"THREE DAYS AT THE FIRST AND THE LAST"
MF Blume
February 21, 1999 am
START OF THE EXODUS
Exod 5:1-3 And afterward Moses and Aaron
went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people
go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said,
Who [is] the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know
not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go. And they said, The God of the
Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee,
three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice
unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the
sword.
END OF THE EXODUS
Josh 3:1-3 And Joshua rose early in the
morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all
the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over. And it
came to pass after three days,
that the officers went through the host; 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.
It is quite noteworthy that the beginning of the Exodus journey out
of Egypt began with the reference to a three day time period, and so did
the end of the journey through the wilderness when Joshua was ready to
take Israel into Canaan.
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This message of the three days in which Christ died, was buried and resurrected
is significant, of course, at the start of our salvation, but also is significant
at the point of every believer's time to enter the fullness.
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When we grow and mature in the Lord, we are going to come to a place in
Christ where we are ready to enter KINGDOM LIFE.
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Living in the land of Canaan speaks of KINGDOM LIVING.
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Its when you do not hesitate in unbelief over things any more.
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The giants in the land that scared off the older Hebrews who had to die
before the younger nation could enter the land, simply do not cause us
to hesitate anymore.
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And let me say that the older generation that doubted and had to be buried
represent the older part of us called fleshliness and unbelief.
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That entire generation has to be cast away so the new man we are in Christ
can enjoy the land.
There is the three day period when we begin our walk with God and are saved
from sin.
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Jesus' death burial and resurrection is the gospel that saves a soul from
sin.
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You make a commitment to serve God all the days of your life the way the
Bible teaches it, and you die with Christ.
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Then you get baptized in water in Jesus' name in order to be buried with
Him by baptism into His death.
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And then we receive the Holy Ghost and resurrect with Christ.
So there is the three day period at the start.
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But the three day period at the entrance into Canaan is not pointing to
another experience of Jesus other than the same death, burial and resurrection.
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But the difference is that there is no way we could appreciate the depths
of the truth that when Jesus died was buried and resurrected, that He was
actually considered to be us when that happened.
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At the start of salvation, all you have to know is that Jesus died FOR
you.
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But if you want to mature and get into the place God wants you, you need
to see that the same death, burial and resurrection occurred as Jesus died
AS you.
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When you really understand that, then you appreciate the meaning behind
the thought that you are dead to the world and the world is dead to you
so that it simply cannot harm nor hurt you anymore.
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It lost its rights to you when you died with Christ.
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All that we were concerned at the start was being saved from sin so we
won't be lost for eternity.
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But when you mature in the Spirit you want to be free from nagging doubts
and unbelief and fear of facing the enemy.
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And the way to see that accomplished is to get a fresh living revelation
that the person on the cross that died two thousand years ago to the world
was YOU.
At the start of the Exodus, you have a three day period of time.
At the end of the journey, you have a three day period of time.
At the start you have a body of water dividing.
At the end you have a body of water dividing.
At the start you have a rod held over the water to divide it.
At the end you have the ark of the covenant held over the water to
divide it.
God spoke to me several years ago that there is a second circumcision
we need to experience.
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The first one is the circumcision of the sins of the flesh from us in baptism
with Christ.
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The second one is the circumcision of unbelief and disobedience and fear.
Josh 5:2 At that time the LORD said
unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children
of Israel the second time.
This occurred a second time.
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It occurred just as waters were divided a second time.
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And the second time was different than the first in that it spoke about:
Josh 5:8-9 And it came to pass, when
they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places
in the camp, till they were whole. And the LORD said unto Joshua, This
day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the
name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.
It was reproach from Egypt rolled off the people.
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The reproach was the unbelief of all the older doubters who took Egypt's
unbelief with them to the border of Canaan.
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The part of you that doubts God is the part that is from the world and
needs to be cut off from you.
Until you get a good revelation of the power of the blood and the full
extent the cross reached to set you free, you will struggle with unbelief
at times, and a part of you knows better, but another part says you cannot
really believe God for without doubting, though.
That is natural.
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It is everyone's pattern.
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I am glad that God knew I would have that struggle, so showed the pattern
that an older part in me has to be cut off so that the new part in me can
be free to believe without the struggle.
