Today's prayer time was a long, lonely battle against every form of opposition the enemy could bring. I grew so weary of the battle that I wanted to quit and leave. But He continued to draw me on until in blessed mercy He began to release my spirit unto Himself. Passing through that door of the blessed cross I heard His voice coming to me in sweetest tones. How welcome it was to my hurting soul! "Fear not. For as I have kept you until now, so will I continue to keep you. I will surely fulfill My work." His words brought refreshing relief from all the frightening fears of that warfare. When He took me into His great Cloud of blazing fires and bright glory light, He told me to look and I saw the of men upon the earth. It was like the picture of yesterday's vision where His own were mixed with the evil ones that belonged to the enemy. He showed me how He was going to separate them from among the wicked ones. I saw several glorious angels corning forth from heaven bringing with them an enormous vessel. These angels were of those great living beings that pertain to the highest order I have ever seen in heaven whose faces and forms seem to be made of a special substance like glowing gems of highest order. Mighty in stature and strength, and taller than our highest mountains, they would be most terrible to behold save for Him. Filled with humility yet of holy determinations, their whole demeanor speaks of dominion, great wisdom and high intelligence.

THE FIRST VESSEL: the vessel that the angels were carrying was the same one that He showed me which was like an enormous tank and whose lid was sealed so that, no one could look within. Made of that strange, golden substance that is transparent and filled with light and life, it was elaborately worked with strange designs and encrusted with radiant stones of great beauty. These mighty angels began to pour something out from this great vessel upon His own people. As I looked I saw that they were pouring living fire out of the great vessel ... a fire that was neither destructive nor punitive, but cleansing. This fire burned away the unclean substances that seemed to be upon them, purifying and separating them from among those that were not of Him. This process continued until all of His own were fully cleansed from all the uncleanness that had adhered unto them, and were fully separated from the others.

THE SECOND VESSEL: A second time a band of these same mighty angelic beings flying forth from the highest heavens appeared again bearing another vessel like unto the first. This one also they began to pour out upon His people. Flowing forth from it I saw that glorious blood all filled, with life and light and power. As the blood was being poured out upon His people it was causing them to be fully cleansed and made white in purity and holiness. They were marvelously changed, made greatly different and separate from those of the evil one.

THE THIRD VESSEL: This time I saw another band of those glorious angels, high and holy, bearing with them yet another vessel which contained those wonderful waters of life and blessing that He was about to pour out upon His people. Now the time had come and His angels were pouring out this wonderful water of life and blessing upon His people in a mighty flood. This water filled His own ones with a mighty force. Whereas before they had life in themselves, now there was a great overflowing of life within them which filled, covered and saturated them. This great abundance of the very life of God that filled them became manifest in them.

THE FOURTH VESSEL: Again I saw a band of these most powerful angelic beings flying swiftly from out of the heavens and bearing with them another immense vessel whose contents they began to pour forth upon His own. As I looked closely I saw that they were emptying out from their vessel a mighty torrent of blazing celestial light ... a light which filled and saturated His people causing them to be transformed and making them to be most glorious and have light and life in themselves. Wonderful in purity and holiness their light shone forth in dazzling beauty. Truly they were His people and I saw that they were filled with Himself and He shone forth among them. As this took place a great wrath and raging filled the people of the evil one. When they saw how the people of the Lord became most beautiful with the blessings of the four vessels outpoured, they became very furious and greatly desired to destroy them because they knew that the time of their own destruction had now come. Fierce and destructive like a mighty hurricane there arose a terrible force from among the evil ones as if born out of their own rage. Turning its fury in upon themselves this force destroyed them.

THE BLOATED SHADOWS

Today He showed me the souls of His people greatly distressed because the enemy had been allowed to arise against them. Shining like lights in the midst of great darkness they had been completely surrounded by the dark, ugly shadows of the enemy which arose more and more against them, inflating themselves in wrath. As their rage increased they rose up like great mountains, continually increasing in size and becoming huge, bloated, inflated shadows. And the strange thing is that they really thought that they could and would destroy the people of light that belonged to Him. It was incredible to me to see the strange illusion of the enemy in believing that by inflating themselves with rage into a monstrous size they could thereby overcome the light and put it out by the sheer greatness of their darkness. Jesus was carefully watching it all, allowing it to proceed for a while. Then with a rushing of stupendous forces I saw a great power come out from Him which was like an immense circular scythe which turned in great circles accompanied by a powerful whirlwind. He sent forth this power into His own ones who were embattled and surrounded in that great field of darkness like an island of light in the stygian darkness of the nether world. When this mighty power of great destructive purpose reached His people, then from out of them it arose in all its terrible power and divine wrath and swept out upon those mountainous shadows of evil and began to destroy them, cutting them down and whirling mercilessly upon them until they were all destroyed. Then I heard the voice of the Lord speaking, "I shall never permit those evil ones to hurt or harm even one of my own. All that they shall ever attempt to do shall be defeated. It shall not prosper at all."

THE FLATTENER

Today the tattle was less severe and soon the Holy Spirit conducted me through the dark valley, through the ragings of the enemy and their stratagems and on to the great cross of light. As I passed through this glorious portal His word spoke away all fear and His love flowed out to me covering me like a gossamer cloud. After I had feasted my eyes upon His glory in that amazing Cloud of fire, He directed my eyes downwards. Far below upon the earth I saw the souls of His own people who were like bright lights in the midst of great darkness. Although they were all gathered together and were unperturbed yet I saw that very near to them and all around them were the souls of the wicked ones who were lightless and filled with death. These wicked ones were very close and were inside the limits that the Lord had set for His people. They were not attacking the lighted ones but were trying to mix with them and be one with them, entering into where they did not belong. Then I saw coming forth from out of that terrible Cloud ablaze with fire a great weapon of destruction. I do not know how to describe it but it was like a great, whirling roller, not in appearance but in its actions. This strange weapon filled with fury great rushings and unidentifiable noises came violently down upon the souls of those wicked ones who had penetrated into the limits of His children of light. Falling upon them in great power, this awful destruction knocked them down, rushed over them and literally flattened them into nothingness. His word to me was, "Nothing that does not come forth from Me shall remain in that day."

THE SNARES OF THE EVIL ONES

In these later days there has been much opposition to my entering into the presence of the Lord. Yet in spite of all the opposition, I heard the call in my spirit and knew that I would be able to press through and come unto Him whom my soul loveth. And true enough, after a couple hours I came to the end of that long, dark place and there before me was that most, glorious cross of light. From there I was taken directly into His high presence where He abides in that tremendous Cloud of fire and glory. There He washed over my whole being with the wonderful love light that ever proceeds forth from Him. There all weariness passed away as He spoke to me of His love and watch care. And there He reassured me of the surety of these things. When He directed me to look below, I saw all the children of light joined together in one place. They appeared like a great number of individual lights which joined together made a wonderful glory of light. I watched amazed as they began to move towards the children of darkness and the evil ones prepared to enter among them with deceit, snares and traps. As they moved closer together and finally joined, I was greatly frightened and cried out, why? For I could not understand why the Lord had allowed the evil ones to enter among His people. Then I saw the two groups fully joined and intermingled, and I was frightened and again cried out, why? The Lord spoke me saying, "Exactly

as they have entered so shall they go out." Suddenly I saw that those evil ones were blinded by the brightness of the light of His children and began to fall into their own snares and traps. Then in exactly the same direction as they had entered so they also went out. The children of light had not been troubled, hurt or ensnared at all. But the evil ones had become trapped and confused by their own deceits and could in no manner extricate themselves from their own snares. As this was happening I noticed a strange thing: Some of those on the fringes had appeared to belong to the children of light, but when they were ensnared I realized that they did not belong to those of light and had only reflected the light of others. They belonged to the enemy.

