What I have to show you next is an extremely exciting revelation and this is what the LORD showed my heart about Joshua and Messiah Yeshua. I suddenly figured out that John
the Baptist was standing in the Jordan River baptizing in the Name of the LORD in the same
exact location where Elijah, Elisha, and Joshua had previously stood, when the Divine
Presence of the LORD was abiding with them on the Ark. This is why the Priests came to this location from the Holy Temple and they asked John if he was the Messiah! John declared, “No,
I am not.” Then they asked if he was Elijah and John declared again, “No, I am not.”
John 1:21-23 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elijah? And he saith, I am not, Art thou that Prophet? And he answered, No. Then said they unto him, Who art thou? That we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the LORD, as said the Prophet Esaias.
John was the messenger sent in the Spirit and power of Elijah. He was standing in the
same location where Elisha received the double portion of Elijah’s Spirit. John was sent to
declare to Israel that soon one was coming, who was far greater than he. John also declared
that he was a voice crying in the wilderness to make straight the way of the LORD. Remember that the LORD showed Israel the way to enter the Promised Land? John’s father was the High
Priest Zacharias who officiated in the Divine service of the LORD in the Holy Temple in
Jerusalem. Zacharias was lifting up prayers and incense in the Holy Temple and as he was
standing before the Holy of Holies, the angel of the LORD appeared to him on the right side of the incense altar and he said that the prayers of Zacharias had been heard and that he would
soon have a son, who would go before the face of the LORD in the Spirit and Power of Elijah. Luke 1:16-17 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the LORD their God. And he shall go before Him in the Spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the LORD
John came preaching repentance in the wilderness and he was telling the children of
Israel to be baptized in the Jordan River, in the Living Water and in the fire of the Holy Spirit,
so they would be ready and prepared to meet the LORD. Then they would be ready to enter the
Promised Land, as soon as the Messiah arrived. The people were to wash their garments and purify themselves in preparation for meeting the LORD face to face. This is exactly what the
children of Israel were commanded to do at Mount Sinai before meeting the LORD. Now it is
interesting that John came out of the wilderness, just like Israel came out of the wilderness just before they were about to enter the Promised Land. John was not just preparing Israel to meet
the Messiah, He was preparing them to meet THE LORD face to face, who was dwelling in
Rock from the Jordan River where Yeshua stood from LV my Israeli friend
their midst as their Messiah! John was preaching that the Kingdom of God was at hand. As I
mentioned before, some were ready and were obedient and they repented of their sins and washed their garments in the Living Water and in the LORD’S Holy Spirit, but others among
the people of Israel ignored the call to repent and to prepare before the Messiah arrived. John
was truly the messenger sent from God to prepare His way and He was about to arrive! Then
one day, Yeshua came to John to be baptized in the Jordan River. So Yeshua came to the exact location of the crossing of Joshua, Elijah, and Elisha to be baptized there. I was so excited
when the LORD inspired my heart to see that Yeshua was the Heavenly Ark of the Living
Testimony and the High Priest of Heaven, who was standing with the son of the High Priest, where the earthly Ark had once stood with the High Priests and Joshua! Suddenly the LORD
brought it into my mind that “it is one
Joshua who took Israel into the earthly Promised Land and it is another greater
Joshua, Messiah Yeshua, the LORD
Himself as a man of His tribe that leads
Israel into the Eternal Promised Land! This is why Yeshua told His Jewish
disciples that now they know the way into
the Eternal Promised Land! John 14:3-9 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that
where I AM, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto Him, LORD, we know not wither Thou goest; and how can we know the way? Yeshua saith unto him, I AM the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by Me. If ye had known Me, ye should have known My Father also; and from henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him. Phillip saith unto him, LORD, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Yeshua saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me Phillip? He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Now remember that the road leading into the Promised Land was a road that Israel had
never traveled before. So the LORD went before them to show them the way. Yeshua was the Heavenly Army Commander parallel of the earthly Joshua. When Messiah Yeshua declared
that He is The Way, He meant that He is The Way into the Eternal Promised Land! The One
who declared this is the One who gives Eternal life through His Living Covenant Testimony in
Heaven. One account of Yeshua’s baptism is written here in the Gospel of Mark.
