PART #5
FACETS OF THE GLORIFIED BODY
For The Lord Our God Is Holy – ADDENDUM
As read by Kenneth B Visscher
For the earnest expectation of the creature
waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made
subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected [the
same] in hope, Because the
creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the
glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation
groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only [they],
but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves
groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit], the
redemption of our body. Romans
8:19-23
But if there be no resurrection of the dead,
then is Christ not risen: And if Christ be not risen, then [is] our preaching vain, and your faith [is] also vain. Yea, and we are found
false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up
Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the dead
rise not, then is not Christ raised: And if Christ be not raised, your faith [is] vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then
they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only
we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. But now is Christ
risen from the dead, [and] become the
firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man [came] death, by man [came]
also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ
shall all be made alive. 1 Cor 15:13-22
So also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in
corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised
in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural
body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a
spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living
soul; the last Adam [was made] a
quickening spirit. Howbeit that [was]
not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that
which is spiritual. The first man [is]
of the earth, earthy: the second man [is]
the Lord from heaven. As [is] the
earthy, such [are] they also that are
earthy: and as [is] the heavenly,
such [are] they also that are
heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the
image of the heavenly. 1 Cor 15:42-49
For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle
were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed
upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall
not be found naked. For we that are in [this]
tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but
clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. 2 Cor 5:1-4
For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that]
he shall stand at the latter [day] upon the earth: And [though] after my skin [worms]
destroy this [body], yet in my flesh
shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and
not another; [though] my reins be
consumed within me. Job 19:25-27
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that
it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in
the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; [Yet] through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs
like a plant. But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost,
and where [is] he? [As] the waters fail from the sea, and
the flood decayeth and drieth up: So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the
heavens [be] no more, they shall not
awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. O that thou wouldest hide me in the
grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou
wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed
time will I wait, till my change come. Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee:
thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands. Job 14:7-15
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my
holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the
LORD cometh, for [it is] nigh at hand; A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick
darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a
strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it,
[even] to the years of many
generations. A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the
land [is] as the garden of Eden
before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall
escape them. The appearance of them [is]
as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. Like the noise
of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame
of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather
blackness. They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men
of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break
their ranks: Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his
path: and [when] they fall upon the
sword, they shall not be wounded. They shall run to and fro in the city; they
shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter
in at the windows like a thief. The earth shall quake before them; the heavens
shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw
their shining: And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp
[is] very great: for [he is] strong that executeth his word:
for the day of the LORD [is] great
and very terrible; and who can abide it?
Joel 2:1-11
~***~
(5 Visions)
“The body glorified during the age of
the millennium, or the age wherein Christ rules over the nations with a rod of
iron. As the Lord did sit and rule over the nations of men, I saw those people
whom He had glorified in new bodies move and motion as the Lord moved and
motioned. As the Lord did move and work and express words from His seated
position upon the Throne, so did the glorified company of Overcomers, each
one individually, move and work and action in identical manner. As the Lord
did think with His mind upon the Throne, so did the Overcomers think with the very
same thoughts simultaneously with the Lord’s mind. As the Overcomers thought
while walking about in the midst of all the creation, so did the Lord upon the
Throne over all think. While the Overcomer had thought, the Lord thought the
same, while the Lord did think, the Overcomer thought the same. Both were of
one mind, one body, one action both verbally and in holy motivation and in
purpose. The Lord was fully omnipotent, able to be in all places at once by the
power of His spirit. What amazed me was that the Overcomers in glorified bodies
were now also the same, they were able to appear with the Lord upon the Throne,
as well as upon the earth, as well as under the earth in the realms of hell
where some were yet in death and dying, in all three realms the Overcomers did
appear all at the very same time. They did not appear just in one place, they
appeared in as many places as was necessary for the Oracles of the Lord to be
carried out for the Overcomers formed this government of the Lord and of His
Kingdom. The rod of iron the Lord did wield over the nations, that same rod of
iron the Overcomers did wield. They did walk in spirit at the same time as they
walked in their newly raised bodies. Not only did they appear upon the Throne,
upon the earth or under the earth, they also appeared throughout the entire
infinite expanse of the cosmos. For their spirits had melded as one with the
spirit of the creator so that there was no division of the spirit of an
Overcomer and the spirit of the Lord, both were exactly the same in this
glorified state, both filled all things including the cosmos and including all
space and time. The Overcomers were able to dissolve from the view of natural
eyes and appear before natural eyes at will. They were able to walk through any
place upon the earth with nothing blocking their way. No wall or building was
able to keep them out, no place on the earth was able to stop them from
appearing or disappearing. Also, the peoples of the earth and of the nations,
when viewing the Overcomers, they did see the full person of the Lord as though
they saw the Lord Himself in person, the Overcomers were that much in identity
with the risen Christ. These things are hard to comprehend but it is best to
understand that the Overcomers at the point of glorification at the coming of
Christ will be as He is in all realms.”
