THE
SPIRITUAL WEEK OF YOUR NATURAL LIFE
November 18, 2007
MF Blume
Numbers 19:11-13 KJV (11) He
that toucheth the dead body of any man
shall be unclean seven days. (12) He shall purify himself
with it on
the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he
purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be
clean. (13) Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man
that is dead,
and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and
that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation
was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet
upon him.
In this ritual and ceremony,
touching or coming into contact with a dead body rendered a person
ceremonially unclean.
* They were put
aside from the camp and disallowed to engage in worship in the
tabernacle.
* The blessings
of God were removed from him.
* But Seven days
were considered in such an event.
* BUT NO MORE
THAN SEVEN DAYS.
* For on the
third day of his uncleanness, he was given the opportunity to be
purified.
* This was when
the ashes of the red heifer were taken and mingled with water and
sprinkled on the person.
* There was a
ceremonial CONNECTION to the sacrifice of the red heifer.
* And sacrifices
count as one's own death penalty, in order to free one from a future
and final death.
But the person purified by this
ritual on the third day since he touched death had something to yet
await.
* The ordeal was
not over.
* The SEVENTH
DAY was yet to come.
* And when one
was purified on the third day, one
would find themselves completely cleansed at the seventh day, and
reinstated into Tabernacle involvement.
However, if one did not take
advantage of the third day opportunity of
cleansing, upon the seventh that person would be cut off from the
entire nation of Israel, without hopes of ever being involved again in
the Tabernacle worship of God.
So get the picture.
There is a first day of touching a
dead body making one UNCLEAN.
There is a third day of opportunity
to apply the ashes of the red heifer to purify the person.
And there is a seventh day when the
person could do nothing but simply
stand in relationship to Israel upon the experience of the third day
cleansing or not.
I want to stress that nothing could
be done at the seventh day to rectify the situation or improve upon it.
WHATEVER HAPPENED ON THE THIRD DAY
WOULD DETERMINE THE SEVENTH DAY'S ACTIVITIES.
Either reinstatement into the
worship of and relationship with God was
determined by whether or not the third day cleansing was experienced.
A period of seven days is found in
the bible many, many times.
* Most notable
of which is the first series of seven days in the creation of Genesis 1
through 2.
* God finished
the work the sixth day and rested from all His work on the seventh day.
Whereas the end of each of the
first 6 days saw the words "and the
evening and the morning were the _____ day," this is not so with the
seventh day.
* You could say
there is a message here.
* God rested
that day and entered into an everlasting rest that would not end.
And that rest was intended for
mankind to enter, because we read:
Hebrews 4:3-5 KJV For we
which have believed do enter into rest,
as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my
rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the
world. (4) 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. (5) And in this place again, If they shall enter
into my rest.
We enter HIS rest, in reference to
the seventh day when He first rested.
* GOD is still
resting!
* Man was
intended to enter into it.
* Mankind is
considered to have NEVER entered that rest.
Hebrews 4:6-9 KJV Seeing
therefore it remaineth that some must
enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in
because of unbelief: (7) Again, 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. (8) For if
Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of
another day. (9) There remaineth therefore a rest to the
people of God.
Long before David spoke of a
specific DAY -- TO DAY -- wherein they could rest, and even
before Joshua who brought them into
the rest of Canaan,
There was the original rest day of
the first week of earth's creation.
* Man has never
entered into it.
What happened?
* SIN HAPPENED.
Romans 5:12-14 KJV Wherefore,
as by one man sin entered into the
world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all
have sinned: (13) (For until the law sin was in the world:
but sin is not imputed when there is no law. (14)
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had
not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the
figure of him that was to come.
DEATH PASSED UPON ALL MEN.
* Like the man
who touched a dead body and was
rendered UNCLEAN for seven days, every one of us touched death because
we were born with death having passed over all of us due to ADAM'S SIN.
And the duration of ONE WEEK is
highly representative in this ceremony.
* If touching
the dead body corresponds to each of
us born in sin, with death having passed upon all of us, then the
seventh day would represent our natural lives ending!
* Seventh means
END.
* And everyone
knows the end of one week gives way to the beginning of a new week.
* So SEVEN can
represent end of something to be followed by the beginning of a new.
All of our lives will naturally END
one day.
* All of us have
a SEVENTH Day coming.
* It may be 70
years after your birth, or 90 years or only 48 years.
* But whenever
the END of your natural life comes, you can call it the SEVENTH DAY.
* IT IS FINISHED.
But between the time of Adam's sin
and the ultimate end of the physical
as we know it today, JESUS CAME TO THIS WORLD TO DIE FOR OUR SINS.
God allowed TIME to ELAPSE before
He manifested in flesh as Son of God to die for us.
The death that came by Adam would
be resolved and answered by the death this SECOND ADAM would accomplish.
Free us by RESURRECTION FROM THE
DEAD.
And the wonderful thing about Jesus
Christ's coming is that A THIRD DAY rises to prominence.
Luke 24:46 KJV And said unto
them, Thus it is written, and thus
it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
He died for YOU!
* He died for us
all.
* And His death
is said to COUNT AS OUR DEATHS.
2 Corinthians 5:14 KJV For
the love of Christ constraineth us;
because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
THE PURIFICATION MUST OCCUR THE
THIRD DAY --
1 Peter 1:22 KJV Seeing ye
have purified your souls in obeying
the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see
that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
So if our lives are represented by
a WEEK,
and we started out our lives by
having been born in sin, with death looming over us all, ...
no wonder the day of Christ's
death, STANDING AS OUR DEATHS, was followed by THREE DAYS before He
arose from the dead.
