(Seven Last Words - Part 3) The Fourth Word: Light and Darkness Are Divided
Lord, thank You for seeing my thirst and coming to me.Now, help me to wait for You—and only You.“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?”“My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46) Today, let us meditate together with those who desire to meet
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This is the second word for the time of darkness, based on Pentecost.
Today’s meditation is best understood by connecting the fifth and sixth sayings of Jesus on the cross,
because the fifth word was spoken to fulfill the sixth.
When matched to the feasts, the fifth and sixth words correspond to the Feast of Trumpets
and the Day of Atonement.
Therefore, the great meaning of the Feast of Trumpets ultimately lies in its purpose to bring about the fullness
of the Day of Atonement.
Let us begin to meditate on how Jesus’ prophetic words from the Cross are connected to the Feast of Trumpets
and the Day of Atonement.
“But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as He hath declared to His servants the prophets.”
(Revelation 10:7)
The fifth saying: "I thirst." The sixth saying: "It is finished."
“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.”
(Amos 8:11)
“I thirst.”
When Jesus said this, it was not because He was physically thirsty.
The Scripture says, “Knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled...”
It was a word spoken to fulfill Scripture.
That Scripture is found in Psalm 69:21:
“They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.”
(Psalm 69:21)
This is what the people at the foot of the cross did when Jesus said, “I thirst.”
“Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to His mouth.”
(John 19:29)
"It is finished.”
Jesus received the sour wine and then declared, “It is finished.”
Everything Jesus did was already prophesied in the Psalms.
But doesn’t that seem strange?
Why would He say “I thirst” and then receive sour wine?
What exactly was fulfilled?
Psalm 69 continues with a series of intense imprecations (curses):
“Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare,
let it become a trap.
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.”
(Psalm 69:22–28)
Wow... what a terrifying curse.
Psalm 69 was written by David and set “to the lilies” —
According to the footnotes, this refers to the melody of the lilies,
which in the Song of Songs is a symbol for the bride (the Shulammite woman).
David, who is also a type of Christ, composed this psalm to the tune of the bride —
which means that we can see Jesus as singing this psalm in the voice of the bride, too.
Yet the psalm does not sound like love; it sounds like fierce judgment.
David prays an intense curse over his enemies —
and I understand him. I probably would’ve prayed the same in such circumstances.
But here's the mystery:
Jesus fulfilled this curse Himself.
He took upon Himself the judgment spoken in David’s psalm —
so that sinners could be freed from it.
"I thirst" = the Feast of Trumpets
"It is finished" = the Day of Atonement
At the final trumpet blast of mankind,
it will be the last opportunity to receive the Lord’s return.
Those who hear the trumpet call of the watchmen
will partake in the Jubilee blessing of the Day of Atonement.
But by that time, it will be a season of deep darkness —
and not all will hear the trumpet.
Only those who thirst for the living water of the Word
will receive the rain of grace.
“Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid?
Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets.
The lion hath roared, who will not fear?
The Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?”
(Amos 3:6–8)
The cry of the final trumpet-bearers will be prophecy unto death.
Therefore, I believe the final trumpet will call not just individuals but entire nations to repentance —
just as Nineveh repented at the cry of Jonah.
Because God had determined to show mercy,
an entire nation repented.
Otherwise, how could it make sense that a foreigner’s single cry
would move a king and all his people to fasting and repentance in an instant?
Those who tremble at the sound will receive the Spirit of repentance poured out.
“The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it:
because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.”
(Luke 11:32)
At the last hour of humanity,
Jesus took the place of all thirsty souls who cannot hear the voice of the Spirit —
He interceded on behalf of mankind with the fifth word of the Cross, which corresponds to Trumpets.
I thirst!
“Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters,
and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat;
yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live;
and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.”
(Isaiah 55:1–3)
“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying,
If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said,
out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”
(John 7:37–38)
Jesus, knowing the judgment that will come upon the earth at the end of time,
interceded for the thirsty hearts of the saints —
the widows waiting for their Bridegroom,
the orphans longing to return to the Father’s house,
the strangers with no place to rest crying out for a dwelling place.
