I found it very easy to enter into His presence today because those terrible opposing forces did not come against me, as so often is the case. Given to come to Him directly, I heard His voice calling to me as I passed through the glorious cross of cleansing light. As He sent forth that golden flood of burning love out of His might cloud of fires and brightest glory, He covered me and said, "Come near and do not fear. For nothing shall be able to separate you from me. I have arranged each thing before you which shall be fulfilled to perfection and this you shall see."

Then He showed me a people who with great care were working and struggling to deceitfully develop certain false works on the interior of their beings. Carefully trying to keep these works in secret hiding places, they hid them, as it were, under great stones that they felt surely would cover them from sight.

These were serving gods of force, gods of the forces of deceit. And strangely enough, with these forces they were pretending to serve the true God, but they were only deceiving themselves and none other in the spirit world. Even then, these did not really deceive themselves for they knew that their works were evil and disobedient, yet they persisted in doing them.

Artfully and deceitfully they were hiding their evil works behind a facade of good works, even using the name of God and were fighting with and deceiving a part of the true people of God.

Then God said that He was doing to discover their hidden, evil works and rescue His own ones whom they had desired to destroy. All that they had labored so greatly and artfully to cover and hide He was going to bring to light.

When these evil ones were brought to light, these works of evil within them turned themselves about and became great forces of destruction, turning in upon them to destroy them.

Seeing this destruction, those who belonged to Him, yet had been deceived, broke forth in great desperation and fear and repented in a great manner. Because He was with His own ones, they were liberated and set free from all the deceit they had received.

After a time of prayer the Spirit came and took me through that cross of light and into that holy temple where His Cloud ever reigns. All the heavens were filled with His glory and the angels of God in glory and beauty spread their harmony all around. His love flowed forth over me in a transparent, golden, flaming flood that I can never explain but which is the greatest delight of my whole being.

Once again He showed me those same ones who were like fathers in the church to whom had been given to open up the ways into God so that those who followed behind them could enter into the glory of His presence.

The enemy had built up great dominions and tremendous strongholds which were built up to great heights being so wide, strong, and well-built that it seemed that nothing could ever throw them down. Because of these, the enemy was greatly mocking God and making ridicule of His strength, saying, "Who shall be able to destroy us? Who can ever throw down that which we have built up? Behold our great strength and our great fortresses of power! Our dominion is well established and we shall not be dislodged. Neither shall our great walls be overthrown nor shall any one be able to surmount them."

However, God is great wisdom had located these way-openers most strategically and specifically in various places. It looked as though each one had been carefully and almost secretly located at the place in these strongholds where they were most sustained, as if each one were located at one of the main supporting pillars of this great fortress and balustrade of the enemy. Because these were in tiny groups at each pace, there were not enough nor did they have enough strength to worry the enemy at all. He was quite unprepared for any effort on their part to destroy His great works.

Suddenly from His great Cloud of glory He poured great power out upon these strategically located ones. And rising up suddenly and taking the enemy by surprise they threw down his walls and tore down his stronghold. Nor did they need any help from the host of His angels in the heavens. They alone, with His power upon them, were able to throw down all that the enemy in vaunted pride had built up. All his work was completely thrown down. I marveled greatly that such a strong and great structure had been so easily thrown down. The enemy had been to sure and had so defended it that he thought that not even God could throw it down. Yet those who belonged to Him had been able to fully over come and tear down these great walls and dominions by His power given unto them.

Today I was again helped in prayer by another praying with me, for I have found that it makes a great difference to have the help of another in prayer, especially if that one is a true warrior in God. The forces of opposition of the enemy are so greatly reduced and so much more easily overcome. Because it is so easily overcome. Because it is so easy I am afraid to avail myself over much of this help lest I grow weak and without strength to be able to overcome on my own.

When I came in unto Him, waiting and basking my soul in the pure delight of His golden, fiery flood of purest love, He spoke to me and filled my whole being with the glorious harmony of His voice. He called me by name, assuring me of His constant watch care over me, then spoke away all of my fears.

He showed me the path of life which stretched out before me like a most glorious and strange cloth-like material. Filled with light, it was most beautifully and artistically adorned with all kinds of intricate workings of broidered designs. He explained how beautiful it was stretched out before me with all kinds of intricate adornments. I looked yet I could not see very far down its shining trail, nor could I understand the secret beauties of the embroidered designs that were so artfully worked therin. I could only see that it appeared even more beautiful down into the future.

