~ The Mystery Of The Faith
~ The Road Home
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AS READ BY KENNETH B VISSCHER
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so
that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Hebrews 11:1-3
But without faith it is impossible to please and be
satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He
is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him [out]. Hebrews 11:6
AMPLIFIED
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: For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty
city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it
even to the dust. The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and
the steps of the needy. The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright,
dost weigh the path of the just. Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have
we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the
remembrance of thee. With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with
my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the
earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. Let favour be
shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of
uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be
ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall
devour them. LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought
all our works in us. Isaiah 26:3-12
Hear, O
my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many. I
have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in the right paths. When
you go, your steps shall not be narrowed, and when you run, you shall not
stumble. Take fast hold of instruction; do not let go; keep her; for she is
your life. Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not into the way of
evil. Avoid it; do not pass by it; turn from it, and pass on! For they do not
sleep, except when they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away
unless they cause some to fall. For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink
the wine of violence. But the path of the just is as the shining light, that
shines more and more to the perfect day. The way of the wicked is as darkness;
they know not at what they stumble. Proverbs
4:10-19 MKJV
But to
me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a man's day;
but I do not judge my own self, 1 Corinthians 4:3 MKJV
So let
a man think of us as ministers of
For I
think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to
death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
We are fools for
To the
chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of
For
even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us
an example, that ye should follow his steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile
found in his mouth: Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he
suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead
to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. 1
He that believeth on the Son of God hath the
witness in himself: 1
“ONE MAN stood before the Lord clothed in the
armor of battle, holding forth a round shield with his left arm and a
glittering sword with his right, holding the sword straight up in salute to the
Lord. This one was a many membered man the company of those who agree with the
Lord and who are counted as ones who overcame. This one man then turned and
went forth into the world bearing the sword in skill and strength and wielded
it in such a way as to break apart the bands of death and confinement by the
curse of the fall, to set at liberty all such in the world who were subjected
to death. By the skill of their sword and the defence of their shield they
removed death all while repelling the attack of enemy spirits who did not want
to see mankind delivered from so great a death. As this one man went forward
into the earth those of the earth who called upon the Lord and who put their
trust in the salvation of the Lord, but who was not delivered from the efforts
of vain religion, attacked and maligned this one who delivered men from death
and dying. Those who professed they knew
(End Vision)
Several months ago the statement was made by
the Holy Spirit that there would be the thought and the sense of a type of
“withdrawal” of knowing the presence of the Lord. This withdraw would seem like
the Lord had become intangible in “spiritual awareness” in the life of any
person who was waiting for that which the Lord has promised us in this world.
Our lives have been set to walk forward into all the promises of the Lord, but
His ways are not ours, and instead of walking forward into that bright community
of believers who know of the motion of His spirit continually, they end up
being “estranged” and “set apart” more and more. Then this withdrawal of His
presence on top of this and the Son or Daughter of God ends up being left with
faith alone to keep them. Add to this waning of His presence the increased
pressures from all sides and one finds that they have come into quite a seemingly
precarious situation. There seems to be no answer to how to come into the hope
that they have held before them and there is nothing to go back to either. The
life of the lowly Overcomer ends up being in a flux, a state of “nothing”
overtakes them, they end up being set apart and aside waiting as they have
been, but this time without knowing the presence of the Lord, that too seems to
have been removed.
The fact of this is rather basic. The Lord
has removed the knowledge of His presence to a varying degree amongst those
whom He has chosen to overcome all to teach them one valuable and necessary
thing prior to the coming of
This
withdrawal of the presence of the Lord is not literal, it is just in the area
where the Lord once coaxed us and brought us to know He is in us of a truth.
This sense of the waning of His presence is not a “departure” of the Lord from us;
it is simply another step in our preparation for maturity. There is a factual
physical thing that is in front of us and that is the manifestation of the Sons
and Daughters of God. This literal happening will be AFTER the faith factor has
come to the full, that faith factor being faith, fully matured. Think of this
waning of His presence as being a turn in your pathway into the driveway that
leads you home to your eternal house. That driveway is the one that just came
off the highway of the expanding “way” of mankind in this hour; we step OFF
that highway to step ON TO the driveway that leads us home. This withdrawal of
His presence is for us the final stage prior to His coming to glorify His
saints. He seems to withdraw His presence briefly so that faith can come to the
full, not so we think we are forsaken, but enabled to walk in pure faith with
nothing on either side that can distract us. That is the one thing the Lord is
now looking for.
