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Chapter:# 31
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| The Gate Of Ephraim |
The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin. And
unto Joseph in the
And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit. And the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah. And his delight shall be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears; but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins. And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, that standeth for an ensign of the peoples, unto him shall the nations seek; and his resting-place shall be glorious. Isaiah 11:1-10 American Standard Version
Ask ye of Jehovah rain
in the time of the latter rain, even of Jehovah that maketh lightnings; and he
will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. For the
teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have
told false dreams, they comfort in vain: therefore they go their way like
sheep, they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd. Mine anger is kindled
against the shepherds, and I will punish the he-goats; for Jehovah of hosts hath
visited his flock, the house of
“Along to the center of the western wall of the City the Angel took
me. As I viewed the wall in my spirit I saw that the length thereof was great,
and the Gates great, and the height was fearsome to see as this was indeed the
City which had foundations whose builder and maker was God. Within the City I
could see the pinnacle of the Mount Zion with the top engulfed in a billowing
tempest of fire, and within the tempest of fire a Throne set and One who sat
upon the Throne, even the Ancient of Days, He who is God the Father of all. As
I was carried to the Gate of Ephraim in the center of the western wall I saw a
fruit tree within the arches of the Gate. Seeing through the ground the roots
of this tree I saw that the roots extended vastly in two directions. One side
of the tree, the roots extended into the cursed soils of the earth in this
natural creation and into the natural life of this creation. On the other side
of the tree the roots extended into the Holy City, even through the soils and
pasturelands of the City, even to the base of the Mount Zion in the center of
the City. So then the tree had roots in both the natural cursed earth and in
the New Creation in the City of
The Gate of Ephriam ( This is the Gate
associated with Levi ): Increasing
fruitfulness because of association with the King.
One of the most curious things
about Manneseh and Ephriam was their apostasy from the Lord, the rise in them
through scripture of their personal iniquity. These two sons of Joseph are seen
later as nations contradicting the will of God in His purposes for
One of the things that the
Overcomers need to overcome is disunity and separation one from another. The
separations in times past have been of God to work individually on each individual
and to do a deep and a perfect work in their spiritual lives. I am now
prophesying that the Overcomers, more and more, will come jointed together to
form a fruitful tree for the Lord to partake of. A tree which is His planting,
a tree which counteracts the death and dirge we have in this present evil
world. We know that denominational Christianity has not had any unity
whatsoever, but instead wars and factions abound in them. Those that are called
to one day be granted place upon the Throne with the Lord, they called out of
all the systems, are learning obedience, even in the little things. Even in the
strangest of things. They are learning obedience by their sufferings, and by
these same storms of life they will now learn to join in perfect unity one to
another with NO wars and NO factions. As vessels of love inwardly, and gnarled
and beaten by the storms of life outwardly, they will come, “one with one on
one” to be joined perfectly in love in the Spirit of the Lord.
So I am now prophesying in view
of the Gate of Ephraim that our times of separation and solitude are fast
drawing to a close. We will come together, joint to joint to become a unified
body of people whom Christ shall appear in and glorify. We’ve known what it
meant to be few and far between, now we will know what it means to be an Army,
a company of those who walk forward in the perfect nature of God who is a
consuming fire. We have known what it means to have God deal intricately with
every small area in us which is contrary to His perfect will, now we in that
perfect will shall emerge as one man in unity and oneness and interdependence
that cannot and will not ever be destroyed. No carnality will be in our coming
together, no disunity of any kind, and nothing that would bring any dishonor to
the Lord at all. The Lord has singled
out His Overcomers for the first true show of unity that the world has never
seen. A unity and oneness that is to be revealed in perfection and holiness
with no taint of the carnal mind in it anywhere. Out of the hidden places, out
of the byways and the highways. Out of the wilderness and the cities, from
every quarter, God is now going to bring together His overcoming company.
That is what I am prophesying.
The entire purpose of God in
bringing forth first a company of Overcomers into perfect unity and oneness is
most intriguing and is an example of His great power. Even the power of the
cross, but better than that, the power of resurrection. His entire purpose was
to enact His will on this fallen creation through a company of those who bear
fruit unto God. This is but a small measure, one tree out of the field, one
group out of the whole. Selected and hand picked by the Holy Spirit, these were
separated unto God and they came apart alone unto Him to have His will worked
into them and to learn what it means to surrender themselves, even unto the
death of the cross.
I am prophesying that the cross
will very soon be completed in the Overcomers.
The world, the systems of men,
the denominations of Christianity, the religions of the world will more and
more become disjointed, more violent, more brash, more unloving, more uncaring,
more suicidal and more base in their hatred of a love for the truth. In other
words, the line has been firmly drawn, it is distinct, it is a line that
separates the Overcoming company from the rest of the world and their futile
efforts to find peace. The Overcomers will now arise above this all, not
looking in fear at what is happening on the earth, but looking instead for the
restitution of all THIS creation into the
In this very minute of this very
hour the Overcomers have come to a very fixed point. They have no strength,
ability, motivation or desire other than to just behold the Lord and to love
and worship Him. The Holy Spirit has worked in them to bring them to a place
where they know nothing except Him in them. They have no idea how to maneuver,
how to stand, how to speak, how to think, everything related to their lives in
this world has been taken from them. They stand upon the earth at this time
with nothing of their own. They know not wisdom, except it be God’s wisdom.