THE ADVANCING ONES

After a time of prayer I saw before me that wonderful door - the cross of marvelous light. Light that is more than light. Light that is substance. Light that is cleansing. Light that is love. How good it is to pass through that wonderful door! There He seems to prepare my whole inner being to be able to reach Him and be with Him. There He washes me and frees me from all the fears and doubts that the enemy showers upon my mind. There He purifies me so that I don’t feel ashamed to stand before Him whose eyes penetrate clear through me. There He fills my whole soul with love for Him, and before I realized it took me into His wonderful presence saying, “Fear not the battle that I have set before you, for each victory will make you become even more an overcomer. Down below upon the earth He showed me the souls of the sons of light one by one. As individuals they were entering into the pathway of light, or better said, they were entering into a new relationship or advance in Him. As each soul of light strove to enter He was terribly attacked. Against each one came vast hordes of satanic forces which were terrible in their onslaughts. I wondered greatly at the vast number of the enemy that came against each one that entered or advanced. Each one was terribly embattled but not destroyed; yet the enemy desired to destroy them. I saw that the enemy took courage because at times a soul that didn't have any light would enter the pathway. This one would be fought against and destroyed and it seemed to give the enemy hope that he would be able to destroy the true sons of light. But they never did. After a while I saw a strange, unidentifiable force or power come forth from Him in the Cloud which He gave to the embattled souls of light. Entering into them, this powerful destructive force went out through them against the enemy. Out from that embattled soul of light went this force and destroyed the enemy which was taken out of combat for good and could never return against that soul again. Nevertheless, as that soul advanced, other hosts of the enemy were ready to give battle again. Although the enemy could never destroy any soul of light, there was not a single advance made without there being a great battle against it. He spoke and said, "Even as the enemy will not let one soul escape without trying to destroy him at every opportunity, in like manner shall it be that not one of them shall escape the destruction that shall come."

THE DIFFERENT ENTRANCES

Today again there was a time of great opposition and I fought and fought in prayer but still could not get through or find the way in. It seemed that all hell was allied against me. Everything was in vain. Praise. Prayer. Rebuking the enemy. Singing songs of victory. Nothing that had worked before seemed to help at all. I thought that I would never be able to get through this swarm of evil hosts that surrounded me, whose shadowy forms I could even see as they hurled their thoughts of fear and doubt at me ceaselessly. I would throw hem out and they would crowd in again. I wondered if I would ever be able to press through that horde of evil beings that seemed so determined to hold me out. Yet I knew that He had promised me entrance and had put it entirely into my will: that if I was determined enough I could get through. So I pressed on. Finally after several hours of battle He came in great mercies. Again before me I saw that most wonderful and welcome sight. Oh, how beautiful it was! I was drawn closer and it seemed even larger in all that shadowy darkness that surrounded it. It made all the false shadows show up even more clearly and I could see their intense activity of hindrance. At last it was there - that glorious cross of light. My soul leaped with joy within me and I relaxed within, for I knew now that I was very near unto Him whom my soul loveth. As I passed through that shining cross of purest light, His voice came to me rebuking all my tears. Oh, what a relief! Then He took me unto Himself in the wondrous splendor of that mighty Cloud of glory. I felt so fully rewarded. Nothing of the battle seemed to matter any longer. As I rested there in the silken cocoon of divine love that flowed out from Him in ever continuing waves, I felt it had all been so worth while. As the cloud-river of intangible love flowed over me enclosing me and enfolding me in itself, it washed away all my wounds in its shining flow. He told me of His love and continued watch care over me, saying everything just the opposite of all that the enemy had been saying to me as I had tried to reach Him. When He spoke away all the doubts the enemy had tried to sow, faith, real and strong, flooded my being again and I was no more afraid. He showed me Himself in a great building as it were, only no building was there. Into that place where He dwells there are many, many entrances which were all different. Each one was like a different door with a different pathway leading up to it. All the doors of light were guarded by His great angels; yet they were not doors and they were not closed. All around were regions of light filled with the glory of the Lord. He explained to me that all of these were entrances into His presence and each one was different. "There are a very great number of them and I am teaching you the many entrances. That is why you are having to go through such a variety of experiences and why it is sometimes easy and sometimes difficult to find your way through unto Me. But it is very necessary that I teach you the many entrances, for the day will come when you must bring many others through these entrances with you. Therefore it is necessary that I teach you at this time the many different entrances into My presence." His words brought me great comfort and release for I understood the reasons for the strange battles; before they had seemed so senseless and without any reason at all.

THE FOUR ANGELS

As I prayed today it seemed that nothing was true. Every doubting spirit imaginable came against me and filled my mind with all kinds of strange and fearful thoughts. I would rebuke them and they would go away only to return again. Then at last the Spirit came and began to carry me across that chasm—like place of darkness and I was again on that pathway of light. Ahead of me appeared the welcome sight of that marvelous cross of light. As I passed through, He prepared my being to come into His presence where He dwells in the Cloud. Welcoming me so sweetly and sending forth His shining love, He assured me that all would be well and brought me unto Himself. "I am going to guide you, support you and back you," He said. "Even though you have no knowledge of this, even so it shall be fulfilled exactly according to My word. I have ordered to perfection your steps and you shall not fail." After talking to me He showed me that most beautiful house of living stones, but this time He did not take me inside; I was 1ooking at it from the outside. How immense was this glorious house that blazed with light! Each stone blended with those around it. Each one had its own light, but all together they shone brighter than a thousand suns. Again I saw its roof of blazing fire ... a beautiful fire that was neither voracious nor destructive. How unlike it was to a house that is afire and consuming itself in destruction! The tremendous roof of this immense house of living stones (or should I say roofs for it appeared to be one roof of many gables) was ablaze in high and living flames of great glory and beauty. At the four corners of this mighty house I saw that there were stationed four angels prepared for war. In their coverings of light they appeared to be in battle array, their aspect being dreadful and full of fire. These angels seemed to be the same ones I had seen within the throne room of this great house who were terribly powerful and whose whole demeanor inspired great dread. Stationed there as guards over the house, they were most zealous in the fulfillment, of their task. In their hands were fierce swords of living fire, the same ones I had seen before. Filled with life and fire these swords ever moved and swirled about, as if they needed not the hand of the angel to guide them. It seemed that no enemy in all the universe would ever dare to rise up against these fiery swords in the hands or such dreadful angels. To these angels had been given to hurt and destroy a part or the enemies of the Lord, and they seemed to he awaiting orders to be called out to destroy those enemies which had been assigned to them.

