~The New Jerusalem~
~The New Jerusalem~
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Chapter:# 54
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| The Waiting Creation |
And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as
crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of
the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life,
which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the
leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no
more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his
servants shall serve him: And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in
their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle,
neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall
reign for ever and ever. And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and
true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his
servants the things which must shortly be done. Behold, I come quickly: blessed
is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. Revelation 22:1-7
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said,
I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is thy
name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob,
but
Hebrews 4:4-16
4 For he spake in a
certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day
from all his works.
5 And in this place
again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing therefore
it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first
preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7 Again, he
limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is
said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had
given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remaineth
therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is
entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from
his.
11 Let us labour
therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of
unbelief.
12 For the word of
God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even
to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and
is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there
any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and
opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
14 Seeing then that
we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of
God, let us hold fast our profession.
15 For we have not
an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but
was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us therefore
come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace
to help in time of need.
In the last
day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man
thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the
scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But
this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for
the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth
this is the Prophet. Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall
Christ come out of
( 2 Visions )
**NOTE**- “These two visions are entirely prophetic for
they have not yet taken place. Even though they do come across in our
understanding as precious promises, we are
yet to also take them as a warning of remaining faithful unto the Lord
till He comes.”
“Then when I saw the Army of
the Lord marching I noted that the destructive winds and the force of wind that
came in the form of billowing waves of fire consumed all that man had built and
all that man had held precious in the earth. However, it was not just in the
earth that this billowing destructive wind of the fire of the Lord from His
Army touched. For the fire ascended also, even to the heights of the cosmos
itself, to the very pinnacle of man’s pride and the pride of nations, so that
the entire cosmos was ignited with the flame of their forward march. ( See Isaiah
14:13,14 ) For
man had built to himself once again a name and a place and a position in which
to protect his own life from that which is death to them. Man had built again
their personal tower in which to establish their name. So then the fires of the
Lord billowing forth in these fearsome winds consumed all that was not of the
Spirit of the Lord nor of His established Kingdom. Not just upon this natural
creation did this fire billow forth, but in all areas where man had exalted his
pride and had protected his name amongst earthly nations. At the same time
however as the Army marched forward in bodies of light and glory I could see that
the earth was parched with the fire of this flame. But under the individual
footsteps of each member of the Army of the Lord came gushing forth abundant
waves of living waters, wave upon wave upon wave of water that were the living
waters of the Lord without in a ceaseless flow. These waters gushed forth,
first boiling with heat from the beneath the footfalls of the Army, but then
immediately forming cooling streams and flowing forth in an deepening flow out
into this parched creation. Not one area of this creation that had thus endured
the fire was also now without the washing and regeneration of these living
waters. So abundant was this flow, unceasing, bringing the life of the Lord
into this judged earth and so the earth once again sprung forth in a newness of
life, nurtured and fed by these unstoppable streams of living waters.”
“I saw then individual members
of the Lord’s body in the earth, each one in bodies made like unto the body of
Jesus which was raised from the tomb. As each one walked forward upon the earth
in these new bodies, out of their very bellies, from the central core of their
being flowed forth a flowing of the river of life, abundant and pure and holy
unto each person who was yet remaining upon the earth so that each person had
flowing unto them these abundant living waters. When I saw the individual
members of this glorified group who now manifested fully their sonship, I saw
that their central core was as a spring of water, a fluid pureness that flowed
the holiness of God and the life of God with no duality or taint or sin or any
such thing to mark the waters as impure and to dirty them with anything that
was of the former way, for the former things were passed away. All things
became new as these waters flowed as springs from deep within the bodies of these
who were pure.”
( End Visions )
Let no man judge you for your
“wrestlings”. For any true Son or Daughter of God is still in the throes of
wrestling and warring, they have not yet entered into the place of prefect
stillness and quietness and rest, full rest, from all their labors and their
faith in the things of the Lord. There are those in this day round about you
that judge you for the wrestling they see you do with your own personal Angel.