Mark 1:1-20 The beginning of the Gospel of Yeshua Messiah, the Son of God; As it is written in the Prophets, Behold I send My messenger before Thy face, which shall prepare Thy way before Thee. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the LORD, make His paths straight. John did baptize in the wilderness, and
preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey; And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. I indeed have baptized you
with water; but He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit. And it came to pass in those days, that Yeshua came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in the Jordan. And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the Heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descended upon Him; And there came a voice from Heaven, saying, Thou art My beloved Son, in whom I AM well pleased. And immediately the Spirit driveth Him into the wilderness. And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto Him. Now after that John was put in prison, Yeshua came into Galilee, preaching the
Gospel of the Kingdom of God. And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand; repent ye, and believe the Gospel. Now as he walked by the Sea of
Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea; for they were fishers. And Yeshua said unto them, Come ye after Me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed Him. And when He had gone a little farther thence, He saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets. And straightway He called them; and they left their father
Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after Him.
The LORD’S Divine Presence abode and stayed upon the Ark that Moses built when
Joshua’s Priests carried it across the Jordan River, but this Ark was an earthly copy of the
Heavenly Ark! The Divine Presence again abode upon Elijah and Elisha in the same place in the Jordan River. Then hundreds of years later, Messiah Yeshua came to John, the son of the
High Priest, and they stood in the Jordan River in the place where Joshua stood with the High
Priests. Suddenly Heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit of God descended like a dove from Heaven and it abode and stayed upon Yeshua, the High Priest of Heaven. This was fantastic!
Messiah’s body was the perfect vessel that the Divine Presence was dwelling in, as He stood in
the Jordan River! Therefore, standing in the Jordan River was the Eternal Living Testimony of the LORD because Yeshua is the Living Torah who sits on the Ark of His throne in Heaven.
Our proof of this truth is found in the fact that Messiah Yeshua is the Rod of the
Almond Tree that was cut off that came to life, bearing the First Fruit of Eternal life. Yeshua
was the Unleavened Bread from Heaven, the hidden Manna. Yeshua was the Rock, the Word of God, and the finger of the right hand of God. He is the life blood, as the perfect Lamb that
God provided for us, to atone for our sins and the LORD’S life blood is sprinkled upon the true
Ark in Heaven. Remember that I previously told you on page 150 that a dove does not like to set her feet on anything unclean? This
time with Messiah Yeshua, instead of
the Jordan River parting, the Heavens were opening and parting as the Holy
Spirit descended like a dove from
Heaven and abode upon Messiah
Yeshua because He was pure and clean and had no sin! So Yeshua was
the Living Ark of the LORD’S Living
Testimony, dwelling in our midst and guess what? I realized that the reason
why the Holy Spirit came to Yeshua in
the form of a dove and abode upon
Him in the Jordan River is because the dove returned to Noah and rested upon
his hand and he pulled the dove back
inside the Ark! So the Holy Spirit
came down from Heaven in the form of a dove and rested upon the hand of God, upon Messiah Yeshua, because the Holy Spirit was
returning to abide in the Heavenly Ark of GOD’S Eternal Testimony that was now dwelling in
our midst upon the earth! At that moment I realized to my astonishment that the Holy Spirit in
the form of a dove was returning to the LORD, the true Heavenly Ark, as the LORD God now stood on the earth, in the place of Joshua’s crossing, as Yeshua, in the body of a man of His
tribe, so that the LORD will inherit Judah as His portion forever! When the dove of God’s
Spirit rested upon the hand of God, it went back inside the Living Ark, to rest inside Messiah Yeshua! Then a voice was heard from Heaven proclaiming that Yeshua was the beloved Son
with whom the LORD was well pleased. The voice came from the Mercy Seat of the Ark as He
abode there, as we see in the book of Numbers. Messiah Yeshua is the Ark of Salvation and the LORD came as the second Joshua who was now showing us the way to Heaven, as the
Heavens were parted, because He is the Living Water. Yeshua is therefore going before us,
leading the way to the Eternal Promised Land!
