The
Biography and Testimony of Kenneth B Visscher concerning his life experience in
spiritual war and of wearing the armour of the spirit found in Ephesians 6: 10
– 18.
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Christ Spoiled All Principality and Power
Continuing Ken's 18th Year
A Brief Jump Ahead
The Great Revelation
Ken meets his wife
Wedding Day
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Rejoice in the Lord alway: [and]
again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The
Lord [is] at hand. Be careful for nothing; but in every
thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made
known unto God. And the peace of
God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through
Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren,
whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are]
just, whatsoever things [are] pure,
whatsoever things [are] lovely,
whatsoever things [are] of good report;
if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these
things. Those things, which ye have
both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace
shall be with you. Phil 4:4-9,
(Testimony
continued from Part #1)
It must be understood that after so long a time much
cloud in memory develops to recall details. The purpose in coming up to sharing
Ken’s 18th year was not to dwell on the negatives, but rather to
come to a point where the Lord, by “revelation”, shows His will concerning
spiritual war and conflict. The vast majority of mankind has no notion of what
spiritual war is nor of how it can effect a person. Ken was different in that
he was targeted from his youth for these battlements.
Now Christ has openly spoiled all principality and
power, the spirits of wickedness in high places. He by the triumph of Calvary
spoiled them openly and took from them their power. So how is it that there can
be spiritual war? Because it is not just an act of appropriating Christ’s
victory by faith, it is also incumbent for anyone who desires to walk in purity
to also gain the same ground Christ gained by OBEDIENCE. Obedience to the Lord,
the gospel and to the calling for a pure and a right walk without any religious
effort. The powers that assailed Jesus were defeated by Jesus and now by us in
the same vein of conquest and by careful assessment of our lives in truth and
obedience to His word. Christ holds their power, no one else does, and He uses
it to try our faith and to test our resolve to be found in Him without spot or
wrinkle. If the world had only just joy, it would not learn or know patience or
wisdom in directing the affairs of life into an obedient walk. It is no longer
a sin question, it is an obedience question. The powers of the air remain in
this place in order to be used of Christ to try His people and to test them and
to see who it is that will obey His word, walk forth in the armor provided in
Ephesians 6:10-18. The minions along with Satan are sent by the Lord to thwart
our walk so that we WILL obey the Lord and don the instruments of war and not
give place to their assaults. This does sound strange, but it is part of the
future experience of being caught up in total victory forever over them
according to the coming of Christ in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. Ken’s doctrine is
that the final total triumph of victory which equates itself with Christ’s
first victory is this catching up to rule and reign over all other powers.
Catching up, not in body, but in total eternal and complete victory. The “body”
catching up (what Ken terms the “true rapture”), is the change of the physical
body into a glorified body, a body which bears the weight and the volume of the
personality of God; which body remains ON the earth for the age that is
dawning. Such is the world of spiritual war and the word of faith which is
preached to keep the Overcomers in victory over all other such powers that come
to dissuade the people of God.
The purpose of this testimony paper is to reveal
that war and the victory we have in it day by day. Ken’s life has been fraught
with such wars, the magnitude and the length of them has at times been
staggering to fathom. However, each and every war has been totally and
victoriously conquered by Ken in his faith and in the power of Christ’s
resurrection. Not one war has ever been lost. The appropriation of the cross
and of the separation of flesh from spirit in Ken’s life made him much more of
a target for the assaults that would come by negative spiritual conquests
against him. Much more so in measure were these conquests due to the calling
upon Ken’s life to deliver to the body of Christ a prophetic word in season
which would prepare the Lord’s Overcomers for the appearing of Jesus. Ken’s
calling was to set forth prophetic utterance which would meld the body of
Christ into unity destroying any false fabrication of that body and enabling
the members of that body to walk in the fullness of spirit. It was the mantle
of Elijah upon Ken that made him an open target more so than most.
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Continuing On Ken’s 18th
Year
(Recalling
the 4 month visitation of the Lord)
During this visitation the Lord concentrated much of
His time in communion with Ken on the verses found in Daniel 2, Matthew 24 and
2 Timothy 3. During this visitation the Lord laid out to Ken how the mantle of
prophecy would be used to encourage and enliven the body of Christ to give them
impetus and hope to overcome and to be prepared for the coming of Christ. The
emphasis was that the coming of Christ was the focal point, the goal of the
prophecies. The entire scope of prophecy concerning the peril of the time would
be overshadowed by the hope of His appearing in perfection and without sin to
those who were prepared for that coming and that part of Ken’s ministry was to
assist in this preparation. With much emphasis upon the Lord being alone
exalted and glorified, the Lord made real to Ken that he would live to see
these things come to pass. It is not that Ken is not willing to go by way of
the grave, but that promise was made that the culmination of this present age
and of the ending of the church age would be witnessed during his lifetime as a
direct promise and trust that the Lord was making with His faithful people. The
Lord emphasized that there would be much deafness in the earth and that many
would not understand or follow the straight and narrow pathway which Ken’s
prophecies would lay out. As a result, only they who were able to “hear” Ken’s
words of prophecy would be counted as ones who overcame as Christ overcame.
