To engage the Pathway of Responsibility we need to learn how to access beyond the veil and take our positions on the mountains and thrones in the heavenly realms. When we are seated in the heavenly realms, we can establish kingdom government. Then as a gateway of heaven the kingdom fills and expands our boundaries on earth.
Gen 1:28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over … it”. As God’s children, His sons and heirs we have been given this mandate or authority to rule.
Matt 6:10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. It is our responsibility to learn how to establish the “as it is” of the kingdom in heaven so it can manifest on earth through us as gateways.
1 Chron 12:32 Of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do. As Sons of Issachar we need to be aware of the end of the old and beginnings of the new days, seasons, ages and eras etc.
Isa 43:19 “Behold, I will do something new, now it will spring forth; will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert. “The New” “The Old” what do we mean by these terms? . We need to understand how the beginning and the end relate using a biblical – not Greek mind-set. We need to begin to think from a non-linear perspective. We need our minds renewed from an earthly to a heavenly eternal perspective.
Gen 1:1 in the beginning God created John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God Rev 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”
Eph 2:6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. Rom 8:1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
1 Cor 1:30 But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
2 Cor 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
If Christ Jesus is the beginning and the end the Alpha and Omega and we are in Christ Jesus then we are in what? . In the anointing of sonship. In the position and authority of sonship. In Him to be able to access the beginning and the end.
Isa 42:9 “Behold, the former things have come to pass, now I declare new things; before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.” . In Him in the Word that creates . In Him we can look out to see from the beginning perspective. We can frame what is out from what we experience being in Him. It is our responsibility in God to bring out and release what our spirit has received back into the physical world. We are mediators to bring the end out of the beginning. We need to rule as sons and recognize the time for new seasons and facilitate the end of the old and the beginning of the new.
Biblical history is counted in the generational history of families this adds up to 6,000 years From a biblical time frame perspective we are in the 7th day from creation and approaching the third day of church history .
Matt 17:1 Six days later Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves. 2 And He was transfigured before them; Transfiguration took place after 6 days Matt 17:11 And He answered and said, “Elijah is coming and will restore all things
Something new is coming to bring restoration – what is it? The Joshua generation operating in the mature spirit of Elijah who was translated into the heavenlies and released a double portion onto the earth. We need to access the heavenly realms to engage the record in the beginning so it can be restored to create the end. As we are now in or approaching the third day of church history God is doing something new. We must be willing to transition out of the old to embrace the new things as He unveils the mysteries hidden to reveal them.
There are many biblical patterns that can help us be prepared for the third day. We can see the 3rd day patterns in the way God did things in different times and ages with Israel and with Jesus and the church.
Gen 1:13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
Gen 1:11 fruit and seed after His kind . Seed’s purpose in us is to produce fruit after His own kind – sonship discipleship.
Third day principle is that we reproduce the life God has placed in us in others and in creation (Gen 1:28 Rom 8:19) Mandates.
Exod 19:10 The Lord also said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments; 11 and let them be ready for the third day, for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
The Micvah and Ketubah of marriage Exod 19:19 So it came about on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunder and lightning flashes and a thick cloud upon the mountain and a very loud trumpet sound, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. The 3rd day brought a supernatural encounter and new opportunities
1st day wash, water baptism, salvation, spirit reborn . 2nd day sanctify, spirit baptism, sanctification, soul renewed . 3rd day fire baptism, purification, body transfigured.
Preparation requires fire and an altar Rom 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Gen 3:24 … He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life. Going through the fire gives us access to the path of the tree, river of life and our heavenly seats and positions
Matt 3:11 “As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Process of preparation for third day
What happened on day 1 and 2 is a pattern for the preparation needed both personally in our lives and when God engages us corporately. The first 2 days are days that prepare us for 3rd day consummation and fulfillment. The troubles at the end of the old are the birth pangs of the beginning of the new .
There are a patterns for 1st to 3rd day. Heb 4:12 reveals 3 levels of transformation spirit, soul and body. Dividing soul and spirit. Diving thoughts and intentions of heart. Dividing bone and marrow. 30, 60 and 100 fold increase.
Esther 5:1 Now it came about on the third day that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace in front of the king’s rooms, and the king was sitting on his royal throne in the throne room, opposite the entrance to the palace. 2 When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favour in his sight;
Esther 5:2 and the king extended to Esther the golden sceptre which was in his hand. So Esther came near and touched the top of the sceptre 3 then the king said to her, “What is troubling you, Queen Esther? And what is your request? Even to half of the kingdom it shall be given to you.”