Numbers 7:89 And when Moses was gone into the Tabernacle of the congregation to speak with Him, then he heard
the voice of one speaking unto him from off the Mercy Seat that was upon the Ark of Testimony, from between the two Cherubim’s; and he spake unto Him.
John 1:29-36 The next day John seeth Yeshua coming unto Him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. This is He of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me; for He was before me. And I knew Him not; but that He should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from Heaven like a dove, and it abode upon Him. And I knew Him not; but He that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt
see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, the same is He which baptizeth with the Holy Spirit. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God. Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; And looking upon Yeshua as He walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
So Messiah Yeshua the LORD was the Divine Presence standing in the Jordan River and Messiah Yeshua was the Heavenly Joshua, leading the way before Israel into the Eternal
Promised Land. The LORD manifested Himself as the Living Rod to give Israel and all who
believe in Him Eternal life. Yeshua is the High Priest of Heaven and the Rod that made the
waters cleft and the Heavens cleft, just like Elijah’s Mantle of the High Priest with the Spirit abiding upon it parted the Jordan. After the Divine Presence of the Holy Spirit abode upon
Yeshua, He was driven out into the wilderness for 40 days, and returned to proclaim the Living
Torah with His voice. This is parallel to Israel having been in the wilderness for 40 years before entering the Promised Land with the LORD speaking to Joshua. It represents the flood
of Noah that was upon the earth for 40 days and 40 nights. The Ark of Salvation was here!
Now if John came to make the Messiah known to Israel, then how were they to see it?
They were to recognize the Rod from the crossing of the Red Sea! The Rod parted the Red Sea, and in this very place where Yeshua stood in the Jordan River,
the waters were parted by the Living Ark. This time the Heavens
parted, showing us that He is the way to enter into Heaven! The Rod of God brought salvation to Israel! When the Rod stood in
the Jordan River, the Divine Presence was abiding on Him.
Israel should have recognized that He was the Rod of God who made the way before them to bring them salvation. Another
interesting thing about this is that when Israel crossed over the
Red Sea, with the LORD going before them with the power on
His Rod, all the children of Israel were baptized in the midst of the Sea, as the children of God. Then the Messiah was baptized
in the midst of the Jordan River, as the Rod of the Testimony of
the LORD. This is why John stated that in order to make the Messiah manifested to Israel, he came baptizing with water.
The baptism of water was to remind the children of
Israel that their Messiah KING is the LORD God of Israel and His Rod has saved them once
again. So John was making the Messiah known to Israel through the baptism in water because the children of Israel had been baptized in the Red Sea. The LORD led the way before them
with His Ruach/Spirit abiding on His Rod and they were all baptized in the Sea. When we are
baptized, we declare that we are children of God. This is The Way that leads to Eternal life and this is how the LORD leads us into the Eternal Promised Land!
The LORD told Moses that by the Rod performing miracles, signs, and wonders, Israel
would know for certain that He is the LORD of Hosts! So it is exciting to see what happened after Yeshua stood in the Jordan River. After being in the desert forty days, Yeshua
immediately went out and performed signs, miracles, and wonders for three years! All
Yeshua’s miracles were the signs of God’s Rod, and so Israel can be certain that their Messiah
is the LORD of Hosts! Another sign that I discussed earlier that I will mention again is that Messiah will raise Israel up after three days, just as He was raised to life on the third day.
Messiah Yeshua will build the Eternal Temple in three days. The twelve baptized disciples
were also given the power of the LORD’S Ruach/Spirit, abiding on this Living Heavenly Rod,
to go out and perform the LORD’S signs, miracles, and wonders in His Name. In order for Israel to enter into the Eternal Promised Land called “Heaven,” they must
follow behind the Heavenly Ark with Yeshua leading the way. Only the LORD knows The Way
how to enter the Eternal Promised Land and right now the LORD is showing them how to enter in! This is a fabulous and marvelous work of God and I am so grateful to the LORD that He
allowed my eyes to see Him manifested in these truths! When Elijah comes in the future or one
is anointed to come in the Spirit and power of Elijah, they will again prepare the way of the LORD to travel. Joshua prepared the way with the Priests and the Ark for the children of Israel
to enter the Promised Land. John the Baptist, the son of the High Priest, came to prepare the
way of the LORD with Messiah the Ark, so Israel could enter the Eternal Promised Land. This
is why the Jewish disciples dropped everything that they were doing at once and immediately followed behind the Heavenly Ark, and they went forth to show others the way! As I said
before, the two witnesses in the future will be Elijah and Moses, who have the power of God
abiding upon them. I will talk a lot more about them later but this will be accomplished soon!