Then He took me and showed me a people upon the earth who were the sons of the evil one even though they appeared to be very good on the exterior. In fact, they appeared to be especially good and not evil at all. Because the devil was so exceedingly sure of them, he allowed them to be so very good. He had not the slightest fear of losing them, having a great security over them knowing that he would not lose them.

They were so good that no one except God and the devil, knew that they were in reality sons of the evil one. Even they themselves did not know that they were evil ones and belonged to the devil, for their own goodness fully deceived them and kept them from this knowledge. Because they were like already dead ones and the devil was so certain of them, he did not worry about them at all.

Although God had given them many opportunities in one manner or another of taking hold of the salvation He offered, nevertheless, they seized hold of none of them. All the while God knew that it was totally useless, for they would not take even one of His offered opportunities, yet they were without excuse.

I saw that this strange power of fatal evil that the devil had placed in them was final in some. In others, of whom he was not sure and certain that they belonged to him, he also tried to place this same strange, fatal power of evil. Yet in these he could not place this power, for the time came that God drew near to them and they received Him for they belonged to Him and not to the evil one. For this reason He had no success at all in the use of his power against those who did not belong to him.

Being helped in prayer, it was but a short while before I was taken through that cross of heavenly light and brought in unto Him. There before His great Cloud of fiery glory He welcomed me and flooded me with His love. He told me that in the future I would be seeing that which I could neither see nor understand as yet. Nevertheless, He told me that when I saw it I would say, "How perfect and how wonderful has been His word!"

Then He took me to a different place where He showed me the spirits of evil in a state of feverish activity. Accumulating and joining their powerful forces in a furious effort, they were preparing to loose and pour to a veritable explosion of evil upon the inhabitants of the earth. From the very force f their own evil that they had been allowed to generate, thee huge, countless hordes of evil beings were encouraging and empowering themselves. This development of a state of evil without restraint in seemingly unlimited power was truly a most awesome and frightening spectacle. Never has this world known such unlimited evil as is to come upon it. Unchecked violence and utter chaos will reign with not only sin, but great wrath and furious attacks coming against all good.

These evil powers, deluding themselves in their abilities to deceive, desired to ensnare those who belonged to Him. In fact, their ultimate aim was to surround and entrap the sons of light.

Seemingly, the sons of light had to pass through this great flood of unloosed evil and great persecutions with most horrible pains. Filled with fear for them and wondering greatly, I thought that surely His own ones would be swallowed up by these unloosed powers of black and horrible evil. But Jesus spoke to me out of His mighty Cloud of terrible glory and said, "Look and see what I shall do." As I looked, I saw His own ones covered as though in a bell of purest light and love. The menacing forces of evil could not touch them nor penetrate that wonderful covering of love and light that He had placed over each one.

The frustration of the powers of the enemy so greatly increased their fury that they began to concentrate even more against the sons of light in order to destroy them. They drew near to them with all their power in an effort to consume and utterly do away with them. Because this terrible cloud of darkness completely surrounded His own ones, I could see them no longer and cried out within me in great fear saying, "Where are thine own ones, Lord?" for they had disappeared from view.

Then He showed me another place which was far removed from the place of danger. To this place of great safety and of salvation His own had been taken. "These have escaped and left the place of danger because I was with them. According to My orders over them they have been removed to this place of salvation," He said.

Because there was no opposition as I entered into prayer, in but a short while I was given to pass through the cross of light and go into His high and holy presence in the heavens far above this our poor world of evil and woe. After drawing me near unto Himself and covering me with His love, I was able to rest in His glorious presence.

When He spoke to me He said, "They dare not reject that which I am now saying. This they must receive." Then He showed me those of His who appeared to be dead as far as spiritual life was concerned. But as they received this operation which He proceeded to show me, they received His life in them and they arose in a newness of life.

He then took me to another place where He had taken me twice before in which the angels had operated upon my body preparing me to be able to come unto Him in a higher sphere.

The Lord was desiring to feed His people, but it was a strange feeding indeed. He was interchanging their parts and in this way was feeding them divinely, causing them to develop and receive more and more of His divine life. This was as a first fruits sample of what He desired to still further do for them. If this was rejected and they proceeded not in this process, they would lose their opportunity and it would not be given to them again. Even though they should seek it with great cryings, He would not listen to them, for they would become dead spiritually.

This was a place of corporal transformation of their spiritual bodies where parts were taken away and new parts, far more superior and new, were imparted in the place of those taken away. It was indeed an interchange of their corporal parts in order that they could come to Him in a truer and higher manner. I could understand this for it was the same operation that Jesus had caused His angels to work upon me many months before.

