming again and repenting, Jesus will save them.  After two thousand years passed by and Christ’s Thousand Year Kingdom to come, they shall live  in the sight of Jesus Christ. Through this prophecy of  the third day, two thousand years (two days) of the Age of Grace will pass by and the Lord will return  in the third day, that is, the third thousand years, in the Millennium Kingdom.

          According to Hosea’s prophecy, when two days have already passed by and the third day, that is, the beginning of the third millennium, we come to know that  the Lord Jesus Christ will come again, and judge the world of sin and establish his kingdom coming imminently.

         Jesus, in his first advent, also said several times about the third day:

” And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:

23And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.

…… Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,

19And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again. ”’ (Matthew 17:22-23; 20:18-19)

         When Jesus met his disciples after  resurrection, he once again told them about the third day:

” . These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 45Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

46And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:

“(Luke 24:44-46)

         Jesus said that he was foretold in the Old Testament Scriptures that he would rise again not two days or four days after his death, but that he would rise again the third day.

         Apostle John testified that Jesus went to the wedding ceremony in Cana, Galilee on the third day:

“And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: 2And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.3And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. 4Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come..'” (John 2:1-4)

          It is also of special significance that Jesus went to the wedding ceremony on the third day. When he was told there was a shortage of wine, he said, “Mine hour is not yet come.” In his word, Jesus said in advance that the wedding ceremony of the Lamb will be held after the third day, that is, after two days (two thousand years), and after lifting the Church of the Bride of Christ to heaven, and so the time has not yet come. However, those who attended the wedding ceremony, including his disciples, did not know what Jesus’ words meant. However, Christians who search the Bible in detail today are able to hear and understand the voice of the Holy Spirit.

          Apostle Paul testified to the crowd about the risen Christ Jesus on the third day:

” And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree: 40Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly; 41Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead..” (Acts 10:39-41)

         When Apostle Paul testified to the members of the Corinthian church about the gospel of Christ, he testified that Christ was “raised on the third day according to the scriptures”:

“By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

3For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 5And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:” (1 Corinthians 15:2-5).

          Before God gave the Ten Commandments through Moses, said “Be prepared against the third day” to the Israelites. In the words of the Gospel, the Gospel tells us to prepare to meet the resurrected Jesus Christ on the third day after “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;” (Col. 2:14). We are able to hear the good news of the gospel in the third day that is the day of Christ to be ready to meet the Lord Jesus Christ who freed us from the law.

         The “third day” in the Bible is the third day after the first Advent of Jesus Christ in the world, so if the four thousand years (four days) before Jesus came are included, the “third day” becomes the same day as the “seventh day”. Therefore, the Bible testifies that the seventh day is also a holy day:

“And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” (Genesis 2:3).

            God gave the seventh day as the Sabbath to the Israelites and as an eternal sign between Himself and them:

” Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. 17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed..'” (Exodus 31:16-17)

          Apostle Paul realized in the Holy Spirit that the Sabbath was an eternal sign between God and Israel, and witnessed to the Hebrews that the seventh day meant the seventh millennium, the third day prophesied by the prophet Hosea, the Millennial Kingdom of Christ. :

“ . For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

5And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.

6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 7Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. 9There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.” (Hebrew) 4:4-9)

         All of God’s words are spoken  to the Jews, the Gentiles, and the Church of God. Therefore, the words of the “third day” and “seventh day” are also towards all kinds of people in the world.

         First, when Jesus Christ, whom they did not believe, appears to the Jews at the end of the great tribulation, two days after the appearance of Jesus Christ, they must repent and receive Him to prepare for the third day to enter the Millennial Kingdom in the third day.

    Second, Christians who belonged to the Church of God  not believe in the gospel of Christ in vain to become the bride of Christ must be regenerated by the Holy Spirit. They also must be prepared for the third day in order to receive the blessing of reigning with Christ in the third day that is the Christ’s Millennial Kingdom.

 Third, it is time for all Gentiles who have not yet received the Lord Jesus Christ as the Lord and Saviour  should also be to prepared for the third day by repenting and trusting in Christ Jesus to enter the kingdom of God to be belong to the church of God. Amen! Hallelujah!