The wrestling you are in as one who would overcome is offensive to others
because they cannot understand it. The reason they do not understand it is
because they see you as having abandoned everything that is in the world of
Christendom in favor of coming aside unto the Lord alone, to hear His voice
speaking, to know His will alone. There you have a cross.
We are told in scripture that
there remains a rest to the people of God. However, I would like to point out
to you the reader, that for me personally, in my entire lifetime up till now, I
have never met one single person who is fully in this rest. I have met many who
have faith that God will carry them through their lives, but I have not yet met
anyone who is in this rest that Hebrews 4:4-16 speaks of. I see that faith and
rest are synonymous, but different according to the times we are in. If you
look with an open heart at these verses from Hebrews, you will note that from
verses 4 to 10 this rest is shown as being sound, scriptural and a response to
the finished work of the Lord. But then from verse 11 to verse 16 you will see
the struggle that is ours to enter in and remain IN that very rest. In our day
this entire thought of the rest of God, the sabbath that He created, has become
part of the crux of deception that this hour is creating. It is this rest that
the Overcomer will first come into, the part that “remaineth”. But it is NOT
YET HERE. At least in a very practical sense of the word “rest”. The facts that
remain are just as indisputable, that rest is still a FUTURE event, a work that
WILL BE and WILL BE SEEN BY OTHERS. This rest is an experience that none have
known before in this world, this rest that is done purely by the finished work
of Christ and by His resurrection.
We have faith, and we know
that this salvation is true, yet we are still being brought towards the
fullness of this redemption, even the receiving of our glorified bodies. That
dear reader, is the true rest. For one cannot fully rest while the mystery of
Iniquity is still present in their own life in their flesh, or in the world
around them. Every single deception in our day is based on the premise that
they have entered rest, because they have entered a realm of perfection, or
completion, or that what they deem a true doctrine has in fact been a doctrine
borne out of time. There is a tremendous lack of peace but an abundance of
man’s labors, in both cases this rest is not present. The true rest of the Lord
is what we are coming to, not already in. It is a future event, not yet a
present reality. We are walking towards it, it is in front of us, and it will
be, but in the mean time we are being prepared to be these vessels of rest that
the world will find peace in finally when the time is right for it.
There is an illusion happening
in society at this time and that is one of great prosperity. This prosperity is
part of the lukewarmness of our day, which will in time cause the downfall of
this society. The illusion of work and of prosperity is being done on a false
front, a false rest and by carnal methods. It is not being done by the Lord or
His Kingdom. This rest is being done in such a manner as to give men the
illusion that they can endure the time that is coming on the earth, because
money is the main thing, heaping treasures is what is being taught as
important, and a life that is prospered by wealth is accepted as the norm. I am
prophesying to you that all at once this entire false illusion will completely
collapse. All of the judgments of the Lord which would blow with fiery winds
upon man’s carnal illusions are going to happen all at the same time. These
winds of the judgment of the Lord are poised and ready and we will see them
come in the form of economic, political, religious and natural creation
collapsing.
If you are a person of debt,
owing money, or are a person of wealth having much, in both cases, YOU WILL
SUFFER COMPLETE LOSS. If you are a person taken up with a political cause or an
effort to change agenda’s in the political scene, your work will be COMPLETELY
VAIN. If you are a person who equates this modern world and your life in it to
the favor of the Lord because you are lukewarm and safe and nothing can touch
you, YOU WILL BE FOUND NAKED. And if you think that the world with all its
problems relating to global warming and so on is worrisome, wait until all the
earthquakes and judgments of that nature come all at the same time. For there
is a time right before us where the Lord is going to move in all these areas at
once. It is prior to the manifestation of the sons of God, and it is in
preparation for the manifestation of the sons of God. The Lord is going to
SHAKE EVERYTHING TOGETHER UNTIL HE IS ALL IN ALL.