Before I could proceed on in the things He had for me, I had to receive this operation on my spiritual body. I realized at that time that those two visions were part of the same operation. The work done by the angels in the place that I saw through the hole in the wall, and the work of having my body renewed were but two parts of the same operation; an operation that He desires to bring to all of His own ones.

Again I as allowed easy access into His presence. How pleasant it is to be able to come into His presence so easily, for generally I have to battle against much opposition of the enemy. There before Him in His high, incomparable glory of the radiant light and consuming fire, I beheld Him whose beauty fills the whole heavens and is reflected in every being and in every material. The abundance of His love came upon me in tangible floods and I adored Him with my whole being.

He spoke to me chiding me for my unbelief. "As I have told you, your path is already marked out and I will accomplish My will whether you like it or not. Have I not shown you this? Therefore, why do you not believe? And why do you not walk this way without giving in to so many fears? Behold, I am with you and I shall not leave you."

After saying this He took me to another place and showed me His wonderful house of living stones; stones of such glory, beauty, and splendor that they shone with abundant life and radiant light. But this time He took me to another place in this house which was exceedingly different from any place I have been given to see before. Perhaps it could be described as an inside patio.

This room which was inside His house of living stones was not composed of living stones, but had its own walls and enclosed place and seemed to be isolated from the rest of the house. Although it was not outside His house of great glory, wonder and immense size, neither was it in reality a part of the house proper. It was separate, yet located within this house.

Within this place were the souls of His people who had the life of God in them, and showed the same transparency that so curiously marks all things of His world. Although they had both life and light within themselves, they did not have the quality or superior beauty of the living stones. All together like in a crowded mass, they were not located in individual places as were the living stones each having its own place.

It was most apparent that these had not passed through the processes necessary to purify and transform them into higher places in His house. Yet, withal, they were well and happy and in a place of rest. They had accepted this inferior state willingly as decisions of their own wills.

He had promised them a place in His house which He gave them, and they were participating in the blessing of that house, yet not as the living stones of which His house is built. In this inner patio, a place that was reduced in glory, light and life, even His presence was reduced. For although He covered them with His presence, yet He did not make Himself visible among them. Moreover, I saw that He covered them as if shielding them from the rest of the house, as if the glory, light and beauty of the living stones were too much for them. And thus He shielded them from even their glory and light. Although it was a place of inferior and reduced glory and radiance and not all in any fullness, yet I saw that it was a place complete in itself. Its limitations and reductions were only because these were not able to receive any more. Isolated from the rest, it was like an island in a great ocean. The limits or walls of this place were made of the Lord Himself, yet not as He is and as I have seen Him in other places and at other times. He was so different, as though He had reduced all of His attributes and His glory so as to fit it to these lesser ones.

God has shown me how the Church is asleep while being entertained or caught up with the giftings and blessings at this hour, not because gifts are evil, but simply because she is sidetracked from the essential and deep work of God that truly changes the heart. He revealed to me how the principalities and ruling spirits of this age cunningly exert their influence to minimize any sense of vigilance and alertness on the part of God's people. These demonic forces that specially attack in the moral sphere as well as in the mind motivate powerful ambitions and pride. As they are not counter-attacked, and find little or no resistance in their way, they are able to come in and thwart any real benefit of the work of the Holy Spirit.

The spirit of the age works toward minimizing, denigrating, and attacking everything that exalts Christ. That very spirit is behind the idea that expresses "let's do something more practical," rather than giving priority to prayer, seeking the face of God, and ministering to Him. Consequently, it becomes the ideal environment or breeding ground for the enemy to develop greater resistance, influence and even control. Parallel to this great attack of the enemy, the historic hour in which we live also marks a time of great fulfillment within God's eternal purpose and plan.

The Lord brought to me how the changes in our world, such as the events in relation to Israel, and the world wide involvement in the Middle East crisis, as well as the world trend toward globalization, all point to the need to prepare for His corrective judgment on the church, as well as His punitive judgment on the world. We need to awake from our spiritual slumber to a greater intensity than ever, because the time is short. A complete change will take place soon in the world order as it is known today and the control of the evil one will become more and more apparent. For this reason the Lord has prompted a deep urgency and a burden in me, that we not despise nor neglect the grace God has extended for our preparation.

