The Mystery Of The Indwelling Christ - Abiding
In This Day
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As read by Kenneth B Visscher
Go in flight out of Jerusalem,
so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin,
and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on
Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great
destruction. The fair and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will be cut off by my hand. Jeremiah 6:1-2 BBE
{*NOTE* THE FOLLOWING Definitions: Tekoa, Tekoah - Pitching of tents;
fastening down, a town of Judah, about 12 miles south of Jerusalem, and visible
from the city. From this place Joab procured a “wise woman,” who pretended to
be in great affliction, and skillfully made her case known to David. Her address to the king was in the form of an
apology, similar to that of Nathan (2Sa_12:1-6).
The object of Joab was, by the intervention of this woman, to induce David to
bring back Absalom to Jerusalem (2Sa_14:2, 2Sa_14:4, 2Sa_14:9).This
was also the birth-place of the prophet Amos (Amo_1:1).It is now the
village of Tekua, on the top of a hill among ruins, 5 miles south of Bethlehem,
and close to Beth-haccerem (“Herod's mountain”).
Beth-haccerem
- House of a vineyard, a place in the tribe of Judah
(Neh_3:14) where the Benjamites were to set up a beacon when they heard
the trumpet against the invading army of the Babylonians (Jer_6:1). It
is probable that this place is the modern 'Ain Karim, or “well of the
vineyards,” near which there is a ridge on which are cairns which may have
served as beacons of old, one of which is 40 feet high and 130 in diameter.}
O sons of Benjamin, take refuge
out of the midst of Jerusalem.
And blow the ram's horn in Tekoa, and set up a signal-fire over Beth-haccerem;
for evil appears out of the north, and great ruin. I will destroy the daughter
of Zion, the
beautiful and tender one. The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her;
they shall pitch tents on her all around; they shall feed each one in
his hand. Prepare war against her; arise and let us go up at noon. Woe to us!
For the day goes away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. Arise,
and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces. For so has Jehovah of Hosts said, Cut down trees and cast a mound
against Jerusalem!
She is the city to be visited; there is nothing but oppression in
her midst. As a fountain keeps fresh her waters, so she keeps fresh her evil;
violence and spoil is heard in her; always before Me are grief and
wounds. O Jerusalem, you must be instructed, lest My soul depart from you; lest
I make you desolate, a land without people. So says Jehovah
of Hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine; turn back your
hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets. To whom shall I speak, and give
warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are not circumcised, and
they cannot listen. Behold, the Word of Jehovah is
to them a reproach; they have no delight in it. Therefore I am full of the fury
of Jehovah; I am weary with holding in; I will pour
it out on the children in the street, and on the circle of young men together.
For even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with fullness of
days. And their houses shall be turned to others, together with their
fields and wives; for I will stretch out My hand on the people of the land,
says Jehovah. For everyone from the least of them
even to the greatest of them cuts off a profit; and from the prophet even to
the priest everyone deals falsely. They have also healed the hurt of the
daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is
no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were
not at all ashamed, nor could they blush; therefore they shall fall among those
who fall. At the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says Jehovah. So says Jehovah, Stand
in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths where the good way is,
and walk in it, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will
not walk in it. Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Listen to
the sound of the ram's horn. But they said, We will not listen. Therefore hear,
nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. Hear, O earth;
behold, I will bring evil on this people, the fruit of their thoughts, because
they have not listened to My Words, nor to My Law, but have rejected it. Why
does frankincense come to Me from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a
far country? Your burnt offerings are not pleasing, nor your sacrifices
sweet to Me. Therefore so says Jehovah, Behold, I
will lay stumbling-blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons
together shall fall on them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish. So says Jehovah, Behold, a people comes from the north country, and
a great nation shall be stirred from the sides of the earth. They shall lay
hold on bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice
roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, set in order like a man for war
against you, O daughter of Zion
.
Jeremiah
6:1-23
M
KJV
And now, because you have done all these works, says Jehovah, and I
spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear; and I called
you, but you did not answer; therefore I will do to this house, which is
called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and
to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. And I will cast you out of My sight,
as I have cast out all your brothers, the whole seed of Ephraim. Therefore do
not pray for this people, nor lift up cry nor prayer for them, nor make
intercession to Me; for I will not hear you. Do you not see what they do in the
cities of Judah
and in the streets of Jerusalem?
