On The Third Day
Van Tanner
Mar 19, 2009
vtanner@thirddayfellowship.com
"Today and tomorrow I do cures and cast out demons, but ON THE THIRD DAY I will be PERFECTED".
What could the Lord have meant by such a profound statement? At first glance we may think that He is speaking of His death, but we have no record of Him curing people while He was in the grave. That would not make sense, nor would it make sense to believe that while in the grave he cast out demons; at least in the personal sense. This Third Day then must refer to a time in which the Lord is going to be 'completed' (Greek definition for word interpreted 'perfected'). The Lord does make reference to a time when His corporate body will be without spot or blemish. When you ask? Well why not now? If a day is as a thousand years to the Lord, this could mean that at the end of two thousand years His many membered body will be completed, thus Jesus completed?
Paul declares a day when there will be a manifestation in which Christ will be revealed in His saints, which could mean that the Son is manifesting in a body. Or maybe this could be what chapter 8 of Romans calls the manifestation of the Sons of God; another way of saying the Son manifesting and not the individual. Paul says that he is dead but yet he lives, but rather it is Christ who is living in him. What would happen if a whole generation became a part of such a declaration. Joel chapter 2 says that on the Lord's DAY a people (could it be the same ones?) will come forth "the like of which has never been seen before" and shall not be seen again for many generations. This is the army of God bringing forth the Bride of Christ or the revelation of the Bridegroom in the earth (Joel 2: 15-16)