I Looked & Saw The Heavens Opened

Book 3

The Streams Of His River

Being extremely nervous I expected a much longer battle, but graciously the Lord took mercy on me allowing me to come to Him in but a brief while. 'Ere I realize it His world was so close and I found myself approaching that marvelous wonder of the cross of light - the doorway into His very presence. Passing through, I heard His voice coming to me telling me not to fear and His and His words brought great comfort to my soul. It seems like He never tires of speaking to me of His love, His care, and His certainties over me. As I worshiped at His feet before that mighty Cloud of wonder and holy glory, His love flowed over me in waves of purest delight and He told me to look.

As I looked I saw His river filled with life and blessing flowing forth from heaven to the earth. The water of this glorious river which was living and radiant with inner light was filled with the very life of God, Himself. As it flowed down towards the earth it kept dividing into an ever increasing number of streams that flowed in every direction.

He called my attention to one of the those streams which was flowing to a certain sector of the people who seemed to be most delighted with His living waters. They were very happy to receive and partake of its many blessings and wanted it to flow to them because it was most desirable to them.

In order for them to be able to truly enter into its waters and live in its blessings, the Lord went to them to collect something from them - a something that belonged to Him which which they would have to give Him before they could enter into His living waters. But these people did not wish to surrender to Him this thing that He was asking from them. In spite of the fact that it was His, they were in no mind at all to give it over into His hands. So they turned and fled away from His waters, remaining in places that were very dry and where there was no water at all and not even desiring to look towards His waters any longer. Although He tried many times to get them to return by calling to them, they did not even listen nor did they r aise their eyes towards the waters again but remained in the far off, dry places.

After this He showed me another of the streams of His river of life which flowed in another direction and to another people. This stream, which flowed in another direction and to another people. This stream, which was just like the one before it, was filled with the life, blessing, and radiant light of the celestial world. These people delighted to have these waters coming to them and greatly desired to enter and to enjoy the wonderful blessings they brought.

When He drew near to them and asked from them this same something which they must give Him in order to be able to enter these waters, their reaction was completely different from the others. They did not turn their backs on Him and flee away; to the contrary, they were willing to give Him what He asked from them - that thing which was already His.

Because they saw that the waters were most desirable, they willingly gave Him all that He asked for, then entered into the wonderful waters of His living stream. And rejoicing, their whole beings filled with joy as the life and light of those waters flooded them, they remained there and He stayed there with them.




Wells Of Living Water

Again I was in the spirit before Him in the pure wonder and glory of His comparable Cloud of fiery glory which is ceaseless in its tremendous inner activity. As He spoke to me of His love, bringing assurance to my heart, He asked, "Why do you think I shall bring you into ridicule or make mockery of you? Even when such thoughts come to trouble you, are you not conscious that I am there with you all the time? These thoughts do not please me, for I shall never leave you or bring you into sorrow or shame."

Later He took me to another place where He showed me once again the streams of His river that I had seen in yesterday's vision then explained, "There are the waters of life and blessing that I promised to you some months ago. Behold, now these streams are flowing, filled with life for those who enter therein. But this is the very last time that I shall send forth My river; it shall never flow again. These streams shall define all things, for this time the waters are conclusive; they shall decide forever the true condition of My own ones."

As these waters flowed, they brought to conclusions the decisions of those unto whom they came. Either they entered into these waters giving Him His requested price, or else they fled from them. As I watched I saw that these streams became wells of living water which flowed freely until they covered all that lay before them, flooding a vast field in which there were a great number of His own ones. These beautiful waters - so filled with the abundance of life and sweetest blessing - flowed forth unto a certain predetermined limit where they stopped their flow and began to recede, returning to the wells from which they had sprung forth.

When the waters had returned, I saw how conclusive and decisive they had been for they had left different ones, each one in his own place. In a certain limited group of a very few the waters had done their full work; the full will of God had been done in the working of these waters. Not only had the wells been dug, but the flow of living waters so full of light and life had been released and these had been transformed into living wells themselves. Living waters flowed forth ceaselessly from them for they had truly become wells of living water which would never run dry.

At the same time, there were yet others in whom the wells had been dug but who had not allowed the waters to do their full work. Having tarried and procrastinated they were left, for they had not opened sufficiently to the waters. Because the work had not been finished in them they became but dry wells - wells without any water at all in spite of the fact that the purpose of these waters had been to bring forth living and not dry wells.

In order to be made into wells of living water transformations had to take place; it was not enough just to have the well dug. From that point on their was yet another work to be done - a full transformation to be brought forth.

In the river were doors of fire which His people had to pass in order to have this transformation inworked in them. There were some who had come up to the doors of fire but had feared to pass through them. Fear, unbelief, and drawing back had hindered their onward progress even though they had reached the doors. These became the digged but dry wells through which water never flowed. Nevertheless, the wells of living water had passed through those doors of fire and had been transformed into wells out of which flowed streams of living water.