A GRAIN OF WHEAT

As I went to prayer in a certain place, many sorrowful memories swept over my mind. In this atmosphere of unbelief there was much opposition; nevertheless, the Spirit of the Lord finally drew near and carried me through the darkness of spiritual enemies to the glorious entrance of the great cross of light. How welcome it always is to me, for I know that just beyond the cross He awaits me. In the passing through that cross-door all the sorrows, fears and strains of earth are melted away and I am then ready to enter into His presence. Passing through that wondrous cross I heard His voice coming to tell me not to fear. As always, all fears were fully washed away and I found myself standing before that mighty Cloud of highest glory. When He told me to look, I looked and saw a beautiful field of grain like unto ripe wheat which belonged to Him. He plucked one of the grains of wheat then showed me the process that all of His grain was going to have to pass through. He brought the little grain that He had taken in His hand to an angel of great stature and might who held in his hands two large mill stones. This mighty angel of great beauty and tender love put the grain between the stones and bruised and crushed it with great vigor, smashing and breaking it into very fine powder. With great tenderness and love the Lord took this ground grain and carried it to another place where I saw a stone of bread. It was not a loaf I saw but a stone. The Lord told me that this was His bread that He was making, then proceeded to take this finely ground grain and knead and mold and form it into that stone of bread. He looked with much love at this lovely bread filled with life and light and cared for it most tenderly. I was astonished at the love He showed for this stone of fine bread. Afterwards He told me that He would have to take all His other grain through this same process in order to make fine bread of it.

LYING SIGNS

After a couple of hours I was able to press through the opposition the Lord had appointed for me. Through that most glorious cross of tangible light He brought me, and there in the awesome presence of that great Cloud of glory-fire He sent forth His love, covering and enveloping me. How unlike that love is from anything known of His love here upon the earth! Covering and filling my whole inner being with that love He directed me to look. There upon the earth I saw the souls of the sons of light to whom had been given a work of power to do. This work was a miracle to them and was a true sign of His working ... a gift of power that had come from Him. As soon as the sons of light began to work rejoicing in this manifestation of Jesus in their midst, the sons of darkness accompanied by the shadows of the enemy forces of evil began to work miracles and do wonderful things. The signs that they brought were even greater and more spectacular than those of the sons of light. Deriding the lesser signs and wonders that the others had worked, the evil ones mocked and scoffed with great delight. Not only did the false, lying signs and wonders show greater power but also they were far more numerous. These false wonders deceived many, and some, who at first had looked to the true works of God, now turned away after these greater, yet false signs. When the Lord would do one work as a sign, then the enemy would work many event greater wonders. He said to me, "I have given this power unto the enemy, yet he shall not deceive my own unto whom I shall give sufficient light, so that they shall be able to discern and know which are the true works of my hand. I shall do this to refine and purify them. They will have to choose which wonders are right and which are of Me. Those who truly desire to follow Me shall correctly define things as they are and shall not be deceived or led astray. But those who are not truly following after Me and do not desire Me shall choose the way of the greater and more numerous wonders and false signs. Deceiving themselves, these shall follow after the lying workers of miracles because they seek not to follow Me and are deceived in themselves." As I watched, I saw great numbers follow after the greater, yet false signs and miracles, being greatly deceived. (Yet His own were not deceived.) Following after the false wonders they did not return to those sons of light in whom He was present nor look any more at those apparently lesser miracles that He was working in their midst. Those who followed, the lying signs became ensnared and at last were destroyed. No longer were those who accepted the false wonders present among the sons of light, who remained alone with Him.

THE WIND OF SMOKE

There was a great deal less opposition appointed unto me this day and in a very brief while I came unto Him. When He took me unto Himself in that glorious Cloud, He told me that He had heard me when under the pressure of some most difficult and unwelcome trials I had said that He was mocking me and making fun of me. "I heard you say that. And I say unto you, little loved one, that I never jest, mock or make fun of you. Nor shall I allow any one else to mock or make fun of you because I love you too much for that." Feeling much ashamed because of His words, I looked where He told me to look and saw a great and terrible wind proceeding forth from Him ... a wind of dark smoke which began to blow out over all the earth. "This wind of mine shall cause great confusion over all the earth," He said to me. "And for this reason I have sent it forth. This great confusion proceeds from Me." I watched this great, dark smoke-wind but I could not understand it nor did He tell me any more. I returned to my world much amazed and perturbed for I could not understand the vision.

THE UNBELIEVING ONES

It was 1:30 a.m. and I was very weary and sick and was going to skip prayer this one day but I could not for I felt Him calling me. This time He allowed me to enter with very little opposition. What a relief it is to be able to enter so easily! For many days now I have had great opposition and now it was most welcome to be able to go unto Him so much easier. As He took me through the cross of light, and gave me to rest under His mant1e of love, He took away all my fearful thoughts. His words brought great tranquility to my mind and spirit and caused me to rest completely in Him. When He told me to 1ook, I saw the souls of the sons of light upon the earth. Although He had spoken unto them regarding the things of His world and the coming destruction) still many of His own ones did not believe the things that He was saying unto them. I saw that they had turned away from Him to the dark sayings of the world about them, partaking of them and filling themselves with things that were not of Him. In spite of the fact that they did not believe these things and had filled themselves with the dark things, still they belonged unto Him and I saw that there was light in them. Then I saw that He took them and began to purify them, stripping these things off from them like a thick rind. It was a painful process and they were greatly hurting, for those things clung to them tenaciously. Nevertheless, He continued to gently but determinedly work upon them until all those things had been taken off and they were purified and made ready.

THE PURE BLISS OF PAINLESSNESS

Again I was given to come to Him quite easily, and as I entered into prayer He was there right away. Coming through the cross of light into the presence of His great glory Cloud I was taken to a place where the waters of blessing were flowing forth from Him. These shining, living waters flowed, all over me filling me with delight and bringing great joy such as I had never experienced in the world below. There He spoke to me, "You are living in days of light. You shall not only be given to bring to others my blessings but you, too, shall receive the fruit thereof and shall receive the blessings of those things you shall minister unto others. I shall give you joy, pleasure and happiness." Today, which was Christmas Eve, He took me into the very Cloud itself. What a place of glory, wonder and great tranquility! It seemed amazing to me that inside a Cloud of such great activity, violence and raging fires, flashings and thundering there could be such a place as this. Like a mighty abyss of purest light there seemed to be no limits in any direction. Within this place where I felt the most profound sensation of bliss I have ever known there existed no pain of any kind - physical, spiritual or mental. Not even the memory of any pain existed. There in this place within His glory Cloud I delighted in a state of pure joy and bliss ... a glorious and totally inexplicable state that I had never felt before. Never in all my life shall I be able to forget that tremendous place of bliss and total painlessness that I experienced as he took me into His Cloud. All the glories and wonders of heaven, all the mighty flowings of His love upon me as I stood before the Cloud never compared to this far superior state of the purest joy I have ever known where no pain, or even the memory of pain of any kind existed. Even now as I tell it I can remember so distinctly the total difference of that state from all the other experiences I have been given in the celestial realms.

THE CIRCLE OF WARRING ONES

Because the Lord is not permitting such strong opposition and I can come quite easily into His presence, I am enjoying prayer these days. Right away He took me into the place in the heavens where He dwells in His great Cloud. He told me not to fear for He was in me and was preparing all things ahead for me in His love and for this reason I would find joy. Also, He told me to rest because He was going to take care of the things that pertained unto me and I need not be perturbed. As He directed my attention below, I saw a great many of the souls of light gathered together with Jesus in their midst. Because He was there in His Cloud, they did not see Him nor even realize that He was there. Even though He was there upon the earth with them in His Cloud, still He was also in that high place in the heavens in His great Cloud of glory—fire. He was in both places at once: in the high heavens where I was with Him beholding Him with all the mighty hosts of angels which surrounded Him, and at the same time down with His own ones below upon the earth. In a large circle around the outside of this people gathered together around Him there was another group of His sons of light. Facing outwards away from Him, these were fighting and warring against the enemy, making way and opening ground into new territory. He was watching these valiant ones mighty in their fighting's and He was pleased with them and helping them. As they were conquering kingdoms and taking thrones and tearing down dominions for Him, they were also making room for the others inside the circle who were not idle, though I could not see what they were doing.