In the start and finish we noted that so many things were similar.
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But did you catch the difference in what was uplifted over the waters to
divide them?
Exod 14:16 But lift thou up thy rod,
and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children
of Israel shall go on dry [ground] through the midst of the sea.
Josh 3:15-16 And as they that bare the ark
were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were
dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks
all the time of harvest,) That the waters which came down from above stood
[and] rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that [is] beside
Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, [even] the
salt sea, failed, [and] were cut off: and the people passed over right
against Jericho.
The Rod and the Ark of the Covenant.
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We know the Rod speaks of Jesus
Isai 11:1 And there shall come forth
a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
And as the rod was thrown down to the ground and became a serpent, mankind
fell and became sinful as the serpent that lured man to sin in the start.
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But God reached down and took hold of us and lifted us up to become once
again sinless.
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Jesus descended and became one with us by dying as us, and that is how
God lifted us up.
So the ROD was lifted over the Red Sea, and moved God's wind to open the
Sea up!
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The name of Jesus is CALLED OVER a person in water baptism, as we have
faith we were buried with Christ, and we enter Christ's death and our sins
follow like Egyptian soldiers.
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And we come out on the other side, but our sins stay there drowned and
washed away.
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But something else was held up over the water in JORDAN.
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THE ARK.
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And on the ARK was a mercy seat upon which was sprinkled ATONEMENT BLOOD,
to take Israel's sins away from them.
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On the mercy seat was also CHERUBIMS looking down at the seat where the
blood was sprinkled.
The day of Atonement was once a year in which all the sins of all the people
from that year were ATONED for.
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The death of the sacrifice stood in the place of the people.
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And its blood was put on the mercy seat in indication that God's mercy
accepted the death of another to remove the sins of the people.
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ATONEMENT comes from the thought AT-ONE-MENT.
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We are made AT ONE, or IN UNION, to God once again through Christ's death.
Now the day they entered the land of Canaan was forty years after Israel
first faced the Promised Land but DOUBTED and did not enter.
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God said they would stay out for forty more years until the folks over
twenty years old that doubted were dead and cut off from the people.
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So, if ATONEMENT occurred once every year, and they were there forty years
since they doubted entry into Canaan, then that means there were FORTY
SPLASHES OF BLOOD on the mercy seat.
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Since the forty year period was required to remove the OLDER GENERATION,
the thought of a generation is considered in the NUMBER 40.
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40 is the number of a generation.
And they lifted up the ark WITH 40 SPLASHES OF BLOOD ON IT, when the older
folks had just died off.
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Connect it all together.
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The older folks represent the unbelieving part of us.
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Unbelief "generated" from Adam.
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So they held up the object that spoke of how the blood is to be preached
again and again until the doubt and unbelief is cut off from us!
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The word is like a two edged sword.
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It cuts and cuts and cuts away unbelief until we do not doubt any more.
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40 years simply represents the amount of time it takes to remove this doubting
"generation" from Egypt.
What will see the saints pass through and enter into the PROMISED LAND
of the FULLNESS OF CHRIST, is the preaching by ministers who UPHOLD the
message that THE BLOOD OF JESUS took care of all enemies.
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It is preached and preached until it breaks down every grain of unbelief.
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It is preached and held up until everyone passes through.
Josh 3:17 And the priests that bare
the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst
of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all
the people were passed clean over Jordan.
It is preached until you get a revelation and enter on into the FULLNESS
of what God has for you!
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Yes, you'll walk amidst enemy giants , but you have had the WORD preached
to you by ministers who UPHELD this message until you were cleaned of unbelief
and know you are above all the enemy.
Notice that the cherubims on the ark look at the mercy seat and at
the blood on the mercy seat.
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The throne of God is a mercy seat.
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But you start to see something more if, like the cherubims on it, you keep
looking at it.
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You will get a revelation if you look at this long enough.
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The EYES OF YOUR UNDERSTANDING will be enlightened in the KNOWLEDGE OF
CHRIST (Eph. 1:17-18) and you will see something absolutely powerful and
wonderful!!