I saw, also, that in the waters were others in all degrees of advancement who had not even come to the doors of fire. Some had only barely entered the waters; others had entered and were in various degrees of advancement. In that state they remained; nor was there any more flowing forth of the river in order that they might advance yet more for the river had stopped its flow.

He said that the fixed time had come to an end for thsoe who had not entered into His divine purposes, no longer could they enter in. Although they desired to, asking with many tears and seeking diligently, their time had ended; even now their time was sealed. The river had flowed forth from Him for the last time and it would flow again no more. In whatsoever state it had left them, there they remained sealed forever.




The Enemy Is Deceived

Heavy opposition was my portion today and it took a long while before I could enter into His presence and draw near to Him whom my soul loveth. Finally when He drew near and carried my spirit on into His world He spoke to me, taking away my fears and washing me wonderfully in His love. I looked upon Him in the wonder of his glory Cloud so filled with pure power and glorious fire that words fall and die before that total wonder of all heavens. Then He said, "For every obstacle that I have set before you I have also sealed in you the necessary power to be able to overcome it. That which appears to be as nothing I shall make unconquerable and invincible."

Then He showed me a field of immense size filled with forces of the enemy. Some of His own were also in the field to whom He sent forth some things which were quite small, insignificant, and of such little value, the enemy was quite unimpressed by them. Although they were plainly visible to him, yet he took no notice of them at all, nor payed any attention to them.

As these things began to grow and increase, the enemy finally began to notice them and pay serious attention to them, watching them carefully. Recognizing these things as dangerous to them, the enemy began to rise up against them in an attempt to destroy them and cast them down. But it was too late. The enemy could in no wise destroy them or throw them down for they were now too great. He had been fully deceived until it was too late; the tiny things had now become the very thing which defeated him.




Race Against Him

There was not a great battle in prayer, nor was it as difficult to draw near to Him in worship as at other times. when He came and took me to the world beyond and into that high and holy place before the high Cloud of His glory, He spoke away my fears and covered me with billows of love. How necessary it is for Him to speak to me and cover me in His love for the sight of His glory ever fills me with fear and tremblings. After speaking comforting and loving things to me, He said, "I shall not allow loneliness to dwell within you for I shall cover you with my love."

He then carried me into another place where He showed me things below upon the earth. (Although in the spirit the earth never appears like our planet earth. For I am usually shown things in their spiritual essence only.) I saw the souls of men to whom He had just sent something which filled them with great agonies of pain. With the very agony of this pain they were, at the same time, filled with a most terrible rage against Him which manifested itself in terrible rebellions. They appeared like wild and fierce animals of the jungle who, having suffered severe woundings, were now tearing about in greatest rage in the acute pain of this wounding. Yet in spite of all the pain there was no yielding or repentance in them, only rage and rebellion as they agonized in their wounding, directing all their rage against Him.

Then I saw a very strange thing: The undefinable someting which had caused the sons of darkness such pain and rage was the very same thing which - given to the sons of light - had brought them highest joy.



Destroying Wheels

After a long time of battle against heavy opposition, the Holy One caught my spirit up into His world. After passing through that wonderful door of the cross of light, I was again granted to stand before Him in the throne room of the house of living stones. There He talked to me, loving me as He always does, and saying, "Because I have given forth My word, all things - even those that are the most difficult for you to believe - shall be fulfilled."

Then He showed me a great, wide wheel which wasn't exactly like a wheel either; it could be better likened to a wave rolling over and over. This wheel was composed of blood - not the blood of blessing which is filled with love and light and life - but the blood of wrath. Very fierce and bent on destruction, this wave was effervescent as though boiling with inner wrath. Although I saw only one, He told me that there were many such wide wheels which were all tied together, not having as yet been loosed upon their path of destruction.

When they were loosed and rolled forth in great, destroying fury, I understood that they had been sent forth to destroy and grind under those false ones who had mixed together with His own and in clear defiance of God were trying to draw them away from Him.

The time came when He would no longer suffer such ones to mingle with His own; no longer could they attempt to deviate them from the true way unto Him. No longer could they try to corrupt them in open defiance of the Lord. So these great, rolling, churning forces of the blood of wrath rolled forth upon them and they were smashed under and thus destroyed.



The Last Chance

Having entered into His high and holy presence, my spirit was prepared to receive His word. I would like to say that I do not seek in any way for Him to reveal these things to me. All I ever desire is just to be able to come into this most desirable and glorious place to adore Him and just be before Him. All heaven pales before the wonder and glory of Jesus, Himself. I would gladly leave everything = even the most desirable things of this earth- for the sheer joy of just being there before Him. Nevertheless, He never allows me to stay there save for a short while, then He shows me things and causes me to bring them back to my own world again. When He told me to look, He showed me the people upon the earth and said, "This is the last opportunity to be saved that I shall give them."

