The First 3000: Who were the first Three Thousand at Pentecost?

THE FIRST 3,000 A Shavuot Teaching Series in Three Parts PART THREE As It Was, So Shall It Be: The Unveiling of the Sons of God Rev. John Shane Vaughn Founding Apostolic Overseer First Harvest Ministries International WHERE WE LEFT THE TRAIL Beloved, we have come a long way together. In Part One we found a priesthood with a name — Zadok, the righteous — covenanted by YAHWEH to be everlasting, driven into the wilderness by usurpers who burned the records and traded the calendar of the sun for the calendar of Babylon. In Part Two we walked into that wilderness and watched a prepared remnant — the Sons of Light, the people of the Way — standing on the right day, the day fully come, when all three pillars of their faith came true in a single morning. The Spirit fell. The two Messiahs were revealed. The New Covenant opened. And three thousand taught souls recognized their own promise and ran to it. The mystery is solved. We know who they were. But I told you from the first breath: this was never a history lesson. So in this final teaching I am going to do two things. First, I am going to put the last nail in the case with a man who started out hating everything we have studied. And then — then, Sons of Light — I am going to turn the mirror around, and show you that the whole story has been about you all along. Let me introduce you to the persecutor. MOVEMENT NINE: The Persecutor Who Proved the Case There was a young Pharisee named Saul, trained in Jerusalem at the feet of Gamaliel (Acts 22:3), and he was on fire — not with the Spirit, but with rage. He watched this movement spreading, and it offended everything he stood for. So he went to the high priest and got letters of arrest. Listen to where he asked to go: “and desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem” (Acts 9:2). Two words in that verse close this case. First — “this way.” There is the name again. Saul was not hunting generic believers. He was hunting the Way — the Essene self-designation out of Isaiah 35:8, the name the Sons of Light called themselves in the Community Rule. He knew exactly what he was after. Second — Damascus. Why Damascus? Why would a man in Jerusalem ride a hundred and forty miles north to arrest a few believers? Because, beloved, as the Damascus Document told us in Part One, “Damascus” was the headquarters of the wilderness remnant — the diaspora command-center of the Sons of Zadok. Saul was not making a random arrest. He was going for the head of the snake. Cut off Damascus, he reasoned, and the whole movement dies. And on that road, the kingly Messiah — risen, glorified — knocked him flat, blinded him, and turned him around (Acts 9:3-5). And watch the divine irony in what happened next. The man sent to heal Saul and baptize him was named Ananias — “a disciple at Damascus” (Acts 9:10) — in all likelihood a member of the very Essene community Saul had come to destroy. The persecutor of the Way was discipled by the Way. Now here is the detail that seals it. After his conversion, where did Paul go, and for how long? He tells us himself: “I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem” (Galatians 1:17-18). Three years. In Damascus and the Arabian wilderness. Three years — the exact length of the Essene discipline we studied in Part Two. The Pharisee who came to drag the Sons of Light back in chains instead served their three-year apprenticeship himself. He went into the wilderness exactly as their disciples did, for exactly as long as their rule prescribed, in exactly the region that was their stronghold. And he went, by his own testimony, to Arabia — to Sinai, the mountain of the covenant, the very place where this whole story began. Paul did not just join the Way. Paul was formed by it. And that is why his letters read the way they do. When Paul writes “the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal” (1 Corinthians 12:7), he is echoing the Hymns Scroll of Qumran (1QH). When he organizes collections for the poor (1 Corinthians 16:1-3; Romans 15:26), he is exporting the communal economy of the Community Rule to the nations. When he insists “Do we then make void the law through faith? Elohim forbid: yea, we establish the law” (Romans 3:31), he is speaking pure wilderness theology — the Torah is not abolished, it is established. Paul was a son of the Way, carrying the wilderness flame to the ends of the earth. The chief persecutor became the chief proof. MOVEMENT TEN: The Flame That Would Not Die And it was not only Paul. Once you have eyes to see it, the fingerprints of the wilderness remnant are all over the early ekklesia. When the believers shared everything in common (Acts 4:32 — “neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own”), that was the Community Rule made flesh. When Peter confronted Ananias and Sapphira for lying about their offering (Acts 5:3-5), he was enforcing the Essene law of integrity: “Let no man lie in matters of justice” (1QS 6:1). When the brother of the Messiah, James the Just, led the Jerusalem assembly, he ruled it as a Torah-keeping, feast-honoring, purity-guarding community — “abstain