Going back to this highway I spoke of, that
highway is the course of human history. This highway becomes a definition for
us of the pressures of this hour. It holds upon it the curious mix of
religions, of international efforts to sustain a standard of living, of the
decision process of mankind and of man’s ability to course their own future
because they have it in the power of their mind to do so. But along side of
this highway are ditches into which many have fallen and are trapped because
they have not been able to endure the rate of speed and the requirements needed
to course along this asphalt line of human ambition. In our day the ditches are
filling up with the lost, those who cannot fathom the overwhelming extent to
which this highway demands their obedience to their governmental bondages. Add
to this the context of collapsing financial systems and the inability of man to
find solutions to the strife of nations and one finds that the highway in this
hour is most daunting indeed. It is fraught with peril of every sort and it is
known to leave the downtrodden and outcasts aside just as it has done in eons
past when history proved that the ordinary person did not have any value to the
ambitions of political terrorism. We are in such a time once again, a repeat of
human history, except that this time the highway is hitting a dead end, the
consummation of the age is upon us and the Lord is drawing this asphalt jungle
to a conclusion. Crashing into the end of this highway will be all the attempts
by any nation or group to establish their mark in history. Instead the Lord is
now bringing the entire thing to judgment at which time He will end it
completely. That time has come.
But prior to this final judgement and the
ending of this age, the Lord is causing His Overcomers to turn off this highway
completely and to come aside unto their true spiritual home. For now, they are
going past the multitudes that have fallen into the ditches which seem to have
no hope, they are bypassing all the efforts of mankind upon that highway, they
are simply coming aside onto this “driveway” by which they will traverse the
last few steps to their eternal home. This turning aside onto this driveway is
the “faith” that singles the Overcomers out from all others. As stated, the
presence of the Lord seems to wane, but that is because the turning aside to
come home is fraught with much danger. When we leave the highway we are under
various modes of “attack”. Those upon the highway who are busying themselves
with their own ambitions do not like the thought that there are some who will
not take part in their efforts, even if these efforts mean their destruction. These
attacks which come are meant to do us harm but instead they lay open our faith
and we find that we have no other support EXCEPT the faith that the Lord
requires of us to enter into His promises. We leave now entirely this present
evil world, we come aside towards our eternal home, and while we do so we are
assaulted by the forces of darkness who do not like to lose us as their prey.
All of this has a purpose. The Lord is
revealing to us in faith, that we are a “peculiar people.” This is not exalting
one group over another. The Lord is abasing the Overcoming Company by this
withdrawal of His presence so that this Overcoming Company can recognize their
purpose and calling. It is not to be overwhelmed with rewards and payments for
past sufferings. It is not to just fight back against the onslaughts of
spiritual darkness. The purpose for the present trial is so that we can know we
are “intercessors” for both the Body of Christ AND MANKIND. This turning off of
the highway is a prophecy to the world that the highway cannot continue, that
it must now come to its demise hitting the dead end in the form of final
judgment. For the Overcomer, turning now off of this highway and living purely
by faith alone, a requirement has come. And that is to intercede and seek
repentant forgiveness on behalf of mankind who has disobeyed God’s law and have
run rampant after the appetites of the flesh and of proud ambitions. Men who
spent their lives making a name for themselves are the modern day “giants” that
were once seen in the first world prior to the flood of
Here is the will of the Lord in The Mystery
of the Faith for this hour. That the Overcomers who have turned off the course
of human history, would now seek the Lord to repent on behalf of mankind, to
turn as it were God’s wrath away from consuming the nations in a moment. For
the Lord’s wrath has also come to the full and the error of man in rejecting
God and His commanded law has now reached the summit. We intercede and
therefore place ourselves in front of the Lord’s wrath rather than mankind who
did this serious error in abandoning their Creator. It behoves us now at this
time to do this intercession.
How do we do this intercession in a practical
way? Do we just go hide ourselves away and ignore the fact that mankind is on
the road to a dead end? Do we just believe we are special and that no one else
need apply to this grand position we think we are in? We must become servants
so to speak, to intercede as priests would intercede for the trespass of his
people. We intercede on behalf of all the nations and souls in the earth so
that the Lord will move and bring all things to nothing, yes, but for the express
reason of restoring mankind into the
I believe this is what the Lord has been
bringing us to. That place where we minister to God the things that pertain to
God, righteousness, holiness, justification; and we minister now to mankind the
practical outworking of all this faith by intercession, standing in the gap and
seeing the fulfillment of all the Lord has promised us. This is not to be just
a thought we have, but an actual step in faith, one we carry forward and see
fulfilled as the Lord works out His purpose in this hour. In no wise do we ever
think we are elevated above our fellow man. Rather than that, we become those
that serve our fellow man by prayer, obedience continued and trusting
implicitly that the age of His Kingdom has indeed come. Mankind is going to go
through a bit of a painful time, but then afterwards the joy of His Kingdom
will be given to all; no one will be left out once all the corrections are
completed.
“Know
ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the
To be continued………………….
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