Fish became an important symbol

What Water Baptism Means

Fish became an important symbol  ∝ ⋉

Some creatures, the fish life, survived the Flood well. Because they live in water.

As far as the fish were concerned, the Flood did not really affect them.

So, the fish became a symbol of those that God saves.

We learn a lesson. If we are continually washed in the water of the Word by endlessly wanting to obey God’s Word, then the floods of distress that sweep over our lives will not destroy us.

Jesus Christ wanted His disciples, who became the apostles, to be fishers of men.

The three main apostles of the original twelve apostles were fishermen, Peter, James, and John.

Remember, the fish were spared the Judgement of the great Flood.

Those people who are pulled into a spiritual relationship with Jesus by the beliefs of the apostles in the New Testament, will be spared the Judgement of Fire that hits the world during great Tribulation.

Fish became an important symbol in the Lord’s ministry.

Fish, totally immersed in water, are pulled out of the water.

Already, by mentioning fish, there is a symbolism of a future water baptism that is involved.

Most people are unaware that only one miracle, that was performed by Jesus before His death, is mentioned in all four Gospels.

That miracle was the feeding of the five thousand with bread and fish.

And 12 baskets of rejected scraps were collected.

This event has a much deeper meaning that needs to be understood.

MATTHEW 16:9 "Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?"

Loaves of bread represent the Word of God.

JOHN 6:48 "I am that bread of life."

Jesus puts the emphasis on the Word of God that tells us God’s Plan with humanity. The Word tells us how God’s Plan has unfolded.

But Jesus also created fish for this amazing meal. Fish represents life that has to be pulled out of the water. Again, we get the idea of a future water baptism.

God worked with the 12 tribes of Israel for the roughly 2000 years since Abram was called, until they killed Christ.

Feeding the 5000 involved 5 loaves and two fish, from a schoolboy’s lunch.

MATTHEW 14:17 "And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes."

Bread and meat both represent doctrine.

MATTHEW 14:20 "And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full."

MATTHEW 14:21 "And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children."

The rejected fragments or scraps represent the rejected bread and fish that the Jews did not eat and just threw away.

This symbolizes the Jews rejecting the Bread of Life, the Word of God, that Jesus preached.

They ate what suited them and threw the rest away.

Jesus then made the disciples gather up the rejected Gospel and this was then written down as the New Testament.

God would turn away from the Jews at Calvary when they killed Messiah.

When God worked with the Jews, then He rejected the Gentiles.

Thus, when God rejected the Jews for killing Messiah, God then turned to the Gentiles.

When God cuts off the Gentile church for rejecting the revelation of the mysteries of the Bible, then God will turn back to the 12 tribes of Israel again.

The Gospel they rejected in the days of Jesus is now written for them as the New Testament.

The two prophets Moses and Elijah will use this information, symbolized by the 12 baskets of rejected scraps, to guide the 144000 from the 12 tribes of Israel, to Christ during the 3½ years of great Tribulation.

But this has a great warning for the Gentile church.

The Roman Catholic church destroyed the truth in the Dark Ages.

The Reformation that started in 1520 in Germany and the Missionary age of the 1800s saw God starting to reveal the doctrines of salvation by faith and holiness and outreach.

The King James Bible was translated into English and checked for about 160 years before being published in 1769 as the infallible and Absolute Word of God.

Pentecostal power was restored in America in 1906 in Los Angeles. The City of the Angels.

God moved powerfully in people’s lives in those days.

2025 saw devastating fires burn large portions of Los Angeles. This is an obvious warning from God against people who prefer the godless filth of Hollywood to the revelation of the mysteries of Scripture. Hollywood is in Los Angeles.