This does not negate the salvation of the world, it only reveals the order in
which the Lord will do all His will.
Some of the time during the 4 month visitation was
spent by the Lord in revealing to Ken the age that is to dawn, the age of the
Kingdom of God in the earth with Christ and the Overcomers ruling upon it. Ken
saw by the spirit that this age would encompass all other nations, all extinct
nations and all nations now present. That the Kingdom of God represented by The
New Jerusalem (the true body of Christ), and the promise of it being made one
with the earth would be a reality. Now Ken had already been through 5 near
death experiences by his 18th year and he was willing to go a sixth
time and pass away from this world, but the Lord emphasized several times that
he would live to see these things, no indication of death of the body was given
to Ken however he remains willing for that if it be the Lord’s will for him.
The dawning and settling of the Kingdom of God will end death in this world for
all nations, not just the overcoming people of the Lord, but all nations in
general will come into this great liberty of life. The systems of men that men
had made outside of the will of God would end abruptly, their monetary systems
and their power systems would all be spoken against by the word of Christ from
the Throne of eternity. Nothing of man’s doing outside of the Kingdom would
survive these days. However this would not be done in a haphazard way, but done
in simplicity, the Lord replacing what is lost with that which is much better
of His dominion. So the next age was revealed this way.
Also revealed this way was the coming of Christ to
be admired in they that believe and to see the abomination that makes desolate
end. Ken saw that the splendid image that Nebuchadnezzar had in his dream would
end in his day, the entire image would be destroyed by the stone cut out of the
mountain and hurled at its feet. The coming of Christ would openly destroy
anything that was contrary to the Kingdom of God. Such a coming would be
sudden, instant and would give glorified bodies to the Saints who remain on the
earth and those who died in times past, they would be raised up into the same
glorified bodies first. Now Ken had some doubts as to whether or not he would
truly see these things come to pass, however the Lord assured him during this
visitation that the only thing he was to do was to take each day at a time and
walk forward, the Holy Spirit would do all the rest including the work of
prophecy. A great testimony of the power of Christ in Ken’s life would become
apparent to some who would see it and therefore a bolstering up of their hope
in Christ’s appearing would happen.
A Brief Jump Ahead
(Two miracles)
(1st miracle)
Later on in Ken’s life were two miraculous
happenings which will be interjected here, then to Ken’s 19th year.
(When
Ken was in his late 20,s or early 30’s)
During the early part of Ken’s first sons life,
Joshua, the Lord spoke to Ken to go in the car and drive to the city of
Kelowna. At the time Ken and Janis lived in Salmon Arm. This was during one of
the 7 year periods of time where Ken did not have sideways fellowship, but it
was now at the end of the second - 7 year period. This was the second of 3
periods, 7 years each wherein the Lord shut Ken away alone in solitude with His
spirit alone. So at the end of the 2nd term of the 7 years of
solitude this word had come to Ken to drive to Kelowna.
Ken went down there alone and drove into the parking
lot of a main shopping mall there. Ken prayed that the Lord’s will would be
done here as he had come to Kelowna and now waited for the Lord to next move.
He walked out of his car and began to walk down the sidewalk away from the
shopping mall. A man came walking towards Ken and said hello. Ken said hello
back. The man said that he was holding meetings across the highway from the
mall in the Sandman Inn Motel conference room and if Ken wanted, he could
attend. The man was Ray Prinzing, a man Ken never met before nor knew of.
When Ken was in his 2nd term of being 7
years separate unto the Lord, there was during 3 occasions a plumber on a
construction site who would say only but one or two sentences to Ken. This
plumber was the only one that confirmed to Ken that the Lord has separated him
alone to be processed by His hand in preparation for his ministry. After Ken
had met Mr. Prinzing he went to the meeting hall and there was the plumber
amongst many others! So this 2nd term of 7 years ended that day at
that meeting room where Ken met Ray and Doris Prinzing. Ray Prinzing ministered
to the Body of Christ exactly 40 years. Ken met Ray TO THE DAY at the exact 20
year, or half way mark of Ray’s ministry! Right on the very day! It was after
this meeting that Janis came into the deeper truths of the Lord also and she
began to read Prinzing’s papers. Prinzing had many books and the paper was
called “Gospel Echoes”. Later Prinzing changed it to “Letters of Truth”. On
five occasions Ken attended Prinzing meetings in the Okanagan Valley. On the
last meeting Prinzing had in a city called Penticton, Ken’s son Josh came. Josh
had a vision there and he saw the ceiling of the hall removed and the heavens
were opened to him and he saw Jesus beckoning for worship to ascend to Him. As
Josh saw this the level of worship increased dramatically in the room. Not long
after this Prinzing retired from the ministry and has since gone home to be
with the Lord forever.
