The
Mystery of the Church
One With
His Body
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For
no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as
the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Ephesians 5:29-32 KJV
For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos;
are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers
by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted,
Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth
any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Now he
that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own
reward according to his own labour. For we are labourers together with God: ye
are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. According to the grace of
God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the
foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he
buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid,
which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver,
precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest:
for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the
fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide
which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work
shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as
by fire. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit
of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God
destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let no man
deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him
become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness
with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And
again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. Therefore
let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; Whether Paul, or Apollos, or
Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come;
all are yours; And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. 1Corinthians
3:4-23
And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his
own power. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then
take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God
forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for
two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one
spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but
he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not
that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye
have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. 1Corinthians
6:14-20
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is
your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that
good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. For I say, through the grace
given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself
more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath
dealt to every man the measure of faith. For as we have many members in one
body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are
one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Romans 12:1-5)
For as the body is one, and hath many
members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so
also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body,
whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and
have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member,
but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the
body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am
not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the
whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were
hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every
one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one
member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet
but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor
again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members
of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: And those members
of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more
abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body
together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should
have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the
members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with
it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. And God hath set
some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers,
after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of
tongues. Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all
teachers? are all workers of miracles? Have all the gifts of healing? do
all speak with tongues? do all interpret? But covet earnestly the best gifts:
and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way. 1Corinthians 12:12-31
(2 Visions)
“A tabernacle
tent, large enough to house the elements of David’s tabernacle was firmly
fastened by ropes and wooden stakes to the earth. The tabernacle was elevated
above the earth and was covered in splendid light and glory, both within and
without, on top of it and underneath it. The entire tabernacle was not touching
the earth at all but was elevated into the air above the earth, held there fast
by the cords and wooden stakes that were driven into the earth. So then the
tabernacle was elevated, but anchored, unable to move any higher in the atmosphere
and therefore was somewhat restricted. I saw then under the tabernacle that the
earth and the nations in the earth had come into great shakings. The earth was
reeling under the shakings of the Lord and His hand moved to shake and to bring
to naught all that was yet in the earth under the realm of the tabernacle. The
tabernacle was steadfast and unmovable, not affected by the shakings because it
was elevated and covered in glory.”
“Simeon hath declared
how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for
his name. And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, After
this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen
down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: That the
residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my
name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things. Known unto God are
all his works from the beginning of the world”. Acts 15:14-18
(End Vision)
“In full view
was what looked like the body of Christ, with one who looked like Christ as the
Head of this body and the individual members making up the individual parts of
the body. However the individual parts or cells of this body seemed to be in disarray,
positioned in one place, then moving into another place. Always motioning about,
no individual member of this body was set in a place of steadfast security or
establishment. As I looked at this body I saw that many of the individual
members of the body were not clean, but defiled, dusty, dirty from the earth
upon which this body stood as the elements and dust of the earth and the world
of men below it was infiltrating upwards into this body. Thus the body was
defiled. The individual members of it had contaminated their lives in the body
with the elements of the world of men, taking these elements as though they
were precious things into the body and thus the whole of the body was contaminated.
I could see the Head of this body being what looked to me like Jesus. But the
body was not settled, not steadfast, but filthy, moving in an uncertain way,
defiled by the dust of this world. As I beheld this my eyes were able to see
through the body, and directly behind the body I saw A SECOND BODY. This
body had The Lord Jesus Christ as the HEAD; He resplendent in resurrection
glory formed fully the HEAD of this body which was below it. Every member in
this body was perfect, there was NO dust, NO defilement, NO unsteadiness or
motion or moving or shifting. The body was HOLY. I could see that certain cells
of the DEFILED body were leaving it, being moved over as if by an invisible
hand INTO THE PURE BODY BEHIND IT. Just one or two cells at a time, and only a
very few cells in all. So there were TWO bodies, one perfect, pure and holy.