After this, I saw Him in His great Cloud hovering above the people of the earth who could not see Him hovering so closely above their heads; nevertheless, He was there. Then out from the Cloud where He dwells came a special force or power from Himself which looked like a tremendous cushion of pure darkness - a darkness and blackness so thick that it appeared like a heavy substance - which literally covered the people, resting heavily upon them.

Because of this cushion of darkness below the Cloud, His light and His presence could in no wise be perceived. This caused great pain and suffering, especially to His own ones who were down below the cushion also. This darkness and pain of much suffering caused a small number of people to repent and turn to God. Then this time passed and the time of salvation for them was gone forever, for they had passed their very last chance of ever being saved. Then I saw that those who had not received and repented and turned unto Him were destroyed and this destruction was forever, without any hope at all of salvation.




The Cut-Off Branch

After passing through a long time of much opposition, I entered into the spirit where He prepared me, as always, with His love. Cleansing me in this love - and purging away my fears - I was completely at rest in Him. How necessary it is for Him to take away all my fears because each time that I see the wonder and unutterable glory of Jesus, Himself, I am filled with great fear and trembling. However, He always speaks away all these fears and brings me peace and rest in Him.

After this He showed me a number of the sons of light who were resting contentedly and confidently upon a large branch. But, to my great amazement, I saw that this branch was cut off from the great tree. Even though the branch - with the people upon it - was already falling, they didn't seem to know it for they were falling, resting upon this cut-off branch. They were not resting or leaning or putting any weight at all upon the Lord for their complete trust and confidence was in this cut-off branch. Although He called and called to them, still they didn't heed His voice. Suddenly He took away the support upon which they were resting in place of resting upon Him and they continued to fall, seemingly not yet realizing that they were falling.

As He continued to call, I saw that some of them began to hear and to heed His words. They left off trusting in that branch and began to believe in Him. Leaving that place and coming to Him, they began to rest upon Him and no longer upon that branch.

In spite of all His calling, there were still those who refused to hear or pay heed. These continued to fall for they wouldn't listen to Him at all. He told me that these are those who trust in their own strength, not leaning upon Him but upon their own forces and strengths.




Dikes

After a time of prayer the Spirit brought me through the cross of light unto Him. Causing His love to flow over me He said, "Beleive. You have asked me to keep you, and although you do not comprehend my doings, even so, I shall not allow anything to come to pass that shall not be for your edification. Fear not for I am with you."

After this He showed me a certain place where He was sending His waters to a people. Waters of life - living, shining and glorious - were coming forth from Him, but strangely enough they did not reach the people because within themselves they had built up strong, wall-like dikes that would not permit the water to reach them. The strong walls of these man-made dikes that they had built up in His Name were made of their own water - a false water.

He explained to me, "When I show them their great drought and the complete absurdity of their works, they shall then realize hhow great was their foolishness. And at this time they shall knock against a closed door and try to enter in, but they shall not be able to enter. After this I shall say to them, 'Now I have forgotten you. How many times I knocked against your raised-up walls that were like fortresses against me for you did not want to drink. "Therefore, I will not hear you or remember you any more."




False Enemy Angels

The Spirit brought me through the cross of light into that high glory Cloud. As I sought to worship the Lord, He prepared me for His presence and then showed me His angels joined in battle agaisnt the angels of the evil one. He said that He was going to send forth His army of angels to take away from the evil spirits the angelic forms and spiritual bodies which they had assumed.

The angels of the evil one appeared like the real angels, being in size and rank like the high cherubim who are with the Cloud in the high temple of the Lord. These evil angels had assumed more than a mask; they had the vrey corporal form of the high angelic beings. Even so, they were most obviously different from the true angels of God, having neither light nor transparency. Having once seen the true angels of God, one could never be deceived by the false forms of the evil ones in spite of the high order to which they had attained.

Suddenly in great fury and wrath the powerful army of the Lord came forth in great perfection. (The angels of that army were those high and glorious beings that are with Him when He is in His Cloud and in His temple.) So perfect were their operations and order, and so totally harmonious were their movements and flight that their perfections and harmonious operations were frightening. Like a perfectly running machine they functioned, so integrated, orderly and in perfect harmony did they move. All of them had only one motive; to carry out in perfect harmony the orders of their Master in every detail.

In great fury His powerful angels met below the heavens and came against the enemy angels who could not resist them at all. Stripping from the evil angels their angelic forms they disembodied them, as it were. Within that false angelic form had been hidden a most hideous, deformed and depraved thing, unutterably despicable and vile in its monstrosity.

The Lord's angels then took these deformed enemy beings into perpetual captivity then placed around them a wall of mirrors which completely surrounded them, causing them to see continually a manifested reflection of themselves in every direction they looked. Although they hated it and desperately tried to avoid it, they could only see the hideous truth of that manifestation or reflection of their own terrible monstrosity wherever they would turn their eyes.