They know not work, except it be God’s work. They may work at jobs, or have
elements of wealth in the world and be worth things in a monetary sense, but in
their spirits they are separate from even that, knowing that everything is
futile except the Lord do this in them for His purposes. At the very same time
they have come to a place where they do not always know what is right in their
responses. They don’t always know what is from the element of God’s Spirit and
what comes from deception. They stand in a dangerous place. A place of having a
slight fear that something could happen and they would turn off the right path
and head into a pathway of delusion. They may not know at all times which part
of the Lord is being made real to them and which part is from perdition. It is
that element of not knowing which keeps them pressing in to the love of the
truth. Such is the workings of God to bring forth the race track to come to the
end of their testings. The Overcomers know that they need to hear a pure word,
a true word that can direct them to emerge from this time as victors in the
camp of the righteous. For we have entered the most perilous of times.
The roots of the fruitful tree
they have grown together to become begins in this cursed world. So it is that
the journey of the Overcomer has been out of this world and its cursed soil,
while at the same time having a nature and a name which is born of Heaven and
of the Spirit of their Heavenly Father. Both elements have worked in the life
of the Overcomer as an interplay of good and evil, of right from wrong and of
truth from error. Both elements have been a fractioned war within, a raging
debate, a fearsome battle of magnificent proportions which leaves the poor soul
wondering if they can ever conquer anything as relates to their life in this
world. When they would have faith, the element of doubt assails them. When they
have fear and dread, hope arises to console their troubled thoughts. When they
bore accusation because of their own carnality, the mind of Christ gently and
tenderly revealed to them of His great love and forgiveness. These who are
overcoming have borne persecutions against their very lives in the earth, and
at the same time they do no harm to their persecutors, not even a small curse
or negative thought. They learned to
take on them the yielded nature of Jesus, and to be as ones who overcame the
enemies of their souls by simple obedience to His Word as it is revealed unto
them. These are the footfalls of those who traverse this earth who are born of
the Heavenly order. These are their steps, one after another, in conquering all
in them that is contrary to His cross, nailing all their flesh there and
trusting Christ completely to raise them again at the last day.
To these now I prophesy that
they will come together in the Gate of Ephraim to bear fruit unto God. And
because of this fruit, the whole of the earth will be in time filled with the
knowledge of the Glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. We have heard
this again and again, and have waited and waited, and have wondered “how long
will it be until the Lord finishes this work?” Trials that were hard yesterday
seem much harder today, and what we once bore in testings pales in comparison
to the testings we are now in. The deceptions seem more subtle. The nuances of
carnal reasonings seem more acute in tempting us to think according to the
natural mind. Instead of becoming more Holy, we seem to become more grounded in
the earth and rooted in that which we detest. Instead of being minded with the
mind of Christ, we find ourselves slaving over the toil of work that this world
affords to us. The Overcomers seem hopelessly caught up in nothing. They seem
more confined than ever before. The storms of life seem hurtful, not beneficial
and God seems further away, not closer. Flesh and carnality arises in them
rather than the fruit of goodness by Jesus who is also in their lives. What
they want, they don’t seem to have and what they don’t want seems to consume
them. This is the present world of the Overcomer. In all honesty, they don’t
know how they can go one more step forward as it has become a complete mystery
to them as to how they can conquer anything.
That is exactly what God was
waiting to see in His Overcoming company. It is those, who bear the thought of
uselessness that He will now appear in and will confirm with the brightness of
His coming. The full measure of flesh has grown up in them and so has the full
measure of the stature of Christ. Right now, the Overcomers cannot always
perceive Christ in them, but that is because their duality has come to the
full. Now God is about to judge those that He calls His OVERCOMERS. In that
judgment God will find fruit on the branches of a gnarled tree, and that fruit
will signal the next stage in the great creator’s plan to bring all the earth
back into an Edenic state. For this will give God Himself the ability to now move
forward in the earth in great mercy to restore all things. The Overcomers who
bear this fruit in the Gate of Ephraim will be the vessels through whom this
eternal purpose will happen. The Overcomers have become nothing, and God now
has become everything. Now we will see the redemption Christ wrought for all
men upon Calvary be completed and His purpose finished and mankind and this
fallen globe of the earth will come into the
So Dear Overcomer, the reader of
this page, allow yourself to fall into despair. Allow yourself to fall away
into a lack of knowledge, a lack of understanding, a lack of life. Fall into
this knowing that you are as a seed sown in death in the ground, but know that
because of your sacrifice God will have fruit to eat, and His will shall be
done through you.
Are you not glad that this is
not based on what you think or decide with your puny human will? Are you not
glad that the Lord in bringing forth His full person will be done because YOU
became nothing? Are you not glad you submitted to His will in all things that
He might finish His perfect work in you, even when you had no clue as to what
that working was? The separations were painful, the trials fearsome, hard,
hurtful. But the END OF THIS IS NOW IN PLAIN VIEW.
Walk on Overcomer, step now into
this place of complete surrender. God is about to consume you and you will
never be the same.
“And I looked, and behold The Gate of Benjamin: Son of the Father’s Right Hand. And I was glad for the Lord revealed to me THE THRONE OF HIS MAJESTY.
To be continued……………..
Kenneth B Visscher
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