The
Mystery of The Church
Cast Out
and Caught Up
....PDF Version
As read by Kenneth B Visscher
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
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 we
preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for
Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath
shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels,
that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are
troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in
despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always
bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of
Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered
unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest
in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you. We having
the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore
have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; Knowing that he which
raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us
with you. For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace
might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. For which
cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man
is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,
worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While
we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen:
for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not
seen are eternal. 2Corinthians 4:5-18
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon
them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear:
but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted
not. Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that
hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be
glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. Isaiah 66:4-5
O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy
name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are
faithfulness and truth. For thou hast made of a city an heap; of
a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be
built. Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible
nations shall fear thee. For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength
to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat,
when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the
wall. Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place;
even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible
ones shall be brought low. And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make
unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat
things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will destroy
in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail
that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the
Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people
shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited
for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him,
we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. For in this mountain shall the
hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw
is trodden down for the dunghill. And he shall spread forth his hands in the
midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim:
and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and
bring to the ground, even to the dust. Isaiah 25:1-12
In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong
city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye
the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. Thou
wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on
thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in
the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength: Isaiah 26:1-4
And there appeared another wonder in
heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and
seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of
heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman
which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was
born. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod
of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
Revelation 12:3-5
(2 Visions)
“The atmosphere
was then filled with great blackened pieces of debris, dirt, broken parts of
that which once was but was no more for the Lord in His judgment had destroyed
all of Babylon, both the head and the body of it until it was broken to pieces.
The smoke of this destruction filled the atmosphere over the earth until all of
the earth was blackened and the air was choked with this utter destruction by
the hand of the Lord. And I saw moving in the earth the glorious body of
Christ, the church of the living God. High and majestic the body was moving forward
as ONE MAN, filled with the glory of God. Through the debris and through the
tempest of the utter collapse of Babylon moved forward this mystery church, the
fullness of Him that fills all in all. As the body moved forward through the
debris it remained untouched, unscathed, unsoiled by the pollutions of judgment
which were round about it on every side. The body was perfect, sinless as the
HEAD was sinless and the body had no schism or destruction or division upon it
but it was altogether lovely.”
(End Vision)
“I Daniel was grieved
in my spirit in the midst of my
body, and the visions of my head troubled me. I came near unto one of them that
stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know
the interpretation of the things.” Daniel 7:15-16
“And it came to pass
in the sixth year, in the sixth month,
in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the
elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon
me. Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the
appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as
the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber. And he put forth the form
of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up
between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to
Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of
jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. And, behold, the glory of the God of
Israel was there, according to
the vision that I saw in the plain.” Ezekiel 8:1-4
“Then the Angel
with held me and carried me thus set me down very near to a great billowing
fire, a fire which enfolded in upon itself. But as I looked I saw that the fire
billowing forth and in great waves folding in upon itself was HOLY. And in the
midst of the fire I saw a paved work, and on the top of the paved work I saw a
Throne set and ONE who sat upon the Throne, even the Ancient of Days. And at
His right hand I saw The Lord Jesus Christ. He was dressed in white even down
to His ankles and upon His chest a golden breastplate and upon the breastplate
the Ephod and upon the Ephod the stones of His countenance. As He stood at the
right hand of God in the midst of the fire which enfolded in upon itself I saw
that before God was brought all that He had thus judged in the earth. All the
fragments and pieces of Babylon the great, all the realms of iniquity which
came of the very mystery of iniquity and all of the phrases of blasphemy which
came of the mouth of the harlot were brought before God. As they came they
appeared as destroyed, black pieces of broken material, unusable, unsalvageable
with no semblance of order. These came through the atmosphere of the earth and
the heavens, and before God the heaven’s themselves broke apart and were drawn
up even with the portions that had just been judged. All of that which was in
the heaven and in the earth was drawn in such a way unto the Ancient of Days
who sat upon the Throne in the midst of the fire. And the fire consumed them
all. There was neither one blackened piece nor one part of the heavens themselves
which was not utterly consumed by the fire. Being then consumed in the fire
they existed no more, they disappeared in the great billowing flames. But then
I saw the Lord. He opened His arms up wide to receive all souls back unto
Himself in perfect love. For you see, the bondage of iniquity and of Babylon
which held man captive were the elements which were thus judged, but mankind
and those who inhabited eternity were ne’er left out of His purpose and His
plan. The infinite great love of The Ancient of Days consumed each one into the
everlasting arms, He embraced all of mankind, no one was left out of that
embrace just as no one any more had any semblance of the former things, for all
of the former things had passed away and were no more. As the Ancient of Days
consumed all of mankind into Himself they all vanished into the very person of
the Lord God Almighty, no one remained but the Almighty Himself. I wept when I
saw this for it was the unspeakable love of God which encompassed all men in
all time.”