He knew that day would come,
and His intercession from the Cross was already embracing them.
“And also I have withheld the rain from you,
when there were yet three months to the harvest:
and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city:
one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.”
(Amos 4:7)
God’s sign is this:
Three months before harvest, the rain stops.
This rain is the final downpour of the Word, preparing for the end-time harvest.
But God will still send rain on some cities.
Why the distinction?
It’s not God who discriminates —
but man who rejects God.
“Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias,
when the heaven was shut up three years and six months,
when great famine was throughout all the land;
but unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon,
unto a woman that was a widow.”
(Luke 4:24–26)
In Elijah’s time, though drought covered the land for years,
the Lord sent him to a widow in Zarephath.
Because she received the prophet and offered him her last bit of flour and oil,
her household never lacked bread until the rain returned.
“For thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail,
until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.”
(1 Kings 17:14)
In the last days,
the Lord will pour grace upon the widow-hearted,
those waiting for the Bridegroom —
not just sparing them from famine,
but bringing a deeper miracle still…
Even while she was staying with the man of God, Elijah, and enduring the famine without lack,
a moment came when this woman was completely broken before God in repentance.
Her son became ill and died. And at that moment, she cried out with these words:
“What do you have against me, O man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?”
(1 Kings 17:18)
Though Elijah was with her, and she had no worry about food,
she kept being reminded of her sin because of Elijah.
When the Holy Spirit comes, He reveals the sin within us.
The presence of the man of God is akin to the presence of the Holy Spirit with this woman.
As a result, the sins hidden within her heart, her love for the world, and her service to other gods, began to surface.
According to the Law, if sin is not repented of, its wages must be paid.
That is why this woman thought her son died as the result of her sin being exposed through the presence of the man of God.
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
(Romans 6:23)
What, then, happened to this woman?
We are witnessing the very fulfillment of Romans chapter 6.
Elijah brought her dead son back to life.
The son died as a consequence of the woman’s sin,
but through the man of God, the son was raised again.
Only then did the widow come to fully believe in the true and living God—
the Creator God, who is the Lord of life.
Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord from your mouth is the truth.”
(1 Kings 17:24)
In this way, the trumpet’s call brings about true repentance.
Therefore, the fifth word, “I thirst,” is directly connected to the sixth word, “It is finished.”
The purpose of the trumpet blast is to call people to repent and prepare to meet the Lord.
The repentance of the Day of Atonement in the end times will become the Day of Jubilee.
No matter what the sin, as long as we repent with all our heart in Christ Jesus and wait for the Lord, we shall be ready.
We cannot guarantee in what manner we will meet the Lord,
but if we believe and repent, holding firm to our faith, He will glorify us.
Jesus accomplished all of this in love upon the cross.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
(Romans 5:8)
The rain that falls during the harvest season is the "latter rain."
This latter rain is essential for maturing the grain, making it full and complete.
Yet the rain does not fall on all areas equally—
this signifies a time of separating the wheat from the chaff.
Even if one is not yet fully mature grain, the grace of the latter rain will bring fullness.
Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given the early rain for your vindication;
he has poured down for you abundant rain,
the early and the latter rain, as before.
The threshing floors shall be full of grain;
the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.
(Joel 2:23–24)
Just as Jesus was rejected in His hometown and turned to Samaria and Gentile Galilee to preach the gospel,
if we reject the voices of the watchmen who proclaim the end times,
we will not receive the grace of the latter rain.
Those who wait for the Lord with humility and a contrite heart
will surely hear the final trumpet call.
But if the heart is hardened, proud, or entangled in the busyness of the world,
we will not hear the trumpet.
Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices; together they shout for joy.
When the Lord returns to Zion, they will see it with their own eyes.
(Isaiah 52:8)
“I thirst” = Feast of Trumpets
“It is finished” = Day of Atonement
May the Lord call each of us by name at the sound of the last trumpet.
Let all of us stay awake and earnestly long for the day of the Lord’s coming.
