~The New Jerusalem~
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Chapter:# 64
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Entering Paradise |
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see
him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail
because of him. Even so, Amen. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the
Almighty. Rev1:7-8
And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up
the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations
of many generations. And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the
sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. But ye shall be
named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye
shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast
yourselves. Isaiah 61:4-6
All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which
say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us. In that day will I raise up
the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and
I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: That they
may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my
name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
Amos 9:10-12
Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not
life in yourselves. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal
life: and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and
my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth
in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the
Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me. This is the
bread which came down out of heaven: not as the fathers ate, and died; he that
eateth this bread shall live for ever. John
6:53-58
Thus death is
actively at work in us, but [it is in order that our] life [may be actively at
work] in you. Yet we have the same spirit of faith as he had who wrote, I have
believed, and therefore have I spoken. We too believe, and therefore we speak,
[Ps. 116:10.] Assured that He Who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise us up
also with Jesus and bring us [along] with you into His presence. For all
[these] things are [taking place] for your sake, so that the more grace (divine
favor and spiritual blessing) extends to more and more people and multiplies
through the many, the more thanksgiving may increase [and redound] to the glory
of God. Therefore we do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted,
and wearied out through fear). Though our outer man is [progressively] decaying
and wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day after
day. For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing
hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving
for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excessively
surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory
and blessedness never to cease!], Since we consider and look not to the things
that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are
visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are
deathless and everlasting. 2Co 4:12-18
His head and
his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame
of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and
his voice as the sound of many waters. Rev 1:14-15
“Then turning my head left I
beheld The Lord Jesus Christ as He is described in Revelation 1:14,15. As I
beheld Him I saw His eyes as flames of fire, and upon His chest He bore the
Ephod, each stone brilliant in color. He gazed past me to my right. So I turned
my head to look at what He was gazing upon and I saw the earth, deadened and
brown, and the circumference of the globe. He gazed upon the soil of the earth
and I saw the molecules of dust come together, moving together in bits and
pieces and in a rapidity. As they came together they formed the bodies of those
who in previous times were counted as worthy to partake of the first
resurrection. These who in their lifetime had overcome all things and whose
spirits now abode with the Lord in Heaven as they that would inherit the right
to sit with the Lord upon His eternal Throne. The molecules of dust which was
once their bodies began to come together under the gaze of the living Christ
and the molecules were filled each one with the same glory that Jesus now
bears, He alone whose Name is above every name. These all began to come
together and rise in the first resurrection.”
( End 1st Vision )
At the point of death for the
natural body a common element happens. It matters not if a person has been born
again or otherwise, the same common element happens and that is that a portion
of the person’s life in the world continues on into the next. When the physical
body passes from this world in death, the “will” and the “emotions” do not pass
away but enter the realm of spirit. The carnal mind which all mankind bears and
which cannot enter into the purity of the Kingdom of God taints the will and
the emotions of a person. The will of a person is the spirit of the person. The
emotions the soul. The spirit and the soul do not go into a state of slumber or
non existence, but they carry on into eternity. Your will shall not die, your
emotions shall not die. They are not subject to death but are subject to cleansing
and to instruction and refining in the next.
For they that have been born
of the spirit, their life is much different. Their life becomes progressively
“cleansed” of all filthiness of flesh and spirit. The natural carnal mind which
we received from father Adam taints the will into self will, which is the
definition of iniquity. And then the emotions become skewed by that tainting
and man loses sight or morality on how to live their life. When one becomes
born of the spirit, all that is tainted from the carnal mind now becomes
subject to the spirit that is placed into a person’s life. A demand for
holiness and purity from the conviction of the spirit of the Lord in a person
causes them to forsake self will and to have a purified will which would only say
and do and write that which blesses the Lord who created them. Their emotions
then which may have become base and ungodly are then rescued and restored and
healed by that same indwelling spirit that comes when one is born of God.