THE END OF MIXTURE

Today there was a longer battle. After crossing through that glorious cross of light I was taken before Him in His high and awesome Cloud. There He spoke to me concerning the battles, saying that He had put the obstacles there and ordained the enemy to come against me in order for me to have a greater victory. As I overcame I would see how great a victory was possible in Him and, also, how fully His word was fulfilled. In spite of all the opposition that would rise up against me, He would still fulfill the things concerning me. That which He had ordained would not cease to be until all was fulfilled. His word came in answer to the deep perplexity of heart and fears with which I went to prayer, for I had been filled with much fear regarding the things He had spoken to me about serving Him, for I am timid and fearful and have no abilities of my own. Down upon the earth I saw a large number of the souls of men gathered together around Him. When I first 1ooked, they all appeared to be those who belonged to Him. Although He was in their midst in His Cloud as I oft times see Him, it seemed that they were not at all conscious that He was with them. As I continued to look, I saw that all of these did not belong to Him and, the sons of light were mixed with the sons of darkness. What most struck me was the strange and awful tranquility concerning this mixture. The sons of light were all very content and kindly disposed toward this mixture. The sons of darkness were almost insolent in their chummy tranquility. Because they were so mixed and so tranquil, they had appeared almost the same. Then I saw Him send forth from Himself a strange, visible substance like light cloud that flowed out over His own ones. This caused a new light to come into them, and, at the same time, they began to be filled with anger and increasing hatred towards those who did not belong unto Him. Filled with His own hatred of His enemies, they began to desire to destroy them and to separate themselves fully from them. No longer could they be satisfied and content to have those enemies mixed up with them. He spoke to me and said that very shortly I would see this work of His begin in His churches, for He would cause more and more this anger and hatred to fill His own ones concerning those who had joined and mixed among them but who were not His. No longer would He permit this mixture. Then I saw the two groups separate violently for they were no longer tranquil but angry. As all the sons of light joined together, they were so much more brilliant and filled with His light.

THE PROSPERITY OF THE WICKED

Again the Lord appointed opposition and it was very difficult to enter into His presence. Yet, again He gave the victory and at last the heavens opened unto me. His presence came upon me and I was lifted up into Him. Washed and cleansed from all doubts and fears, I passed through that wonderful cross of purest light and was taken into that wonderful place where His Cloud shines forth His glory upon all of His heavenly ones and where those glowing waves of glory light and divine love flow upon all. These same waves also flowed over me in strength and power. After this, He showed me the souls of wicked men upon the earth very ugly, deformed, grotesque and repulsive. To my amazement, I saw that they were prospering even more and more extending their tentacles and capturing more and more for themselves like a huge octopus (though they did not have the form or shape of this ugly creature). Growing and extending and fattening themselves constantly, they were also producing fruit which was very ugly in appearance. However, they were very desirous of this fruit and considered it of great value. In their great prospering they appeared to fare far better than the sons of light until they to absolutely cover the sons of light until they practically disappeared. In their great prosperity they tried to destroy the sons of light. I wondered greatly how the wicked could so prosper while the people of God faired so much more poorly. Then He said, "My own ones shall not be destroyed by the wicked ones nor shall a thing of theirs be destroyed. To the contrary, the wicked ones shall be destroyed and they shall see their own destruction." Suddenly I saw coming upon them a tearing down, doing away, a finishing, and they were greatly demolished. Then I beheld a strange thing: I saw the sons of light begin to show their prosperity as if they had held hidden all this while so that it might not appear. They had truly prospered and now it was revealed as great prosperity ... an enduring prosperity far greater than that of the wicked ones. The fruit thereof was beautiful to behold and I rejoiced in spirit to see it.

HIS UNHEEDING ONES

Today in prayer He showed me things upon the earth. I saw that He was approaching the sons of light and a part of them were f1eeing from the word He was speaking to them. He was warning them of coming judgments, but they looked for ways to avoid hearing Him. I knew that they did not believe the things He was saying unto them and were thinking that such things surely would not come to pass or touch their lives. All the while He was trying to warn them, but they would not hear. Others heeded His word and opened unto Him and He prepared them. I saw that the fleeing ones were most tranquil and almost insolent in their ease. He spoke to them many times and in various ways, but still they would not heed His words they just could not believe that these terrible things would happen. He was telling them of things to come and of the great importance of opening their hearts unto Him so that He could prepare them for the great shaking and sifting of all thing that was shortly to come. He wanted to prepare them so that they would not he shaken or lost in the siftings. Still they would not heed or believe what He was saying unto them. Then I saw that, there was a part of those who had not believed or heeded His words that began to listen and turn back at last and give themselves to Him so that He could work upon them and prepare them. These turned back and joined these who had not fled from Him but had opened themselves unto Him from the first allowing Him to prepare them. These joined together, but there still remained a part who would not hear, heed or believe. There was a great urgency as the Lord pled with the unheeding, unbelieving ones telling them that there were terrible judgments, troubles, shaking and sifting coming. But still they would not hear. Although He warned them that if they would not heed He would have to destroy them, still they did not believe that He would ever do it. Although the Lord was there present before them in His Cloud, they could not see Him. Then suddenly terrible fiery sword proceeded out from Him and in great fury went to those unbelieving, unheeding ones and brought them into its fiery swath destroying them utterly .

THE TWO PATHS

I had very little battle this time for the Spirit came to me with a word. Even before I started to pray He began to draw me unto Himself. While worshiping Him, and and almost before I realized it, I was there with Him in that wondrous place of the world of light. There He placed me before that tremendous Cloud of fire and of tumultuous activity that is constant in grandeur and majestic violence. As He began to speak to me there flowed forth from Him in that mighty Cloud a glowing, fiery, tangible love ... a love that has not only feeling but substance. I know not how to adequately describe it. It is like a river, or waves, or a great flowing of solid substance that is warm and aglow with inner fire. This wondrous love which is like liquid gold aflame comes to me bathing and covering me then penetrates to my deepest being, remaining upon me as long as I am permitted to stay there in His world. All the heavens are filled with glorious angels who praise continually, as if there very purpose of existence were to bring forth His wonders and praises in eternal thanksgiving and ceaseless hallelujahs. All of heaven was filled with the harmony, music and glory of their praises, yet not in sound waves as when we speak and sing upon the earth. How can I explain it all? Those beautiful heavenly beings so high and filled with glory, power and wonder appear to be ever occupied; yet their chief work seems to be to bring forth His praises eternally and ceaselessly. There in that wonderful flood tide of love that flowed forth from Him He allowed me to remain, not showing me anything upon earth this time. My being was filled with the glories and wonders that just seem to belong there and be a part of that place. A glory light, shone from every creature and substance there, yet I could not take my eyes off from Him to look around much. I could somehow see everything that was there and I knew what was going on, but my whole being was enraptured and occupied with Him in wonder and glory of His Cloud. When He began to speak to me, He told me that His love for me ceased not when I returned to my own world. "Fear not," He said, "for I have ordained all things according to My perfection and all things are already confirmed. You need fear nothing at all for I have all things concerning you under My control always." Then He showed me a strange thing. I remained up there with Him even while I was back once again in my world ... the earth. There I was standing before Him in the Cloud which was visible in the heavenlies, and there I was under His Cloud while walking upon the earth. And these were both true simultaneously. He showed me that, because of this, there was no variation nor coming in and going out from Him but rather I was ever and always with Him. He said, "For you there is no going out and coming in here with Me, for you are ever here with Me even when you are there in your world." After this He showed me two paths: One was up there in the heavenlies where all was sure and secure and there was no deviation nor any slipping; on this path I was walking. He showed me that I was walking these two paths simultaneously. My walk up there was sure, being fully traced out and fully secured. I was walking those two paths in the two worlds at the very same time. He spoke to me saying, "Your paths are already marked out and they are invariable and you shall never walk in any other path than the one I have set for you, because you have already passed beyond the place of turning aside." His words brought me much peace and comfort, for I have been very fearful that someway I would displease Him and He would leave me.