The other one greatly defiled. There were TWO Jesus’ as the Heads of these
bodies, one which looked like Jesus and the other which was truly Jesus. Both
were on the shoulders as the HEAD of these bodies, and these two Jesus were exactly
and precisely identical. The two Heads were identical in every single feature,
they looked exactly the same and the bodies underneath them looked exactly the
same except that the false body was shifting, moving, unclean, defiled and
filled with the dust of the earth. The true body was HOLY, there was NO
defilement, NO uncleanness and NO shifting or moving of individual members in
this body. Thus the two bodies were there, the defiled one in front of the Holy
one, both remained, both were there in an establishment and both were in their
respective states continually.
(End
Vision)
Beginning now
in the first part of The Mystery of the Church. We begin by noting that the
whole intent of the Lord was and is to create unto Himself a body in which the
full expression of His spirit would dwell continually, a tabernacle set in the
lives of those who love the Lord. This is the Body of Christ, the church of the
living God.
Pointing out
the defiled state of that which is false and that which is untrue is the way to
know of a certainty that which IS true and that which IS undefiled. When you
expose that which is false and bring it out into the light then the matter is
defined to you in such a way as to know what truth is and what is the correct interpretation
of things. In the study done called The Royal Ephod I exposed the fact that
there was TWO Jesus’ present in the walk of faith. These two Jesus were seen as
the great High Priest passed into the heavens to intercede on behalf of mankind
at the right hand of God. Jesus number one and Jesus number two were absolutely
identical in that study. Both of them wore the garments of the High Priest and
both of them were before God. Both of them wore the Ephod, that breastplate
which bore 14 stones, 12 on the front representing the 12 tribes of Israel and
2 on the shoulders, the Urim and Thummim Stones representing light and
revelation. The only clue that there was a difference in the view of these two
Jesus’ was the fact that the false one had empty sockets in the front of His
Ephod in the third row. The false Jesus was missing the Liguire, the Agate and
the Amethyst stones. So in that study we learned the difference between Christ
and antichrist.
While waiting upon
the Lord concerning The Mystery of the Church the spirit of the Lord made very
real to me that just as there are two Jesus’, one true, the other false, so
there are two bodies, two churches, one true, the other false. If the false
Jesus sits as the head of a body, then the whole of that body is also false.
And of course the true Jesus, which one whom God raised from the dead sits as
HEAD of the true church, the true body, then that body cannot and is not
defiled at all but it takes upon itself all the attributes of the HEAD which is
above it. The true body then consists only of that which is a new creation,
there is nothing of the world of men to defile it nor is there anything in the
world of that which is in spirit to contaminate it either. It is perfect with
each member set in order in that body in that perfect place which the Lord has
determined before hand to be complete and holy, each part contributing to the
whole. So then, the very first study on The Mystery of the Church is to
expose to the light the fact that there is now in the earth A FALSE BODY. A
FALSE CHURCH WITH A FALSE JESUS AS THE HEAD.
I define that
now. The false body is anyone and everyone who may name the name of Christ, but
who holds to the elements which man made. Those things of the denominations and
churches in the earth which ordain and set in order individuals into the faith
according to the creeds, customs and mannerisms of what man has defined as
faith. These hold to doctrines of escapism. Doctrines of devils. Doctrines of
disqualification if one does not accept and adhere to the creeds they have
invented by an incorrect interpretation of scripture. Not holding fast to the
true Head which is The Lord Jesus Christ, but holding fast to that false Head,
that antichrist which looks exactly like Jesus but is missing the 3rd
row of stones upon its breastplate. This false one and the ones looking to it
covers 99.9% of our modern Christian world. The masses of Christianity have not
looked upon the Lord in truth; they have looked upon that Lord that LOOKS like
Jesus, TALKS like Jesus, WALKS like Jesus, BLESSES AND ANOINTS like Jesus – BUT
IS NOT JESUS. This is that antichrist, which modern Christianity extols and
worships but which is NOT THE LORD IN TRUTH. This is the God of SELF. It is the
soulish part of the spirit which is a defiled part, an iniquitous part, a part
which Jesus condemned when He said He would not save the Son of Perdition. This
is perdition itself and this delusion which has taken the world into gross
darkness is the delusion they call “light” and the doctrine it spouts they call
“truth”.
