MOVING WATER SYMBOLIZES THE
HOLY SPIRIT AND THE WORD OF GOD
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God is Thought. The brightness
of our revelations depends upon the correctness of our
doctrines,
our building
blocks, our Godly thoughts laid one upon another,
ascending into the mind of Christ.
MOVEMENT
(Gen 1:1-3) In the
beginning God created the
heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And
the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God
said, Let
there be light: and there was light.
THE WASHING (MOVEMENT) OF
WATER BY THE WORD
(Eph
5:25-28)
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the
church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify [Gk: make holy] and cleanse [Gk:
purge, purify] it [the church
(the congregation mass of us)] with the washing of
water [a type and shadow of the Holy Spirit] by the word [Gk: rhema] [the meaning
of the word of God, the Bible], That he might present
it to himself a
glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any
such
thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So
ought men
to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his
wife loveth
himself [because he and his wife
are “one” body].
THE WASHING OF WATER
(Exo
30:17-21) And the LORD spake
unto Moses, saying, Thou
shalt also make a laver [Heb:
something round, a washbowl; a pulpit] [i.e., like a modern outside
birdbath] of
brass [Heb: filthiness] [i.e.,
sin], and his foot [Heb: stand,
pedestal] also
of brass [Heb: filthiness]
[i.e., sin], to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the
congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put [running] water [a type and shadow of the
Holy Spirit] therein. For Aaron and his sons
shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: When they go
into the tabernacle
of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they
die not;
or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made
by fire
unto the LORD: So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that
they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed
throughout their generations.
1.
(Exo
38:8)
And he [Bezaleel
– Heb: in the shadow (protection) of God] made the laver of
brass [Heb:
filthiness] [i.e.,
sin], and the
foot [Heb:
stand, pedestal] of
it of brass [Heb: filthiness] [sin], of the lookingglasses
[Heb: mirrors] [i.e., highly polished brass] of the women
assembling [present
tense], which
assembled [past
tense] at the door [Heb: gate] of the tabernacle of the congregation.
2.
Commentary:
The lookingglasses
of the women were a product of Isreal’s 400 years of captivity in Egypt
and
symbolizes their pride. By
submitting their lookingglasses to be melted
unto the Lord [a], the women were separating
themselves from the
instruments of their pride.
a.
(Heb:
12:29) For our God is a consuming fire. [Deut 4:24; 9:3]
WAITING FOR THE MOVING
OF THE WATER
(John 5:1-8) After this
there was a feast of the Jews; and
Jesus went up to Jerusalem [Heb: dual]
[perhaps indicating the natural man and the spiritual man, both
dwelling inside
us]. Now there is
at Jerusalem by the sheep market [gate] a pool [Gk: a (large) pond for bathing or swimming]
[symbolically the Bible,
the Word of God],
which is called in the
Hebrew tongue Bethesda [Heb: house of mercy], having five porches [five covered walkways
where people could be protected from the weather]. In these lay a great multitude of impotent
folk [Gk:
feeble: diseased, sick], of blind,
halt [Gk:
limping: crippled,
lame], withered
[Gk: shrunken], waiting for the moving
of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season
into the
pool, and troubled [Gk: stirred, roiled] the water: whosoever then first
after the troubling of the
water stepped in was made whole [Gk: healthy, well
(in body); fig. true in doctrine: sound] [i.e., saved] of whatsoever disease
[fig. whatsoever
false doctrine] he
had [causing
his unbelief].
And a certain man
was there, which had an infirmity [Gk:
feebleness (of body or mind); moral frailty: disease, sickness,
weakness] thirty
and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie [helplessly upon the ground], and knew
that he had been now a long time in
that case [circumstance], he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made
whole [Gk:
healthy, well (in body); fig. true in doctrine: sound] [i.e.,
saved]? The impotent
man [Gk:
feeble: diseased, sick] answered him, Sir, I have no man,
when the water is troubled
[Gk: stirred,
roiled], to put
me
into the pool: but while I am coming [doing
something, thereby displaying his sincere intention to enter the water]
[1], another
steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take
up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole
[Gk: healthy,
well (in body); fig. true in doctrine: sound] [i.e.,
saved], and took
up his bed, and walked:
and on the same day was the sabbath.
1.
(Heb
4:12) For the
word of God [the
Bible] [the Holy Spirit
= rhema; Jesus Christ (John 1:14) = logos] is quick [Gk: alive], and powerful, and sharper
than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of
soul [natural
man] and
spirit [spiritual
man], and of the
joints and
marrow, and is a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart.
(John 16:13,14) Howbeit when
he, the Spirit of truth,
is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak
of himself;
but whatsoever he shall hear, that
shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify
me:
for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it
unto you.
(1 John 2:27) But the
anointing which ye have
received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any
man teach
you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things,
and is truth,
and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall
abide in him.
(John
7:37-39)
In the last day, that great day of
the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, 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.
(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on
him should
receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given;
because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Amen