Upon the earth below these enemy angels were men in whom they had been successful in reflecting their own falseness. They had, as it were, reproduced their own deceit in those men below who had assumed the form of high, righteous beings. Even as the evil spirits had assumed angelic forms and posed as the angels of light, even so had they reproduced this same deceit in certain men upon earth.

In their fury this army of the Lord did not stop after having taken the devils captive; they then proceeded to do the same to the cohorts of these devils who were upon the earth. The disembodied these deceived and deceiving men from the angelic-like form that they had assumed. To them, also, was given that open, total manifestation of their true inner selves - as if a mirror reflecting all things within had been placed around them. This mirror was inescapable, forever reflecting back to their own eyes the ugly horror of their own perverted hideousness.

He told me that these men would find their only strength in this open manifestation of their own misery and miserableness and they would desire to die to escape but would not be able to. At many times and in many ways He had given them full opportunity to repent and escape from their terrible condition but they willed not to repent. Therefore, this judgment had come upon them.




Lost First Love

Today I had a very difficult time overcoming indifference, for it seemed to me that nothing made any difference at all and nothing was really worthwhile. But because He was waiting for me there, I knew that I must press on. At last He brought e into a state of truly desiring Him, and desiring to draw near to Him. Immediately the heavy sense of opposition left me and the Spirit of the Lord took me through the door of the cross of light into His presence in the high and holy glory of the throne room where He rules within that mighty Cloud.

After cleansing away my fears, flooding me with love, and renewing my faith, He spoke sweet and reassuring words and then showed me a certain people. Between the Lord and these people was flowing a beautiful and glorious love: His love - His true love. As it flowed between them and Him it seemed that I could feel and sense its essence, so full of sweetness, yet fierce in its strength like a consuming fire. It was precious, indeed.

As I watched, this love somehow changed; a strange transformation came over it. The flow of love had ceased and His people were no longer receiving and returning His wonderful love. They had abandoned His love and were now manufacturing a love of their own. But, oh, how utterly different it was! Although it had the same tangible, visible form of the other love, it had none of its essence, but appeared as empty and artificial as a bit of colored glass beside the true diamond.

this was their own love that was ascending but not unto Him. the love that formerly had been exclusively for Him was now being given to another and this false love impeded His love from coming down and flowing to them.

Around these persons He placed a great circle of blazing fire which was neither a fire of love and blessing nor a fire of destruction; it was a trying, judging fire.

"I have placed my limits of fire around them," He said. "If these insist upon going beyond these limits and pass through the outside of these fires which I have placed around them they shall in no wise return to me." He warned them, calling them to return to their former love lest they pass beyond His limits of fire and thereby be lost from Him.




Floods Of Iniquity

When I went to prayer I was filled with a total lack of desire to pray or seek the Lord. My mind hunted up any kind of excuse to escape and leave off praying. Pushing that aside, I found myself doing the same thing over and over again. Nevertheless, I continued on until finally in mercy the Lord helped me and drew me unto Himself. As the Spirit caught me up and took me through the cross, I found myself before Him in that awesome sight of His might glory Cloud.

Then the Lord showed me a day that has even now already begun in which He was opening the doors to the floods of iniquity; more and more He was opening these doors until they were wide open. Flooding through them with great impetus was a most frightening flood of deep, mysterious, black iniquity which was pure power and force. It aws not like a person, but like a huge, flooding wave of the power of total evil.

As I watched this, He told me that His own ones would not be destroyed in this terrible, spreading wave of iniquity unloosed. and even as these forces of evil were being fully loosed and were working their own works of darkness, He was holding them in ridicule and disdain.

After a limited time, a strange and terrible force came out from Him in His glorious Cloud of awesome fire and wrath which appeared like a mighty, visible, and tangible wind of power filled with tremendous energy and force - the very power of the Almighty, Himself.

This power, filled with total destruction, was a consuming power which consumed all things before it. As a giant broom sweeping all the debris before it, this wind in mighty gusts of power swept the floods of darkness from the earth. The destroying force of this wind of power then consumed all the flood of evil it had swept up and the earth became clean and bright. There was no sign of the great, vile flood of iniquity anywhere; it had been done away with forever.




The Other House

Because of weariness it was difficult to come near to Him; it seemed that I would never be able to throw it of long enough to draw near. But at last He pushed it all aside and took me unto Himself in His world of dazzling light. The delight of being so close to Him always makes any battle seem of little importance. Basking in the endless flow of His love and beholding His amazing glory, I was at rest and at home in His world of light.

When He told me to look, I saw some of His own ones entering into a place which - though indistinct to my eyes - was nevertheless very real. This place brought much shame to Him for it was a place where darkness rules. His own should not have been in that place at all, for it did not belong to Him. Not all of His own ones were there, just some of them, and these were mixed with many others who did not belong to Him.