THE 12 STONES
Believe it or not, this was not the end of the story! Remember that I said the Priests
placed twelve stones, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel, in the Jordan River in the place
where their feet were standing with the Ark, and this was to be a memorial to Israel forever? The Holy Spirit made me shiver again and I was shocked! Immediately after Messiah Yeshua
came out of the wilderness, like the children of Israel with the Ark, He chose the twelve Jewish
disciples and it was after this that He performed the signs, miracles, and wonders of the LORD
as the Rod of God! Wow, this was incredible because it came into my heart that the twelve Jewish disciples, who were chosen by Messiah Yeshua after His feet stood in the Jordan River,
were actually the twelve Jewish Living Stones that Yeshua laid as the Foundation Stones of the
Heavenly Temple, in the Eternal Promised Land called “Heaven!” These twelve Living Stones
were to be a permanent Eternal memorial to Israel! I was so excited when the LORD revealed this to my heart by His grace. This was simply a breathtaking Divine revelation!
In the book of Revelation, the Jewish disciples that were chosen by Messiah Yeshua
are indeed called “the Foundation Stones of Heaven,” while the twelve tribes of Israel are
called “the Gates of the Heavenly Temple!” Each gate is a Pearl of great price! I did not understand why Yeshua’s disciples were the Foundation Stones of the Heavenly Temple until
this exciting moment! The reason was so simple. The Messiah chose the twelve Living Stones
from the twelve tribes of Israel to set as the Living Foundation Stones in His Heavenly Temple, after He stood in the Jordan River with the son of the High Priest, showing Israel the way to
enter the Eternal Promised Land! They had to follow behind Yeshua, the LORD’S Living Ark
of the Testimony! This was so fantastic! I was given the most incredible answer to this question by the LORD. I never expected to discover something so wonderful, but the LORD opened my
eyes to see it! So Joshua laid the twelve stones in the Jordan as a memorial forever in the
earthly Promised Land, but Messiah Yeshua the LORD laid the twelve Living Stones in
Heaven, as an Eternal memorial to the children of Israel forever! Now I could see why the twelve stones that Joshua set in the Jordan River were such an important memorial and were to
be kept for Israel to remember these stones forever. Remember that Joshua said, “When your
children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.” Then Joshua said,
“For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed
over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up from before us, until we
were gone over; That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty; that ye might fear the LORD your God forever.” This was the Rod of God who
performed this and Yeshua the Ark is showing them the way. Surely this is their God and this is
their KING! Every sign that Yeshua performed was in perfect agreement with His Scriptures! It is also incredible to realize that the
twelve Living Stones that the LORD
chose are alive today in Heaven because He is the Living God and they
rest upon Him as the Chief
Cornerstone! When we believe on the
Word of God, the Living Torah Messiah, we also become Living
Stones that are built upon this very
Foundation! So Messiah Yeshua came to earth as the Son of a Carpenter who
worked with stone, from the Royal
House and lineage of King David! So of course Messiah builds the permanent Heavenly Temple out of these Living Stones that are
fashioned by Him, made without the hands or tools of mankind! Matthew 13:54-58 And when He was come into His own country, He taught them in their Synagogues, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? Is not this the Carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon and Judas? And His sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? And they were offended in Him. But Yeshua said unto them, A Prophet is not without honour, save in His own country, and in His own House. And
He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
Now the LORD revealed to me that this is why Messiah Yeshua said in the book of Revelation to the Churches, “To him that overcomes, I will give to eat of the hidden manna and
give him a white stone with a new name written on it.” As I showed before, Yeshua is indeed
