The Fellowship Of The Mystery
Unity In Sufferings
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As read by Kenneth B Visscher
Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this
grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of
Christ; And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which
from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by
Jesus Christ: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in
heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, According
to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: In whom we
have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. Wherefore I
desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. For
this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the
whole family in heaven and earth is named, Ephesians 3:8-15 KJV
Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of
David, according to my gospel: wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor;
but the word of God is not bound. Therefore I endure all things for the elect's
sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with
eternal glory. Faithful is the saying: For if we died with him, we shall also
live with him: if we endure, we shall also reign with him: if we shall deny
him, he also will deny us: if we are faithless, he abideth faithful; for he
cannot deny himself. Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in
the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the
subverting of them that hear. Give diligence to present thyself approved unto
God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of
truth. But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in
ungodliness, and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: or whom is Hymenaeus
an Philetus; men who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the
resurrection is past already, and overthrow the faith of some. Howbeit the firm
foundation of God standeth, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are
his: and, Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from
unrighteousness. 2Timothy 2:8-19 ASV
When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he
asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they
said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others,
Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I
am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the
living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon
Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father
which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon
this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and
whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever
thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Then charged he his
disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ. From that
time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto
Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes,
and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took him, and
began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto
thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art
an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those
that be of men. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after
me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever
will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake
shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world,
and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For
the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then
he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, There
be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of
man coming in his kingdom. Matthew 16:13-28 KJV
For as many
as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For ye received not the
spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption,
whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit himself beareth witness with our
spirit, that we are children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God,
and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be
also glorified with him. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time
are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to
us-ward. For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing
of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own
will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself
also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the
glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and
travaileth in pain together until now. And not only so, but ourselves also, who
have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves,
waiting for our adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For in hope were
we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he
seeth? But if we hope for that which we see not, then do we with patience wait
for it. And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know
not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us
with groanings which cannot be uttered; and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth
what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints
according to the will of God. And we know that to them that love God all things
work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.
For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his
Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: and whom he
foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified:
and whom he justified, them he also glorified. Romans 8:14-30 ASV
( 2 Visions )
“I beheld upon the earth the
Sons and Daughters of God who were found faithful and who were known to the
mind of the Lord as those who would overcome all things; I saw them each
nailed, fastened securely upon wooden crosses. As they were impaled there upon
each cross, they were in great peace and they conversed one with another in the
joy of the fellowship of sufferings. Because of the death they were dying, they
often did not know that there was someone nearby who also suffered the pain of
crucifixion. So as they died upon their crosses, they sometimes knew that
others suffered, but they could not always see them or know they were there.
Regardless of this they each spoke words from their crosses which were words of
life and fellowship in the sufferings of Our Lord which they were partaking of.
As their words went forth, each one nearby would be confirmed in that suffering
and would know that they were not alone, even though perhaps with their eyes,
they could not see the person next to them who also suffered the same. The
Spirit of the Lord conveyed these words as a wind of His Spirit between them as
they obediently put down all that was flesh to the nails of their individual crosses.”
( End Vision )
“I beheld then the Sons and
Daughters of God who were full Overcomers walking together in the beauty of the
creation, walking as it were in the overflowing land of Galilee, rejoicing in
peace and comfort for their tribulation was over and they were entering a new
place in the things of the Lord. As they walked they went over but a small hill,
a little hill, in the road which over the crest shone with the bright
brilliance of the Kingdom of God. Walking forward, they each one, robed in
simplicity and in kindness, were glorified in their bodies which once were
impaled with nails, but now glorified eternally with the glory of the Lord.”
(End Vision )
The most peculiar thing about
the life of a person who desires all that the Lord has for them is the fact
that the more they go on in the things of the Lord, the more they find
themselves secluded, shut away from all others. It seems as the life lived out
of a heart that loves the Lord intently is a life lived very much in seclusion,
in the expanse of a borderless life that knows no boundary, except the one
given to them by the Lord of being free in an intently restricted space. The
Fellowship Of The Mystery comes to them as a power of faith, an inner knowledge
that the Lord is in control of their lives and that He is working all things
after the counsel of His own will concerning them. The Lord jealously draws
such a one unto Himself, separating that person from everyone around them. That
person may perhaps only know the fellowship of a spouse or good friend or
neighbor, but they do not know massive numbers of people nor gatherings in a
large place where men emulate those who would teach them.
