The Red Scarlet Thread

                                         
                                                    The red scarlet thread put in the window of Rehab's house in Jericho  . She saved the spy's of Israel and helped them escape .  Jos 6:17 ASV - And the city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to Jehovah: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
Jos 2:18 ASV - Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt gather unto thee into the house thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household.    Seeing the great type and shadow of Gods grace his mercy.     The red scarlet thread is a type and shadow of the blood of Jesus , the salvation of those men and the salvation of Rahab and her family . When the destroyer comes and he sees the blood on your house's he will pass you over . Another type and shadow of the Blood of Jesus on his cross .   And to this day men celebrate the Passover Jesus with his disciples celebrated the Passover .
Mat 26:18 ASV - And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Teacher saith, My time is at hand; I keep the Passover at thy house with my disciples.  Jesus looking back to the original Passover ,      My time is at hand it all coming to frution now.     Jesus said Moses and the prophets wrote of me .
Mat 26:19 ASV - And the disciples did as Jesus appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
 I believe there are many revelations to all scripture but I see that Rehab as a harlot in this passage is like believing another gospel being married to another. Like so many in the church today , Bound up by apostate doctrines blindly following traditions of your fathers lost and blind.          Mat 11:5 ASV - the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good tidings preached to them.       Blind, Blindness:   Greek: tuphlos
"blind," is used both physically and metaphorically, chiefly in the Gospels; elsewhere four times; physically, Act 13:11; metaphorically, Rom 2:19; 2Pe 1:9; Rev 3:17. The word is frequently used as a noun, signifying "a blind man."
Now when John heard in the prison the works of the Christ, he sent by his disciples and said unto him, Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and tell John the things which ye hear and see .   The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good tidings preached to them.     And blessed is he, whosoever shall find no occasion of stumbling in me .    Stumbling  Offend:  Greek: skandalizo   from skandalon (OFFENCE, No. 1), signifies "to put a snare or stumblingblock in the way," always metaphorically in the NT, in the same ways as to put a stumbling block or impediment in the way, upon which another may trip and fall, metaph. to offend
Lets look at the maladies affecting the people in that day that Jesus was healing, concerning this scripture .  Both being used physically and metaphorically ,   I believe Jesus came to set the captive's free ,     Captive, Captivity:   Greek: aichmalotos
lit., "one taken by the spear" (from aichme, "a spear," and halotos, a verbal adjective, from halonai, "to be captured"), hence denotes "a captive," Luk 4:18.
Once again I am seeing a spiritual captive here and men are being taken unaware , even the word spear is spiritual as to the sword of Gods spirit .  The spear here is another gospel deceit and lies of the devil .  And the depth as to how far this spiritual spear can go . One is taken captive by an ungodly fear .  And satan knows that men fear death   , The  word says that before Christ came with salvation men lived in fear all their lives ,   from a fear of death .
Heb 2:14 ASV - Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same; that through death he might bring to nought him that had the power of death, that is, the devil      Heb 2:15 ASV - and might deliver all them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage
The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit .  Jesus preached the Gospel , the word of his father and he lived that word even in his sacrifice .   Jesus was the pattern son of God he came to revel who the father is to man kind .
Eze 43:7 ASV - And he said unto me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;  God says forever and we are all Israel now and we need the pattern of Gods house over us.

Rom 11:26 ASV - and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:  we were grafted in to the true olive tree some were broken off so we could be grafted in .
Eze 43:10 ASV - Thou, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.

He told Phillip  ,        Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me , If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also: from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him .   Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how sayest thou, Show us the Father?
2Co 5:15 ASV - and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.
2Co 5:16 ASV - Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.
2Co 5:17 ASV - Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.  We must not judge on man after the flesh