Spiritually speaking about
something is not the same as physically considering that something.
Physically we do not live seven
days and die.
Spiritually, though , we can see
this as a representation of our complete lives.
Seven means complete, since God
completed his work of creation the seventh day by resting.
Spiritually speaking, since we were
born in SIN, we touched touch as soon as we were born.
* Jesus Christ
died AS US and FOR us on the cross.
* His death was
IDENTIFICATION with our deaths.
OUR BIRTHS INTO THE WORLD, when we
touched death the moment we breathed
the breath of natural life, correspond to the DAY JESUS CHRIST DIED.
WE WERE SPIRITUALLY BORN DEAD.
Therefore the first day of day
Jesus' death counts as the day we were born in sin.
And the third day when he rose from
the dead is counted from the day
the person touched death until the day the candidate received cleansing
by the ashes.
FROM BIRTH TO JESUS IS THREE DAYS.
We accept His death for us or not.
NOTHING WAS DONE IN THE RITUAL ON
THE SEVENTH DAY BY THE PERSON saved or not.
Because the end of our natural
lives comes when none of us expect it.
You just either get restored or cut
off forever.
ONLY GOD DID THE WORK.
Say you are restored, or say you
are gone.
Not only were each of us and our
individual lives represented by this
spiritual week, but all the history of mankind was considered.
THE TABERNACLE WOULD BE DEFILED BY
THE UNCLEAN PERSON.
HEAVEN IS THE TRUE TABERNACLE.
Hebrews 8:2 KJV A minister of
the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and
not man.
Hebrews 9:11 KJV But Christ
being come an high priest of good
things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with
hands, that is to say, not of this building;
Hebrews 9:24 KJV For Christ
is not entered into the holy places
made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven
itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
A Tabernacle in Heaven in which He
wants to bring us again!
* Garden was
like that tabernacle.
Did you ever stop to think of what
God would do with Adam had he never sinned and fallen from God?
* God still has
this purpose in mind for man.
* It's like a
time period of seven days is given for man BUT NO MORE.
* There is an
end coming to natural living.
* And it is in
that time period that Christ identified in us when He died and
resurrected.
* And if we do
not take opportunity and identify
with Christ's death and resurrection on this third spiritual day, when
the END COMES, we will never be reinstated into the tabernacle.
* We will be cut
off from God forever.
ANOTHER TABERNACLE is in view as
well!
2 Corinthians 5:1-9 KJV For
we know that if our earthly house of
this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not
made with hands, eternal in the heavens. (2) For in this we
groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is
from heaven: (3) If so be that being clothed we shall not
be found naked. (4) For we that are in this tabernacle do
groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed
upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. (5) Now
he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath
given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. (6) Therefore we
are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body,
we are absent from the Lord: (7) (For we walk by faith, not
by sight:) (8) We are confident, I say, and willing rather
to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
(9) Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may
be accepted of him.
We can say THIS TABERNACLE is our
bodies!
* Tabernacles
were for God's Spirit to indwell and be amongst men for blessing and
caring.
* But sacrifices
were required, since God was trying
to tell the world, "Your sin must be dealt with so I can bless you,
since you r sins separated you from me. So I require death to pay
for your sins."
AND BELIEVERS who accepted the
THIRD DAY opportunity, are purified.
* God works in
us and dwells in us.
* He blesses.
* BUT WE ALL
LOOK AHEAD TO THE GLORIOUS END, THE
SEVENTH DAY, when we TRULY RESURRECT WITH JESUS as our very bodies are
clothed upon with a HOUSE (not tabernacle) not made with hands, eternal
in the heavens... and not temporary as our mortal ones are.
We WAIT and win more souls and do
His work during the next FOUR SPIRITUAL DAYS until the SEVENTH end day
of TOTAL RECOVERY.
However, those who do nothing about
the third day opportunity...
* Who live
without accepting Christ's salvation, and
commit sins in their unclean sin may think that they are getting by.
* HOWEVER A
SEVENTH DAY IS COMING.
* AN END IS
COMING.
* And neglect to
deal with sin on the third day when
they had the chance, will find them coming upon the seventh day when
they hear the words "DEPART FROM ME I NEVER KNEW YOU.
Numbers 19 (13)
Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man
that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the
LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of
separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his
uncleanness is yet upon him.
Notice the terms... HIS UNCLEANNESS
IS YET UPON HIM.
* At the end of
the seven day period, the man was
considered as to whether or not HE DEALT WITH HIS UNCLEANNESS.
* This is like
judgment day at the end.
* And all the
pleasures of sin engaged in without
having taken the proper steps to be purified, cause the uncleanness to
remain.
* And the man
shall not enter glory.
And there is also a note to the
believer.
* God allows us
to be cleansed the third day of our life's week.
* And he wants
to ensure we remain faithful to Him
and not walk back out into death and become unclean again through the
sins of the world.
* Satan was an
angel of heaven who sinned, and God
does not want to take anyone back into heaven again and find him or her
unfaithful.
* So to ensure
we remain faithful, he allows a third
day opportunity to be followed by four more days for us to hold on and
remain faithful, and be proven to enter glory faithfully.
Matthew 25:21 KJV His lord
said unto him, Well done, thou good
and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will
make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.