The Apostle
Paul stated that no other foundation was laid which could be laid, even the chief
cornerstone, The Lord Jesus Christ. He then stated that we were to take “heed”
as to how and what we built upon that foundation. This is the foundation of the
Church of the living God. What has happened is man brought in to this building all
that which was defiling in religious effort over the past centuries of time. Agreeing
in carnal agreements they built thinking they were building with the proper
materials. The result was a building made of hay wood and stubble, doctrines
that shame one, not edify one. Doctrines that exclude the sinner, not taking
them in as forgiven. Doctrines that base their faith on escapism rather than
manifestly showing forth the Kingdom of God in the earth. Doctrines of every
varying degree and shadow of light, none of which would stand the test of fire.
Doctrines which created many denominations rather than one true church. Divisive doctrines, not ones that reveal the
love of God in truth. Doctrines that shed a light upon the person of Christ
that is not a true light, but a light that is manufactured by religious effort
and the proselytizing
of men. This is the creation of that which the glorified Jesus called “The
doctrine of the Nicolaitans which I hate”. Doctrines which cause men to lord it
over others rather than being members in particular, one member established and
flowing with another. Thus it is in the beginning rays of this new day, an
apostate church has formed in the earth with some 65000 denominations in it and
not one single one of them sheds any true light at all. It is all sick, it is
all destined for the same judgment that must fall upon the nations and it is
all therefore destined to be destroyed.
When you view
today’s so called preachers you see a bunch of people purporting every
conceivable misguided truth imaginable. This gives place to what I call the “latent
power of the soul”. It becomes “soul power” based in iniquity and found to be
filled with power, but not God’s power. These ministries then minister this
power to perform signs and wonders and every conceivable act of aggression against
the true church of Christ. Taking men’s lives they fill them with damnable
heresies promising them the riches of wealth and prosperity and every other
kind of imaginable doctrine which elevates men in the SAME DIRECTION. For every
single one of the world’s preachers today that you view in the denominational
systems brings the listeners TO FORSAKE THE PERSONAL CROSS. Jesus for them
becomes a gimmick for gaining wealth and stature and the riches of the world,
which riches includes money and an endless supply of prosperity in every sense
of the word. The result is that men in their minds liken themselves to God’s
mind and God’s power. They attribute their lives as being in a state of
continual total perfection and that there is in them that which is only of the
risen power of the Lord. They have no other affiliation. These preachers are
emulated and adored and held in high esteem by masses of Christians who hold
them on the stage as those who have special favour and are in the place of
unbounded power by the Holy Ghost. But it is not God’s power. It is the power
of this false Jesus which loves to deceive. And all of this will end in
wrathful judgment.
But there are
some, a few, those who I call the Overcomers, who are joined to the true Jesus
who is the Head of this body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all, or if
you will, all who desire His all to be their all. These have come out from
amongst the others in their frenzied masses and have separated themselves unto
the Lord and have laid down their lives to the power of their own personal
cross. They do not shirk the responsibility to know the Lord in truth even if
it costs them dearly. They are set aside, away from the rest of the world, in
it but not of it. These have been placed by the hand of God into their own
individual perfect place IN the true body of Christ and it is in there that
they have their only identity. Their identity with the world still exists, but
daily they die to that and live unto the Lord who is their life source. These
are the Overcomers being “them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and
over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name”. The
body they are part of can have no defiling part. This is The Mystery of the
Church. The mystery of Him who dwells at the right hand of God doing perfectly
His will in the midst of them all. Nothing of this world or of the defilement
of mankind can penetrate or be a part of this body for it is a body which is
altogether holy and perfect and which cannot be defiled for there is nothing in
it which is of the defiling nature.
So know this
dear reader of this page, you are part of this true ecclesia. Those who are
ordained to be one with the Head, even the true Jesus of the true body of
Christ. Rise up and worship Him alone who created you to become one in the
image of His glory, for this is your part in The Mystery of the Church. And
there is much more to come!
To be continued…………..
Kenneth B Visscher
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