As he caught me away into the world of light, my spirit was filled with the sheer penetration of the celestial light that fills all His world. Every heavenly creature and every heavenly substance is filled with that pure light which emanates from them in wondrous glory. Yet all pales in comparison to the beauty and shining effulgence that streams forth from Him in celestial radiation's ineffable glory. Because everything is filled with light and is so transparent, nothing in all of heaven could ever hide.

Outside of Christ, Himself, there is no hiding place at all. And this tremendous, penetrating light ever fills my being with wonder and delight as it floods in upon me. Great security fills me and peace floods my whole being as His love flowing over me in ever increasing billows cover me in the warmth of His embrace. He showed me some people upon the earth whom I did not see as flesh and blood; rather, in the spirit there was a revealing of their souls to my view. These were those unto whom He had sent forth a certain something from Himself- a substance that I could not ascertain precisely nor did He tell me what it was. But I could see that it was good in essence and pure and holy in substance and was neither negative nor destructive in its import or purpose. Sent forth to prove them and to provoke them unto the truth, it brought forth an evil reaction.

Even though He knew that people would react in this manner, He did not desire them to do so. Their evil reaction caused Him great sadness for he had sent forth to them that which should have been a blessing rather than a thing of condemnation. Inherent in that which He sent forth to them was the power to force them to bring forth truth out of themselves by their reaction. Yet it was the choice of their own wills for they did not need to react in that manner. They were in the place of opportunity of coming forth as His own ones. In fact, they even desired to be His own ones and even thought that they were (or so it seemed to me when He first showed them to me).

The reaction came forth out of their own mouths and took the form of something ugly, filthy and unclean with the power to sully and make unclean. Thus out of their own lips they were vilifying and sullying that which He had sent forth to them. Pouring forth from their lips it made dirty with it's own uncleanness that beautiful, radiant, white blessing that He had sent forth to them. They would not refrain their lips from speaking and therefore that unclean flood poured forth upon that which He sent forth to them. This was manner in which they brought to themselves condemnation and thereby lost the opportunity they had been given. Even more, they were in a place and state of having had the opportunity of receiving light and life from Him. Yet as this uncleanness streamed forth from the mouths I saw that they lost forever their place of hope of ever becoming His own ones. [Excerpts taken from "Visions of the eternal"]

The Lord showed me how the imminent world upheaval will affect liberties and will bring about very evil alliances at government level. There will be a coming together with a unified intention to fulfill malicious purposes. As if it were a parody of the oneness expressed in the first church during Pentecost, authorities and people in high places will form sinister liaisons.

Exteriorly these figures will be bland and inoffensive, but their covert schemes will be very malignant. United in the common purpose of worldwide evil, they will precipitate changes that will totally alter the course of mankind as known up to the time. Even though the Lord was preparing His own for that hour, many were totally distracted, as if so engrossed in the naturals that they were rendered oblivious to spiritual realities. Although these deceived ones had a robust appearance, it was only a facade hiding the acute lack of the knowledge of God and of really being rooted in Him. This was the reason for their being so weak and vulnerable. The onslaught of the enemy would serve to bring a defining and separating of these people.

I saw how this vast host of evil forces invaded the earth with a great ability to attack, penetrate, and weaken any opposition. Nonetheless, the Lord showed how this time would of great strengthening for His Chosen, as they had never before experienced. God showed me the place of security, as if it were a great control room, where all things were directed by Him. I saw that though the Lord allowed these forces of darkness to come against and assault, nevertheless in parallel form He gave greater measures of grace and Light to His Own, enabling them to take authority and exert dominion over individuals, churches, cities, and countries.

I saw that this enablement from the Holy Spirit came as a great avalanche or flood of Life and Fire in its manifestation to His people. The Lord then went on to show me how it would move in His Church and His own. This special operation would result in the Church being no longer identified as a mere conglomeration of people, but now there would be a most apparent identity of Christ in her. Although these formidable powers were loosed, God's power clearly and unmistakably was over all. As these powers were released in the spirit realm, there was a reflection in the naturals of a power bringing much confusion as well as sinfulness.

Already at this hour this is being precipitated upon the earth and mankind. Nonetheless, it was wonderful to see how God had everything under perfect control and how the time for the fulfillment of these things was now. I was also given to see those whom the Lord is specially drawing to Himself in a way hitherto not known. But on the other hand it was also obvious how upon the Chosen great attacks of the evil were being unleashed, as it were in waves, comparable to the "blitz" used by the Germans in the 2nd. World War.