So when the natural body is
put off in death, the will and the emotions do not die but are then freed from
the body of futility in this world, which body is bound by the curse of death
from Adam’s fall. The will and emotions, your spirit and soul, are then free to
enter eternity without the cumbersome weight of the body of flesh which once
housed it. That body is a body which cannot enter the Kingdom of God nor can it
be saved from death, it must die in order to be made new. For that same body
will be changed by the power of the resurrection life that is in Jesus when the
time comes for this resurrection to happen. That same body will be changed,
transfigured, glorified. It will have the atomic structure which once was
subjected to death changed so that it can house the light and glory of the Lord
which has no ending or bound limit to the size and height and breadth of the
Lord Himself. The glorified body being raised will have the unlimited size and
strength of the Lord with no measure within it, a body that cannot pass away.
Now if a person has died in
this world and has gone on into eternity and they knew not the Lord, they are
still alive in their will and their emotions. Their will and their emotions are
the spirit and soul of the person who died in an unsaved state. There is
nothing in the word of God which implies that it is only this world and the
life one lives in the body of clay which is subject to death for salvation to
come to them. Religious men say this world is the probationary for salvation to
take place. As long as the will and emotion of a person exists, which it does
after the death of the body, then the Savior is well able to seek and save that
which is still lost. And the Savior is well able to bring that person into the
salvation He wrought for them upon Calvary. If it were not so then there would
be no hope for the dead. “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, then we
are of all men most miserable” 1 Cor 15:19, said the Apostle Paul. The truth is
that man cannot be saved UNTIL the Lord saves them. They cannot come to the
Lord for salvation UNTIL the Lord brings them to Jesus to be saved. And there
is NOTHING that states it must take place while in these bodies of futility or
during our lifetime in this world.
The Apostle Paul did state
that confession and belief happened in the heart and in the tongue. “But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy
mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if
thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine
heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the
heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made
unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not
be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the
same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him
in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they
have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they
preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of
them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath
believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word
of God.” Romans 10:8-17 But what about those who did not come to confession with a body
they lived in before they had died? What about those who modern carnal
preachers say are subject to eternal torment in the flames of everlasting hell
because they did not believe, are they subject to that because they did not
hear or know that the Lord could save them? Or are they subject to that because
the Lord did not draw them to salvation while they yet lived? And if they are
subject to eternal separation from Christ, then where is the Lord who is the
God of both the dead and the living? How is it man thinks that choice is made
while in futile bodies of clay?
The confession of heart and
tongue is also will and emotion. It is also that which is the spirit of man and
the emotion of man, but in the dimension of eternity. There is no point in that
dimension of spirit in eternity that the Lord does not exist. And there is no
soul in that dimension which is outside of being found by the Savior for He
works just as well there as He does here. His work to bring salvation through
confession works exactly the same way. Therefore an eternity without the living
Christ is absolutely impossible. For nothing in eternity is outside of Him who
alone is love and salvation.
When the body of a born again
person dies they are already in the Lord and they are already walking in the
change of self will to pure will and base emotion to true emotion. They are
already walking as those joined in spirit to the Lord alone who inhabits
eternity. When the body of bondage they bear which is subject to death is
removed from them, they soar free in the purity of the holiness of the Lord,
for the carnal mind is therefore removed from them.
It is the carnal mind, that
mind which minds life on this earth which NO ONE will bear in the next life. NO
ONE of this present world teeming with its billions of inhabitants will be able
to nurture or keep the carnal mind in the next when the life of their body is
at an end. The carnal mind only works in this time element in this world and it
works to supply life to the natural body which is destined to be put off. It
matters not who a person is or what they have done in this world, at the point
of the death of the body, the carnal mind for them is no more. If they were
unsaved, the effects of impurity are still present in the will and emotions, but
if a person was born of the spirit, the new nature of purity and light and
righteousness has cleansed the will and emotions. In either case carnality does
not exist in the world that comes when life here is ended.
