Showing posts with label Living Water.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Living Water.. Show all posts

Thursday, December 5, 2019

RIVERS OF LIVING WATER, ARE YOU THIRSTING?

RIVERS OF LIVING WATER 

                                                           
                                                         bibleladyjunebug - facebook


Rivers 
The source of refreshment
The thirst quenching water we need

AS THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES 
 APPROACHES
I  CONSIDER THE 
SOURCE 
OF 
WATER 
[Water is always essential for
living]


AND 
OF 
LIGHT


  MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT 
AWARE OF ANY LIGHTS
EXCEPT THE 
LIGHTS
ON THE CHRISTMAS TREE

The Chanukkah Candles 
are lit every year at
the Festival of Lights.



IN THE TIME WHEN JESUS WAS
HERE AMONG US,
THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES
CELEBRATED 
THE 
CHERISHED HERITAGE
OF ISRAEL'S
PROVISION
IN THE WILDERNESS
BY GOD

WATER 
FROM
THE 
ROCK

AND
LIGHT 
TO 
SHOW
THE 
WAY 


AS A LIGHTHOUSE GIVES LIGHT
TO SEA GOING SHIPS
SO GOD GAVE A PILLAR
OF LIGHT
BY DAY AND A PILLAR OF FIRE
BY NIGHT
TO LEAD THEM
GUIDE THEM
TO DIRECT THEM 

THE ROCK IN THE WILDERNESS
WERE THE SOURCE
OF ENOUGH WATER
 TO QUENCH THE THIRST
OF GOD'S PEOPLE. 

JESUS IS PICTURED 

IN THE 


The Feast of Tabernacles 

           This feast had a threefold practice -  
                              (1)   It was considered as "the ingathering" 
                                  The Time of Harvest
                                        (2)  As the Feast of Booths (Tabernacles) it
                                    had relation to Living in the Wilderness.
                                            Living in Tents, booths, to
                                                      symbolize their
                                                          memory of it.
                             (3) Feast of Jehovah - "Yhwh"   which
                                     had relation to the ultimate harvest 
                                      of the Messiah.   
                                              Looking to Messiah's coming.
                    
                    SO LET US TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THIS
                          WAS ALL ABOUT .....

                     With 2.5 million people that came out of Egypt
                     with Moses,   how much water  ? was involved? 

                      *  THE JEWS CELEBRATED GOD'S 
                           PROVISION OF WATER IN THE 
                           WILDERNESS.....
                                      a. This required 12 million gallons of
                                             water daily.
                   * THE JEWS CELEBRATED GOD'S 
                               PROVISION OF LIGHT ALONG THE
                               PATHWAY - A PILLAR OF CLOUD BY
                              DAY, AND A PILLAR OF FIRE BY NIGHT.
                        
                                      a. When the Pillar of Light stopped -
                                           the people stopped, and stayed. 
                                           When the Night came - there was
                                          Light to protect and keep safe.
                           
                        Each day for a week 
                          * FOUR GIANT GOLDEN LAMPSTANDS
                              75 FEET TALL    in the Court of the Women
                              and towered over the Temple grounds on
                               the Temple mount.
                                      Each evening, they were lit.
                                     Once lit,  these lit the entire Temple area
                                       with their light. 
                                   They had special "windows" that allowed
                                   maximum light to flow from them, and 
                                   could be seen from any point in Jerusalem.
                          They were a fiery presentation of the 
                              Shekinah Glory of God in the Tabernacle
        
                        Each day -   after the morning sacrifice and
                       ceremonies, the festive meal,  the entire afternoon
                      spent in meditation on the Law, and the evening 
                     sacrifice, JUST AS DARKNESS FELL, the SPECIAL CEREMONY OF THE LIGHTING 
OF THE 
CANDLEABRA WAS HELD.                          John  7. 10 - 11 
Each day as the lights were lit,  thousands of worshippers were 
watching as priests ascended ladders to the four golden bowls, filled them with 10 gallons of oil each, and lit the oil soaked wicks, comprised of used priestly garments. 
             As the sky began to glow - a group of torch bearing
            "chasadim"  would dance before the people, and the 
             Levites would start playing with harps, flutes, cymbals,
             trumpets, and "instruments without number" .  
                             The Levitical Choir would begin to sing
                            the 15 DEGREE - or ASCENT PSALMS
                          (Psalm 120  - 134)   as they stood on the 
                          15 steps which led up from the Court of 
                            the Women to the Court of the Men. 

                  All of this not only looked BACK 
                           to the Shekinah Glory in the past,
                              but LOOKED FORWARD 
                                   to the future Shekinah Glory 
                                    of God when Messiah would come
                                       in His Kingdom.   
      
         



On the very last day of

the FEAST OF TABERNACLES



AT DAYBREAK  -   Hundreds of worshippers in festive array

left that palm and willow leaf booths and proceeded to the Temple.    Each worshipper carried the LUBLAH - the myrtle, willow and palm branches bound together -  in his right hand, and in the other hand - the ethrog - or the "boughs of fruit" 

Leviticus 23.40.     At the first glimmer of sunlight, the priest on the pinnacle of the Temple signaled for THREE LONG TRUMPET BLASTS and the OPENING OF THE GATES.