NEWNESS OF LIFE

Today I was permitted to come to Him shortly without any struggle at all. Bringing my whole being into a peace and love in Himself which was trulv glorious, He covered me as He always does with His wondrous Cloud of love and glory. He showed me below upon the earth as it were a great field with the souls of men growing as if they were plants. I saw them all with life. Then as I watched, they began to dry up and die. This continued until they were all without life, yet they still were not dead. This is something I cannot explain. Death was already in them and they were all dried up and without any life at all. Yet at the same time they were not dead. Then He took away from them the fountain from which they had been drawing their life and they could no longer draw life from it. Then they disappeared. As He showed me this He told me not to fear "Behold, I will cause to spring forth even from this very same field much life unto Me. I shall ever take care of My own ones even in destruction I shall cause them to live again and they shall live." As I watched, I saw that in this same field new life began to spring forth. Many souls sprang forth into newness of life and I saw that this light filled life they now had was so much greater and brighter than the life they had formerly possessed. Although I had been made sad to see this field so filled with death, now I was made to rejoice as I saw His own springing forth into a fullness of life that was new and far more wonderful.

THE ROLLING WAVE OF FIRE

A fter a more severe battle than I expected, I was taken by the Spirit through the darkness cf the spiritual oppressions unto the glory and wonder of the cross of light. Crossing through that wonderful door that leads into His presence, I was taken before Him in His Cloud which was greatly excited and full of wrath. The fire, thunderings, flashings and shakings that were in and around that Cloud were most terrible. When His wrath is manifested, He is truly terrible to behold. Immediately He covered me with His wonderful love, enveloping me in the wonder of that strange covering and I was not afraid. When He told me to look, I saw the people of the earth in a great expanse below me. The sons of light were scattered here and there among the sons of darkness who were in far greater numbers. All appeared to be mixed together. Then there came forth from out of that wrath and judgment filled Cloud a most terrible thing which looked like an immense rolling wave of pure liquid fire - a consuming fire that was terrible and fearful in extreme. This huge wave turning and ever rolling in upon itself did not burn in great flames, but appeared more like a heavy and oppressive liquid filled with destruction. This tremendous wave of liquid fire rolled relentlessly down upon the earth and began to cover the people there in terrible destruction. I was filled with great fear for His own ones there and thought within myself, "Oh, doesn't He see His own down there? Is He going to destroy them, also?" But His answer was, "Fear not. Look!" As I looked I saw coming out from Him huge drops of living water which was sparkling and full of life, light and blessing. These huge drops ... better called giant balls of living water ... fell upon His own. To each one, wherever he was, there came one of these great balls of living water which covered him completely with the life and light that was in the water. Then I saw that the rolling wave of fire rolled on and on over the earth but did not touch His own ones who were covered by the water. The fire-wave did not flow over them but separated and went around them. Not one single time did it pass beyond the limits established by the great ball of water that He had dropped down to cover His own. All the rest were enveloped by this heavy liquid fire that consumed them leaving them no place to escape or hide from the destroying wave that He had sent upon them. (I did not have the understanding that this was a picture of the final judgment. Rather, He was showing me something more immediate than the final destruction of the evil ones).

THE EVIL MAN REIGNING

After a difficult battle I was enabled to come through the door of the cross of light into the presence of that mighty Cloud of highest glory and fire. After bathing me in His love for a while and speaking away my fears and renewing my whole being in Him, He told me to look. There upon the earth was a terrible throne upon which a great man of evil was reigning as if he were God. He was frightening in his power and prepotency. His kingdom grew until He had brought all the people of the earth under his dominion. Terrible in evil and great in power, he took upon himself all the kingdoms of the world, usurping the place of God. I saw that not only was he taking unto himself all power over all the people of the earth, but also over the sons of light who were greatly hindered under his reign.

They were so blockaded that they were unable to reach unto God. This amazed me greatly. So terrible was the power of this great one that the sons of light were apparently overcome. Many who had appeared to belong to Jesus left the ranks of the sons of light and were captivated by this great king of evil who took full power over them. Then I heard the Lord speak to me from out of His great Cloud: "All those who have accepted the reign and kingship of this reigning one shall see his destruction." After this He reached forth and took that one of evil in His control and wrung him out, squeezing him as one would wring a garment dry. When He had wrung from him all of his power and strength, He destroyed him without mercy. Further more I saw that all those who had belonged unto the kingdom of the evil one and had accepted his evil reign watched the destruction of this man of great evil. But even this great destruction did not cause them to repent, turn back to God, or come to their rightful King. Rather, I saw that they persisted continually in their same ways until at last they, too, were destroyed in the same way. The sons of light, now set free, were no longer persecuted or hindered.

HIS OWN PERSECUTED

I had great, difficulty in entering into His presence because I had suffered a most hideous nightmare just before arising and entering into prayer. Somehow, I just could not throw the evil, frightening things from my mind, so I called for help and pastor's wife came to pray with me. Thus I was enabled to press through all the oppressing things and pass through that wondrous cross of light where I found myself before Him in the wonder and glory of His great Cloud. There, as usual, He washed away every vestige of the oppressing fear. Flooding me with His incomparable and tangible love, He spoke words of peace and love and brought me into wonderful repose. As I looked down upon the earth I saw the souls of the sons of light being persecuted. Surrounded by the sons of darkness, they cried unto Him and He promised to come to rescue them. But as I watched I saw that He waited and waited and waited. Meanwhile the forces of evil gathered strength and harassed and attacked the souls of light continually. As time passed, I saw that at the same time that the now surrounded sons of light were being greatly persecuted they were also being pressed together. They were all forced together as the battle increased greatly and the persecution became even more severe. And because He still waited without coming to help them, I saw that the souls of light were overcome, over run and defeated. Then He spoke to His defeated ones saying, "I have not forgotten My word to you." Stretching forth His hand He touched each one of them. As He touched them they received a power that proceeded forth from Him. This power was so great that they all rose up together against their enemies and they themselves destroyed the very ones that had so persecuted them. The evil ones were overcome and destroyed by the sons of light through the power of God in them.