As the Lord carefully covered me with His Grace and the cloud of His presence, He allowed me a close up view of the fury that operated in those forces of darkness. With unleashed hatred and rage, these creatures became increasingly grotesque and horrendous in their ferocity against the chosen of the Lord. It was marvelous indeed to see that despite the great disproportion of evil forces and the intense manifestation of violence on the part of these demonic hosts, His Own suffered absolutely no harm. I was amazed, for from my vantage point it looked like a lost cause, as the Lord's Own appeared to be totally vulnerable and weak before such a vehement and vicious attack of the enemy.

Nonetheless as I was given to look closer, I saw how the Lord took something from His own being and infused it into them. His Spirit filled them more and more, strengthening and greatly enriching them. Then His own arose in power and counter attacked, causing the forces of evil to retreat in disarray. Thus it was God causing His own strength in His own to overcome and defeat the enemy.

[Note: For a historical precedent see Acts 4:24-30 This second outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the early church marked the onset of one of the greatest periods of opposition and persecution, but also of great power and authority for the Body of Christ.]

The Holy Spirit took me to a new place which seemed to be connected to Place of Beginnings that I had seen before, where God was replacing life, as it were, as if the first life had not been healthy and whole and had somehow lacked something.

Now, in another manner, He was changing things completely, replacing that unhealthy life by a new life that was fragile, delicate and tender, yet at the same time powerful, unbreakable and strong.

In this new place there was a bringing forth a change of the forms of life. When He said: "In this place I shall totally restore life." He spoke as though the life had not yet been fully restored before these workings which I now was witnessing. The former life had been sick and unhealthy. As an illustration, it seemed like a baker who had given form to a loaf of bread, yet within the loaf was another substance not even related to the form and substance of the crust of the loaf on the outside.

In the same way, the former life had a certain form and substance; but the life in this place of beginnings that He was about to give would be greatly superior in the inherent quality to that of the former.

The Lord reminded me of a vision He showed me many months ago, concerning a tree that was all destroyed save a living branch that remained after the destroying work had been completed. I had seen this living branch break forth with great life and develop in great beauty.

Today He showed me that this living branch is the same as the wave of light during the storm that I have been seeing of late. The negative part of the storm pertains to the part of the tree that was destroyed. I saw the forces of evil as military camps of the enemy located in high spiritual spheres.

From these high places came fourth the organization, orders, powers and beings of darkness that worked below in the out workings of the storm.

Of late, every time He takes me unto Himself, I am made exceedingly conscious of the coming storm of persecution that is drawing ever nearer. It is already forming and developing (received circa 1972), gathering its forces and heaping together its strength, preparing to break forth in hellish fury at a predetermined time.

This great storm of hate and fury, with its pain and bloodshed, is timed to break forth at the very same time as this high and Holy Thing that He is bringing forth out of Himself shall be manifested upon the earth. The two things are forming in the invisible world at the same time and at the same place.

The storm of persecution and hatred shall break forth simultaneously with the coming light of this Holy Thing that he is bringing forth; which shall be manifested upon the earth in those whom He has chosen exclusively for Himself, and in whom He shall come forth in this new beginning.

As I seek the Lord in prayer, I realize that these things that He is showing me, concerning Himself and the mysterious works that He is doing and bringing to pass, are not so much a revelation of Himself in His divine essence as they are revelations of Himself in relation to the things that He is bringing to pass in His church and on the earth, at this pinnacle hour which is now upon us. Whereas at first I could not relate the things He showed me, He is now giving me to understand in many ways that these things are all interrelated, and are but different parts of His present dealings, which are to be made manifest in due order, time and process.

Today He showed me strange, strong pains and sufferings that shall accompany the Holy Thing that He is bringing forth, as it were, out of His own being. The tremendous storm of pain and suffering accompanying this coming manifestation shall break forth simultaneously with it, and shall be provoked by that holy, new beginning; the manifestation that He is going to bring forth and place in His chosen ones. In this place of great pain I sensed terrible sufferings, martyrdoms and all kinds of persecutions. Although I could not see them, I felt their terrible pain. At the same time, I was held in a place of complete peace, sweetness and tranquility. The thought occurred to me that it was almost a deceitful thing which He was about to give to His own ones, for although it was so high and holy, nevertheless, it would bring forth strong provocations, terrible reactions and much suffering, pain and persecution. The chosen ones who receive this Holy Thing from Him shall also receive the pain and the suffering provoked by it, for that Holy Thing shall be tremendously shocking to those who are in opposition to God.