We live in a spiritual world friend after we come to Jesus ,  the key to living that spiritual live is in our sarifice our obedience to holy living .  Jesus spoke many times of our cross even before he went to his .  The Cross Greek saturo is an instrument of suffering , Jesus suffered the death of his physical life his flesh died on calvary a type and shadow of our spiritual death on our cross .   Heb 13:10-14
 He said I have the power to lay my life down and I have the power to take it up again . Jhn 10:18 ASV - No one taketh it away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment received I from my Father.   Now Jesus said this was a commandant of God ,  not only to Jesus but to all those that should come after him.   But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name  who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.   Now I want to look at the word Name in the Greek: Onoma  for all that a "name" implies, of authority, character, rank, majesty, power, excellence, etc., of everything that the "name" covers: representing the authority of Christ, e.g., Mat 18:5 (with epi, "on the ground of My authority  .    Luk 10:17 ASV - And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject unto us in thy name.   
 John 1: 12   But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name .  13.  who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.  To be a child of your father you must be born of your father . Your natural father and of his flesh , the carnal nature of man .
 This is where we must see the spiritual understanding of Gods word to us. If we receive this word it becomes life to our souls and not to our flesh but our flesh receives blessings and health because of our faith and confession a to Gods word .  Adam became a living soul and every one born after Adam became his offspring so man was born of Adam and born into his curse of disobedience to Gods commandments .   Verse 13  is where we lose our identity to this old Adamic world and in faith we that new live that born again life . God's word is our life giving source.    Jas 1:21 ASV - Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls . It says who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God being born again daily by feeding upon this word and drinking the blood of Jesus .    Eating his flesh is feeding upon his word for our daily sustenance feeding our new man . And to drink his blood is to manifest his very life his character his nature . The fruit of the spirit is Christ in you the hope of glory .    Lev 17:11 ASV - For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life.       Jhn 6:51 ASV - I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.
Jhn 6:55 ASV - For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
Jhn 6:58 ASV - This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread shall live for ever.
Jesus is speaking of the old and the new covenants here .  Mose brought the Law and that was the bread God gave them at that time.  The word says that God gave the Law to show the children how unable and frail they were to live a righteous life in and through the law .  To bring them to a repentant heart and ask for Gods help          Rom 8:2 ASV - For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
Rom 8:3 ASV - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Rom 8:4 ASV - that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:5 ASV - For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
There is a absolute perfection in and through Jesus Christ  ,  and Jesus says that obedience to your cross will bring about that perfection .    Jesus being the word being made flesh and living among men was showing the power of his word , Jesus was that example of living his fathers word .      Mat 19:28 ASV - And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that ye who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.  This is to all man kind that follow Christ the disciples preached this gospel to mankind,       Regeneration:   Greek: palingenesia       The new birth and "regeneration" do not represent successive stages in spiritual experience, they refer to the same event but view it in different aspects. The new birth stresses the communication of spiritual life in contrast to antecedent spiritual death
We were born of Adam of his flesh and now we must be born again through the death , burial and resurrection of Christ .   You must be born again of his spirit being filled with his spirit Just as in the days of Acts 2 ,  and yes Jesus himself that you must speak with new tongues .   And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned    And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new Tongues;   they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover , This is the words of Jesus to you !  he is the same yesterday today and forever .  
Rev 3:10 ASV - Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that hour which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Rev 3:11 ASV - I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown.        Crown   Greek: stephanos
    the victor's crown," the symbol of triumph in the games or some such contest; hence, by metonymy, a reward or prize;   It also mentions It is used of "the crown of thorns"  We can see here the physical from the spiritual .   Col 2:14 ASV - having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out that way, nailing it to the cross;     .   Jesus went to his cross bearing a crown of sin for our sin .  We have a spiritual cross to bear Jesus said if  a man does not take up his cross and follow me he is not worthy of me
Jhn 19:5 ASV - Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold, the man!     It is fitting that Pilate said behold the man ,   Spiritually that was you and I !   And Jesus was wearing a purple garment a Kings robe he went to his cross as a King .      Jhn 12:28 ASV - Father, glorify thy name. There came therefore a voice out of heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.     Jesus was buried and after three days he rose again  to a glorified body ,  now God will glorify his name again through those that believe in his name and are born of God       Jesus said it is finished,   In the garden he said  Mat 26:39 ASV - And he went forward a little, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass away from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.
He took it all for mankind the suffering the torment and the shame of the cross , he was sinless in every way. 
Greek: akantha Thorns  They were the effects of the Divine curse on the ground (Gen 3:18  The thorns represents sin and the curse of sin .      Heb 6:8 KJV - But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.     Isa 53:10 ASV - Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.
Isa 53:7 ASV - He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
Mat 12:19 ASV - He shall not strive, nor cry aloud; Neither shall any one hear his voice in the streets.   
Mat 12:20 ASV - A bruised reed shall he not break, And smoking flax (wick )shall he not quench, Till he send forth judgment unto victory.   We were that bruised reed a tender flesh man in search of our creator in need of a savoir .  And it says a bruised reed he will not break . A man in his weakest condition lost without hope setting in darkness blind and bruised in hope of a remedy .     And the smoking wick ,  of the wick of a lamp which has ceased to burn clearly, figurative of mere nominal religiousness without the Spirit's power.    His love is beyond our ability to comprehend ,  even to the point of his cross
Luk 11:13 ASV - If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
 The power of the Holy Ghost is a promise to you and your children , no it did not go away it is still in force . Jesus said he died for you to be filled with the Holy Spirit  . I must go away if I do not go away you will not receive promise of the Holy Spirit . It is still alive and for you who believe .  The verse above says  how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?