(End 1st miracle)
(2nd miracle)
(When
Ken was around 25 years of age)
“This is very short. Ken went to the post office in
the early part of the 1980’s and received a huge parcel from a man named George
Hawtin of northern Saskatchewan. The books, nor the man had ever been known to
Ken previous, they came unexpectedly so someone must have provided Hawtin the
address. Ken and George never met face to face, but George’s parents lived in
the town of Summerland BC near to where Ken lives now. Anyways, back to the
blue books, 31 books of Hawtin’s writings to the body over the course of his
ministry. A letter was on top of the stack. The letter was hand written by
Hawtin who told Ken that the Lord had spoken to him that Ken was a prophet unto
the Body of Christ to prepare His people for the coming of Jesus during the
days of tribulation ahead. After that letter many more letters were sent by
Hawtin personally to Ken to instruct and ready him for this work that he would
be doing in the body of Christ in the days to come and also Hawtin gave to Ken
the confirmation of the anointing that Ken had received when he was 7 years of
age and that Ken’s ordination was not of man or man’s systems, but that his
ordination was of the Holy Ghost. So Hawtin wrote much and did much to prepare
Ken for this ministry. George Hawtin has also since gone to be with the Lord.
(End 2nd miracle)
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The Great Revelation
While Ken was still in his 18th year and
after the incident of the kidnapping and the witch mentioned in part #1, Ken
found himself being taken from his parent’s home to the hospital by the family
doctor. The trauma of the witch was such that Ken had a very hard breakdown.
Even though the police had rescued him, he still was under severe trauma. For 2
weeks bed rest in the hospital Ken remained. Through all the time of rest and
quiet and all the peace Ken sought for after such an ordeal as that the Lord
once again rose by His spirit in Ken’s understanding and He began to speak. Ken
calls this “The Great Revelation”. The Lord then revealed to Ken how the scriptures,
written so long ago, were pertinent right up to the very minute a person lives
in when it comes to walking out their spiritual walk. “I gave the armor of the
spirit for a reason!” the Lord expressed to Ken. So there in his hospital bed
Ken went over the scriptures that told us of the armor of the spirit found in
the book of Ephesians, that the war against the Saints was a real war, that
nothing was automatic. Christ paid the cost for our full redemption and the
redemption of all mankind and He also had complete triumph over all the power
of any and all enemies and He also conquered death. It remains however needful
for the people of God to walk this out in their own lives, as the Apostle Paul
said, “Wherefore,
my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much
more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” Phil 2:12. The
revelation was that we have not only an enemy, but our carnal minds in unison
with that same enemy to thwart our forward walk and faith. We are to obey the
scriptures and denounce anything that would set our footsteps into any
territory or walk in doctrine that is contrary to the truth found in Christ.
Kenneth B Visscher at the age of 18
So the Lord
made real to Ken that there is war both on the earth over the lives of His
Saints, but also in the very heavens themselves. It is not because the Lord
gained total victory over all other things and that victory is under assault by
the enemy, but that the victory gained is one that is lied about and stolen
from the minds and hearts of those who would walk by faith and not by sight.
This assault and this stealing away into lukewarm conditions is done by
negative powers which attempt to cause God’s people to fall out of love with
God. Hence the lesson was given in spirit to Ken as he lay on that hospital
bed.
Not only was
that given, but the Lord then had Ken apply each piece of the armor to himself
in prayer and by profession, laying each piece in order over his entire person.
Since that time in Ken’s 18th year the armor has never come off, not
even once, nor at any time. It has always been on perpetually since that time.
That does not mean that wars did not happen nor delusions come to delude, but
it did mean that eventually victory would come to Ken in no matter what
circumstance he would come across in the years ahead of his life. The reason
for the armor found in Ephesians 6:10-18 is because THERE IS WAR. If there was
no war, then why the armor? So then laying each piece of armor on by the
spirit, Ken also had vision, and in the vision he saw spiritually each piece
being applied. That is because the war on the Saints is real. In the vision of
Ken putting on the armor he also saw the Lord Jesus wearing the same armor,
even though He rose the triumphant King of Kings, He was also still wearing
armor as the head of this Army. Numerous visions over the years since Ken has
seen Jesus in that same armor.