(End Vision)
“I saw also that the Overcomers were
given the holy mandate from the Throne to bear about in their glorified bodies
the Oracles of the Lord as “scripts” or “texts” of Holy Governance. The Lord
would move within the Overcomers and without the Overcomers to place in them
His ordinances and laws according to His Holy Oracle. As each time frame of the
next age unfolded, the Overcomers received this instruction in the form of a
dispensation of a text or a scroll unfolded and displayed as a portion of Holy
Government. So then as the Lord did unfold His purpose in the age that is
dawning, so did the Overcomers have that holy governance openly displayed in
their glorified bodies and all of creation, the nations, the cosmos itself, all
could clearly read the Oracles of the Lord in the bodies of these now in the
eternal glorified saints; even these that did overcome all things in Christ. At
the same time as these scripts or texts did lay out the governance of the Lord,
Angels in glory, multitudes of Angels, did minister unto the nations the grace
and help they needed to obey these ordinances. The Angels comforted the nations
while they obeyed the ordinances of the Lord through the Overcomers. The Angels
themselves subjected themselves to the scripts and texts and ordinances found
in the bodies of the Overcomers with great joy. As they submitted to these
ordinances great songs of worship and praise ascended from the Angelic host
unto God who did sit upon the Throne for the time of His promise to bring
restitution to all creation had come and these did sing in worship for such a
time. Such was the governance of the Lord that there was nothing in the world
of men that could resist it, for it was a governance that was clearly displayed
and seen and read in the new bodies of those whom the Lord had raised up to sit
with Him upon His eternal Throne.”
(End Vision)
(The following vision
is from Chapter 33 of The New Jerusalem Series called “The Glorified Body”(click
HERE),
as well as chapter 34, The Power of God, (click HERE).)
“Then
the Angel which supported me took me aside to show me the magnificence of those
who would be called “Overcomers”. Even these who forsook all things to be like
their Lord. I saw in its entire scope the New Jerusalem from the bottom to the
top including the foundations as though they were steps going upward and ending
at the base of the Gates and the Jasper Wall. Far above the pinnacle of the
City on the top of the Mount Zion in the midst of the City I saw a fire enfolding
in upon itself and in the midst of the billowing waves of fire a Throne set and
One who sat upon the Throne, even the Ancient of Days, The Lord God Almighty,
The Great I Am That I Am that Moses knew. As I looked at the fire it began to
grow and to envelop other parts of the
(End Vision)
“The
sword of the Lord, even by the tip of the sword then cleaved apart one side of
the larger bone revealing inside it the mass of marrow and the formation of
blood. As the Lord’s sword had cleaved this apart the marrow became fully
visible, so also the formation of the blood which blood was created with the
Mystery of Iniquity fully rampant within it. Down deep in the marrow were the
platelets of red blood, each based on this earthly body and created as one with
the blood of the world since the time of
(End
Vision)
“Then
saw I the Lord. He stood upon the earth in full regency of His glory and power
the full measure of His person was clearly seen even by those who had passed
from this world and who died in hope of the resurrection. As the Lord stood
upon the earth I saw gathered before Him a little group of people. This group
of people were joined with others who were of the same group who had once been
alive but had died in times past and who were no longer living on the earth in
bodies of flesh and blood. These all together stood before the Lord who Himself
was now standing upon the earth in His splendour. The Lord then held out His
arm over the heads of these who stood by Him and in the Lord’s hand was a cloud
of great glory. So great was this weight of glory that the brilliance of it was
equalled to the brilliance of the glory of the Lord itself. The glory that He
held forth in His hand and over the heads of those who stood before Him was the
same glory by which the Lord had now clothed Himself. What I saw was that the
hand of the Lord was not in a palm up fashion, but a palm down fashion so that
the glory which His hand held was able to descend out of His hand and light
upon the heads of the waiting ones. These who then were together an Army were
thus brought into the very same brilliance of glory as was the Lord, the
brightness was the same, the weight of glory was the same and their bodies were
the same. These all became one with the Lord as His Army in the brilliance of
glory and in bodies which could not die. So it was, the Lord raised in the
first resurrection these who stood by waiting, and they were glorified.”
