He cried out in a loud voice.. "LAZARUS, COME FORTH!"
by Lori St.Clair
4/15/06

To save space, I would ask you to get your bibles out; read and follow along with the passages of John 11.

Now where does one begin with a passage of scripture that is so RICH in revelation?? There are many treasures here and pearls of God?s wisdom involving this passage as it correlates with what is happening in this present hour.

I have been studying this passage of scripture for about 4 years (hmmm even that in itself is interesting and you'll see why). And while I can't immediately put my finger on how it all began?this one phrase stands out above others?. ?It takes 4 days to raise the dead, Lor.? This is what my Lord spoke to me a few years back and I have been seeking out the fullness of this statement since. He confirmed His word to me promptly at the time by raising up my broken down dead car that had left me stranded in Ohio one summer holiday? in 4 days.

I want to bring into the study of this passage what others have also been shown as I have searched this passage out so as to enlarge my personal view even further.

I will begin with a borrowed teaching by Bill Somers ? End Time Prophetic Vision, http://etpv.org

Bethany = House of Song--House of Affliction Depending on usage.
Across Jordan = The promised land was over Jordan and Jordan means DEATH.

First of all, a matter of direction. Across Jordan. This means crossing into the promised land when you cross from the east to the west bank. John 11:18 says "Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:" So Bethany is part of the Promised land. So when Jesus hears that Lazarus is sick, he is outside of the promised land. He waits two days and then crosses Jordan. He travels two more days and comes to Bethany. He is traveling westward the whole time.

As Bethany means either house of affliction or house of song, it's fitting that in this last day, Jesus arrival in our midst (through His Parousia) will turn our afflictions into great songs of rejoicing. (END)

5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days longer in the place where He was.

Isn't that a strange statement? He stayed away longer when He found out?as a demonstration of deep love toward these people. We would consider that a strange response n?est pas? But...

4 But when Jesus heard this, He said, This sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it.

14 So Jesus then said to them plainly, Lazarus is dead, and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe; but let us go to him.

Then the Lord spoke this to me? "Mary and Martha is what man can do for me? Lazarus is what I can do for man."

You can have Martha's servant-hood and Mary's devotion but it's Lazarus' complete inability to help himself that the Lord is looking for and it is for the purpose of revealing God's greater Glory that this is the perfect vessel.

I am going to submit to you the following concerning this encounter with Mary.

32 Therefore, when Mary came where Jesus was, she saw Him, and fell at His feet, saying to Him, Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. 33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled.

Now both Martha and Mary had the same response to the Lord when they met him. They confronted Him. Yet.. He has a different response toward each one.

I think the Lord showed me that this reaction of Mary, was about asking Him to prove His Love. ?If You had loved me enough,? Mary? who sat at His feet and would have known Him by the revelation of His Love just as Peter and John knew Him intimately also through personal revelation. Mary, one who by reason of her devotion and love for Him, would anoint His feet and wipe them with her hair ?Lazarus? Loved him enough, Our family?Loved us enough, ?You would have been here and my brother would have not died.?

?When Jesus saw her weeping and saw the other people wailing with her, he was moved with indignation and was deeply troubled. He was angry? some translations infer.?

I don't think He was angry with Mary but with how the situation had been permitted to develop as a result of the enemy's whisperings in her ear ?. It troubled Him in His soul because there was doubt there?IF? We might look at that scripture and say?He was warned in advance; yet, He stayed two days longer where He was, rather than leave directly upon the news of Lazarus' sickness.

How often have we charged God with that?? If you had just been here?such and such would not have happened...died. Where were you? Yet it is in the dying that He can reveal His Greater Glory?.

Why accept back only what you already had?why not step beyond what you knew, to a Greater Revelation of Him? Something "Most Glorious." We ask for Him to restore?but He desires to go beyond that. I was asking before?Restore our finances? Restore our lives? restore ministry? restore our reputation? restore all that the enemy has stolen?. But then, in some cases?I didn't have much before he took them? so?do I just want that back?or do I want something Greater?something I never had??? I want His reputation?His resources, which are according to His riches (not mine) in Glory ?His Life, which is abundant, above all that I can ask or think?.His ministry?and whatever else He has on His heart to Call Forth out of the Ashes?His Power as a One victorious!!

39 Jesus said, "Remove the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to Him, "Lord, by this time there will be a stench, for he has been dead four days."

This is a key passage here. So much of what God has shown me hangs on this passage.