Esther 4:14 … And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?” Esther 4:14 …who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” God knows He has called your spirit out of eternity to be a royal priest in His kingdom for this generation.
Hosea 6:1 “Come, let us return to the Lord. For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bandage us. 2 “He will revive us after two days; He will raise us up on the third day, that we may live before Him. 3 “So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord. His going forth is as certain as the dawn; And He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.”
Death and burial always come before resurrection. It is God who tears us and wounds us to reveal our true heart position. Embrace the dark cloud and fire experiences kill the flesh break the soul’s control. We must be willing to embrace the different levels of transformation.
Gen 22:4 On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance. Looking for the mountain, the place of authority that comes through sacrifice. Abraham was taking the promise to the place where God’s provision would be released – cross
The cross the place where the promises of the 1st and 2nd day are laid down as we become living sacrifices. Give up our own expectations by denying self etc. . God puts fire to the sacrifice to refine and purify our motives. The place of sacrifice the cross becomes the place of authority and provision. Rejoice that the old is being exposed and removed so that the new can come . Elijah spirit is coming so what was Elijah’s preparation for being ascended into the heavenlies?
1 Kings 17:3 Now Elijah … said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” 2 The word of the Lord came to him, saying, 3 “Go away from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.
Test of drought can come after victory. Cherith means to cut, pierce, divide, separate, to circumcise everything. Jordan means to press down, descend into death, go down, decline, sink, be humbled, burial of the flesh.
1 Kings 17:7 It happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. 8 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, 9 “Arise, go to Zarephath, Zarephath means the all-consuming fire, the smelting place, workshop for refining .These are the first and second day levels of transformation to prepare for 3rd day transfiguration .
Phil 3:10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
James 1:2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Rom 8:17 and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him. 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
We often blame the devil for our troubles that can be actually resisting God Gen 3:14 The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you… on your belly you will go, and dust you will eat all the days of your life; 17 Cursed is the ground because of you;
Gen 2:7 Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. God uses the devil as His servant to eat the dust of our flesh until we only have His divine nature left.
Gen 40:20 Thus it came about on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, which he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer… 21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his office.
We are at the beginning of the third day when we will be raised up above the position from which we originally fell. Restoration of all things will take place in resurrection and transfiguration power.
Isa 60:1 “Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. 2 “For behold, darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples; but the Lord will rise upon you and His glory will appear upon you. 3 “Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Isa 2:2 Now it will come about that in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord will be established as the chief of the mountains, and will be raised above the hills; and all the nations will stream to it.
Gen 42:17 So he put them all together in prison for three days. 18 Now Joseph said to them on the third day, “Do this and live, for I fear God: He sent his brothers back to their father . Who are our brothers? Are we our brother’s keeper? God so loved the world He sent Jesus to make a way for salvation . Joshua generation must reach and mentor the next generation. We are responsible for the billion fold harvest.
Joshua 9:17 Then the sons of Israel set out and came to their cities on the third day. Establishing of the embassies of heaven will occur on the third day. Are we ready for the third day? Have we embraced the first 2 days of preparation We are responsible to prepare for the harvest . Therefore we must establish the storehouses, new order Ekklesia, Embassies of heaven to be ready. The world needs restoring we must arise shine see people come out of the darkness, see the world and its people by His light.
Gen 42:18 Now Joseph said to them on the third day, “Do this and live, for I fear God 19 … carry grain for the famine of your households,
The shaking of the world systems will bring people to a realization that the world does not have the answers. In a time of political, medical, financial, governmental, religious famine the church as the mountain of the house of the Lord must have the grain, the supernatural answers.
Luke 13:32 And He said to them, “Go, tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.’ Process of increasing authority where the limits of 1st and 2nd day will be removed. We have not seen anything yet. The power and authority we have seen in every past moved of God has only been 1st and 2nd days. The resurrection, transfiguration and rising of the of the 3rd day church is coming.
Matt 20:19 and will hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify Him, and on the third day He will be raised up. The goal and perfection came through the cross . To experience third day transfiguration we must engage second day transformation.
Lev 7:17 but what is left over from the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire. The baptism of fire will consume our flesh to refine our soul. The fire of judgement seat purifies our scroll. Are we willing to embrace the fire of heaven’s altars?
Heb 12:26 And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.” 27 This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Heb 12:28 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
To be the Joshua, Joseph, Daniel, Enoch and Elijah generation – we must be willing to embrace transformation that enables us to come out of the old and enables the old to come out of us.
So we can be raised up into mature sons on the third day.