(End
Vision)
~***~
In the world of Christendom the
magnitude of counterfeits has come full scale. There is now in the earth a
counterfeit for every holy thing. There is a counterfeit Jesus, a counterfeit
Holy Spirit, a counterfeit Heavenly Father. There are counterfeit or false
gifts, purposes, prophecies, teachings, evangelisms, building efforts, mind
control games, obsessive behaviors that are not becoming to saints. There is an
over abundance of stellar gazers and horoscope readers. The world has become
rife with the massive adultery purported by those who claim they know Christ.
Instead, these who are of Christendom’s order have intermingled themselves with
the world just as ancient Israel did, they have done exactly the same. Counterfeits
galore cover the earth. Every feasible excuse is given for them also. Men state
that they are “free” to worship as they want, to be as they want, to move and
walk and talk as they want. Man has become an entity unto himself and the reins
that were supposed to be tied to the heart strings of a believer are cut off by
bad doctrine. The easy way is the accepted way, they seek escape, not victory,
wealth, not overcoming power. Such is the counterfeits of this day. The gifts,
fruits motions and actions of all that is holy is now counterfeited and held up
as truth and as the ensample of holiness by the world of Christendom.
But there is NO counterfeiting of the
glorified body! There is NO counterfeiting of the Army of the Lord! No one will
be able to imitate, even if it is by bodily materialism from demonic powers,
those whom the Lord is coming to glorify. The glorified Overcomers are the one
standard that the Lord has raised up over the nations of the earth, which
standard is also the full text amplified of the word of the Lord itself, all of
that is found IN the glorified body of the Overcomer.
Hear this well dear reader of these
pages. The Lord Jesus Christ is the ONLY ONE thus far who has a glorified body.
Now we know from the scriptures that when Jesus died upon the cross, that His
spirit came forth out of His body and did three things. First and most
importantly, His spirit tore the veil of the temple from top to bottom with a
huge earthquake. That tearing of the veil and that earthquake was done by the
Prince of Peace. No one else can claim that it was done by any other power. It
was not done by geotechnical global movements of tectonic plates in the earth. It
was done by the King of Kings who had FINISHED the sacrifice. He first then
tore the veil from top to bottom for two reasons. The first reason was so that
GOD HIMSELF WOULD NOW BE FREE TO COME OUT FROM THE HOLY OF HOLIES AND COME UNTO
THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH. The second reason was so that MAN COULD NOW FREELY
COME UNTO GOD IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES.
The second thing the spirit of Jesus
did was that in the same earthquake, He opened the graves of the saints who
laid in graves around Jerusalem. These came out of their graves and were seen
walking the streets of the city. I also believe that this is why Joseph gave
commandment concerning his bones, he had a revelation that the Lord Himself
would make the final atonement on Golgotha and Joseph wanted to be part of that
resurrection! But how can I say that Jesus was the only one who had a glorified
body when these rose also? With what body did they come? After all, they must
have been made new? Sown in death in corruption, they must have put on
incorruption, sown in weakness, they must have been raised in strength? Sown
mortal, they must have been raised immortal? I believe that these raised also
ascended with Jesus after His ascension at the end of the 40 days. These became
part of the “clouds” that received Jesus out of sight. However, the 7th
trumpet had not yet sounded, the Army of the Lord was not yet compiled, these
yet without us are not yet made “perfect”. It is when the tally of the Lord’s
Army is complete that the whole shall be glorified. “And these all, having obtained a good report through
faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better
thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect”. Hebrews
11:39-40. Some may argue that they have glorified
bodies, but if so, why then do they not appear now in the earth, why do they
not now govern in the earth, why are they not now seen freely glorified amongst
the nations of men? It is because of the “timing” of the Lord in tallying up
the full measure of His Overcomers so that they together may walk forth into
this very world in the glorified state. This is the only conclusion I come to
in my study of the word.
