The Third Day

"After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight" (Hos. 6:2).

Hosea was speaking of millennial days. We are now in that third day. That third day is very interesting.

"Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
"Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
"But he spake of the temple of his body" (Jn. 2:19-21).

God has ordained some neat things for the third day - patterned, I believe, after the resurrection of Jesus Himself. I think Jesus' resurrection wasn't the event (as phenomenally important as it was) but the pattern!

By the way, the temple IS about to be rebuilt... in the third day...

So what happened on the third day of literal creation? Two things: God divided the earth - the land from the sea, and he created seed which sprouted... all in one day. God spoke seed into being, and it was, then it sprouted, then it bore fruit bearing more seed... all in one day. That's productivity. That's the prosperity of the unadulterated word of God.

Jesus was the seed of Life, which when planted in the ground for three days bore the Fruit of Spirit and the seed of the Church - a million times more than Satan thought he'd killed. The third day was a good day. But I'm telling you... it's only a pattern of what is still to come! He was the First Fruits! He was the down payment! Watch out... we are in THE THIRD DAY. We don't have a CLUE what is about to transpire!