The
Salty Saints
Weekly
Inspiration
Matthew 5:13
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if
the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth
good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of
men.
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The Best Wine at the
End
A marriage celebration is a wonderful occasion. It is God ordained to both meet the deepest physical joy of man and to prophetically portray the ultimate joy of the Lord Jesus. When Adam had finished naming all the created creatures, the Father saw that his highest earthly creation was lonely and without a companion. From Adam’s rib, God made woman and joined them by heart to each other. From the first memorial event until this day, wedding feasts have brought laughter, celebration, and union. Satan was furious and devised a foolish alternative called sodomy. Sodomy actually blasphemed the beauty of God’s pure plan both for man and for His Son. It is the lowest point of human depravity.
It is fitting that Jesus performed His first miracle at a wedding
feast. Every aspect of this event
was filled with prophecy, but nothing as beautiful as the miracle of the last
wine. The wedding had progressed
for days until all the supply of wine was gone. Mary, the mother of Jesus, told Jesus
and then said to the servants, “Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.” (John 2:5)
Great containers for purification were available and Jesus said to the servants
“Fill the waterpots with water.” (John 2:7) When this was done he commanded, “Draw
out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast.” (John 2:8) The guests were astonished when they
began to drink the miracle wine and explained, “Every man at the beginning doth
set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but
thou hast kept the good wine until now.” (John 2:10) The wedding feast ended in a blaze of
excitement because of this miracle and the “best wine at the
end.”
This great miracle is prophetic of the day
in which we live. Wine is a great
type of spiritual blessing and the joy of the Holy Ghost. The Pentecostal experience has touched
millions since the Day of Pentecost.
We have witnessed the “early rain, moderately,” but soon, even any
moment, the latter rain is ordained to begin. Joel said, “Be glad then, ye children of
Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain
moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain,
and the latter rain in the first month. And the floors shall be full of wheat,
and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. And I will restore to you the years that
the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm,
my great army which I sent among you.” (Joel 2:23-25) He firmly stated that this would occur
in the first month. That is exactly
the day which the “Feast of Trumpets” is ordained to occur. “The Feast of Trumpets” is the Old
Testament type of the “Rapture of the church.” The feast begins 30 days earlier with a
daily trumpet and ends on the very first day of the first fall month. Prophecy in Scripture is perfect, so it
shall transpire.
I believe the “latter rain” is scheduled to begin a short time before the
Rapture and then continues right through the seven years of tribulation. It will then literally explode when the
Jewish people are converted at the beginning of the thousand years of the
millennium. Isaiah proclaimed, “ .
. . For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will
learn righteousness.” (Isaiah 26:9)
The greatest harvest of all time is yet to come. The Pentecost we have witnessed in our
lives is but a shadow of this prophesied “Latter
Rain.”
The best wine is saved until the end. The entire story of His first miracle is a story of the harvest in beautiful typology. The harvest, started with His ministry, continued with the early church, and has been intermittent for two thousand years, but will explode in the end time. We are privileged to live in this prophetic day and to be a part of the best spiritual wine of all human history. The grapes are ripening for the final harvest.
Joseph Chambers