Telling them that He was going to let the evil of that place destroy all those who were there, He urgently called them to come out lest they be entrapped forever.

Later when He showed me the same place, I saw it much more clearly and distinctly. Although it was like His house, it was not like the one in the heavens which is made of living stones. For those who had not seen the real, it was a plausible facsimile and appeared more like His house upon the earth.

He said, "This is not My house upon the earth. Look well at this house that I am showing you, for it is not My house."

As I looked more carefully, I saw that although it was not like His house in the heavenlies nor like the one upon the earth, nevertheless, it was so fashioned as to try to appear like His house upon the earth. Apparently healthy throughout, it did not appear to be sick or infirm at all. Just like His house in the heavens and the one down upon the earth this house also had many different entrances. (He had showed me these many entrances into His house in a former vision when He told me that He was teaching me many of these entrances so that I could bring others to Him.)

In the center of this imitation house of the Lord - if I may call it that - there was a strange and evil force at work - a force of great power and multiplied evil. In spite of its fierceness and ferocious evil, it had the ability to present itself as most attractive. It had a voracious and unappeasable appetite - a drawing power that was ever at work to entrap and enslave whomsoever it could ensnare. This power - a sweet syrupy thing - went out in a most delicate, camouflaged way that was truly amazing and was very attractive to some. On the outside, the deceiving power of this imitation house did not appear at all as He showed it to me on the inside. The imitation house did not appear fierce or evil, but had so transformed itself as to appear to have the same drawing power as His other house had. This deceiving power had imitated the very quality and essence of the true to such a degree that it had drawn in many of His own. This horribly deceiving power tried with all its force to appear like His own house, but in spite of all its deceiving power, it still did not look like His true house; it was most distinct. Although it tried so hard to appear exactly like His true house, its stones were not living stones; there was no inherent light in them. The light of this house was far inferior and its drawing power was utterly different. (Nor was there any true attraction.)

He showed me that shortly He was going to send forth from Himself a power that would bring self-destruction to them. This power would fill them with hatred one for the other in such a way that they would find themselves unbearable and would not be able to stand the presence of one another. Filled with strong desires to raise up one against the other they would thus destroy themselves. For this reason He was calling His own to come out from the midst of them before the hour of their self-destruction.




His Mighty Ones

After having done all in their allotted power to resist me, the enemy had to give over. I have found out that they are never consistent. They press against me, but if they are resisted they leave, even though they may return to the fray.

Entering into the realm of the spirit I was taken to the throne room of the house of living stones where after welcoming me in His wonderful embrace of love and washing away all my fears, He told me to look.

In passing, I would like to mention a strange thing: When He is manifested to me in His high glory Cloud of wonder, fire, and great inner violence, He stretches out His hand to do something. Nevertheless, His hand is so unlike our hands; in fact, I do not even know why I recognize it as His hand. Yet I do, for He makes me to know that He is doing this by His strong arm and with His mighty hand extended.

This time He showed me a certain group of men upon the earth who belonged to Him and who had passed through many of His processes and had grown in grace. Then I saw a most wonderful thing: These mighty ones of His were directly connected and united with the angelic hosts of the army of the Lord. His mighty ones were doing in the world below the very same things that His angelic army was doing in the spiritual world. (And that which they did was according to the specific command of the Lord.)

These mighty ones were working in the midst of the great darkness that was upon the earth. Even when that darkness was most intense and filled with evil, still these mighty ones were fulfilling the commands of the Lord upon the earth along with their fellow warriors - the great angels in the heavenlies with whom they were intimately united. These angels, of high order, worked with tremendous violence and with tremendous power; in fact, they seemed to be like loosened thunders, so filled with force and fury were they.

I saw that the army in the heavens and the one upon the earth were working in perfect harmony: as did the one, so did the other. According to the command of the Lord they moved and worked as one because the same spirit was in them both.



The Cloud Of His Wrath

As I tried to press through to Him in prayer, I was attacked by ill humor and fears: fears concerning the ministry that I know is before me. Fears of life itself. I knew that all of this was allowed of the Lord, but came straight from the enemy and had to be resisted and overcome. At last the time of battling ended and the Spirit came to me and took me through that dark band of opposition and brought me to the light. As I passed through His door of pure light, my soul was cleansed from all those fears and doubts and I was brought before Him in that high and holy place where He reigns in the glory and wonder of His Cloud of fierce fire.

In His great glory Cloud He was filled with greatest wrath. (How glad I was to be covered by His wonderful love as He showed me this sight of yet another of His judgments upon the evil of this earth!) His Cloud was violently active and ferocious in its wrath and appeared like, a vast cloud of terrible fires with intense ragings and inner violences.