from pollutions of idols” (Acts 15:20) — and the scholars who first read the Dead Sea Scrolls were stunned by how closely the Jerusalem church under James mirrored the life of Qumran. Even the priesthood of the Messiah Himself was framed in the wilderness's own categories. The Book of Hebrews calls YAHSHUA “a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek” (Hebrews 7:17). Now hear me carefully — that does not make Him deity. The Essenes had a scroll about Melchizedek (11Q13), treating him as a great heavenly deliverer. To say YAHSHUA holds the priesthood after the order of Melchizedek is to say He holds an eternal priestly office — an office YAHWEH appointed Him to, not a divine nature He possessed by birthright. The man YAHSHUA, the last Adam, was appointed to an everlasting priesthood, just as Phineas's seed was appointed to an everlasting priesthood (Numbers 25:13). Office, beloved — not ontology. Appointment — not deity. And even the mission to the nations was a wilderness seed. The Community Rule said the remnant existed “to prepare the way of YAHWEH in the wilderness” (1QS 8:14, citing Isaiah 40:3). That outward-facing purpose blossomed in Acts 10, when Peter baptized Cornelius the Gentile, and in Paul, who carried the Torah's universal truth — without the Pharisees' additions — to the whole earth. So what happened to the corrupted system that had tried to bury all this? After Jerusalem fell in 70 of the common era, the Pharisees gathered the surviving fragments of Judaism and rebuilt it in their own image — oral tradition, lunar calendar, and all — and they wrote the Sons of Zadok out of the story as if they had never existed. The cover-up made its final move. But it failed. It failed because the three thousand had already carried the flame out of Jerusalem into all the world. And it failed because, down in the cliffs above the Dead Sea, sealed in clay jars, the scrolls of the wilderness remnant lay waiting. For nearly two thousand years they slept in the dark — until 1947, when a shepherd boy threw a stone into a cave and heard a jar break, and the buried witness of the Sons of Zadok came roaring back into the daylight to vindicate the remnant in the last hour. Beloved, why do you think YAHWEH preserved those scrolls for two millennia and then unsealed them in our generation? Do you think that was an accident of archaeology? No. YAHWEH does not do anything by accident. He hid the testimony of the first remnant and then unrolled it for the last remnant — so that in the very generation when He intends to pour out the fuller glory, His people would have the receipt in their hands proving that He always pours His glory on the same kind of people: the taught, the prepared, the ones who kept the charge. Which brings me to the mirror. THE NEHUSHTAN QUESTION Before I turn it, let me ask you the question I opened this whole series with — the question that decides whether you are a spectator or a son. I told you in Part One that Israel kept the bronze serpent until it became an idol, and Hezekiah had to smash it and call it Nehushtan — a mere piece of bronze. So hear me now, in the plainest words I own: Which glory are you living for? The glory that fell on dead men in an upper room two thousand years ago — a glory you can safely admire from a distance because it makes no demand on you? Or the glory that is reaching for your generation — the glory that will require you to be changed, to be matured, to be unveiled? Because you can love Pentecost so much that you make a Nehushtan out of it — a relic to venerate — and miss the very thing it was always pointing toward. The three thousand did not memorialize a glory. They received one. The question this series has been driving toward is whether you will do the same. ACT TWO — AS IT WAS, SO SHALL IT BE MOVEMENT ELEVEN: The Three Feasts — Why Pentecost Was Never the Destination Open to Leviticus chapter twenty-three, the chapter of the appointed times — the moedim the sons of Zadok guarded. And see that YAHWEH did not give Israel one harvest feast. He gave them three pilgrimage feasts, and they are not three unrelated holidays. They are three stages of one journey — the journey of a soul, and the journey of an age. PASSOVER (Leviticus 23:5) — the blood on the door, the lamb slain, deliverance out of Egypt. This is justification. This is the night you come out, washed in the blood of the Lamb, your sins covered. It is the beginning. But no one was meant to live forever at the doorpost. You come out of Egypt to go somewhere. PENTECOST — SHAVUOT (Leviticus 23:15-21) — fifty days later, the Spirit, the firstfruits. This is the upper room. This is the wind and the fire. And this is where the church world has pitched its tent and refused to move. But watch what the Word says about the Pentecost offering. The wave loaves of Shavuot were to be baked “with leaven” (Leviticus 23:17). With leaven. Pentecost carries leaven — mixture — the down-payment, not the purity. Paul calls the Spirit we receive “the earnest of our inheritance” (Ephesians 1:14). An earnest is a deposit. A first installment. A promise of more. Saints, hear me — I will say a hard thing