So the time
neared the end of the hospital stay and Ken laid out a petition before the
Lord. He agreed to all the Lord was asking of him, to prophecy, to be an end
time prophet, to walk bearing the mantle of Elijah as the Lord had laid it on
him as a 7 year old child, Ken agreed to it all, but he wished to add but one
condition to that. So seeking the Lord from his bed Ken asked the Lord by
petition, laying it up at the Lord’s feet before His Throne, that the Lord
would confirm all of this to Ken by giving Ken his wife, the girl he was to
marry. As Ken came out of the hospital he had entered his 19th year.
Again, time frames for all of this is in distant memory so some timing may not
be accurate time wise but generally this is as close as recall allows.
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Ken
Meets His Wife
So weak in the
flesh, but heavily armored in the spirit Ken emerged from the hospital and went
to stay at his parents’ home in Salmon Arm, British Columbia. The year was
1975. Ken came out and found in his spirit life that he was already under heavy
bombardment from enemy forces. As he came to his parents’ house he went to a
downstairs room and laid out before the Lord again the need for the strength of
the risen Christ to be his portion and Ken asked that Christ would give him
strength and victory. The bombardments continued and increased with ferocity
but Ken realized that Christ in him was far greater and he learned immediately
that Christ was already his portion. So he rested in that and saw each and
every assault vanquished as fast as they came. No sooner would an assault rise
in the world of spirits when Christ in Ken destroyed the rising. Ken also had
better sleep, never dreaming, but would while sleeping be fully aware and awake
in his spirit in the armor and always reversing the battlements set against his
life. To this very hour Ken rarely if ever has a dream, he is completely
unconscious when asleep, but his spirit is vitally awake and walking in the
light of God’s word bearing the sword of the spirit and is conquering many wars
on many fronts. This type of night time life for Ken carried on from his youth
at 19 to this present day all these years later. Many visions and prophecies
came to Ken in his sleep which he would write down the next day and many of
them constitute the writings which are now on his site. Ken’s converse with the
Lord was no different in his waking hours as in his sleeping hours, the walk
and talk with Christ has no difference to him and has not changed that way for
all these long years.
So it was
October of 1975 when Ken’s older sister Joanne told Ken of a youth retreat on
Shuswap Lake at the United Church camp. Ken agreed to go with her and he went,
the air was crisp and cool as the color of autumn leaves had begun to form on
the trees, the lake was calm as glass as they drove together out to the retreat
to be with other young people.
When Ken got
to the retreat he went first immediately to a cabin with 5 other young guys,
the cabin would have been about 50 feet from the main dining hall at the
outdoor camp. Ken was standing in the door of the cabin looking back at the
dining hall, there were many young people mulling about when suddenly in the
doorway came out the most beautiful girl Ken had ever seen in his life. She was
the most attractive girl he had ever seen. She came out of the door and in no
less than a second of time seeing her the Lord rose up in Ken’s understanding
and the Lord spoke and said; “That is your wife!” Ken could not believe
his eyes. He said to the Lord (and he meant it) “Are you serious Lord?!?!”
Although
much time has passed since that day Ken has been enthralled with Janis all
these long years. He does not remember all that was said and done that weekend
but Ken and Janis stayed up all night that night together in the dining hall.
Janis was a nursing student in Kamloops BC, a city to the west of this camp
some hour away. Ken lived nearly 40 minutes east in Salmon Arm. Janis recalled
that Ken prophesied and preached to her of the Kingdom of God for most of the
night. They simply spent time together and Ken was amazed that this girl was
going to be his wife although he never told her that the Lord had said this to
him earlier that day. At the end of the camp time that weekend Janis gave Ken a
kiss on his cheek which sent him soaring. They parted and Ken went back to
Salmon Arm, packed his bags and drove to Kamloops to find his bride. As he went
he prayed and asked the Lord to make a way. When Ken got there he first looked
for a job, found a rooming house and knew where Janis was. The days were
getting shorter and colder when Ken went to work on a construction site, but he
had to pursue this girl whom the Lord said was his wife! No matter what came,
Ken wanted to have this beautiful girl. Now Janis at first did not want this,
she was undecided and busy with her studies. Later on Ken took Janis out on a
date and told her that he thought they could “make it”. A few days went by and
Ken was now in a small apartment in the city. It was 4 in the morning and the
intercom by the door went off repeatedly. Ken woke and went and it was Janis.
She spoke on the intercom, “I think we can make it!”. Apparently that night the
Lord had shown Janis that her life was not to be a nurse on some mission field,
but her married life and ministry was to support Ken in the work he was called
to do in the body of Christ. The words may not be exactly right here but the
gist of it was that Ken was HER ministry. Ken and Janis married 2 and a
half years later in Calgary Alberta, April 29th, 1978.
