THE SIX WATERPOTS PROPHECY
OR, THE WELL OF LIVING WATERS
12-17-17 This message may be
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The brightness of our
revelations depend upon the correctness of our doctrines (our building blocks)
(John 2:1-11) And the third day there was a marriage in
Cana of
(John 2:1-5) And the third day [“The Third Day Prophecy” DELIVERED 11-26-17] there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee [“The
1. wine = Gk: wine (literally or figuratively). (or perhaps
of Hebrew origin) Heb: effervesce;
wine (as fermented); by implic. intoxication: banqueting. [happiness, joy, “light” Gen 1:3]
2. dove = Heb: a dove (apparently from the warmth of their mating):
pigeon /// effervesce; wine (as
fermented); by implic. intoxication: banqueting. [happiness, joy, “light” Gen 1:3 ]
a. effervescent = Dict: 1. giving off gas bubbles [blessings, 522x]; bubbling up; foaming.
2. lively and high-spirited; vivacious.
i.
vivacious = Dict: 1. full of life and animation; spirited; lively. 2. long-lived.
(John 2:6,7) And there were set there six [a numerical symbol of man in the Bible] waterpots of stone, after the manner
of the purifying of the Jews, containing two [112 lbs] or three [168 lbs] firkins [a firkin is a British liquid weight unit of 56 pounds] apiece. Jesus saith unto them, Fill
the waterpots with water [symbolically,
the fullness of the Holy Spirit].
And they [the obedient servants] filled them up to the brim.
1. Commentary: waterpots of stone = representing formerly hard-hearted persons who have
opened their hearts to welcome the entrance of the Holy Spirit into their lives.
2. Commentary: common waterpots
were ceramic-ware (baked clay) made by potters; however, these six (the number of man) waterpots
used for the wedding at Cana were unusually large and hollowed by hammering and
chiseling out myriad stone chips to make room (room at the inn) for the water,
altogether requiring much more effort, time, and dedication than making clay
pots.
3. purifying = Gk: a washing
off: cleansing, purging,
purification
a. (Eph 5:25,26) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ
also loved the church [i.e., the Bride of
Christ], and gave himself for it; That
he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the
word [Gk: rhema (revelations)] [water
is a symbol of the Holy Spirit],
i.
(Rom 10:17) So
then faith [Gk: belief] [cleanliness] cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word [Gk: rhema] of God.
4. (Ezek 11:19,20) And I will
give them one heart [one mind of unification, the mind of
Christ, “oneness”], and I will put a
new spirit [the “old” spirit being
“the God of this world” 2 Cor 4:4] within
you [i.e., the Spirit of God];
and I will take the stony [hard] heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh [softness] [“sensitive and responsive to the touch of
their God” Amplif. Bible] [How responsive to God’s love is a stone?]: That
they may walk in my statutes [laws],
and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and
they shall be my people, and
I will be their God. [Ezek 36:26; Zech 7:12]
a. “God is a Spirit” (John 6:24); “God
is love” (1 John 4:8,16).
b. (1 Cor 13:8-13) [WATERPOTS FILLED WITH LOVE] Charity [Gk: love] [softness] never
faileth: but whether there be
prophecies, they shall fail; whether
there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge [Gk: science], it shall vanish away. For we know in part [Gk: a piece, a portion],
and we prophesy in part. But when
that which is perfect [Gk: complete; of full age] is come,
then that which is in part shall be done
away. When I was a child, I spake
as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but
when I became a man [maturity,
i.e., our death], I put away
childish things. For now we see through
a glass [Gk: mirror] darkly; but then face to face [i.e., who we really are]: now I know in part; but then shall I know
even as also I am known. And now abideth faith,
hope, charity, these three; but the
greatest of these is
charity [Gk: love].
i.
Commentary: “through a glass [Gk: mirror] darkly” = the Greek word (esoptron) for “glass” appears twice in the New Testament. The Apostle James has it
“For if any be a hearer of the word [Gk:
logos] [the seed], and not a
doer, he is like unto a man beholding his
natural face in a glass [Gk: mirror]” (James 1:23), indicating no change (no
salvation) in the person. However, because “darkly” indicates varying degrees of light, the phrase “through a glass [Gk: mirror] darkly”
seems also to allude to dimly
seeing the
ii.
(Luke 17:20,21) And when he was
demanded of the Pharisees, when the
Amen