1. “The Living Water”
The Mikveh Ministry

2. Travelling through Egypt and Jordan is driving through the desert!
The Sahara, the Sinai, the Arabah are all dry, dusty, and barren without anything green or water – what a powerful spiritual picture!

3. What an awesome picture
After the desert, anywhere there is fresh running water is a miracle from God. So refreshing from the heat, the dust and exhaustion – sweet wonderful running water!
Running Water is called
“Living Water – Hayim Mayim”
Jesus promises us Living Water
What an awesome picture
of Jesus Messiah
And the Holy Spirit!

4. The Ministry of the Mikveh!
Purifying Oneself to Enter the Presence of God!
Complete body immersion was required in a Mikveh before any Jew could enter God’s Presence – the Holy Temple
Immersion was seen as an act of repentance and purification from everyday life. You enter the mikveh in a state of unpurity and re- emerge as like one newly born or “born again.”
The mikveh had to be Living water.
If no ritual pool was available - any river or ocean or flowing stream would work!

5. “The Ministry of the Mikveh”
Law of Purification for Jews:
Entering Temple
on Feast Days
Entering Priesthood
Marriage
After Childbirth
and Menses
Any Sexual or
Physical Impurity
Any Animal Sacrifice
After touching
anything dead
Jews in Jesus’ day were familiar with the washing away of sin. So they didn’t think John was strange because he was preaching a baptism of repentance for sins.
The priesthood in Jerusalem was corrupt……What was amazing was what and where John was preaching and that he was dressed like the Prophet Elijah!

6. “I indeed baptize you with water, but One mightier that I is coming: I am not worthy to unloose the latchet of his shoes He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.”

7. “And Lo, the heavens opened unto Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending
like a dove, and lighting upon Him, and a voice from heaven, saying,
‘This is My Beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased.” Matthew 3:17

8. Just like every young priest He immerses in the mikveh
Jesus presents Himself for Baptism at age 30
Just like every young priest He immerses in the mikveh
John, as eldest son of the priest Zachariah, officiates
God speaks from Heaven saying “This is My Beloved Son,
in Whom I am well pleased” These same words used by High Priest to ordain every new priest into ministry at age 30
Jesus begins His miracle ministry lead by the Holy Spirit!
Also Jesus, the the Lamb of God, is immersed by John.
Every lamb must be ceremonially washed by the priest before offered as a sacrifice. John has the authority of the priestly lineage to officiate Jesus’ public immersion so He could become the spotless sacrifice who takes away the sins of the world.

9. After the Mikveh in the Jordan River
Jesus begins His teaching ministry
Miracles happen everywhere He goes
John 9:1-12 Jesus anoints the eyes of he blind man and said to him,
“Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam.” The Ministry of the Mikveh!

10. Jesus – The Living Water – The Feast of Tabernacles John 7:37-39
On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying,
“If any man thirst, let him come to Me, and drink.
 He that believes in Me,
as the Scripture has said,
out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”
 (But this He spoke of the Spirit,
whom those who believe in Him should receive;
for the Holy Ghost was not yet given,
because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

11. Jesus - The Pool of Siloam
&
The Water Pouring Ceremony

13. The Pool of Siloam is
The Great Mikveh
“The Living Water”
The Springs of Gihon
The 4 River in Creation
Genesis Chapter 2

14. More Living Water verses John Chapter 4
The Pharisees now know that
Jesus’s disciples are now baptizing
more people that John, so Jesus leaves
Judea for the Galilee. He has to pass
through Samaria and stops to rest at
Jacob’s well….there he meets a woman
drawing water about 3pm and being thirsty
He asks her for a drink.
The Samaritan woman is amazed that a
Jew would ask anything of a Samaritan…..

15. John 4:1-30

16. 10. Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that says to you, ‘Give Me to drink,’ you would have asked of Him,
and He would have given you living water.”
13. Jesus answered and said to her, “Whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst again, 14 but whosoever drinks of the water that I give him shall never thirst;
but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water
springing up into everlasting life.”

17. In Jesus’s Time no one could enter the Temple
Without immersing in the Mikveh
The Mikveh = The Living Water
That Living Water comes from the Holy Ghost
How much much will we Need to Immerse Ourselves in the Holy Spirit
We are Preparing to meet The King of Kings!

18. We are living in amazing times
Lawlessness IS our news
Just Like Jeremiah prophesied
People have forsaken God
The Fountain of Living Waters
and choosing broken cisterns
Filling our lives
with spiritual junk
Contaminated by what
we hear and see
We need that Living Water
The Ministry of the Mikveh
purifies and refreshes
Gets rid of our flesh – the dust

19. We choose Living Water
not Broken Cisterns

20. What about the Living Water
in the End Times?
Zechariah
Isaiah
Revelation

21. ”And His feet shall stand in that Day upon the Mt
 ”And His feet shall stand in that Day upon the Mt. of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mt of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley, and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north and half of it toward the south.” Zech 14:4
“And it shall be in that Day, that living waters shall flow from Jerusalem,
half towards the eastern sea, and half toward the western sea;” Zechariah 14:8

22. Revelation 22:17

23. Both Jesus in John 7:37 “if anyone is thirsty” &
John in Revelation 21:6 & 22:17
are quoting Isaiah 55:1

24. Then He said to me, ‘It is done, I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of water of life without cost.’
Revelation 21:6

25. “The Living Water”
The Ministry of the Mikveh