The sons gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead
dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to
other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger. Do they vex Me? says Jehovah. Is it not themselves, to the shame of their
own faces? Therefore so says the Jehovah God; Behold, My anger and My fury
shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of
the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be
put out. So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel:
Put your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I did not speak
to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the
land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. But I commanded them
this thing, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My
people; and walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, so that it may be
well with you. But they did not listen, nor bow their ear, but walked in their
own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and
not forward. Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt
until this day I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily
rising up early and sending. Yet they did not listen to Me, nor bow down their
ear, but hardened their neck. They did worse than their fathers. So you shall
speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; you shall also
call to them, but they will not answer you. Jeremiah
7:13-27
I CHARGE [you] in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus,
Who is to judge the living and the dead, and by (in the light of) His coming
and His kingdom: Herald and preach the Word! Keep your sense of urgency [stand
by, be at hand and ready], whether the opportunity seems to be favorable or
unfavorable. [Whether it is convenient or inconvenient, whether it is
welcome or unwelcome, you as preacher of the Word are to show people in what
way their lives are wrong.] And convince them, rebuking and correcting,
warning and urging and encouraging them, being unflagging and inexhaustible in
patience and teaching. For the time is coming when [people] will not
tolerate (endure) sound and wholesome instruction, but, having ears itching [for
something pleasing and gratifying], they will gather to themselves one
teacher after another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own
liking and to foster the errors they hold, 2Timothy 4:1-3 Amplified Bible
I am the true vine, and my Father is the
husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every
branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more
fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in
me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in
the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are
the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much
fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast
forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them
into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in
you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my
Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. As the
Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep
my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's
commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that
my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. This is my
commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath
no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my
friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. John
15:1-14
(2 Visions)
(1st Vision)
“Beholding the Lord upon the Throne of
Heaven I saw that in His face was the appearance of both the Jasper and the
Sardius Stone, His mercy and grace were infinite, but so was His wrath. What I
saw was pointed to me as a message for those who would listen. For there will
be many in this hour who will not listen to these words. The Lord was beholding
in the world of men the common Christian world. And the Lord was SEPARATE FROM
IT ALL. He did not have any part of the Christian world nor was He in pleasure
of it. But the entire expanse of this Christian world He did liken to Israel
of old who did not obey His voice nor fear His word. The prophets of old were
not received by Israel
and Christianity today does not receive the true prophets of the Lord either.
Yet I saw that the Lord was finding no pleasure in the Christian world that had
not given heed to the words of the Lord in the scriptures and confirmed by His
holy prophets. The same measure of wrath against ancient Israel
was now upon modern Christianity. This was in present time, even a present reality in the world of men.”
(End Vision)
(2nd Vision)
“The Angel then which held me under my right arm and carried me brought me in the night by vision to the realm of the heavens wherein the Lord was set in His glory, robed in robes of holiness, gold in color and bright with tapestry befitting His person. I did see the Lord as a flying wind course through the heavens at a very rapid pace, the flowing and billowing of His robes around Him did flow as He rapidly did course through the heavens at a very fast pace. I was then carried up close to the left side of the Lord as He did travel rapidly with great speed through the heavens. So close was I brought that I was near to the left side of His face able to see His features and the left side of His eye. He did look forward with that eye unto the earth and to this very present time in the world of men. The Lord was very wroth with the inhabitants of the earth and His fury had reached up into His face as He did move swiftly to bring about His wrath and to discomfit and to end this present world which had grown to the full in iniquity and in apostasy. I saw that there was no place on the earth that the Lord did not fly over to destroy, that nothing man had made or polluted in the earth would come outside of His wrath, that His wrath would touch every area, that nothing in this world we are in now will be able to be left untouched by the fury of He who did fly so swiftly to complete His purpose. So it was that I did not know to what extent this wrath would flow, but I knew that the Lord was not going to permit this world to continue as it is but will work swiftly to end all the ways of man, even in our present time.”
(End Vision)
In this very hour the true Overcomer stands completely alone, away from
the presence and fellowship of others, they may have some side to side
communication with a few people, but for the most part they are being taught to
remain in the prison house of confinement and solitude while the Lord continues
to judge their hearts. In the mind of the Overcomer there is a continual
question as to the workings of the Lord in their lives, as to His processing
and judgements in them. They often do not know or are not aware of the presence
of the Lord; He seems far away, removed from them in every sense of the word.
The presence of the Lord they long for is often replaced by this question mark
and this searching for the Lord in everything that is happening in their lives.