During the time of this
drawing, the Overcomer thus drawn begins to suffer the loss of all things
relating to their life and existence in this present world. They may gain much
in the way of worldly wealth and power, may become successful in business or in
industry, but in their hearts, they are separate unto the Lord, the outward
circumstance that they work in may belie the true nature of who they really
are. As the Lord draws such a person unto Himself, the involvement of that
person in the depths and the dealings of the Lord becomes very personal, very
pointed. The Lord demands that the life of self be daily crucified, laid down
as it were an offering unto the Lord, a burnt sacrifice, a drink offering or an
offering poured out upon the earth. All that begins to take place in the life
of an Overcomer as the Lord deals with them, but outwardly they may look like any
other person or may be very much involved in the business, politics and economy
of this day. It is a working IN the heart that I speak of.
As the Overcomer is thus held
in this state, the years roll by, the dealings seem to never change, the
intensity of trials never seems to wane and more and more the Overcomer is left
with naked faith and nothing else. Becoming emptied of all that they are TO
this world and IN this world, they find that they have nothing left to offer
the Lord other than the very life they were born with. That is exactly what the
Lord wanted in the first place, a vessel emptied, but chosen for His greater
purpose.
During this time of this
individual dealing by the Lord, the person who is thus being dealt with may not
even be aware of the changes taking place in their hearts. There is a simple
gauge to measure this change, and that gauge is how much of the cross is still
daily applied to ones life. If you find yourself at a place where there is
nothing BUT the cross working day by day and your life is held in a constraint,
then that is a GOOD place, a place to be envied, a place that only those with
wisdom understand. Yet the trail of alone-ness continues. Know this, YOU ARE
NOT ALONE. There is all around you the candidates for the Army of the Lord.
They are few and far between, but they are there. They may be hidden by miles
and borders, but still nonetheless, they are there. You cannot see them or know
of their existence when you look to the left or when you look to the right, but
that does not mean that they are not there, they ARE there, and they are in the
very same fellowship of suffering you are in. You are not alone in the workings
of the personal cross. The Lord is doing this in all those who He has called
unto the full measure of the stature of Christ, and that is that He IS NOW
COMPLETING the emptying out process. We are right at the crux of the matter, at
the end of self, at the end of this power of the crucified life. For the Lord
is about to turn this all around.
These are not idle words I am
prophesying, the Lord is about to turn things around in the life of the
Overcomer. Note this first. There is but a small company, a little troop, an
insignificant number of people who are part of the Overcoming company who will
be seen in the earth as the Army of the Lord. These are not great in numbers,
vast in knowledge and understanding, high up in esteem by the world and
emulated as great Saints. These that I speak of are the forgotten ones. The
cast aside ones. The ones that simply did not fit into the systems of men. I am
not speaking of their ability in the world to work and provide for their homes,
I am speaking of the fact that the Lord hand selects one from a city and two
from a family, and brings them first to Zion, to the Kingdom Of His Anointing.
Jeremiah 3:14 You may not have been aware that you were hand selected, but you
were dear reader of this page. You were selected to be brought as the first ripe fruit upon the
bough of the tree of life in the midst of His Kingdom, and you are about to see
this change which is now beginning to take place in the earth, that change that
will happen even through you.
For the time of your life you
had gained some spiritual understanding. The Lord opened up slightly the pineal
gland which sits at the base of your brain, and He sovereignly opened it just
enough to give you the light of His countenance, even the revelation of His
will and of His Kingdom. That little bit of understanding and discernment that
comes into your natural thinking came because of the opening up of this area of
your body, even that pineal gland within your very mind. As such it was opened
when you were born of the Spirit (not ever before), and as such it was the
avenue by which the Lord would speak to you and give you understanding into His
deeper things.