?It was the common belief of the Jews that the drop of gall on the point of the sword of the angel of death began to work by the end of the third day, so that it was taking full effect on the fourth day. They allowed that the soul of man might linger about the tomb until the end of the third day, seeking to reanimate the dead body; but they firmly believed that such a soul had gone on to the abode of departed spirits ere the fourth day had dawned.

These beliefs and opinions regarding the dead and the departure of the spirits of the dead served to make sure, in the minds of all who were now present at Lazarus' tomb and subsequently to all who might hear of what was about to occur, that this was really and truly a case of the raising of the dead by the personal working of one who declared he was "the resurrection and the life."

Yeshua was raised on the third day?and Lazarus was raised on the fourth day?so in essence Yeshua imparted His life to Lazarus and still maintained the position of the first resurrection. ?God wants to teach to us by way of Lazarus, that God functions today. He also has the ability to function into the future.? He isn't limited by time and space.

Some consider that Lazarus' death was a type and shadow of His own death and while that may be true I also see it as the hour we are presently in and just what The authority of the Living Word? Yeshua? by the Power of the Holy Spirit and the Union between heaven and earth through the relationship a Son has with His Father? can accomplish in an eternal moment.

?This is the greatest manifestation of divine power during His incarnation in the flesh, since His own resurrection occurred after He had been liberated from the bonds of mortal habitation.?

Jesus raised others from the DEAD...before they were buried, before their soul left them. He essentially brought all the aspects of their life into oneness again (body, soul, spirit)..He restored them, but Lazarus was raised from the GRAVE. So it was Jesus' Life that was imparted to Lazarus...His Resurrection Life...and Jesus was able to impart this Resurrection Life before He went to the cross because of what I mention above about the timing of it.

?The 4th note..."F" is the 4th chronological note in ...do, re, me...that these are musical notes of the Major Scale really resonates in my ears ... something on a major scale. That you point to Fa being the fourth (4) note. I believe this is significant because if I'm right, the number four has one of its attributions as being that of completion.?

I am a musician in that I write songs/lyrics..and I play percussion and a bit of Keyboard?I believe He is indicating that the Songs that release the grace notes?. The Resurrection power of God to heal?save?impart Life and Infill are about to be released?.Ha is the middle word and letters of the Hebrew phrase for His Holy Spirit?who BREATHES life?Breath of God? breathe Life and Live!!! Ruach Ha Kodesh. So in combining all that?It is the time in which we will see Holy Spirit breathing into this "body" that is coming forth from the grave?the resurrection Life of Jesus and His power through times spent in worship and ministry unto the Lord. Minstrels and Singers will be carrying the Songs of Deliverance and bringing them forth from heaven to earth.

Several years ago I saw the Lord digging and I asked Him what He was doing. ?Digging a grave.? And I decided not to question Him further on the matter. ?ooookay then.? was all I responded back. Then He offered ??to bury my Church.?

The number 4 is a creative work of God?. Something so dead that it is decomposing and stinks will take a creative work of God to raise it up in Resurrection Life and Power?.

While I believe that we shall see the manifestation of The Word Made Flesh through His Body the Church in this hour for the Glory of God, Holy Spirit is about to take Centre Stage in this move in His Power.

Continuing on the 4th day revelation? According to Genesis, the sun, moon, and stars were made on the fourth day of the creation week.

"Then God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth; and it was so. Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. ...So the evening and the morning were the fourth day."

Three Sources of Light. The Sun -- God the Father. The Moon ? Jesus. The Stars -- The Holy Spirit.

God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness.

I see this as God's intervention and interaction with man upon the earth. Day one they were still in the heavenly realm exclusively. So on the fourth day.. we are going to see more of a direct correlation with The Kingdom of God which demonstrates the heart, hand and sovereignty of Father, so Bright that we cannot look upon Him (Sun) and the manifestation of Yeshua (Moon) over death and everything that works death in the darkness of the earth through the appearance of the Power of Holy Spirit as the Trinity interacts with the Sons of His Glory that He is calling forth from the Grave/tomb in this hour.

?And there's been talk in some circles of stepping up from the third day (the greenery and forests plants herbs fruits coming forth signifying the mature sons and the kingdom) to the FULL day...or others in other circles have been calling for "cultivating a culture of light" and truly, without the full day the growth which sprung forth in the third would not remain alive....LIGHT!?

Bob Jones says? ?On the last night the Lord released a vision of Lazarus coming up from the grave and having fresh life breathed into him." Bob Jones and I also saw the Lord come into the meeting with a staff in hand and begin to stomp it on the ground in order to claim it. Jesus is at this present time, desperately wanting to lay claim to His inheritance. His inheritance is Us! God spoke forth and clearly said that He is claiming His Promise Land at this time. The Lord's Promise Land is a people who completely die to themselves in order to become completely His.