in love. The Pentecostal age has been the Saul age of the Spirit. Remember Saul, Israel's first king? Anointed — genuinely anointed — but a man of the flesh, a man of mixture, reigning by the people's standard. The Pentecost church has carried a real anointing wrapped in a great deal of leaven, ruling by the standards of men, full of power and full of mixture both. It was real. But it was never meant to be the throne. Saul was always meant to give way to David — the man after YAHWEH's own heart. TABERNACLES — SUKKOT (Leviticus 23:33-43) — the feast of ingathering, the great harvest home, the dwelling in booths. This is the fullness. This is not the earnest — this is the inheritance itself. This is the unleavened fullness, the David company, the sons matured and brought all the way home. And Tabernacles has an eighth day — “on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you” (Leviticus 23:36) — a day beyond the seven, a day that points past this whole present age into the new creation. Do you see the journey now? Passover — you are justified. Pentecost — you receive the earnest of the Spirit. Tabernacles — you enter the fullness of YAHWEH. The three thousand stood at Pentecost. And Pentecost is glorious. But Pentecost was never the destination. Pentecost is the appetizer at a table that still has the main course coming out of the kitchen. And the tragedy of the church is that it has spent two thousand years celebrating the appetizer and calling it the feast. There is a feast still ahead, beloved. And only a remnant with the right mindset is hungry for it. CHART 5 — THE THREE FEASTS: ONE JOURNEY FEAST WORK SIGN AGE ----------------------------------------------------------------- PASSOVER Justification Blood of the Lamb "Come out" (Lev 23:5) by faith (deliverance) PENTECOST The EARNEST Wind, fire, tongues The SAUL age (Lev 23:15) of the Spirit - loaves baked WITH - real anointing, (Eph 1:14) LEAVEN (Lev 23:17) real mixture TABERNACLES The FULLNESS The UNVEILING of The DAVID (Lev 23:33) of YAHWEH the sons of God company - - the harvest - 8th day, beyond unleavened home the seven (v.36) fullness ----------------------------------------------------------------- The church has camped at the EARNEST. The remnant hungers for the FULLNESS. As it was - so shall it be. MOVEMENT TWELVE: The Unveiling of the Sons of God So what is the glory of Tabernacles? Let me tell you, because it is the most undertaught truth in all of Scripture, and it is simple even though it is deep — like a single cell that looks simple to the eye until you put it under the microscope and find universe upon universe inside it. The glory of Tabernacles is the unveiling of the sons of God. Here is the simple version. You are a temple. “Know ye not that ye are the temple of Elohim, and that the Spirit of Elohim dwelleth in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16). At Passover you were justified; at Pentecost the Spirit came to live inside you. The glory of YAHWEH is already in you, beloved — right now. But no one can see it. Why? Because you have a veil. And your veil is your flesh. Just as the glory of YAHWEH dwelt in the man YAHSHUA but was hidden behind the veil of His flesh, so the glory dwells in you, hidden behind the veil of your flesh. Pentecost put the treasure in the earthen vessel. But Tabernacles is when the vessel is opened and the treasure shines out for all the world to see. Listen to creation groan for it. “For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of Elohim” (Romans 8:19). The whole creation is on its tiptoes, straining, waiting — for what? For a building project? For a rapture escape? No. For the manifestation — the unveiling — of the sons of God. And how does Paul describe the believers waiting with creation? “which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body” (Romans 8:23). We have the firstfruits — there is your Pentecost earnest — and we groan for the redemption of the body — there is your Tabernacles fullness. This is the very thing Paul promised on the first page of this series. “We all, with open face beholding... are changed into the same image from glory to glory” (2 Corinthians 3:18). From the Pentecost glory to the Tabernacles glory. From the veiled glory to the unveiled glory. And John seals it: “it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him” (1 John 3:2). When the kingly Messiah appears, the sons appear with Him — “when Messiah, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory” (Colossians 3:4). This is what Moses foreshadowed when he came down off the mountain and his face shone so brightly that Israel was afraid, and he had to put a veil over his face (Exodus 34:29-35). The sons of God will come down from the mountain of YAHWEH's presence with faces of glory — and a world unprepared for such a thing will be afraid, just as Israel was afraid. And so the sons, like Moses, will learn to veil and unveil — to carry the glory unveiled in the Sanctuary and veiled before a frightened world. That is not science fiction, beloved. That is the feast of Tabernacles. That is the maturity the whole Bible has been building toward. And — hear this — it has not happened yet. We are an indwelt people; we are not yet an unveiled people. Tabernacles is not about the Spirit coming in — that is Passover and Pentecost. Tabernacles is about the glory coming out. And the pattern for the whole thing was already walked out, in flesh and bone, by the firstborn Son Himself. MOVEMENT THIRTEEN: The Two Garments Let me show you something hidden in the Zadokite priesthood — the very priesthood we have traced through this entire series — that unlocks how the unveiled sons will live. Turn to Ezekiel forty-four, the chapter that gave us YAHWEH's verdict on the sons of Zadok. Read on past verse sixteen, and YAHWEH gives the Zadokite priests a garment law. “They shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within” (Ezekiel 44:17). Linen in the inner court — in the Sanctuary, the place of YAHWEH's presence. But then: “when they go forth into the outer court... to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered... and they shall put on other garments” (Ezekiel 44:19). Two sets of garments. Linen for the Sanctuary. Other garments — wool — for the outer court, for ministry to the people. Now what is wool? Wool is the covering of the sheep. Wool is the garment of the flock — the garment of the flesh. And linen is the garment of glory, the garment of the Sanctuary. The Zadokite priest ministered to YAHWEH in linen (glory), but when he went out to the people, he laid the linen aside and put on wool (flesh) — so that he came to the people in the same form they wore. Beloved — that is exactly what the risen YAHSHUA did. When He rose, He could have blazed in unveiled glory. Instead He came to His disciples in flesh and bone — “handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have” (Luke 24:39). He put on the wool — the outer-court garment, the flesh — to minister to His people who were not yet able to behold the linen. And notice: they kept not recognizing Him. On the Emmaus road, in the garden, on the shore — they did not know Him until He spoke or broke bread. He could wear whatever form the outer-court ministry required. And then, the moment His work with them was finished — “he vanished out of their sight” (Luke 24:31). He changed garments. He laid down the wool and put on the linen and returned to the Sanctuary in heaven — for no one can minister in the heavenly Sanctuary wearing the wool of the flesh. That, Sons of Light, is the inheritance of the overcomers. This is the true meaning of the great catching-up. “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up... to meet the Master in the air” (1 Thessalonians 4:17). The church has turned that verse into an escape hatch — a “rapture” to fly away from trouble. But that is not what it is. The word is harpazo — caught up — and it is the moment the overcomers are caught up to the throne to be presented as sons on the eighth day of Tabernacles. To stand in the Sanctuary they must be unveiled — the wool laid aside, clothed in linen. And from that moment forward, like Moses, like the risen YAHSHUA, the sons of God are given two sets of garments — and they pass freely back and forth between the heavenly Sanctuary and YAHWEH's footstool on the earth, unveiled before His throne, veiled before a world not yet ready to look upon them. That is the glory of Tabernacles. That is the unveiling of the sons of God. That is the fullness the earnest was always promising. And here is where it lands in our own hour. The eighth day — the day beyond the seven — is the prophetic horizon I have been laying before this house. As the seventh prophetic millennium approaches, as the threshold I have taught you draws near, understand that gross darkness comes first — but beyond the darkness, beyond the seven days of the present age, stands the eighth day: the day of the new creation, the day the sons are presented and unveiled. We are nearer that threshold than the church has any idea. And only a taught, prepared, matured remnant will be standing — as the three thousand stood — on the day that is fully come. MOVEMENT FOURTEEN: The Glory He Gives Away Now I must guard you against the one error that could rob you of all of this — and in guarding you, I am going to show you the most beautiful proof in all of Scripture of who YAHSHUA truly is. When I say the sons of God will be unveiled in glory — like Him, shining like Moses, passing between heaven and earth — some trembling soul will say, “Pastor, that is too much. That makes men into gods. Only YAHSHUA could have such glory, because He is Elohim.” No, beloved. Hear me. The unveiling of the sons is the very thing that proves YAHSHUA is not a second god — that He is exactly what we have said all along: the last Adam, the firstborn among many brethren, the human Son of YAHWEH and the pattern of a whole family. Follow the logic, because it is airtight. Hear the Master's own prayer the night before He died: “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one” (John 17:22). Stop and weigh every word. The glory was given to YAHSHUA — He did not own it by nature; the Father gave it to Him. And that very same given glory, YAHSHUA gives away — to the sons. Now answer