(End
Vision)
When faith
arises in the life of they that overcome the desire for the perfect things of
the Lord rises with that same faith. As faith arises, so does an increased
desire to please the Lord in all things. As this desire to please Him arises
then one finds that the actual spirit of truth, the very spirit of the Lord
Himself, directs one into pathways that will be pleasing unto the Lord in
verity and in judgment. Those who arise in such a way realize that they reckon
daily their spirit as dead to the elements of this world, including their very
own old nature of flesh. The desire to please the Lord must be paramount in a
continuance, even for many years, so that the reckoning of being dead to sin
can be also a continual reality. For the spiritual new creation man is dead to
the old man. The old man cannot please God for it is the height of iniquity and
it is founded upon that which is carnal, sold out to the pleasures of this
earthly worldly element. So then, they that overcome are simply those who
realize their spirit life is dead to their carnal life, all within their very
own persons. As such they have sole desires left to please the Lord and to
enjoy day by day fellowship with Him in the fruitful bounty that comes only of
the new creation.
In the Mystery
of the Church, they who are vitally joined to the Head, even Christ, wish only
to be pleasing to Him in all things. As a result they are drawn by the Lord to
come aside and apart from all other things to be found complete only in Him.
This coming aside is in stark contrast to those who also heard the voice of the
Lord for salvation, but who mixed up that voice with the voices of religious
effort and the desire they had to not be separate from those who believe in the
Lord in the same manner. As such they bind themselves together to form assemblies
and then take upon themselves the names of whatever choice doctrine binds them.
When this happens they interpret the things of the Lord and of His word to fit
that doctrine which they esteem to be a benefit to them. The result is they are
no longer vitally joined to the HEAD, but they instead join themselves to each
other in a confederacy and in a union which is empowered by their own soulish
ambitions. For they that overcome, they hold to no ambition or singular
doctrine other than to Christ Himself. Hence we have two groups. One tied to
the religious order of all that ends up confused. And one that is vitally
joined to the Head, even Christ.
Now the Apostle
Paul defined the body of Christ this way. He said that we were all members of
each other, each member joined to the head who was The Lord Jesus Christ. Each
part of the body was born of the spirit and therefore had function and a part
to play in the overall processes of that body. He also called this body “The
Church of the Living Christ”. For it was alive and animated by the head. But we
have come to a time where there has been a great falling away. Multitudes of
those who are born of the spirit have done the very same thing that God’s
people, the children of Israel did in ancient times when they married into the
ungodly nations which were in the land of Canaan. At that time God said that
Canaan was a land flowing with milk and honey, that it was a good land, a land
that He had given them to inherit freely. However as soon as Israel crossed
over the Jordan into this land they entered realms of horrific warfare because
of the ungodly “ite” nations found therein. The promise of entry into the
promises of God was accompanied by Great War. All Israel was required to do was
to walk forward, step by step, and God would drive out the ungodly nations and
would give them every single place that the sole of their foot would tread
upon. Instead of obeying this promise and walking forward they turned and
married into those nations, defiling both themselves and their walk. We have
the books of Judges and Chronicles which narrate the raising up of judges to
deliver Israel and then when these judges died, Israel would once again return
to harlotry.