Add to this the raging of their own thoughts and the deceit of their own
hearts, the open manifest display of ungodly flesh and the seemingly endless
wave of personal iniquity in continual rebellion to the word of the Lord and
the life of the Lord, all within the life of any Overcomer who stands apart
from all other men. Upon them the Lord pours forth His judgments, which the
Overcomer can take wrongly and think it to be another excuse for their life to
be found utterly rejected by the Lord, rather than seeing that they are
actually making progress. The more the Overcomer wants to move forward in the
Lord, the more the Lord seems further away from them. It is a condition I call
“war”, and it is very real. Sometimes at the very same time there is an
enjoyment of life, a treasured existence in this world by which we are blessed
by immediate family or friends, by which we also enjoy the bounty of this
natural creation. But we must realize that we are truly under the Lord’s
scrutiny at this time, He is judging the Overcomer and His is going to now END
that same judgment. The success of this will become evident when the question
mark is removed.
Whether you can see this or not, or whether you can believe this or
not, the aloneness you feel and the separation you have is the perfect will of
the Lord in your life and it is there to teach you to abide in Jesus, knowing
full well that He will be 100% successful in having His way in the company of
Sons and Daughters. There will not be any gap between you and the Lord when
this gap is closed, when the judgments are done, when the Lord completes this
task He has of making you new. Whether you can see this or not because of the
abundance of your own flesh, the Lord will make all that you are as a person to
become HOLY, minus the negative realm. He is literally going to move in
a moment of time, in one instance, in a day that is just in front of us,
wherein He will END our judgment, TOGETHER, and will take the
ENTIRE COMPANY OF OVERCOMERS INTO A HOLY CONDITION OR STATE. The Lord will make
all the Overcomers together everywhere at the very same time HOLY AS HE IS
HOLY. This is a real thing which you the reader will experience in your life.
This will be a working that cannot be done by you yourself, but by the Lord
alone. He will END YOUR JUDGMENT. I am prophesying that judgement is about to
end for you! Right now you find that hard to believe, but believe it you must,
for it will surely come to pass. The Lord is going to return to bring this
world into the millennium and He will return with His Overcomers, and they will
all be HOLY AND WITHOUT FAULT. That is YOUR future dear reader of this page!
Not a “someday it will happen”, it is” happening now”. What is the “proof” of
this? YOUR TRIBULATIONS. Those trials that hound you day and night and the
pressures of this day to day life is proof of your soon to be holiness. “But my trials are just the normal part of
everyday life, they are not much different than any other person’s trials”,
you say. Oh yes they are, for your trials are combined with the heat of the
fire of the Holy Ghost! No blasphemy from your person quenches the spirit of
the Lord in you, the flesh and the spirit He has separated, NOTHING will meld
them together ever again. It is a real testimony the Lord has set in you and it
will not be found with any fault, nor will any man on the earth be able to
speak against it!
I speak now this word of prophecy unto you the reader of this page. The
Lord is moving now in the earth to bring everything to a successful conclusion
IN HIS KINGDOM. That means that all that is now outside of His Kingdom must
come undone, so that all that is outside of His Kingdom may be made holy and
brought into His Kingdom. And that Kingdom which Jesus
said was not of this world will overtake all other Kingdoms and swallow them
up, making them come into His sole dominion and glory. Just think on these
things, these are part of the “whatsoever
is lovely” things we need to know. Philippians 4:8. Since the food in Noah’s day, until now, this day has been prophesied.
This is the day of the beginning of the millennial reign of Christ.
That day is dawning, a day that will end the world as we know it, but will
replace it with His Kingdom which has always been in the heart of Father. A
progressive working by His spirit which no one will be able to deny. Everything
that is amiss in this hour will be removed. The only thing seen and heard will
be the voice of the King as He establishes His Kingdom in the world of men. You
are alive at the culmination of all the previous ages. The time factor you are
in is the time which many desired to see, but died, having seen these promises
afar off. Yet you live in the time where these things are taking place. That is
my prophecy unto you.
In upcoming studies I will be covering The Mystery of Israel’s
Blindness. In that study we will see the cost that comes to a nation when
disobedience is the only thing they know. In the scriptures above, the Lord is
stating very clearly that He is not going to allow Jerusalem, as it was, to continue. And now in
our time, He will not allow, the modern Christian world as it is now in their
denominational settings, to continue. If you look at Jeremiah
6:1, 2, you will note that the Lord is very sure on what He says He will do. Quoting
from the Modern King James Bible: “O
sons of Benjamin, take refuge out of
the midst of Jerusalem.