When He told me to look, I saw another cloud, but this one was strange and terrible - a veritable cloud of horror which came forth from Him. This cloud, of terrible weight and opaqueness, was like a huge, solid mass; nevertheless, I knew that it was a cloud. Filled with vengeance and dreadful purpose, it seemed like a could of darkness - a darkness entirely different from the darkness of the enemy. With deliberate speed this cloud - filled with violence, wrath, and great rushings of inner fierceness - descended upon the world of darkness where the devil was ruling.

Directly behind this great, crushing cloud of the Lord's wrath came a flattening fire which was even more terrible and more crushing than the cloud. Without flames this fire was, nevertheless, vehemently kindled.

This cloud of wrath descended to crush and flatten into destruction the evil and wrath of the devil and the fire followed directly behind it, as if to finalize anything that the crushing cloud had left.

When His crushings of evil began, a great wave of doubt swept over His people, but His words brought great comfort: "Doubt not that I shall fulfill the word that I spoke when I promised to set free those who are mine, for I shall set them completely free from all this cloud of evil upon the earth. I shall not forget my words to them. All shall be fulfilled."



A Curtain Of Fear

Once again fears of all kinds came against me as I tried to come to Him in prayer. I pressed against them but they only changed their faces, as it were, and returned. Several hours passed before I was able to reach through to Him. At last, however, the Holy Spirit helped my infirmities and brought me to Him whom my soul adores. There in that place of pure delight of the flow of divine love, I was cleansed from all fears and doubts and was able to rest.

Then He said, "Even though you draw near to me fearing and doubting in your mind that I shall fulfill my word to you, even so, I shall cause you to go forward. You shall see the day in which I have fulfilled every word and every promise and you shall sing, 'Great is Thy Faithfulness.'"

He showed me, as it were, a curtain - a curtain of fear which He allowed to come down over every word and promise in which He desired that I go forward. This curtain made it appear impossible for me to go forward, yet He made me go forward, and advancing, I found that little by little my spiritual body began to penetrate member by member through that curtain and rejoin itself upon the other side. Although this curtain of doubt and fear was not drawn or pushed aside, yet I was able to go through it part by part, member by member, and thus I passed through it. As He pressed me forward, more and more of me got through that impossible, dark, heavy curtain that fully impeded and blocked my progress; it did not stop me at all, for He caused me to pass through it.



The Builders

There was very heavy opposition and I felt that it probably would continue for several days. Although it would be beaten back, it would rise again. I began to feel like there was such an endless battle, why continue on. Why not give over?....Then there would be no more battle. But I knew that this, too, was a lie of the enemy for the Lord has always given victories. So I pressed on and finally He came and brought me unto Himself in the height and glory of His fiery Cloud in the throne room of the living stones. Speaking away all my fears and covering me by His floods of tangible love, He told me to look, and looking, I saw a certain people - a mixture of people.

Among them were some of those that belonged to Him and some who aspired to the same order yet were not His own. His own were greatly mixed with others who aspired to be the same with them. Being united with them, they were also greatly influenced by them.

This group of His own were builders whose task it was to build together with the angels in the house of living stones. It seemed that His people were composed of two main groups: Those who were being worked upon and built up into His living house, and those who were in some manner set apart unto Him who were working together with Him in preparing of this house of living stones.

Both of these groups were mixed together with those who were not His own ones. The latter had a power of strange attraction to draw away with them any who would listen to them, and listening, would follow them. For this reason they had been allowed to mix together with His own ones: to try them and to prove them to see if they would listen to His voice or other voices.

Then I saw Him raise up a barrier - a barrier made of His voice, His word, and His person. When He spoke to them, His word formed a wall around them. He warned them that these imposter's would be destroyed and their works with them. And as He spoke to them this barrier formed. To those who heard His voice and received His warning, His words became a wall about them which shielded them from those lying ones. His word also reached the imposters, but they neither heard nor received it. He warned them, but they neither heard nor heeded His word.

Sadly enough, even some of those who belonged to Him would not hear, believe or receive His word. Thus His word did not form a wall for them, either. Following after the lying ones, those unbelieving ones remained under their influence and were brought with them into destruction.



In Charge Of The Light

A heavy sense of futility, doubt and discouragement swept over me as I went to prayer followed by a feeling of being entrapped into the will of God with no way out and that this will would bring only pain and sorrow. Hour after hour, I battled against these thoughts so disguised so as to appear not to be from the enemy. But because I knew that I must proceed and could not turn back, I kept on until His mercies swept over me and He took me through that dark vale into the place where that beautiful door awaited me - the cross of sweetest light that like a warm bath began to wash away all those burning painful feelings. His words, "Fear not, little loved one," came to me and then He told me to look.

Once again I saw the same scene as yesterday - those who were working to build His house of living stones. This time He showed me another group of His builders who were working together in the same work, but their task was different. There were many different classes of workers who were laboring together with the angels, and these various classes were not all of the same plane. strangely enough, these workers were building both below in His house upon the earth, and at the same time, in His house in the heavenlies.