God is breathing fresh life into his army just like Ezekiel 37 and John 20:22 and saying it is time for us to come up from our graves and present ourselves before the Lord!?

And this little gem in the news today online? The "man in the moon" has been found. Really! Planetary scientists from The Ohio State University in Columbus have found the remains of ancient lunar impacts that occurred some 4 billion years ago that may have helped create the surface feature commonly called the "man in the moon."

Kinda reminds you of the manifestation of Yeshua through His Body? Us.

[And just for the record? we have a 4 day long weekend at Easter (smile). I know?these two above are bunny trails (no pun intended) but they can be likened to signs.]

Note about the stars in connection with the Holy Spirit: God told Abraham that his descendents would be "as the stars of the heavens." We are his spiritual descendents by the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Okay?moving on with the study. Right now as I am writing this to you? and I've been at it all day? on this Good Friday night, it is Thundering this evening!

This has been my prayer of late as a Son of Glory praying to my Lord.

42 "I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me." Yes.

?Why Lazarus Lord?why is Lazarus important?? I asked Him. ?We could take our leading from your resurrection and pattern of Life as we have always done.?

"Because while man can believe for My resurrection?they cannot believe for their own. Lazarus is a picture of the end time, called out Beloved of God. They are an extension of Me. I lived in Lazarus."

Oneness ? it has always been about Oneness?but not all want it? There is Mannaseh ? the part of the church that is not relationally interested in a Bridegroom/Sons paradigm?a form of godliness.

Yet shortly after this encounter with Lazarus? Jesus goes off to Ephraim for a little while. Ephraim has been identified as the Song of Songs Bride who comes up out of the Wilderness leaning on her Beloved, the manifestation of His Glory. This is a whole other teaching the Lord has shared with me over the years also.

This verse here?does it remind you of another???

43 When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth."

Mark 15:37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.

John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, (cried out with a loud voice) ?It is finished!?: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

I see a parallel in the above passages.

44 The man who had died came forth? Amazing?simply remarkable.

I want to bring forward this scripture now?

25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies."

26 and everyone who lives (is living) and believes in Me will never die.

Do you believe this?

That is a BIG DEAL?because this is what I believe He has shown me of what He is really saying. Those who have passed away before? will live ? I won't touch that statement, yet. But I will venture to say this? I believe the underlined statement above says that those who are called to this High Calling of walking in the manifestation of Yeshua?the 7 Spirits of God as Sons of God?not just in gifts...this set-apart remnant we've been talking about, will ?put on immortality? as Paul has spoken it in 1 Cor 15.. Just as Moses walked in it ..and Elijah. I believe death will cease to work in their/our bodies as the Life of Christ has changed them/us (in a twinkling of an eye) and we no longer live but the life we now live?we live in Jesus Christ.

Gal 2:20 ?I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.?

I have believed this for some time now?but I didn't know where to look for the scriptural support for this revelation until now. But if you read passages that we haven't completely had the fullness of revelation/understanding for and therefore couldn't quite grasp or if it appeared what was written didn't seem to manifest as you thought it would look like, then look again at these truths in this light. As the Lord said when they were about to cross the Jordan to enter their Promised Land? ?You have not passed this way before.??and this also? ?Behold I am doing a new thing.? And it looks nothing like the Old Thing? just as the Old Covenant was only a shadow of the New Covenant and quite different. Who would have thought of God becoming a man.

Deut 34:7 ?And Moses [was] an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.?

He didn't Grow Old as the death process took over and conquered his body? The Lord simply took him home as he was not permitted to lead the children into the New Land. This co-insides with my Sons of God word in this regard.

So, in summary, it is my revelation understanding that The Sons of God (Glory) are not in an Upper Room waiting, but in the tomb listening on the other side of a stone to angels moving in preparation to ?roll away the stone at the command of our Lord so that He might Call forth this Mighty remnant that has been called out and set apart at this time for a Greater purpose of God in the earth in this hour; to walk in His Glory as they establish His Kingdom conquering death and everything that is working death, which obstructs their path here in this earth. This was one of the last Great Exploits that Yeshua performed before His death on the cross. Following this, He went up to Jerusalem and was greeted by throngs shouting ?Hosanna!? as He entered the city.

For those with ears?let him hear what the Spirit is saying.

Easter Morning SonRise.....The Dawn of a New Day.
For His Glory? Sdg Lori St. Clair
April 15, 2006...The eve before Resurrection SonDay.


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