THE UNHEEDED WARNINGS

Although I was given far more opposition than I had anticipated, I was finally able to press through that marvelous doorway ... the cross of celestial light ... unto Him. While He was flooding me with a flow of divine love He spoke to me saying that I would find happiness for His love continually covered me and His eyes were ever upon me. I had sought for happiness for myself and had not been able to find it; yet now He had prepared it for me. I would receive it from Him for He had already prepared all things. Then He showed me upon the earth the souls of a large group of men who were walking along who thought that He was with them. Although He was near to them in His Cloud, yet they were not covered by the Cloud. He was talking to them, but they were quite indifferent to what He was saying. Then I saw that He sent intermediaries to warn them to change directions and not to proceed any farther in that manner. But all was to no avail. I also saw that they were certain that He was walking with them, but He was not going with them at all. Yet He was near by and was doing all he could to attract their attention to what He was saying to them. Still they remained fully indifferent to His word. I saw that He was very concerned for them. Ahead of them was a great and terrible abyss towards which they were walking. In spite of all the warnings of the messengers He had sent them, nevertheless, they still would not awaken out of their illusions. They simply would not believe that He was not with them, for they were so certain that they belonged to Him and would most surely be spared. Thus they continued on their own ways and would neither heed nor be converted from their own ways. Continuing right on, they plunged over the face of that great abyss. I saw that He was greatly saddened for He had loved them and had tried to warn them. However, they just would not hear or believe that all was not well with them.

TAKING THE LAND

All during the long journey returning from a certain city I had been tormented by a fear. During all the time there I had been having some very horrible dreams in which I was greatly attacked. Although in the dreams I was never hurt nor overcome, yet they were most dreadful int their content and frightening in their menacings. I felt somehow defeated and wondered if I would even be able to get back into His presence. Too, I was exceedingly weary having only napped a little for the past forty-six hours. Because I was ashamed to go to bed without first trying to reach Him who is my first love, I began to pray in the early hours of the morning as this special fear continued to torment me. After a while I felt Him coming to me. He took me through that most welcome cross of heavenly light that was the gateway into His presence and washed away all my feelings of fear and torment. Then I found myself before Him in the wonder and pure delight of that place before the fiery Cloud of holy glory. As He began to speak to me, His burning love flooded my whole being. "Why is your heart perturbed? Do you think, my little one that I would allow an enemy or an opposition to rise up against you without first giving you the weapons with which to defend yourself? Have not I already placed in you the arms of My might so that all that rise up against you shall be overcome? Have I not told you that you are called to be an overcomer?" Thus He answered each fear and they all passed from me. When He told me to look, I found myself in a new place: as it were in a territory that belonged to another in a strange land. This land had to be conquered, overcome and taken for Him that I could remain there in His name. I understood that there was a reason for all of these battles; they were presented in order for one to grow and develop. As the battle progressed, there was a visible growth given each time. Each one of these new battles gave a new entrance into Him. It was for this reason that He allowed new ways and areas of battle to come to us.

WALLS OF LIGHT

There was a hard battle of several hours before the opposition was overcome and I was enabled to press through every battle of mind, every doubt and fear, and every feeling of indifference and weariness. Each one yielded, I found myself being transported through that delightful way of the cross of purest light that washed away all stains of battle from me. When I was presented before Him, He spoke to me dissipating all my fears and telling me of His love as He caused that love to flow over me in liquid waves of fire. Then He told me to look. When I looked, I saw the souls of His own mixed with a great multitude of those who appeared to belong to Him yet who were not His own sons of light. At first all of them were running after the things that were not of Him ... dark and evil things that belonged, to the evi1 one. Suddenly He spoke and said, "This shall not continue." I saw something like a light force begin to emanate from Him and flow out unto His people. This light force entered into His own ones and they received it willingly. As it entered them, it began to force out all these dark things that were not of Him, seeking them out of their hiding places. It rested not until all those dark things until all those dark things that they had run after and greatly desired were all purged out and there remained not one of them. But there were others that did not accept the light force and did not want those dark things that were not of Him to be taken out of them. Further, I saw that they continued running after these things with great desire. Because of their rejection of it this light force that had come out from Him did not enter into them. He then showed me that this light force in His own ones was given them to isolate them from the rest. He spoke and said, "I shall raise up my light in them and no longer shall they be blind; I shall not allow them to continue as blind ones." As this light force grew and developed in His own people, it became a power in them which did not permit anything to pass through it. This light raised up walls all around them and they remained within this stronghold of light. Remaining within this place of protection, they were in a veritable temple of purest light whose walls were like a stronghold. Nothing could penetrate those walls of the power of His light.

IN THE SWAMP

After but a short while of seeking his face, the Spirit caught me up into His presence. As His wonderful love-flood covered me in its calming billows, He spoke to me, telling me of His love in tenderest words. He said that He had guided me even until now and that His work would be perfectly fulfilled. Nothing would be able to detain His workings in His own beloved. Ones even if this seemed impossible. Then He showed me some of His own ones in a terrible swamp whose waters were dark and dirty. Desperate and without hope they appeared as they struggled to escape from the sucking muds of that swamp which was so huge that I could not see the borders of it. Apparently there was no possibility at all of their ever being able to escape from their sad plight. I understood that He had permitted the enemy to take His own ones into that situation and place from which there was no escape whatsoever. Truly they were without, help and without hope but then I saw that He began to draw them. He gave them something secret which mysteriously began to open before them a way where there was no way. A path appeared before them and this path led directly to Him. I saw that He was as it were, mocking the efforts of the enemy to place His own ones in a situation impossible for Him to rescue them. Thus He showed me that no matter how desperate or dark the situation in which I might find myself; no matter how impossible the way ahead, still, I would ever be able to find the way that leads unto Him and would never be left alone.

THE DISCERNING FIRES

Again I was given only a little opposition to coming unto Him. Then as I was lost in His love, I was carried into His great presence where the glory Cloud reigns over all. There He spoke to me taking away my fears and flooding me with His love. Then He spoke to me taking away my fears and flooding me with His love. Then he showed me a people that were both sons of light and sons of darkness. Suddenly there came out from Him in the mighty Cloud a strange fire which was neither a fire of love and great beauty nor was it a fire of wrath and judgment. It was a mixed fire ... a discerning and distinguishing fire. He told me that it was a fire of balance. This fire fell upon all of the people discerning between the sons of light and the sons of darkness. Upon the sons of light fell the part of the fire that was all good and was full of love and blessings. It did not destroy but only burned in blessing and in grace for it was filled with love. Then I saw that the part of that great flood of fire that fell upon the sons of darkness was an evil fire, a fire that was destructive in its operation and burned to consume. In it there was wrath and destroying vengeance. Then He spoke and said that those who would come unto Him willingly would pass through His fires, but those who would not come unto Him and pass through His fires, even so would have His fires. He said, "Even now I am destroying and consuming every possibility that they have to have life. Those are my enemies for they come not unto Me in my fires. The time draws nigh when My fires shall enter into them and shall be as a poison in them. They shall be filled with that poison." Then I saw that as this fire entered into the sons of darkness, they ran in greatest desperation directly into a great field filled with destruction not knowing where they were going. Trying to escape, they had unwittingly come into the very place they had tried to avoid.

BUILDING A STRONG HOUSE

In prayer today I did not have great opposition to battle, and in a brief while I was taken into the Spirit. There before Him in that place of great glory He spoke to me of His love and took away all my fears. Then He took me and I saw His Holy Spirit in the Cloud which was a very part of Himself. It was visible to me but invisible to the people. His Spirit in the Cloud had come because He desired to build a house that was very strong in His own ones. For this reason He was sending His word unto them telling them not to be inattentive nor at ease but to be fully awake and to listen. Every one of His words to them was a part of His work, like a pillar in a great edifice. He would give His people His word from time to time and step by step, but they must be very attentive. He would give them His word, yet they must enter into a seeking of Him for that word. As they entered into a seeking time, He gave them His word and they received it and ate that word. Yet they did not consume it, but rather, each time that they ate the word it became in them a definite part more in the work He was building. I saw that it was very strong. It appeared that He was building a great temple so that His presence could dwell in them. I saw that this was built step by step and little by little. Because this building was built from a very part of Himself at the same time it was building in His very own self. As they sought Him they received His word which He gave them through the Spirit. At the same time, there were others that did not enter into a seeking of Him in order to receive His word because they did not want to pay the price of seeking His face for His word. Neither were they attentive to His word when He spoke to them; rather, they remained most tranquil and at ease. Then after a time, I saw come forth from Him out of His high Cloud of fire and glory a great storm of pure force. This force was a sweeping power that swept before it all that was not solid, and strong. I saw that those who were built strongly in Him received not the slightest damage nor were they moved. But those that were not thus prepared were all carried away by this storm of great force into the place of destruction.

