Chapter 10
The
Third Day Anointing
The Lord
recently told me that the book of Third John was for the Third
Day Church. It is the only book that is a “third”
epistle. This little book of only fourteen verses
powerfully identifies God's purposes and blessings for the Third
Day Church.
In order to
receive revelation of this third epistle, one must perceive that
God is speaking to His church. The book is written to Gaius
who represents the church. The name Gaius means "on
earth." In other words, this letter is to those who
are on the earth in the Third Day Church.
3 John 1:2
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in
health, just as your soul prospers.
In this verse
the Holy Spirit has made intercession for the Third Day Church.
The blessing will be one of prosperity in every area. As a
result of this prayer for the church, an anointing for prosperity
will be released in this Third Day. This anointing will
generate faith that will call forth provision for those who dwell
in Zion. If your spirit is prospering, your
soul will prosper. The prayer declares that we will prosper
in all things. That means spiritual blessings, gifts
and revelation, and it also means that the soul will rest in God
in this Seventh Day, the Sabbath rest, and will find peace and
joy in the Holy Spirit.
This perfect
rest in Him will provide a flow of supernatural energy and health
for our physical bodies. This promise is for all things and
would, therefore, include God’s provision for those material
things, which we require. What a glorious promise for those
who abide in His glory on the Third Day.
Verses 3-4 and
8 tell us that the Third Day Church will walk in truth - sound
doctrine and revelation knowledge. The exhortation to the
Third Day Church in Hosea 6:3 is, "Let us know (Him), let us
pursue the knowledge of the Lord." And, the promise is
that He will come to us as the rain of the Spirit. This
rain of God's Spirit will bring words of knowledge and wisdom to
the Third Day Church. The Holy Spirit will reveal Jesus
more fully to those who pursue the knowledge of the Lord.
Verses 5-7
speak of the faithfulness that the Third Day Church will walk in,
faithful to God and to the brethren. Faithfulness will be
demonstrated through provision to the stranger, brethren sent by
God to us for help. The love of God will be the catalyst
that bonds the Third Day Church together.
Verses 9-10
warn us about those who will desire to have preeminence and will
try to take over and control the Third Day Church. We must
set a watch for those who will be sent by Satan to undermine what
God has purposed.
Verses 11-12
exhort us to overcome evil with good so that we, like Demetrius,
will have a good testimony that all may see. We must
operate from a position of truth as children of the light. The
truth will set us free, and the truth will keep us free.
Verse 13 tells
us that many things could have been written to us that were not.
John 21:25
And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if
they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world
itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.
Verse 14
reveals why all things were not written. It is because He
wants to tell His Third Day Church, those who are His friends,
face to face!
That, which
the seven thunders spoke, was sealed up as mysteries for the
Third Day Church to unseal. The Lord wants to speak to this
generation face to face even as He did to Moses. God met
with Moses face to face and revealed the hidden mysteries
recorded in the book of Genesis.
No man was
there to witness the creation account, but God showed it to Moses
as He spoke to Him face to face. Oh, what wonders await the
Third Day Church! What glorious mysteries He will reveal in
these days! I have a feeling that the Lord has saved some
of His best surprises for last.
This promise
of being face to face with the Lord is also established in Hosea
6:2, "On the third day He will lift us up that we may
live (abide) in His sight." And there we shall
find ourselves face to face with the Glorious One. And, we shall
be changed from glory to glory into the image of the One that we
are beholding.
As we abide in
the presence of Christ, the Anointed One with His anointing, we
shall receive an impartation of the Third Day anointing, which
will be an anointing of resurrection power that will be produced
by the glory of God.
Jesus is the
Son of David, and He is ruling from the throne of David. The
throne of David that Jesus is ruling from is set over the
restored tabernacle of David (Zion). Therefore, the Third
Day Church of the first born will have a Davidic anointing.
1 Samuel 16:13
tells us that when Samuel anointed David, "the Spirit of
the Lord came upon David from that day forward."
The Holy
Spirit coming upon David was a foreshadowing of the Holy Spirit
coming upon the New Testament believers. Jesus spoke of
this great happening in Acts 1:8 when He said, "You shall
receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you."
This coming
upon by the Holy Spirit is not the born-again experience. In
the born-again experience the Holy Spirit comes within. The
coming upon of the Holy Spirit is the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
This is what occurred on the Day of Pentecost in Acts, chapter 2.
The baptism of the Holy Spirit empowers and anoints one for
service.
The word
"anointed" means to be smeared upon or rubbed against
by the Holy Spirit. This action by the Holy Spirit anoints
the person and supernaturally enables him/her to have divine
power for specific functions.
The prophet,
Isaiah, prophetically speaks to those who will dwell in Zion:
Isaiah 10:24
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: "O My people, who
dwell in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike
you with a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the manner
of Egypt."
The Assyrian
is symbolic of Satan's demonic powers that oppress God's people.
Isaiah is also speaking about the Third Day of Christ, the Day of
the Lord.
Isaiah 10:27
It shall come to pass in that day That his burden will be taken
away from your shoulder, And his yoke from your neck, And the
yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil.
What a
wonderful promise this is! The Third Day anointing will be
powerful enough to break the yokes that have had much of the
church in bondage until this point in time. Those who dwell
in Zion will have three anointings like David had.
The Spirit of
the Lord that came upon David, when he was anointed by Samuel,
manifested in three specific ways. David was anointed as a
prophet, a priest, and a king. The Third Day anointing will
be a combination or mixture of these three anointings.
The anointing
of a prophet was manifested in David as that of a psalmist.
This prophetic gift brought forth prophecy in song. David
was a prophetic worshipper. Those in the Third Day Church
will be prophetic in nature, and they will also be anointed and
break Satan's yokes of bondage. When David played and sang
for Saul, the tormenting spirits fled.
David also
prophesied by the Spirit, and so will the Third Day Church.
Prophetic intercession and proclamation will pull down Satan's
strongholds. This prophetic anointing will destroy Satan's
yokes and set captives free.
David was also
anointed as a priest after the order of Melchizedek. David
was able to eat the showbread from the temple in 1 Samuel 21:6.
Only a priest could eat showbread. David also ministered in
dance before the Lord in 2 Samuel 6:14.
The Third Day
Church will also have a priestly anointing to minister to the
Lord in fellowship, and as they do, they will receive the bread
of heaven, which is revelation knowledge. The psalmist
said, "I know more than my teachers because the Lord has
taught me." (Psalm 119:99)
This priestly
anointing will also be a pastoral anointing, which will allow
those in the Third Day Church to minister the word in power to
those God sends them to. Revelation 1:6 tells us that we
are priests and kings of God.
The third
anointing that the Third Day Church will have is a kingly
anointing. This will be an apostolic anointing of power to
rule and reign with Christ. This apostolic anointing will
produce the power necessary to cast out demons and heal the sick.
The Third Day
Church will rule in power in the midst of God's enemies. The
enemy will not be found ruling over those in Zion. The
combination of these three anointings will cause the church to
minister in the power of the Holy Spirit in the likeness of Jesus.
Acts 10:38
"God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and
with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were
oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him."
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