So at the point of death, the
person steps forward into the light of eternity. And if they were unsaved, they
step forth first into a dark void, but then light for Jesus finds them. The
element of time does not factor into the realm of eternity. And no one that
Jesus died for will be found outside of His love, even in that world which is
to come to each of us. The person who did not obey the gospel and who dies will
suffer loss because they will not have laid up for themselves the treasures of
purity and holiness that one born of the spirit lays up. Treasures which are
the true riches, treasures of being part of the family of God which cannot be
anything but perfect. If a person who rebelled in this world comes into
salvation, they will have suffered loss for not obeying the Lord in this life,
but there is no such thing as they never being found by the Lord and His love
in the next. Men say that it is due to the power of choice that we connect to
the salvation of the Lord. It is not he that chooses, nor he that runs, but God
that shows this mercy. Romans 9:16. Choice and the base will of self will,
bound in iniquity is overruled by God when the time comes for salvation. It is
not a question of our choice, it is a question of God’s time for you to be
drawn to Christ for salvation. And that work is God’s work alone. We can
evangelize and preach, but the drawing and the timing for the drawing of each
soul is up to God. “But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits;
afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.” 1Corinthians
15:23
However we have come to a time
that is like no other. There are two elements happening in our time which we
will behold and see and which will cause men to forsake the carnal mind, the
base will and the base emotion which holds them bound to the earth. These two elements
are happening right now and are part of this great explosion which is about to
take place. For the time has come for Jesus to appear.
“I beheld many bright white
clouds in the north amidst a bright blue sky and behold, Jesus was coming in
the midst of the clouds dressed in the Royal Robes of the King of Kings. Upon
His chest was the Ephod and upon His brow a golden crown. He was clothed in a
white garment down to His feet and encircled in robes and His feet were as
though they walked amidst stones of fire for they were bright as brass. He came
with the sound of a great trumpet for the coming of the Lord had arrived.
( End 2nd Vision )
The first element that is taking place unlike any other time in the earth IS THE FULL INCREASE OF GREAT INIQUITY. The cup of iniquity is not only full, but it is overflowing. Men have become god’s unto themselves. Not only is one huge tower of Babel been rebuilt, but MANY towers have been rebuilt. Man has a mixture in the kingdoms of this world unlike any other time. They have become self sufficient, self supporting and self protecting IN EVERY NATION UPON THE EARTH. The terror of war has not dissipated but at the same time the protection of “self” has never been greater. Men who have called upon the name of the Lord have fit the Lord into their governments and their politics, calling on the Lord to serve THEIR needs and THEIR desire for worldly wealth. This towering pinnacle of iniquity WILL RISE NO HIGHER. For the Lord is about to bring to an end this mystery of iniquity BY JUDGING THIS CUP. The beast is raging, but it will soon be encapsulated in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone. The Lord will remove from man the power of personal will in a single stroke and men will see instead the brightness of the coming of the Lord in a people who have been prepared.
The second element that is
happening which proves to me that the coming of the Lord has arrived is that
THE OVERCOMERS ARE READY FOR HIS APPEARING. Yes, they have endured bodies of
futility. They have endured trials unimaginable. They have endured testings
that have been long and hard and with no end to the measure of pressure upon
them. Years of testing and years of tribulation have REMOVED FROM THEM THE
INIQUITIOUS SELF WILL. They are a people who have yielded to the living Christ
within them and they are giving Him all the glory and praise and honor that is
due to His name. These are to take part in the first resurrection, for the
coming of Christ at the first WILL BE TO RAISE THEM INTO ETERNAL BODIES OF
LIGHT AND GLORY, THEIR HEARTS PUMPING THE BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN
THEIR VEINS. There have been many who have died in the centuries gone by who
overcame as those who are overcoming now. When Christ comes, THEY WILL RISE
FIRST IN THIS FIRST RESURRECTION. And then the rest of those who are in company
with them WILL NOT TASTE DEATH, BUT THEY WILL RISE ALSO AND THEY WILL BE
CHANGED. Their bodies will put on immortality and light which will never die.
AND THIS IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.
The Lord has indicated to me that this is about to take place, expect it, believe it, know it, for the promise is sure, Jesus WILL COME AGAIN. We have had centuries of people proclaiming the coming of the Lord, the resurrection, the coming of The New Jerusalem and the Kingdom of God. What makes our time so different? IT IS DIFFERENT BECAUSE NEVER BEFORE IN HUMAN HISTORY HAS INIQUITY BUILT ITSELF INTO SUCH A HIGH STATE OF SELF SUFFICIENCY. The key is that the earth is divided. 99.9% of it is steeped in iniquity as never before with high towers built to make a name for themselves as never before. But that .01% of those who form the overcoming company ARE READY FOR THIS. They are prepared, and should the Lord come, even today, they know that it is for the purpose OF BRINGING TO AN END THE RULE OF MEN.
To be continued…………….Kenneth B Visscher
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