The
third thing Jesus did was He descended into hell and there preached unto the
spirits in prison. “For Christ
also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring
us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits
in prison; Which sometime were disobedient,
when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark
was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water”. 1 Peter
3:18-20 These had the victorious savior come to preach to
them! Why would Jesus do that if those in hell had no hope? Nay, they received the
living word even in their perished state, the gates of hell could not resist
the spirit of Jesus! Not only did Christ descend to them, He descended LOWER
than any that existed there! Christ lowered Himself FAR BELOW any that were
resident in hell since the time of Noah’s flood! So that Christ now fills the
volume of human history! He fills all the expanse from the lowest of the lowest
hell to the highest place at the right hand of God, Christ fills ALL THINGS! He
freely descended to them so that He might bring them unto Himself in glory. My
personal belief is that it was a resurrection, and emptying out of hell of all
they that had died in the first world. Those that perished while the first
world remained covered in the flood. So then, the first world raised from their
ungodly state came as spirits to join the ones raised from around Jerusalem,
and then after 40 days they as a conglomerate rescued people formed the “clouds”
that received the Savior out of sight.
So then the time of the reception of
the glorified body is yet in front of us, in front of all they that have had
hope of it. It is YET TO COME TO US. But it shall come, it shall be given, it
shall be done in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. This is the true “rapture”, to be caught up in the victory
of Christ over all the spoiled principality and power, caught up to rule OVER
all things, caught up to the height of being found with Jesus at the right hand
of the Father with all other powers being made subject unto Him. That is the
final place of our faith and it is done HERE while we stand upon the earth! The
Overcomers have one distinct marking that will tell you if they are part of
this “soon to be glorified” company of Sons and Daughters. They bear all the
marks of the cross. And at the point of glorification, the cross in its all
consuming power WILL BE COMPLETE AND AT AN END. When (and only when) that day
comes will the cross have done all its work, the power and scope of it would be
needed no longer, the finality of its power to separate the carnal mind from
the mind of the spirit will be at an end. This catching up, this “rapture”
happens WHILE WE STAND UPON THE EARTH. It is here that this final victory
comes.
In this wise shall the Lord come. Through
the pineal gland shall the spirit of holiness in infinite power, the complete
person of Christ pour down into the physical body of the Overcomer. The inner
elements of the body and the inner thoughts of the heart will then be consumed
by the descent and manifested presence of Christ in but a split second moment
of time. The transformation will be eternal and it will be complete, there will
be no more necessary thing to be added to it. No further growth in learning
anything will be needed for all the full counsel of the Lord will be their mind
and all the person of the Father will be their portion. The infinite size,
weight and person of God will reside in each Overcomer, not God broken down
into smaller pieces and spread about the tallied number of Overcomers, but God
in full person in each one as each one abides ALONE where they are now
scattered throughout the nations. Each individual Overcomer will have all the
complete fullness of the Lord infinitely upon them, no part of the Lord lacking
at all in any area, not lacking in wisdom, not lacking in understanding, not
lacking in anything of the personality of The Father. All who had seen Jesus
saw the Father. All who will see the Overcomer will see exactly the same. There
will finally be a people in the world of men in whom there is NO lack!
Flowing within them will be the
everlasting blood of the covenant, the eternal life of the living Christ
without any restricted measure flowing through their veins. Eternal shall the
mortal cells of their body be, unlimited in power to raise and to resuscitate the
world of men for whom Christ died and redeemed. This is the heritage of the
Overcomer, the place of their future life, their life of being found deathless
in the midst of this world and then bringing the entire creation into that
deathless state. Such is the honor given to they that overcome.
To be continued........
Kenneth B Visscher
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