               

  At the opening of the gates,

(1) One group remained in the temple,
for preperations for the morning 
sacrifice, 
(2) One procession went to Motza in 
the Kedron Valley, and gathered 
branches which would be 
used in the morning services.
(3) The most important group proceeded 
to the Pool of Siloam which was 
fed by the "living waters" of an 
artesian spring.

To the sound of trumpets,
flutes,
and other instruments, 
the procession to the Pool of Siloam
is followed by a pries bearing a golden pitcher.

As the priest dipped the pitcher into 
the Pool of Siloam
they would chant the words 
"Ho, everyone that thirsteth,
come ye to the waters,
and he that hath no money,
come ye."  
ISAIAH chapter 55.1

"Therefore with joy shall ye
draw water out of
the wells of
salvation."

ISAIAH CHAPTER 12. VERSE 3

They then return to
the Temple through the Water Gate.

These two processions reentered the temple
to THREE LONG BLASTS OF THE TRUMPETS
AT THE EXACT MOMENT
ANOTHER PRIEST
WAS READY
WITH THE MORNING
SACRIFICE.
(a)
To the sound of trumpet blasts
the group with the willow branches
drove them into the ground
so as to form a leafy canopy
over the BRAZEN ALTAR.
(b)
The priest with a pitcher of water
was joined in the Court of the Priests
by another priest with a pitcher of
wine (fruit of the vine- unfermented grapes)
for the Drink Offering.
They ascended the altar together,
joining the priest ready to
make the BURNT OFFERING.
(c)
As the people shouted "Raise thy hand"
the priests with the water and wine
pour both into long silver funnels which
lead into the Altar.  This outpouring
of water, universally understood
by the Jews as symbolic of the prophesied
outpouring of the Holy Spir8t, was
the central object of
the entire day's ceremonies.
(d)
IMMEDIATELY the priests begin
to lead in the great
HALLEL - which consisted
of Psalms 113 - 118.

KJV - HOLY BIBLE - PSALMS 113 - 118 

TO THE SOUND OF AN 
ORCHESTRA OF FLUTES,
THE 400 PRIESTS WOULD
CHANT EACH VERSE
OF THE HALLEL -
Psalm 113 - 118 

The people repeated the first line 
of each Psalm, and shout 
HALLELU  JAH  to every other
verse.

IN PSALM 118, the people would
the first verse,
 "Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD,
then verse 25a
"Oh, give thanks unto the LORD, 
for He is good,
His mercy endureth forever.

All of this would take place 
in a building crescendo of Praise
as the people shook their "lulabh"  
branches to the Lord as they
chanted these words. 

AS THE PRIESTS MAKE THE CIRCUIT
OF THE ALTAR 7 TIMES
SINGING AGAIN
THE WORDS OF 
PSALM 118.25 
(having done one circuit around
the altar each of the 
six days before) 

THIS PICTURED THE END 
OF THEIR WANDERINGS
IN THE WILDERNESS

WITH THE VICTORY 
IN JERICHO
Symbolizing that Messiah 
would be Victorious One Day
with all the Gentile nations
in the Millenial Kingdom.

FINALLY 
BIBLE - KJV - PSALM 82
PSALM 82 was chanted 
to trumpet blasts  ending with
Psalm 82.8"Arise, O God, 
judge the earth, for Thou 
shalt inherit all nations." 


While all this has been
going on,
Jesus is now in Jerusalem.

  K J V   The Bible - John Chapter 
                         HOLY BIBLE - KJV - JOHN CHAPTER 7
  
[But when his brethren were gone up, then went he
 also up unto the Feast, not openly,
  but as it were in secret.
                   Jesus arrived secretly at this Feast, while the 
                 leaders are looking for Him.   Meanwhile, the 
                people are ALL IN DISCUSSION ….  just who
                is this  Jesus ?   
                              * Some thought Jesus was a good man.
                               *Some thought he was a deceiver.
                               * Some thought he was a master-teacher.
                                * Some thought he was a prophet.
                                 *Some accepted Him as their Messiah.]

                SUDDENLY - THE LONE FIGURE OF CHRIST
                   STANDS UP AND CRIES OUT ….
                 "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and 
                   drink.   He that believeth on me, as the scripture
                   hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of 
                       living water."  
                                  (This spake he of the Spirit, which 
                                    they that believe on Him should 
                                                       receive  John 7. 37 - 39) 







                      THE EFFECT ON EVERYONE IS 
                             INSTANTANEOUS.

                         Many of the people when they heard
                             this saying, said "Of a truth, this is 
                                 a Prophet."     John 7. verse 40
                                      
                          Others said, "This is the Christ (Messiah)
                          But some said, "Shall Christ come out 
                              of Galilee? Hath not the scripture said,
                         "That Christ cometh of the seed of David,
                             and out of the town of Bethlehem, where
                            David was?"      John 7. verse 41 

                              So there was a division among the 
                           people because of him.   John 7. verse 43.

                               And some of them would have taken
                             him; but no man laid hands on him.
                                                                    John 7.verse 44.

                             


      

                    so as we are about to celebrate CHRISTMAS
                      let us remember the very One who has 
                     been born of the Seed of David, and has 
                      indeed been born in Bethlehem.


           BIBLE - KJV - MATTHEW 2.1 - 12 BIRTH OF JESUS 

                    JESUS IS THE FOUNTAIN - hymnal.net                         
                            In my next post I will continue
                            in a discussion of Scripture 

                            WITH CHANUKKAH - AND 
                    JESUS AS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.