You will see this:
Ephe 2:5-6 Even when we were dead
in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
And hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly
[places] in Christ Jesus:
YOU ARE SEATED WITH CHRIST.
Reve 3:21 To him that overcometh
will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and
am set down with my Father in his throne.
You see that you are seated with CHRIST IN HIS THRONE!!
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And where is he seated?
Ephe 1:21 Far above all principality,
and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only
in this world, but also in that which is to come:
Far above all enemies.
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So what is an enemy giant to you now that you see a revelation that the
BLOOD SEATED YOU ON THE THRONE WITH JESUS FAR ABOVE ALL ENEMIES?
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They look at the throne and they see the blood there.
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It tells them one thing: The blood was for them to sit on the throne,
above all enemies!!!!
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We have the POWER and DOMINION over all the earth that Adam lost in the
Garden.
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GO BACK INTO THE GARDEN, AND ENJOY DOMINION OVER ALL THE EARTH.
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Make the devil fearful all over again as he was in the Garden when he saw
man with earthly dominion, and sought to fall mankind from it all.
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But this time, know that the dominion over the world also means dominion
over the devil.
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He's in your jurisdiction when he is on earth!
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Bind the devil and cast him out!!!
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That is a bit more involved than raising a rod over Red Sea, isn't it?
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It is a bit more involved than knowing that Jesus died to free us from
sins.
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It is the awareness of what extent that blood saved us.
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Over all enemies!
We as Preachers must uphold this message.
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Look at it!
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Cherubims are looking at the blood and at the throne simultaneously.
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Get a revelation of the THRONE where GOD SEATED US WITH CHRIST by the blood.
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And go on into the land where the enemy invaded and took over since Abraham
was there long ago, and throw the enemy back out and rule the KINGDOM!
I will preach this truth to you until it drives your unbelief six feet
under the ground where your old life is buried, when you were buried with
Christ.
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And when it is finally under the dirt, and you face the glorious vistas
ahead in the fullness of what God prepared for you, you will enter in.
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And we'll be here standing and upholding the Acts 2:38 message as something
for more than just getting out of the world, but we will see it in a whole
new light, until you pass clean over!
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As you proceed to enter, you'll see me standing here with you shouting,
"POWER IN THE BLOOD!! POWER IN THE BLOOD!!! GO ON IN!!"
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Those three days with Christ will be a thousand times more glorious because
the eyes of our understanding have been enlightened.
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We see WE died, and WE were buried, and WE were resurrected, and WE ascended
to a wonderful place called the heavenlies, and WE are above all enemies.
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What a revelation!
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Can you see it?
After lodging at SHITTIM for three days, the officers came to the people
Josh 3:2-3 And it came to pass
after three days, that the officers went through the host; 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.
Experience the three days again in a new way!
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The officers are the ministries God uses to speak to you words that help
you enter.
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They say, "When you SEE THE ARK, and the priests bearing it, GO AFTER IT!"
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GO ON IN!!!
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When you GET THE REVELATION, GO ON IN!!!
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When your eyes are enlightened.
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Paul said he prayed their eyes of understanding be enlightened and that
they get a revelation of the knowledge of Christ so they can see they are
seated with Him.
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See the ark.
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See the blood.
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See the eyes of the cherubim looking at the blood and the throne.
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Keep looking until you fully have your unbelief removed.
When you see the priests bear the Ark.
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Even Jesus said the disciples could not "BEAR" some things at the start
before the church began.
John 16:12-14 I have yet many things
to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit
of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak
of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak: and he
will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive
of mine, and shall shew [it] unto you.
The Spirit would fill them and lead them like a pillar of fire leading
Israel through a wilderness.
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They would BEAR deeper truths later.
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As the priests bore the ark with the great message of being seated above
all powers, the ministry came into the depths of Christ after Jesus asended
and the Holy Ghost was poured out.
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Paul received revelation of the seating with Christ and he upheld that
message!
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We can bear these truths now.
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And we uphold them, bearing them, for you so that you can enter into the
Land!!!
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Jesus said the Spirit would speak of things of Jesus and glorify Him.
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It would speak to us of Jesus DEATH, BURIAL and RESURRECTION.
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And that will lead us into all truth.
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The fullness.