There is nothing that will
survive this in your present world. Your wealth, your poverty, your health,
your illness, all of this will come under the shaking of the Lord when He
arises to judge the earth and to punish the world for its iniquity. Now do not
get me wrong. We know that Jesus atoned for the iniquity in each man, but in
the doctrine I have received from the Lord, WE NEED TO WALK THIS OUT. That this
is a salvation freely given to us by grace in the Lord, BUT WE NEED TO LEARN TO
OBEY IT. What is it we are walking out and what is it that the Lord will
require each and every soul to walk out? The fact that DUALITY EXISTS AND WE
NEED TO REIN IN THE RAGING AREAS OF CARNALITY WHICH RESIST THE TRUTHS OF HIS
WORD. That through judgment, we place under total captivity this nature in us
which is destined to be removed completely. People get upset with me because I
tell them we have yet a duality. They think they do not, that they are only of
the new creation because they are saved and they have been born again. But
nowhere are we instructed to ever think that we are without flesh while we
abide in these bodies of death and corruption. It is just that simple. Yes, you
have a new nature, born without iniquity which works in pure holiness, but you
also still bear about this carnality which has now brought the entire world
into this state of illusion.
For they that are overcoming
there is a very real thing happening to them at this time. This thing I share
is not to be confused with the ordinance of church order laid out by the
Apostle Paul in Ephesians chapter 4.
Ephesians 4:13-14
13 Till we all come
in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a
perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
14 That we
henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every
wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they
lie in wait to deceive;
The thing I see in the lives
of the Overcomers at this time is that they ARE BEING TOSSED TO AND FRO. There
is in them a continual tug of war, a raging back and forth from that which is
true and right and holy and of the new creation without sin or guile to that
which is desperately carnal, unrighteous, unholy and profane IN THEMSELVES.
This carnality I speak of IS STILL REAL. Each and every day, there is a tossing
in their lives of that which is of the Lord verses that which is not of the
Lord. This is a present reality and it causes the gravity of the earth to be
that much more stronger, holding the Overcomer to this dust, to this present
world, to their life of futility in it. The Overcomer is not sitting high in a
cloud out of sight. Yes, they are “seated” in heavenly places in Christ, but
they are also being pulled in another direction, this carnality is still raging
against their faith, they are still being pursued by wrong ambitions. This is
the carnality I speak of which wars against the true desire for purity in the
lives of they that overcome. AND THIS IS ALL OF THE LORD. For the Lord has
ordained that this warring faction in us be for now. Because through it all
every area of your life that is contrary to His holiness is being exposed for
what it is. The dross is surfacing, the carnality is being openly exposed and
you, with the eye of the spirit, are seeing this for what it is. All of it is
being opened up right now in the lives of the Lord’s true church, even those
who form part of the body of the Lord, the two witness company who will witness
of their life in the Lord in the earth to every nation that is present in this
hour.
The reason this is being
opened up right now in the lives of the Overcomers IS SO THAT THEY CAN OVERCOME
IT. So that they can get through their personal
I am
telling each reader of this paper today, YOU WILL CONQUER THIS DUALITY. It is
your destiny in the Lord. Do not deny that it is there, it IS there, it IS real,
and you will need to bring it to a successful conclusion as you submit your
life unto the Lord day by day. If you are in debt, get out of debt. If you are
wealthy, trust it not. If you are motivated by men ruling in the parliaments of
nations, forget it, the governments of men will have no answer for what is
about to take place. The Lord is about to spew forth this lukewarm world out of
His mouth. Nothing will be acceptable unto Him at all, so why be a part of it?
Those who hold to God’s favor by religious effort will partake in the flames of
judgment just as much as will the ungodly nations. Those who trust that the
world will not move beneath their feet will be sadly disappointed.
Be an
Overcomer. Abandon all you are into His capable nail scarred hands and He will
see you through this time that is about to begin. Do that, and don’t stop doing
that until He appears. Then you will also appear with Him.
To be
continued…………Kenneth B Visscher
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