So it is in our day. In the upcoming study on The Mystery of Israel’s Blindness I will be demonstrating how this blindness is continuing to this very hour. Suffice it to say that the Lord will have His way in His Company of Sons because in the very end of all things, the blindness will be removed and all will see Him, from the least to the greatest. Modern Christianity, which was supposed to be vitally joined to the HEAD, even Christ, has prostituted themselves with every damnable heresy which is invented by the iniquity of man.
Listen now to my definition of blasphemy.
If a man states that what comes forth from within them if of the Lord when in fact it is their own iniquity being conceived and bringing forth a matter, then that bringing forth is BLASPHEMY.
This blasphemy is
what the Christian world is doing in about 99.9% of it. They have become a joke
to mankind. They have invented escapism doctrines to get themselves out of the processing
and they have so blasphemed the Lord they know not anymore what truth from
error is, what is right from wrong, what is of the Lord and what is not. They
are calling darkness light and light darkness, good evil and evil good. They
have performed only one thing that I can see; they have defined and exemplified
THE GREAT FALLING AWAY. They have fallen away FROM the TRUE BODY into that
which is a harlot! I am speaking about those who once confessed their need for
the Saviour and accepted the born again nature into their lives!
They have fallen away into such a reprehensible state. In my doctrine, I see this as
THE LESSER BEAST OF REVELATION 13:11. THERE IS ANOTHER BEAST.
And this one developed because of the great fall that has now fully taken place.
As such the
Overcomers are not taking part in this falling away. They are instead being
directed by the leading of the Lord into a life that is separated unto God by
the Holy Spirit. The very first thing that happens to those who are being
directed in such a way is that they are REJECTED AND CAST OUT BY CHRISTENDOM
WHICH IS FALLEN. The “fallen away” bunch of people rejects those who are
the “joined UNTO” people. The fallen away portion of Christianity
rejects the Overcomers because the Overcomers TORMENT THEM. They torment them
because the fallen away Christians conscience is pricked by the pure testimony
of those who are joined vitally to the Head, even Christ. Hence a church within
the church, the manchild within the woman, a wheel within a wheel, a new man
within an old man, an elect within an elect. They that are of the Overcoming
company form the Body of Christ in the earth and they are seen as THE TWO
WITNESSES. And we see that the whole world rejoices when the two witnesses are
killed and their dead bodies lay in the same place where the Lord was crucified.
Some will argue
that there cannot be two bodies of Christ, two groups of people, two bodies
with two differing heads on the body, one true one false. I agree. I believe
that there is NOT two bodies, but ONE true body. There is however a
conglomerate mass of confusion out there which carries no semblance of order at
all and which is of the whorish nature of Babylon made up of not only
disobedient born again Sons and Daughters in whom is strong delusion that they
might believe a lie, BUT WHICH LOOK SORT OF LIKE A BODY. But I daresay that
they are NOT joined unto the true Head, even Jesus! These are joined to another
just as ancient Israel joined them selves to everything else BUT the Lord in
truth. They became a harlot in that ancient day and modern Christianity is
doing the very exact same thing TODAY.
The true
overcoming body of Christ which has remained faithful to the Mystery of the Gospel
and are walking in full understanding of the spirit of the Lord in their lives
ARE THE TRUE ECCLESIA, the fullness of Him WHO FILLS ALL IN ALL, or if you
will, ALL WHO ARE JOINED IN TRUTH TO THE HEAD, EVEN CHRIST. But alas, judgment
has begun at God’s house and nothing of the whorish nature will survive this
judgment. It is the true body of believers who are the visible expression of The
Mystery of the Church. I hate to show such a dividing line, but we cannot feast
at the table of the Lord and the table of devils at the same time. Judgment is
falling like a billowing fire and no one who is abiding in iniquitous realms of
delusion will survive these flames. From what I can see in the spirit, we have
a mere .001% of Christianity which is walking in union with the Head of the
body. The rest have been apostatized. It is upon this true ecclesia walking in
the true directives from the Head that the 1st resurrection will
come, the arising of the world rulers to take all that is fallen away into a
new heavens and a new earth wherein
dwells righteousness. And YOU dear reader of these pages, are a part of the
true ecclesia, even in this very day of His appearing!
To be continued………………
Kenneth B
Visscher
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