He began to speak to me of one special group of His workmen; theirs was the charge of the light. To them was given to cause the light - that living light that flows forth from Him into all things - to enter into the living stones that had been built up by the builders. Great light and power was given to these special workmen to enable them to fulfill their allotted task. Those who had received and used their power and light were given even greater supplies of this light and power. The more they had, the more was given to them.



False Workmen

Fears of a coming trip greatly tormented me and it took many hours before I could push them back enough to draw near to Him and open my spirit to His love. But at last I was able to draw near to that cross of light and into His high place of total light, beauty and purity.

He showed me a certain people who appeared like the builders that I had seen before. They too, were trying to build for Him, using His Name for all their works, yet I saw that they were not working righteousness, but evil. They even used His name to bring forth miracles, yet I saw that they were not His workmen. They tried to deceive themselves and even God, if that were possible. In spite of all their appearances and their works done in His name and for Him, yet they still were not His workmen. It was a strange thing: Those who were His had a part of Him deep in their beings. But the others, deep within their beings had a part of the devil. In spite of the outer appearance, and the fact that they themselves tried to believe that they were His workmen, yet they were not His at all.

Their evil was continuous and they refused to leave it. Although He warned them often that if they continued on in this way they would be destroyed and they understood well that this was so. Nevertheless, they did not procure the necessary changes; in fact, it was impossible for them to change, for this part of the devil deep within them prohibited them from changing. They listened to the Lord's words of warning, but they still continued on in their evil ways just the same. They even tried to be great builders in His house and appeared to be in a very high and very great state as builders. The Lord said that He would not permit this to continue on, but would destroy them irremissibly.



A Few Left

Because I had a heavy bronchial infection, prayer was very difficult for me. At the same time, the tormenting fears of yesterday returned in full force to make it a long battle to come to Him. At last, however, I was able to break free and come to Him in that world of perfect harmony where He began to speak to me and flood and fill me with the wonder of His love. "I have arranged all things. Do you think that i would order them for your destruction? In the path that I have ordained for you there is nothing at all of destruction for I have marked out for you a path that shall bring you ever closer to Me....REST. And let your mind rest for I shall keep every single word that I have promised to you."

Then He showed me a certain people who appeared to be the same ones I saw yesterday: a group of workmen who appeared to be His workmen yet who were given over to evil. Although He destroyed them, I saw that where they had been there were a few others who were following the same path of those who had been destroyed. He called to them warning them that if they followed that path they, too, would be destroyed. These remaining ones listened to His voice repenting from their works and ways and were saved from the destruction into which they had been heading. To them was given to truly work for Him and to build in His house with His other workmen.



Fathers In The Work

It seemed that all hell was allowed to come against me and I wondered if I would ever get through to Him. Nevertheless, after a few hours of pain and warfare, the enemy fled and I was caught away into Him.

Speaking away all fear and pain of battle, He washed me with great waves of His burning love and said,"Although you do not understand how, yet I shall bear you in the way I have marked for you and not allow you to be detained, for it is declared that you shall advance."

He showed me some of His workmen who were more advanced than the others I had seen. They were as Fathers in their responsibilities and advancement while the former ones were more like sons of these, not in generation but in development.

I saw that they were working more in the house in the heavenlies than in the one on the earth, yet they were not at all aware of this. They were only cognizant of working in the house below. These workmen were charged with opening the ways ahead so that those following behind them could advance into the possessions of God that were already taken for them. I understood that the possessions of God into which they must enter were they, themselves.

To these was given, as it were, to open the doors of glory into His presence - in His house in the heavens - to those who followed behind them so that they, too, might enter and behold the glory and wonder of His presence.



Glory Or Self-Hate

There was a time of great, oppressive opposition with deep feelings of depression, doubt, and sadness of inexplicable origins trying to prevent me from coming in to Him. But I knew that after overcoming these barriers He awaited me. So I pressed on until He came to me and drew me unto Himself in His Cloud where He enveloped me in the flooding wonder of His consuming, captivating love. Telling me not to fear, He took away every fear, not only my own but also those imposed upon me by the enemy as I pressed through to Him.

After a most delightful time in His love He told me to look. He showed me a certain people who were greatly loved by Him, for they were His own. He had gathered them together from strange places: Places of the enemy where He had placed them. Places of great pain, sorrow, and even sacrifice. Places in which the enemy had been allowed to reign and dominate the circumstances. Places of misunderstandings and persecutions. Having permitted every kind and type of evil things to come against them, He finally drew them out of all their pain and suffering and filled them with such glory and beauty that they were most amazing to behold. There was great rejoicing for they were brought in unto Him within the glorious Cloud of His presence.