OBSTACLES IN THE WAY

I had expected a long battle in prayer, but to my surprise I was taken by the Spirit in a very short while and I found myself in His world. However, I was not taken directly into His presence. Rather, I had to cross a long, difficult, and painful place of darkness filled with shades and shadows of all kinds. They were obscure forces of the enemy whose presence I could feel most poignantly, but I could not see them clearly. It seemed that I would never find that glorious door of the cross of light that I knew would take me out of that place, but at last it appeared before me. Never had it been so welcome a sight! I passed through the door and its pure, celestial light washed away all the debris, fear, and clinging dirt of that dark way. Then I found myself before Him in that most glorious Cloud of fire and light. As He spoke to me, His words freed me from every remaining fear as He told me that all was going according to His will, and that I need not fear because He was with me. After this, He carried me away in spirit and showed me a people whom He was ordering to advance into the position He had ordained for them. Then I saw what appeared as barriers or obstacles barring all forward progress. Ahead in the way I saw a whole series of such barriers that seemed absolutely impassable. Nevertheless, He had told His people to advance and to enter into this new position, and not to look either behind or around to one side or another, but to look only forward. Should they look in any other direction, they would be paralyzed by what they saw. I knew that He wanted them to advance because He was with them and He was advancing. However, it appeared that the way ahead was fully blocked so that they could not advance. As the people continued advancing, they still could not see the barrier ahead of them, nor were they aware that it was there. I saw them advancing with Him, and when they arrived to the place of the barrier that had been blocking the way, they saw it was a solid obstacle that effectively barred their way ahead. But when they reached this barrier, there was a way opened up through it, and they were led into a new place in Him. New ground had been gained and they were given a new position to hold for Him. He promised that, thus it would be as they continued to advance with Him. When they were in reality face to face with that barrier, a way would always open and they could go through. That which had appeared impassable would become passable and would not deter their advance. Nothing could deter their advance. Fighting against these things and advancing against them would give them new victories. Some of those who had heard His word did not obey nor did they advance. When they found themselves face to face with an obstacle, they were filled with fear and became completely paralyzed. Being so filled with fear, they could not obey, so they turned back and went no farther with Him. I understood that this was because in their secret hearts they were cowards and fear had ever filled their hearts.

FALSE BEAUTY

I had a long and difficult battle against great opposition, partly because yesterday due to traveling and great weariness I could not find any time to seek His face. This was the first day in eight months that I had not been allowed to come to Him. In spite of the greatness of the battle, I finally reached through to His presence. Passing through the cross of purest light, I was washed from all fear and doubt and brought before Him. There in His reigning Cloud He spoke to me and told me to look. As I looked, I saw a strange people who were most blatantly false. Although they themselves knew that they were false and were not of Him, yet they were pretending to be His. I saw them appear before Him as His own, as if they were desiring to deceive even the Lord Himself. At the same time they were busy adorning and beautifying themselves in an attempt to make themselves even more beautiful. The things they used to beautify themselves as ornaments were strange and inexplicable. Although they appeared beautiful to the eyes of man, yet those things were of the devil and were not of God at all. This beautifying of themselves to become more presentable made them increase greatly in their own estimation and estimation of others likewise. He spoke and said, "I shall not allow them to rise up, and even though they should rise up in this false beauty, they shall not stay there but shall surely fall, and their adornments shall become changed into misery and ugliness." Then as I watched, I saw all their beauty fade and change into the most horrid and ugly thing imaginable. And in the end they were even more ugly than when they had begun to ornament and beautify themselves.

THE HARVEST OF EVIL

With much less battle I was given to come unto Him this day. The Holy Spirit brought me and there in the wonder and glory of His Cloud He caused His love to roll in most delightful billows over my being in that strange, tangible flood that His love is in that world. He reminded me of a vision shown me many months ago where I was in a path so narrow and so straight that I was under great pressure to even be able to pass through. However, He did bring me through it unto a wide and beautiful place. Now He showed me that place again and said that I should see fulfilled the arriving to that place of amplitude and liberation where I would be free from such pressures and stress. After this, He showed me a time that was to come ... a harvest time cf iniquity. Just as the harvest of righteousness would come for the sons of light, even so there would be a harvest of iniquity for the sons of darkness. I saw Him take away the power and force that had hindered that harvest and the free operation of wickedness. When He withdrew that power, I saw that all wickedness and iniquity began to grow and multiply beyond all imagination. There came forth a full manifestation of iniquity. The sons of evil began to manifest outwardly in ever increasing measure the wickedness that they had hitherto held hidden within themselves. All of the sons of evil were included in this wicked force which swept all of them before it. I saw that He permitted the fullness of wickedness to mature completely in them until their cup of iniquity was filled to the brim. This was a time of such evil that it was frightening to behold. Never before in all history had such wickedness been known. Every hidden thing of evil in everyone became manifest in these days of great evil when every hindering power had been withdrawn from the earth.

MANY WAYS AND ENTRANCES

T oday in prayer He reminded me of a former vision in which I had seen the many ways into His presence. Now He showed me that in like manner there were many ways and entrances into the evil one. How exceedingly ugly these entrances were! The sight of them caused me revulsion. I saw further that those who were walking in these ways were not deceived, although at first to my eyes they appeared to be deceived. Each one was taking his own way unto the devil and that way was very ugly and evil. I saw then that they were walking knowingly in these paths and were not deceived at all. It was the very evil within them that was hidden from sight that caused them to openly choose that way. I saw them willingly walk in this way which was so grossly and exceedingly ugly, because the way of death was already in them and always had been ever since they were born. He said that these had been born unto the death that was in them, that this death in them guided them, carrying them back unto itself. It was for this reason that they so willingly walked these many ways with such revolting characteristics and with such ugly features, for the ways of life had never been in them even from the beginning.

POWERS

With little opposition I was brought before the wonder and glory of Christ reigning in that Cloud of living fire. He covered me with love and peace and comforted my heart with His words of assurance, then took me into the heavenlies. There I saw a vast multitude of strange living beings of great size which did not have the appearance of any other angelic beings I had seen before. These beings of pure power and great intelligence filled with mighty life and light, were tremendously active, and seemed to be the very power of God personified. The aspect of these awesome beings was fierce and rather frightening, yet they were not evil. Although they were of tremendous size like the angels of this high sphere, there was a difference. Whereas the angels appear to be made of some kind of living stone of marvelous beauty and strange life, these beings seem to be made of pure power. More than that I cannot describe them. These beings had been given a special task and were most zealous and almost ferocious in the fulfilling of it. They were like fierce judges in continuous action keeping closest watch over their charge. Their charge was earth's evil and wickedness, for they had control over all the forces of evil in the earth. All the evil ones were under the continuous control of these strange powers. All the power and strength which the evil ones used to work evil had come forth from God and was a treasure of great value, even as a gift from God. But these evil ones used it for evil rather than for good. I saw that these strange powers strictly controlled the use of these powers which never went out of their continuous control. Then there came a time when these mighty powers took away from the evil ones their power. After the evil had fully fulfilled itself, He sent these powers forth and they reclaimed for Him all the power He had given them. These then remained powerless and could no longer work evil, but neither had they power to work good. They were utterly powerless and had no power at all for anything.

