Live in His sight

In the last chapter of the Old Testament in the Book of Malachi, the second coming of Elijah is talked about. Elijah’s also one of the two witnesses (Moses being the other) in the Book of Revelation.

“Moses tells them in Deuteronomy 18 that in those ‘last days,’ and Peter quotes it in Acts 3,‘the Lord’s going to raise up a prophet like unto me,’ and that’s why when you go over to John 1, John the Baptist says, ‘I’m not the Christ; I’m not that prophet and I’m not Elijah,’ ” explains Jordan.

“Well, who was that prophet? It was ‘that prophet like unto Moses.’ You never hear him identified by name; he’s just that prophet like unto Moses.

“That’s why people, when you get the two witnesses in Revelation, they argue, ‘Everybody knows the one is Elijah, but the other one must be Enoch because Enoch didn’t die and everybody has to die.’

“But everybody doesn’t die. ‘The dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.’

“The verse that says ‘it’s appointed unto man once to die and after that the judgment,’ is a general statement; it’s not true in an absolute 100% sense, else at the Rapture you couldn’t have any living saints that are caught up. So you know it’s a general statement; not a requirement.

“So when Enoch didn’t die, Elijah didn’t die. Elijah’s caught up into heaven in the whirlwind, the chariot. Enoch was not because God took him. Some people say, ‘Well, God took him from one place in the earth to another place,’ but that’s because they want him to die.

“In the Scripture, it’s not Enoch who’s the witness, it’s Moses. That’s why these two guys are here because here’s a picture of the kingdom and they see the Lord in His glory.

Notice Mark 9: ‘And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
[2] And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.'

“When was that? It was after six days that this happened. Watch how Luke does this. When Luke gets it, it’s different. Luke 9:27 says, ‘But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
[28] And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.’

“One says it after six and the other says it’s about eight, so what’s after six and about eight? You got seven. You say, ‘Well, why didn’t they just say seven days?’ There’s a reason for that because all those numbers mean something. In the Bible, seven is divided, over and over and over, into four and three.

“In Exodus 19, when God came out to meet Israel at Sinai it was on the third day. This idea about the third day--this is not the first time you’ve run into it in the Bible. What I’m trying to get across is this is a pattern.

“The reason he says after two days in the third day is because he wants you to understand there’s a whole bunch of significance in the timing here.

“When he says there in Hosea 6:2 that ‘after two days he will revive us live in his sight,’ the issue is His coming. The passage says, ‘After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
[3] Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.’

“The Second Advent of Christ is described as the morning after a rainstorm. The rainstorm’s going to take place for two days, then there’s going to be a bright clear morning and that morning is when, as Malachi 4 says, ‘the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.’

“The Lord’s coming is like the rising of the sun. All of that has to do with how the Lord’s gonna come to Israel.

“The flight path of the Second Advent of Christ literally is what’s taking place during that two-day period. When He comes forth and comes to them, the remnant’s going to be up in the land and the Lord’s going to spend two days fighting.

“It starts in Damascus. He comes down the Mediterranean coast, down through to Mt. Sinai and then up the eastern side of the Dead Sea, crosses the Jordan River right at the place in the Book of Joshua.

“You remember when they went in across the Jordan River in the Book of Joshua 3 and 4, the ark of the Lord there, He is coming in to possess the earth. He’s going to be that Lord of all the earth coming to repossess the earth.

“When He did that, you remember they put 12 markers in the river and 12 on the bank? Those 12 stones that were in the river, John the Baptist when he was baptizing in Matthew 3, that was the spot he was baptizing in.

“When he told them ‘these stones are raised up,’ he was talking about those stones in the river! The markers where the Messiah’s going to come in the day of His wrath. That place right there, that’s where Elijah went out of the land. It’s where Elijah came back in the land.

“He’s going to come across there and go to the Mount of Olives, and that’s one of the first times He’ll touch the ground. This is called the Wars of the Lord in the Book of Numbers. And He’s going to be fighting all this period of time. This journey through here will take the two days.

“Hosea 6 is not talking about two thousand years; it’s talking about two days. And in the beginning of that third day, He’ll have the battle part of it over with and so forth.

“If you go back to Hosea 6, just to kind of recap it, here’s what the believing remnant, the little flock, will say in the last days. ‘Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.’

“ ‘Let’s go back and trust him. Let’s go back and trust his promises.’ These people in Hosea are going to know exactly where they stand and thus they’re going to know what to do about it because Leviticus 26 tells them, ‘If you’ll confess your sins, if you’ll acknowledge your offence and seek my face and hear the words . . .’

“Hosea is literally giving them the words to say and the promise and the hope of how it’s going to take place.”