The Two Baptisms of Jesus...

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The Two Baptisms...

There were two silver basins in the inner court of the temple for ‘the Feast of Tabernacles’. A silver basin for water, and one for wine, and they joined through a silver pipe. The wine and water mingled together in that pipe that flowed to the Kidron on the east, and deposited next to Gethsemane. These both represent the two baptisms of Jesus, the baptism of water at the Jordan, and His baptism of blood in Gethsemane.

1 John 5: 6 "This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. 7For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one."

Just before Jesus was baptized by water in the Jordan, John the baptist said in Matthew 3:11, "I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I... He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire."

Then Jesus reveals Himself, and after He came out of His watery mock grave, "the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form, as a dove upon Him, and a voice came out of heaven, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased." Luke 3:22 (ASV)

Three and a half years later; Jesus is in the Garden of Gethsemane...

“The words fall tremblingly from the pale lips of Jesus, "O My Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, Thy will be done." He accepts His baptism of blood that through Him perishing millions may gain everlasting life. He has left the courts of heaven, where all is purity, happiness, and glory, to save the one lost sheep, the one world that has fallen by transgression. And He will not turn from His mission. He will become the propitiation of a race that has willed to sin. The Majesty of heaven was as one bewildered with agony. No human being could endure such suffering; but Christ had contemplated the struggle. He had said to His disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it is accomplished!" Now is the "hour, and the power of darkness.” Manuscript 42, 1897.

She is Here quoting Luke 12:49. But look at that whole verse, including before what is quoted. It then amplifies even more of what is being said. Jesus said "I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed!” Does this not imply, that the baptism Jesus first had to go through, has something to do with the “FIRE” that every true believer and Adventist Pastor has been praying for? Remember, the law was spoken by God at Sinai and tongues of fire wrote the words on stone, then the disciples had tongues of fire on their foreheads at Pentecost.

It's simple really; the Church cannot be Baptized with the baptism of fire/ Holy Spirit, without the Baptism of blood Jesus went through in The Garden.

In the Service of the Red Heifer they cut the throat first, then flung some of the blood directly from the wound towards the temple to the west seven times, and this blood fell on Gethsemane. Then they lit the fire burning the body, blood and all, then collected the ashes to be mixed with clean water and applied to the people for cleansing.

Jesus had His baptism of blood in the Garden looking to the eastern gate of heaven, begging for support but getting the wrath, because our sins where already on His head.

So many bible symbols come together here. The Baptism of fire that John said Jesus would give us, is His baptism of blood in the Garden, literally just down the hill, below where the Red Heifer was burned, blood and all.

Imagine some of the ashes of His hell mingled with pure water to sprinkle you and your family. It's a powerful metaphor for use in Prayerful righteous imagination.

God doesn't mind small particulars of your imagination being off, as long as you are willing to grow and learn, not holding on to anything more than His word.

After His baptism of blood in the Garden... after His hour of torment in Hades sweating copious amounts of coagulating gouts of blood dripping to the ground, dying our second death, cut off from the Father...

"No traces of His recent agony were visible as Jesus stepped forth to meet His betrayer. Standing in advance of His disciples He said, “Whom seek ye?” They answered, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus replied, “I am He.” As these words were spoken, the angel who had lately ministered to Jesus moved between Him and the mob. A divine light illuminated the Saviour’s face, and a dove like form overshadowed Him. In the presence of this divine glory, the murderous throng could not stand for a moment. They staggered back. Priests, elders, soldiers, and even Judas, fell as dead men to the ground. {DA 694.5}

In case you didn't catch it; the pattern is thus.

At Jesus' baptism of water, John tells the thousands of his followers looking for the Messiah that he baptizes with water, but the greater one will baptize with "The Holy Spirit and Fire". And the Holy Spirit descends upon Jesus in the form of a dove and the Fathers voice is heard "this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased".

At His baptism of blood in the garden No one else is there, He's virtually alone until the angel is sent. Then the sign of the dove appears as a token of the acceptance, But the Fathers voice is not heard. Silence. Like the 144,000 after the end of probation standing before the Fathers wrath without an intercessor.