THE HOUSE BELOW

Early in the morning I entered into prayer and there was not great opposition. After a time of worship I felt the Holy Spirit approach and carry me through the doorway of the cross of light into the exalted presence of the Lord. I found myself in the throne room of the house of living stones ... a place so marvelous and extremely lovely that no words formed on earth could ever portray all its wonder and beauty. The roof was a great, blazing fire. The glorious walls of the house were covered by the angelic cherubims of highest order and great beauty who are ever watching over all. The floor was of crystal, flowing water filled with life. Before Him in the Cloud were the living fires like small clouds and the living stones of fire as well. I saw it all as I have seen it before in all its glory and beauty. Yet greater than all was the Lord, Himself, in the marvelous Cloud of such magnitude that even this house of greatest glory in the heavens could in no wise contain Him. In fact, the whole house seemed to be only a small part of Him who is above and beyond all. I was there in this place of glory and beauty just beholding Him. From His Cloud, light-filled love flowed out to me in rolling billows, covering me and enfolding me in a wonder of pure delight, in a fire of love that was greater and more intense than His love known upon earth. There I rested while He loved me and spoke away all my fears and cleansed me from all the thoughts and feelings brought from earth. Then He showed me upon the earth a great reflection of the same house of living stones that is built in the heavens. Although it was lacking the glory, beauty, and life qualities, yet I could see that it was a true reflection of that house in the heavens in which He dwells with His own living stones. Nevertheless, I saw that the house on the earth had lost the true reflection of the original house above. I looked and wondered greatly for I saw that this house reflected upon the earth was greatly sullied and filled with uncleanness, and was strewn with dead bodies. The glory and luster were terribly lacking. I saw that it was filled with demons who had built their kingdom within this house of living stones upon the earth. The vile things that had been brought into the house had sullied it in plain and open defiance unto the Lord. He said to me, "I have permitted this to take place, but it is not my high desire. I have desired that this house upon the earth should be a true reflection of the house in the heavens. I have desired it to be transformed into reality and become a true duplicate of great glory and beauty." I saw that there were a number of souls who did not enter into that reflected house upon the earth in which the enemy had built his kingdom. They had passed that house and had entered directly into the house in the heavenlies in order to be with Him and in order to enter into His presence and worship Him. These did not enter at all into the house below. Then He spoke to me and said, "I am going to descend and I shall fully cleanse my house below. I shall throw out all that is unclean and all that does not pertain to it. I shall transform it and make it a house of great beauty as is this house above, and then it shall fulfill my will upon the earth."

THE PLACE OF PREPARATION

There was terrific opposition and there seemed no way to press through the lines of opposition. I tried in every way and only after several hours of battle against the enemy could I finally find the way into His presence. There I He began to take me unto Himself in that world of light and life. First He took me through the entrance of the brilliant and radiant cross of holy light which bathed me in the flood of its light as I passed through into His presence. It seemed that this light washed from me all the sorrow and fears and debris of the battle. I am always wonderfully released when I come to Him through this door of heavenly light. How glorious and allmighty in power He was as I rested before Him in the fire of that Cloud! How speechless and ignorant I feel when I try to tell how it is when I see Him in that glory Cloud. The pure manifestations of mighty power. The tremendous flashings and shinings. The bright consumings of that voracious fire. The thunderings and rushings of the inner winds. I am speechless in that place and can only think the thoughts that He gives me to think. My mind is never free of His control when I am there with Him. He began to take away all my fears which were many and tell me of His love and care over me. "Little loved one of mine, fear not for I am with you and I am for you and there is nothing that shall cause you to stumble. Surely you shall fulfill all that which I have placed before you to do, for I am He that shall carry you." How I regret when I must leave that wonderful place and return to my own world! I long to stay there before Him forever. When He told me to look, I saw a place like a great room, a dressing room, or a place of preparation into which He desired to take His people. He wanted to clothe them with special powers and forces and give them special arms and weapons so that they could withstand the terrible day of destruction that was surely to come upon them. He was warning His own and telling them that the entrance into this place of refuge and preparation was very difficult. He forewarned them that the opposition to their entering would be very great. The opposition was inevitable and they must pay a price which could not be by passed; they must pay this price. At the same time, He promised He would be with them. Then I saw great forces like solid gusts of pure force which was dark, stormy and full of fury which raised up against those who were trying to press into that place of refuge and preparation. This opposing force did not touch them but brought great pressures against them, pressing them out of measure. They had to force their way against all this storm of force which was continuous and of great strength and did not abate.

THE FORTRESS WITHOUT WALLS

Strong oppositions and many, many fears assailed my mind requiring a long time of seeking to enter into His presence. After about two hours of battling He took me away with Him and told me not to fear, assuring me that He had not left me nor would He ever leave me. "Even though there arise great shadows of darkness against you, yet I shall scatter them. Never will I permit them to rise up in sufficient strength to prevail over you." Then I was taken away into a place where I have never been before ... a strange place where I saw no other person save Jesus alone. This place appeared to be like a mighty fortress. Immediately I felt an extreme sense of security within that place. The walls of this place ... though they were not walls ... were composed of mighty powers and forces. Nothing, no matter how strong, could ever penetrate that fortress for its walls were utterly impenetrable. Outside these walls ... though they were not actually walls at all ... I saw terrible storms and angry furies which could not penetrate through the walls nor could they disturb any one enclosed within this place. He caused me to know that this walled fortress was given to all His children. Even though mighty forces might rage outside this fortress, within there was complete security. Never, in all my experiences in any of the other visions, did I ever feel such a totally pervading sense of security, peace, serenity and abiding love. For the walls of this place were pure power: the walls were Jesus, Himself. At the same time I saw Him in His mighty glory Cloud filled with fire and flashing lightnings. I was securely sheltered in the Cloud, and He was there within with me. Completely surrounded, protected and secure in Him, I knew I was loved and received by Him within that strong place of total safety. Yet He was not only within ... for the Cloud was of immense size to adequately permit Him to be therein ... yet at the same time that place was in Him, and He, Himself, was that place. Within that fortress all was filled with that glory light which shone from the wondrous Cloud. In Him there was not even the faintest shadow nor hint of any dark place. All was filled with light. The tender love that emanated forth from Him flowed unto me in a continual stream which covered me and filled all the place of His dwelling. Not one single fear of any nature could penetrate to molest me within that fortress without walls. Oh, how I wish I could bring back to this life down here that beautiful sense of total security ... a security of such unutterable peace that it totally fills that place. He spoke to me saying, "My power that covers mine own is impenetrable." And as I looked, I saw that the walls of this fortress were utterly impenetrable. They seemed alive with surging forces and mighty powers. No man made stronghold on earth, no reinforced concrete vault or strongly built store-house of man could ever compare to that fortress whose walls were of pure power. How utterly safe and secure are those that love Him in that fortress which is the Lord, Himself, that fortress which is their hiding place from the storm. Then I understood how utterly safe and secure are those of His who love Him and whose hiding place from the storm is the Lord, Himself.