That too is about to change.
For the Lord will come. When He does, your pineal gland will be first
glorified, then the rest of your flesh. For at the very coming of Jesus in His
glorified body, you will experience the change that was promised to us, even
the inheritance unmeasured and eternal, that being your glorified body. We will
discuss much on this during the study on The Mystery Of Our Change, but for now
I wish to narrow it down to The Fellowship Of The Mystery. Up until this time
you have often felt very much alone in your tribulations. The knowledge of
others around you being dealt with by the Lord the same way was not always
known by you. Instead, you thought that you were very much alone, a lone
vagabond in a land of iniquity, one who wondered if you were the only one
discerning truth and verity in this present evil world. I prophecy to you dear
reader of this page, that the Lord is about to come in the power of the first
resurrection, and you will be changed, you will be clothed upon with the light
of His glory and you will be transformed into a glorified Saint, one filled
with the immeasurable fullness of God.
The Lord when He comes will
change your body this way. Your natural body, pumping your natural blood will
first be changed in the pineal gland. That gland instantly will be fully opened
forevermore, and you will then experience the change from one humanity to the
other in the very cells of your body, in the very atoms themselves. Your very
atomic structure will be made new in the body promised to you when Jesus was
raised from the dead having become the first fruits of them that slept. So then
your heart will lose all the blood that has been pumped through it for the
course of your life. When we study the Mystery Of Iniquity and The Mystery Of
The Faith, we will see that our blood was corrupted by the fall. That we were
conceived in sin and shapen in iniquity. Know this, that when He does come at
the first resurrection, your blood which was originally made by the Lord and
found to be the carrier of personal iniquity, the blood which was not cleansed,
will be cleansed. And it will change. That very blood in your very veins right
now will change and will become the very blood of Our Lord, the blood of an eternal
life flow which will never cease. And you will experience this flow in a
glorified body. So then, this blood will flow, the pineal gland will be
completely open, and your cells will change. You will enter perfection and
death will not be found in you, nor any ailments you may currently experience.
You will suddenly, in the time it takes to move one of your fingers or blink
one of your eyes, experience this change. Some of us will pass over and not
taste death, for this change is imminent. The Lord is about to glorify His
Army.
The world and Christendom will
see this little small company of Overcomers emerge on the world scene. They
will be seen in the news and on cameras in the world, but only very briefly,
for their coming forth in these new bodies will spell the end of the entire
world system. Within a few heart beats of time, the entire system that dictates
the course of this world by the carnal wisdom of man and governments will end
entirely and mankind will have no other ruling power in the earth except for
this little company of glorified Saints. The entire world will then come to
learn of the Christ and to be taught of Him and to SEE him in His Kingdom, here
upon this earth, and in time they will see His Kingdom and Throne throughout
the cosmos itself.
For the Overcomer, you, the
reader of this page. This will happen. The losses you incurred while you endured your life in
this world at this time, and the painful trials and testings, the loss of
finance, the loss of loved ones. All this will now come back into your power.
You, in your glorified body, will restore the wealth of the gentiles unto your
family, the wealth you may have lost in your life time. And not just wealth,
but the loss of dear family members, those you loved who left you and were gone
as dry grass upon a windy field, you will go even to the place of their dust
and raise them up to live with you upon this earth in the Kingdom of God. I am
prophesying this, even unto you who wait of the promise of His coming. Know it,
for this is your portion. You will have power with God to raise up your loved
ones so that they may abide with you in the Lord’s Edenic world once again
where fear is not present and death is not known. Where you will forevermore
have uninterrupted fellowship with those you once knew as members of your
family, but whom were lost to you in death.
The restitution of all
creation will be through this company of glorified ones, few in number so that
no man can say they did it, but all the glory will be given to the Lord who
will do this, even through this little troop, even these who first endured
their crosses. The blinders are coming off, you will behold the King come in
His Glory, and you will awake in His very likeness, even in this time we are
presently living in. Believe it, for it is about to happen.
To be continued……………..
Kenneth B Visscher
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