What is the Third Day?  For an in-depth answer to that question, see Chapter Eleven of my book, The Priesthood is Changing, available at www.kelleyvarner.org.
Hosea 6:1-2, KJV  Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and He will bind us up.  After two days will He revive us:

IN THE THIRD DAY He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight.

2 Peter 3:8, KJV  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that ONE DAY is with the Lord as a THOUSAND YEARS, and a thousand years as one day.
Historically, we are living in the THIRD DAY from the time of Jesus’ earthly ministry.  This era corresponds to the SEVENTH DAY from Adam (compare Jude 1:14), the SABBATH Day, and the Day of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 16:16, KJV  THREE TIMES IN A YEAR shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which He shall choose; in the feast of UNLEAVENED BREAD (Passover) , and in the feast of WEEKS (Pentecost)s, and in the feast of TABERNACLES: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:

This key verse delineates the annual Jewish religious calendar:  Passover in the first month, Pentecost in the third month, and Tabernacles in the seventh month.  It exemplifies “excellent” or “three-fold” things (Prov. 22:20-21), and corresponds to the three basic dimensions of the divine pattern revealed in the Tabernacle of Moses:  the Outer Court, the Holy Place, and the Most Holy Place (Ex. 25:8,40).  From a Christo-centric application, the Lord Jesus Christ is our Savior, Baptizer, and King.  As to our Christian walk and experience, we are born again, then Spirit-filled, and finally mature.

The term “THIRD DAY” has been applied to that third dimension to describe an overcoming Corporate Man.  That usage is valid, but unfortunately the Third Day crowd has now become as sectarian and ingrown as all the other tribes.  I sometimes weary of hearing about a Third Day people, who, by experience and lifestyle, have abandoned the New Testament realities of First Day evangelism and Second Day Pentecostal power and anointing.  Last week’s chronicle addressed that obvious lack.

Don’t mistake me.  There IS a high calling to become the people of the Third Day, a people conformed to His image and likeness.  But I have modified my semantic and encourage every Christian to do the same.  May we not be limited to just becoming a Third Day Church.  Let us purpose to be a THREE DAY CHURCH, complete and fully furnished.  Israel was commanded to participate in all three Feasts—so must we!

My introduction to any new audience is that I am evangelical, I am Pentecostal, and that I preach what lies behind door number three—a THREE DAY CHURCH!

FURTHER RESOURCE:  My book, Prevail, a handbook for the Overcomer (pp. 84-85); order at www.Kelleyvarner.org/online-store/