Day Fourteen - John Six Part I  The Bread & Fish and The Walking on Water

Here Jesus Begins to Demonstrate the Miraculous Power of Multiplication in the New Covenant Meal that will replace The Passover Meal. He Feeds Us Wherever We Are until We are Full with Plenty Left Over.

MULTIPLYING REVELATION 
PHASE ONE: TABLE IN THE WILDERNESS

The Seas typifies the World. The World has come out to follow Jesus by the thousands. Primarily they were fascinated with the miracles of healing He was doing every where He went.

Signs and wonders will attract people to the Table of the Lord. In this case it is a Table in the wilderness by the seas of mankind. Jesus is about to demonstrate  one of His greatest miracles, his ability to take what little we might have to turn it into a feast at His Table for all who will partake!

Jesus saw the people coming. Jesus demonstrates how He sees us. He sees us coming and is only too excited to 'set His Table' for us. He looks forward to seeing us and prepares to feed us until we are full!

In Communion we are like the little boy. We bring a piece of bread and a sip of wine to the table and when we ask him to bless what we bring to Him, He feeds us until we are full. 

He demonstrates this in the natural to bring the message home to the disciples and the multitudes that the Kingdom of God is more real than what we see with our eyes. (Like Philip and Andrew - how can we feed this multitude? We don't have enough money and what little we have available is not enough to even feed us Lord!) 

Jesus brings them face to face with another dimension of His reality. He not only does it once - but twice! What is He trying to make clear. What is Jesus trying to reveal to them? What is he doing to peel back their blindness to see/

It was Passover - a traditional time of feasting and celebrating deliverance, healing and God's providence way back in the day. Jesus is beginning to unravel a new reality. It would be the ongoing disclosure of a new eternal view. When we are with Jesus all the rules of this world are changed. That was then but this miracle is now! Jesus reveals the dynamic of the miraculous so that we might discover the truth of who He is, what He shows us and what He says. He verifies the reality before we ever are asked to believe it.

It is miraculous to us because we don't live in that reality. It is not the norm for us. "Passover" we get. The shank of lamb, the various condiments and the readings are all a part of the remembrances of God delivering the people of Israel. there is a designated day and printed menu. But this New covenant meal is a revealer of secrets, a vault with treasures selected just for us. It is another dimension more real than the world we live in. When Jesus blesses the bread and fish they are injected with His life. The bread + Jesus can multiply. The fish + Jesus can multiply. He takes it, blesses it, breaks it and gives it out. The same in Communion. The same at Emmaus! That is when we see the results of His blessing! Its not a passive blessing - it becomes activated by the power of God with special, super natural abilities.

Everyone was given as much as they want until they were full!

Our natural world that Jesus created is a physical snapshot of a greater eternal reality called the Kingdom of God. He uses all its variety, imagery, symbols and glories to help us see His domain in the glory of CommunionFire. He uses what we know to give us a point of reference when we encounter His presence and hear his voice. 

The Sea represents the world. Jesus cast in the net of the miraculous and it draws multitudes into His net of the Good News about His Kingdom. The net is brought ashore and emptied and we see the hungry multitudes.

The Land by the sea is how much the reality of the Kingdom of God is a wilderness to those blind to seeing Jesus. 

When Jesus appears He opens our eyes to His reality. He says, "Sit down let Me feed you the meal I have prepared for you."  He blesses whatever we have, feeds us physically and when we realize what happened, we recognize the miraculous. Simple: The physical food opens our eyes to recognize just who He is and what He has done.

The Bread is the Eucharist, Qurbana, The Bread of Life - His flesh (his reality, His presence, His love and life) that He wants us to feed upon until we are full! 

The Fish represent those who have received the message of the Kingdom, believed it and now share it with others. 

Jesus shows us where to place The Gospel Net filling it with those who are weary, hungry, thirsty, impoverished and are blind, lame, halt or are wandering aimlessly or caught behind a fence.

With the miracle of the bread and the fish the kingdom of God is literally at hand. When we feed on what Jesus has blessed it becomes food for eternal life. 

We hear His heartbeat when we sit down with Him and receive what He has prepared for us... to eat (see) and drink (hear).

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

1 After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. 2 And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. 

3 Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 

5 Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” 6 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. 7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.” 

8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?” 

10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.

11 Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. 

12 And when they had eaten their fill, He told his disciples,“Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” 13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten. 

14 When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”

15 Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

Jesus Walks on Water

16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, 17 got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. 

18 The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing. 19 When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened.  

20 But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.” 21 Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.

23 Then some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 24 Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus.

UNFOLDING REVELATION
PHASE TWO: WHO RULES THE WINDS, THE SEAS, TIME & SPACE?

The Disciples get into the natural boat. Their fellowship without Christ is in the natural. There is a big difference between the Flesh of Jesus and The Body of Christ. We can be with each other in the same Fellow-Ship, but if Jesus is not on board then we are fragmented by our doubt, fears and unbelief.

We set sail and do our best but without Him we are nothing!

Then the winds come. Even the winds of the Spirit without seeing and recognizing Jesus are contrary to 'how we do things'. In our own strength the winds cause intimidation and a sense of a loss of control.

But there he is! He is a walking pillar of fire on the water. He is calm while surrounded by the storms. He is the light in the darkness. He denies the laws of nature because He is the ruler of all nature. 

One word and the winds cease. Approaching the boat as if to pass by, the disciples invite him on board. As soon as he sits down among them they arrive at their destination!

That's impossible!

He is light walking in darkness
He walks on water
He calms the winds and the sea
He breaks the laws of time and space

With Him in the boat 
all things are possible
only believe!

One: The bread and the fish are multiplied by His blessing.

Two: The maker of heaven and earth rules the darkness, the waves, the winds and all dimensions.

Nature obeys Him who made it. There is natural law and there is super natural power. Natural is temporal and super natural eternal. In Jesus presence and under His blessing all things are possible!

Jesus takes them one step closer 
to what He is about to proclaim as the reason why He came! 
It is the reason He shows us so many things 
and speaks to us of so many things. 
The Kingdom of God is at hand!
Do you believe? Are you completely convinced?