Then He showed me another people who were His also, but they were not at all like those glorified ones. They had been near by those glorified ones when they were in those strange places of affliction before the time of their glorification. Rising up against them and persecuting them, they had helped the enemy add to their sorrow, pain and affliction. Now this was permitted no longer, for He had filled them with His glory and they could no longer be hurt.

Then I saw a second people who had been disobedient and had not listened to His voice. Having been warned, they still had not obeyed but had pressed on in their ways in spite of His loving admonishings. Now they were given to behold the glorifying of those whom they had formerly persecuted and despised.

As they beheld the glorifying of those loved ones of the Lord, they were filled with great swellings of self-hate and self-loathings. made most cognizant of their own errors, their despisings of correction and their driving over all warnings into willful disobedience, they were now filled with sorrow and sadness in the realization of their own miseries.

These did not hate the glorified ones, but they were filled with self-hatred in a most pitiful manner. Even as the glory of those in Him was very high, so was their misery very great. I marveled much that these, also, belonged to Him, for their tears and their remorse were great.



The Walls Of His House

In spite of the fact that I was very ill in body and filled with much discouragement I knew that I must reach through to Him. My longing for Him is like a great thirst in me that I must satisfy or I will perish. When I was finally able to push all these things into the background and reach through to Him, He sent forth His love to me and lifted my spirit within me. All discouragement fled away as He filled my thirsty soul. Filled and flooded with His glory and love I rested in that wonder of His world of light, harmony and beauty.

Then He took me and showed me the house which He is building upon the earth calling my attention especially to its walls. These walls were men, His ministers that were His workmanship. Although each one was in his own place, yet each one was a wall distinct from all others.

These walls that were raised up around His people were limits and protection for them. His own were kept within the walls and those without were kept without; the enemy could not pass the Lord?s walls. I understood that He was developing these men more and more so that they would not progressively more effective in their task of keeping His own within and the enemy without, becoming increasingly more powerful in forming the limits as to where His own could go.

In the heavens were powerful angels of God filled with great wonder and beauty who had great strength and authority and whose visage was most determined. In their hands were mighty, fiery swords all flaming and terrible, consuming fires which nothing could withstand. These angels were doing in the heavenlies the same thing that His ministers were doing upon the earth, working together with them in raising and keeping the limiting walls of His own ones and establishing them strong and immovable.



Not Deceived

Being extremely nervous and greatly impatient, I found it most difficult to be able to calm my mind and bring in into subjection to Him in order to love Him in spirit and in truth. I found my mind wandering greatly and this added to my nervousness. Also, I was in a hurry to go into His presence and come out in order to begin the things that awaited me. Finally, I was able to bring all my wandering thoughts under control and come to Him in the Spirit.

Nothing in all this world, no love this world affords could ever make me desire to leave that place of such delight where pure love flows so abundantly; I still find myself wishing that I could stay there forever and never have to return.

Today I saw a people going into a house which was not His. Although He was telling them not to go in, they were not listening to Him at all. Out from that strange place were coming lies and these people were accepting those lies and rejecting His voice. Within themselves they were desiring those lies; they were longing to go into that strange house which He told them was not His. Furthermore, even though in their hearts they truly desired to go into that place, they did not want Him to know that this desire was in their hearts. Strangely enough, they tried to appear before the Lord, pretending on the exterior that they were putting on a garment having been deceived by those lies that had come to them. Thus they tried to deceive the Lord and still have all the evil they desired, and at the same time, have all the good things of the Lord as well.

He spoke and said, "There is nothing hidden from me. That which men truly desire shall be given them. Having been fully advised and forewarned, these were not deceived at all. I shall never allow any lie or deceit to bring My word into confusion in any way. No one shall ever be confused regarding my words to them." I understood that He had revealed the truth to them, but in their inner hearts they had not desired the truth.

God had made them as a most beautiful fruit full of light and life and had given them a time of liberty, allowing them freedom to do as they wished. Yet He knew all the while that this time of liberty was going to be for their destruction.

I saw them running into places of contamination and contagion. When they became gravely ill with a deathly sickness, they were unable to see or realize their own sickness. It seemed impossible for them to recognize their miserable condition.

Telling them of their terrible condition and warning them to return from that place of dire contamination, He called and called to them to return to their former state as a whole and sound fruit which He had made them. He warned them that they were sick and needed to be made whole and told them to return quickly before they were consumed and before the time was cut off when it would be too late for them. He told them to call to Him promising to hear and heal them, but they did not want to listen to Him. They did not believe that they were in any danger at all, nor could they see their own sickness or believe His words telling them that they were sick.

Then the time of revelation came, a time of the manifestation of truth, which He sent to them. When He showed them their true condition and sorry state, they turned and cried out piteously to Him, but the time of repentance had ended. Their opportunity had passed and they were too late. He did not listen to their cries nor pay any more attention to them for they had delayed too long and were lost.




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