me: can a man share the glory of an unapproachable, un-shareable Deity? Can the creature be handed the essence of the uncreated God? Never. “My glory will I not give to another” (Isaiah 42:8). But the glory of the last Adam — the glory YAHWEH gave to a faithful man — that glory can be poured out on the man's brethren, because they are of the same family, the same race, the same image. That is exactly what Paul says: “whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren” (Romans 8:29). Firstborn — the first of many. You cannot be the firstborn of a family unless there are more children coming who are the same as you. And you cannot be conformed to the image of God Almighty — no creature can be stamped into the essence of the uncreated One. But you can be conformed to the image of the glorified last Adam, the elder Brother — because that is precisely the image we were made to bear: “as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly” (1 Corinthians 15:49). Do you see it, Sons of Light? The unveiling requires His humanity. If YAHSHUA were the solitary Most High, the sons could never enter His glory — His glory would be the one thing He could not give away. But because He is the firstborn of a family — the human Son whom YAHWEH crowned with given glory — He can turn to His brethren and hand them the very glory He received. The unveiling of the sons of God does not threaten the Unitarian truth. The unveiling of the sons of God is the final proof of it. YAHWEH is One. YAHSHUA is His firstborn human Son, the last Adam, crowned with glory and now sharing it with the many brethren He is bringing to that same glory. That is not a doctrine that survives the feast of Tabernacles. That is a doctrine the feast of Tabernacles was designed to prove. THE BODY AND THE BRIDE And here, Sons of Light, is the sharpest edge of all — and I must lay it on you before I call you, because it will sober you. Look again at who stood in Jerusalem on the day fully come. Acts chapter two, verse five: “devout men, out of every nation under heaven.” The three thousand were not scraped up from the drunkards and the pagans of that city. They were drawn out of the devout — the worshippers, the feast-keepers, men who had crossed the world to honor the Elohim of Israel. And still, out of a multitude of the devout, only a remnant could hear. The line did not fall between the church and the world. It fell inside the house of faith. So it is now. Hear me, and do not flinch from it: the revelation of the fuller glory — the message of Tabernacles, the unveiling of the sons — is hidden even from the Body of Messiah, and revealed only to the Bride. Understand the difference, because your whole readiness depends on it. The Body is the great company of all who believe — the blood-washed, and thank YAHWEH for every one of them; they are His. But the Bride is the overcoming remnant within the Body — the prepared, the predestined, the matured, the ones with oil in their vessels. Remember the ten virgins (Matthew 25). All ten were virgins. All ten were espoused to one Bridegroom. All ten carried lamps. These were not ten sinners — these were ten believers. And yet when the cry came at midnight, only five were ready, and only five went in to the marriage. The foolish were not heathen. They were believers without oil — souls who carried the lamp of profession but never pressed in for the prepared fullness of the Spirit. And the door shut. That is the pattern, and it never changes. Gideon began with thirty-two thousand and YAHWEH brought him down to three hundred — fewer than one in a hundred (Judges 7). Ten lepers were cleansed, and only one turned back to glorify YAHWEH (Luke 17:17-19). “Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way... and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:14). And on the day of Pentecost, out of a city swollen with well over a hundred thousand devout worshippers, about three thousand received — three in a hundred, a fraction of a fraction of the believing. Now do not hear what I am not saying. The Bride is not better-loved than the Body, and the Body is not cast away — for in His own appointed order YAHWEH will gather all things home, and the joy that comes in the morning is for the whole creation. But the firstfruits company — the Bride, the overcomers — must be matured and prepared first, so that they may receive the glory and then minister it to all the rest. The Bride is not more loved. The Bride is further along. And so the Bride is trusted with the revelation the Body is not yet able to bear. So do not measure your readiness by the size of the crowd around you. The crowd at Pentecost was devout — and the crowd went home. The five foolish virgins were espoused — and the door shut in their faces. Be the oil-bearing remnant. Be the Bride who hears the midnight cry and is found ready when the door swings open. THE CALL — Will You Embrace the Next Glory? So I bring you home to where we began. Many will gather this season to memorialize the upper room — to admire the wind, the fire, the power, the tongues of a day that fell on other men. They will glorify a past day and never feel the