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And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the
power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among
whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh,
fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the
children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great
love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us
together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up
together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace
in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye
saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should
walk in them. Ephesians 2:1-10
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if
one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that
they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which
died for them, and rose again. Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the
flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth
know we him no more. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is
a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus
Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God
was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their
trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by
us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath
made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him. 2Corinthians 5:14-21
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count
slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a
thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great
noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the
works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all
these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be
in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the
coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved,
and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to
his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth
righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be
diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. 2Peter
3:9-14
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this
fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I
will send among them. Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the
nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me: To wit, Jerusalem, and
the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make
them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is
this day; Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his
people; And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and
all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and
Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod, Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon, And
all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles
which are beyond the sea, Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are
in the utmost corners, And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the
mingled people that dwell in the desert, And all the kings of Zimri, and all
the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes, And all the kings of the
north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which
are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink
after them. Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no
more, because of the sword which I will send among you. And it shall be, if
they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto
them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink. For, lo, I begin
to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly
unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all
the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts. Therefore prophesy thou
against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on
high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon
his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes,
against all the inhabitants of the earth. A noise shall come even to the
ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will
plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword,
saith the LORD. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth
from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts
of the earth. And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one
end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be
lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye
principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions
are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel. And the shepherds
shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape. A voice of
the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall
be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture. And the peaceable
habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD. He hath
forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the
fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger. Jeremiah 25:15-38 (Underline mine)
Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo!
for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is
confounded and dismayed. There shall be no more praise of Moab: in
Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being
a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee. A
voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. For in the
going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of
Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction. Flee, save your lives,
and be like the heath in the wilderness. For because thou hast trusted in thy
works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go
forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together. And
the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley
also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.
Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof
shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein. Cursed be he that doeth
the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his
sword from blood. Jeremiah 48:1-10 (Underline mine)
For the mystery of iniquity doth already
work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the
way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with
the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even
him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs
and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should
believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but
had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2Thessalonians 2:7-12
“The New
Jerusalem was seen in this vision descending from heaven to settle upon the
earth. While it descended, it was still above the soil of the earth brilliant
in whiteness and was full of the glory of God. I saw that this was happening while
the earth lay in gross darkness, a dark pale was cast over all the nations and
men lay bound in death while the New Jerusalem began its descent. As it
descended I saw God above it. He began to move in the nations by His Spirit
alone and He drew men out of the nations regardless of their ability to choose
with a free will. Men were unable to make proper choices because they were
bound in darkness and they did not have the ability to choose right from wrong.
God made white the souls of men, no soul was left defiled; He made white all
the souls and drew them to Christ who was in the midst of the New Jerusalem. As
God drew them out of the earth and unto Christ I saw that all that man had
built in the world and all that man had governed, everything man had created
with the power of their own carnal minds was destroyed. I saw all the buildings
and monuments and idols of man being destroyed as if a whirlwind was bringing
great destruction to them. As God drew the souls of men out of the world
system, this destruction happened at the very same time. There was nothing in
the world that endured this working of God to destroy the things that man built
during the time of their carnality. Each soul was made white, men did not have
a choice in this, God brought this to them and with the power of His Spirit He
brought them out of the world to cleanse them and prepare them to enter into
the Kingdom of God. I saw also that this was a vision in real time, present
time. That it has even begun in present time in the earth and in the midst of
the nations.”
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Vision)
Continuing on
then in “The Mystery of Christ”. Christ Jesus the Lord resides in a glorified
body, the only one thus far to do this and who is the firstfruits of them that ‘slept’,
or abode in death. He resides however in this body by the spirit. It is His spirit
that brings forth the actions needed in this day to terminate the rule of man
and to bring to fruition the full unveiling of His Kingdom. Christ abides in
the realm of spirit with all those who died and went on before in the term of
world history, even up until this time. His spirit has always greeted men and
men who have entered the realm of spirit called heaven have seen His risen
body. It is quite intriguing that spirit bodiless people can view Christ in
heaven in His new body, but that is because Christ in His new body is
demonstrating continually the power of “Spirit” that the new body comes in.
During the course of these studies on “The Epistle Mysteries” I will be
covering “The Mystery of Our Change” and relate how the spirit in man (renewed
purified personal will power) will manifest in a new body made of His Spirit
substance. This is a reality that is coming to this world in the lives of men
for man has been created in flesh, but will be made new in spirit. The creation
that God began He will finish when men have their new bodies raised from realms
of death and dying and into the eternal state promised us from the foundation
of the earth.
For the present
however one must understand, even in the dawning of this age of His Kingdom,
that the true location of Jesus in “spirit” is not held in balance by a vast
number of those in sonship circles. Many have wrested this understanding of the
location of Jesus to their own destruction because they do not realize that the
Lord, in spirit, abides continually in that which is created new, while we here
abide in a duality. Those in sonship circles have fallen away into perfidious doctrines
which have disqualified them from the prize because of “high thinking”. Rather
than learning the humility of Christ, they learn that they are in spirit and
seated high in the Kingdom of God, thus they cease to overcome the stubborn
personal will. This thought has led to a motion of spirit that is backwards,
not forwards in the purposes of God. To them Christ becomes a matter of convenience
to display their “identity” and to proclaim in a verbiage that is not easily
understood that they are “seated in heavenly places with Christ”, and therefore
error is not part of their nature. Scriptures such as Ephesians 2:1-10 and 2
Corinthians 5:14-21 become an imbalance. The mistake happens when one accepts
these verses as they are presented, but forgets that they still have working in
their lives the Mystery of Iniquity through the carnal flesh nature which they
have to overcome.