And blow the ram's horn in Tekoa, and set up a signal-fire over Beth-haccerem;
for evil appears out of the north, and great ruin. I will destroy the daughter
of Zion, the
beautiful and tender one.” We see that Benjamin
is the Son of His right hand. That is representative of the Overcoming Company.
Those who will inherit the promise first and be raised in the first
resurrection as first fruits unto God. Take refuge out of the midst of Jerusalem, in other
words, GET OUT OF JERUSALEM. In this figure, bringing this into today’s time
and condition, GET OUT OF THE MIDST OF DENOMINATIONAL CHRISTIANITY. LEAVE. Do
not partake of ANYTHING THEY ARE DOING. Tekoah, the pitching of tents, the
place where you MUST go, it is the place of the blasting of the confirming
trumpet. The place where the word of God is being declared IN TRUTH and not to
the extent of the ear tickling that is going on in this day in all the systems
of men. The birthplace of the prophet
Amos, one who declared judgment against the palaces of Jerusalem and all the surrounding nations. Flee
to where the truth is declared, pitch your tent there and abide, for JERUSALEM – A TYPE OF THE
MODERN WORLD OF CHRISTENDOM, IS ABOUT TO BE JUDGED. That judgement includes all
the brash speeches and all the brash phrases said and done as though it were
the Lord saying and doing it. You will see this judgment now in the earth as
the Lord begins to move very swiftly in this direction. Set a signal fire in
Beth-haccerem, a mountain high, declare it openly, but NONE exept those with an
ear to hear will hear the warning of impending judgment. The Lord is WROTH with
the present condition in the world of men and He is going to move now in
judgment to end it! The signal fire speaks of the judgment from the north, from
the height of the fury of the Lord to remove from mankind his own way. This I
declare openly in prophecy unto you.
So in the midst of this time sits the lonely Overcomer. Beset with
tempests and storms, a life with a carnal element but desiring the fuller
spiritual element, in all of this the Overcomer stands ready for whatever the
Lord is about to bring forth in the earth. Only by faith do they abide in Jesus, knowing that He will complete His desire upon
them, and unto Him alone do they separate themselves. It seems as though things
are plodding along day by day, the same way all the time. But the breakings
continue, the cup of suffering we continue to drink from, the preparations
happen day by day through the long days of trial and testing until we are
broken, but fit for the master’s use. At that point the Lord will send us to
those who are yet waiting for the same consolations. To those whom the Lord
must judge and break also. Back into the kingdom of Egypt
your footsteps will go so that you can speak to the Pharaohs of this day and
demand that he lets God’s people go. Back
with this perfect breaking into the systems
of man to discomfit, to unsnarl and undo all that man has built wrongly
for himself, introducing him instead to the breaking power of the spirit of the
Lord. To deliver God’s true ones, still caught up in the bondage to Egypt, back
into the liberty that is afforded to them once their lives have suffered the
same. To present to these their crosses, so that these crosses might become
real to them, so that they learn not to take the Lord’s name in vain, but to
take instead their own cross and to do the will of God. All we are enduring is
teaching us to abide in Jesus, then to
follow His example and do likewise.
The Lord will have a holy people. He will have an overcoming people,
but He will also have this for all mankind, both for the apostate Christendom
we see now, and for all who were born after Adam.
This breaking and judgment you have endured yourself will be passed forward
unto all who would one day grace the halls and highways of The New Jerusalem. No
one will be left out of the same judgment and breaking you endured. No one will
remain outside of His perfect will for them once He has remade them into
ensamples of His grace. No one will walk in their own way, but they will walk
in the way of the Lord continually in this age that is dawning. That is the
working of the Lord that will be, but for now is concentrated on the lowly
Overcomer, set aside in their closet of prayer.
Continue to set your eyes up upon the Christ
alone. He is ready to receive you as you are into His holy habitation, all for
the purpose of manifesting you as a son so that you can remove death from off of
the rest of creation. Learn as you are presently doing to continue to abide in
the Lord, knowing that as a refuge from the storm, so all men will learn this same
abiding. YOU will be that refuge; YOU will be the covering place from the time
of this storm. This working of the Lord will continue until the whole is
redeemed, the grafts are grown fully in, and the Kingdom presented belongs
solely to the Lord. This is the honour given to those who are in this state,
even at this present time.
To be continued………………….