weight of the glory reaching for their own. But you are the Sons of Light. You are the taught remnant. And you did not come here to admire a relic. You came in anticipation — leaning forward — because the same Spirit that fell as an earnest on three thousand prepared souls in the spring of 35 is gathering, even now, in fullness, over a prepared remnant in this final hour. As it was — so shall it be. It was only three thousand then. It will be only a remnant now. It was the taught who recognized the glory then. It will be the taught who recognize it now. They kept the charge, they kept the calendar, they kept the covenant, they refused to let Babylon rename the appointment — and they were standing on the right day when the fire fell. So I ask you the only question that matters: will you be among them? Will you keep the charge of the Sanctuary? Will you refuse the bronze-serpent religion that worships yesterday's glory and goes blind to today's? Will you let YAHWEH mature you, prepare you, teach you, until you are ready to be not merely indwelt — but unveiled? When this house gathers in holy convocation, beloved, we already shine with a glory we must veil from a world not ready to see it. But the day of the unveiling is coming. The eighth day is coming. The fuller outpouring is coming to our house. Do not be a spectator of someone else's Pentecost. Be a son of the coming glory. If you have never come out of Egypt — come now, through the blood of the Lamb. Repent, and be baptized in the name of YAHSHUA, and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38) — the earnest of everything I have shown you. And if you already carry the earnest — then stop camping at the appetizer. Press in. Grow up. Get ready. Because the keepers of the charge will be standing, on the day fully come, when the glory falls in fullness. As it was — so shall it be. THE COVENANT TABLE (optional — for the climax of the gathering) Sons of Light, before we close, come to the table — and understand what table this is. In the wilderness, the sons of Zadok kept a sacred meal. Their messianic rule, the scroll we call 1QSa, described a banquet at the end of the age where the Priest would bless the bread, and the kingly Messiah would take the bread and the wine — the two anointed ones presiding over one table, the very table the remnant longed for. Beloved, that table is this table. The priestly Messiah has prepared the way; the kingly Messiah has filled the Torah to overflowing and conquered the grave. And now the two anointings meet in one cup and one loaf. Take the bread — the body of the last Adam, broken to make of us one new body, one family of sons. Take the cup — the blood of the New Covenant, the renewed covenant of the wilderness, the covenant the three thousand entered on the day fully come. And as you take it, do not merely memorialize. Anticipate. Eat and drink as a son who is getting ready — for the table still being carried out of the kitchen, the marriage supper of the fullness, the feast of Tabernacles, the unveiling of the sons of God. “For as it was — so shall it be.” CHART 6 — THE MIRROR: AS IT WAS, SO SHALL IT BE THEN (35 CE) | NOW (final hour) ----------------------------------+---------------------------------- Out of 100,000+ DEVOUT - | Out of the believing BODY - only ~3,000 (approx 3%) received | only the BRIDE receives ----------------------------------+---------------------------------- The line fell INSIDE the house | The line falls INSIDE the of faith (devout, not sinners) | church - oil vs. no oil (Mt 25) ----------------------------------+---------------------------------- The TAUGHT remnant (Sons of | The TAUGHT remnant - Sacred Zadok / Sons of Light / the Way) | Name, Torah, feasts, the Way ----------------------------------+---------------------------------- Kept the CALENDAR - stood on | Keeps the appointment - refuses the day FULLY COME | Babylon's renaming ----------------------------------+---------------------------------- Received the EARNEST - PENTECOST | Pressing for the FULLNESS | - TABERNACLES ----------------------------------+---------------------------------- The Spirit came IN (veiled) | The glory comes OUT (unveiled) | - the sons of God manifested ----------------------------------+---------------------------------- Same Spirit. Same kind of people. Same pattern. AS IT WAS - SO SHALL IT BE. BENEDICTION Go from this place, Sons of Light, as the keepers of the charge. Do not glorify a past day and miss the glory of your own. Do not worship the bronze of yesterday's miracle. Keep the calendar. Keep the covenant. Keep the Name. Stay taught. Stay ready. And lean forward — because the same YAHWEH who poured His earnest on a prepared remnant in the spring of 35 has appointed a fuller outpouring for a prepared remnant in the fullness of time, and He is even now maturing a people who will not merely carry the glory in — but bear it out, unveiled, for the deliverance of a groaning creation. The trail of this teaching ends here. But the mission — the mission begins. As it was — so shall it be. Amein. Rev. John Shane Vaughn Founding Apostolic Overseer • First Harvest Ministries International