Know for certain that one can be defiled in both body and soul as well as spirit in this day just like in any other time in world history. That one can be defiled because they “forget” that they are still in a
state of a complex duality where the flesh has grown up with the spirit. The
Mystery of Iniquity works right alongside the Mystery of the Kingdom of God and
the Mystery of Christ, these things are to be drawn apart by the tip of the
Lord’s sword in us in this day rather than to glibly ignore that fact and think
that one is ONLY SPIRIT. One cannot be ONLY SPIRIT UNTIL they have received their
NEW GLORIFIED BODIES. Defilement comes to those who cease to obey the Lord in
the putting off of the old man and the putting on of the new man which is
raised in the resurrection of Jesus. This putting off of the old man is not a onetime
thing; it is a continual process, a constant working for the Overcomer. It
ceases not in our time UNTIL HE COMES.
The spirit of
the Lord stresses to us that danger lays wait for us when we confess that we
are ONLY spirit and not in duality, especially in this dawning of His dominion.
We WILL BE only spirit WHEN the Lord has completed His drawing out process,
when He has taken us, purified us completely and made us white in the full dominon
of His everlasting Kingdom. Whether one likes this or not, we are in a dual
world. A world where flesh and spirit exist side by side and one is not without
the other. Jesus alone is above all this; He alone is the NEW CREATION which
all men will be drawn fully into, the Overcomer first. You dear reader, will
avoid deception and the raging anger of the beast if you but confess that full
salvation is still being worked out in you. If you confess otherwise you may
very well be at risk of being defiled in your spirit and soul and thus be found
impure for entering His Kingdom. For nothing defiled or unclean will enter.
What the Lord
desires to do is to separate in us this flesh and spirit nature. He clearly
wishes to divide this asunder in us. He does this by the working of His word,
even the sword of the spirit so that there can be full deliverance FROM flesh
to live ONLY in spirit IN a glorified body. And this process that He is working
is now greatly accelerated. His spirit is cutting this work short for the elect’s
sake and He will fast draw this to a conclusion.
To give you an
example of how deception can work in this day I will show you the following. If
a person believes the verses above without also realizing that they still have
their own iniquity to put down, they will “think” they are “just spirit”. You
cannot be “just spirit” when you abide in a natural body of flesh and blood.
The Mystery of Iniquity is going to work in you as long as you abide in this
body. When the time comes that the Lord gives you your new body, THEN and ONLY
THEN will the Mystery of Iniquity be done in you. In our time we have seen some
Kingdom Ministries go off into new age doctrines and some of them rather badly.
Why is this? It is because they forgot they were dual natured. They lifted Ephesians
2:1-10 and 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 along with other scriptures out of context and
have thus invented doctrines to fit their mould. Doctrines have been invented
these past 25+ years more than in any other time, all in the name of being
found IN spirit only IN the Kingdom of God, when in fact there was a definitive
duality.
Yes, ministry can minister in the things of the spirit, but it should always be accompanied with the knowledge of humble submission unto the Lord with a gaze set only upon Him. Anything else will lead to self exaltation and spiritual pride. The results of this wrong kind of view of who they are in present
time has been the creation of horrible divisions and great disparaging of Sons
against Sons as they all hold to various incorrect doctrines. We now have
Kingdom Ministries and people caught up in their doctrines holding fast to
doctrines which leave little room for spiritual growth. Instead many have
become deluded into thinking they are in a perfect state. The dividing line
between right and wrong in them has disappeared and they are lost in what they
think is a correct walk when in fact it is delusion of the most dangerous kind.
Jesus set us an
example of suffering humility. It was by this suffering He did in Gethsemane
and then before His people, then finally the Roman cross that was the example.
If Kingdom Ministry nowadays confess that they are spirit only, then they should
question the sufferings Jesus Himself endured. For Jesus was the perfect one,
the sinless Son, but He was not spared from suffering the loss of His flesh
life. If we are true Overcomers, we will not suffer otherwise. The overcoming
of His will was the scene found in Gethsemane. The overcoming of our will is
the scene found in the dawning of this new day. In both instances the flesh had
to be removed so the spirit could remain. Your soul will never know the white
liberty of purity as long as you deny the fact that at the present there is
this duality working in you. Jesus did not possess the carnal mind; He showed
the mind of the spirit, the mind of Christ as the scripture calls it. If He
showed the spirit mind, and was not spared the separation of flesh from that
spirit, then who are we to be otherwise? The same scene is worked out in the
life of each one who would overcome. Those that deny this separation are the
same ones who are heaping up teachers unto themselves so that they can cover
over this processing with teaching confessions rather than practical out
workings of His spirit. You will never be part of the manchild company as long
as you heap teachers unto yourself to give you this one sided confession.
In the Mystery
of Christ, one cannot be found IN SPIRIT as He is in spirit if one first does
not have drawn through them the sword of dividing. That sword of the Lord that
draws asunder bone from marrow, flesh (unregenerate soulish emotion) from
spirit. What excites me about this day we are in is that this working of the
Lord in us is greatly accelerated. He is literally cutting short this division
of soul and spirit in the Overcomer very quickly because the light is about to
dawn and the rays of the light of this brand new day is about to shine forth on
this darkened creation. When that light breaks, the dividing line in you will
be completed and you will be delivered from your own flesh to walk in spirit
only in a glorified body. It is my prayer that you can have ears to hear what
the spirit is saying and continue to submit to this dealing even though His
Kingdom has begun to unfold in the earth. Great tempests will assail all man
has built up, but great peace will be to those who allowed the Lord to deliver
them from it.
Even so Lord,
let your work be quick.
To be continued……………..
Kenneth B
Visscher
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