Contents

Note from Editor

Author and Copyright-Kindle

Introduction

Preface

Chapter 1- Channels and Pressures

Chapter 2- The Place of Advance

Chapter 3- A Place of Security

Chapter 4- The Three Forces

Chapter 5- The Remade Vessel

Chapter 6- The Armies of Righteousness

Chapter 7- The Place of Liberty

Chapter 8- The Fullness of Time

Chapter 9- The Evil Ones Shall Not Enter

Chapter 10- Evil Ones Entering

Chapter 11- Demarcation

Chapter 12- Suffering and Pain

Chapter 13- Forming A Connection

Chapter 14- The Covering of God

Chapter 15- His Fire Kindled Upon the Earth

Chapter 16- Strength Unto Strength

Chapter 17- The Reigning of the Holy Spirit

BOOK FOUR

VISIONS GIVEN TO ANNIE

AS TOLD TO

R. EDWARD MILLER

Note from the editor:

Because the visions of Book Four build upon and refer back to those of Book One, "I Looked & I Saw The Lord" Book Two, "I Looked and Saw Mysteries", Book Three, "I Looked & I Saw The Heavens Opened", we strongly recommend that the reader first obtain and read these three volumes in order to have a more complete picture of God's revelation given in this hour and in this manner.

I Looked & I Saw Visions of God

Dr. R. Edward Miller

Copyright 1974 by Peniel Outreach Ministries, Inc.

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INTRODUCTION

Having filled this young woman with His Spirit, He gave to her a most unique childlike spirit and a great spiritual thirst for Jesus alone. In answer to her thirsting, He began to call her away into His world. In prayer as she would seek His face and pour out her heart before Him, as she would love and adore Him in deep brokenness of spirit, suddenly without any prior sensations, she would be instantly caught away into His heavenlies and shown wonderful things of the heavenlies and taught glorious things both for her personally and regarding things to come, things concerning the church and His dealings with other lives. Many things are too personal or too high to be told. All things are grossly lowered and almost destroyed by putting them into human words and expressions.

She found great pain even in expressing them to me, her pastor, for they suffered so much to be brought down into speech and thought. The Lord Himself ordered her to tell her pastor everything and this she does in simple obedience but not without great pain and many tears and with the feeling of total inadequacy of finding means of expression for things so high, so holy, so totally unlike anything in this world. So only a faint idea can be conveyed or obtained by these words. Yet be-cause they involve things to come concerning the world and His church and being given the responsibility of receiving these things from her directly, I feel that some things are to be shared.

It is to be remembered that this began directly after her conversion right out of a pagan world in which she had no time for scriptural instruction save in a few basics, so none of her visions are based on a pre-knowledge in the Scriptures of things they at times so closely parallel. I have most carefully examined all these things in the light of my many years of experience and scriptural and spiritual knowledge and find them above question. They are not to be defended neither taken as some strange dream for the whole spiritual tone of both the recipient and the vision itself raises them to a place of importance in showing forth some hidden things in this last day and age. Not only this, but the total change in the character, personality and spiritual anointing all testify to the validity of the high ways the Lord Himself came to teach her. He that hath ears let him hear.

She is taken away into the heavenlies and shown scenes in which she participates and converses both with the Lord who reveals Himself in constantly changing manifestations, but also at times with the hosts of the many classes of angelic beings who occasionally speak to her directly or converse with their Lord. Many things she hears and understands she cannot remember at all in her natural mind when she is returned from the trance. When she is in a trance so far no noise nor manner has been able to call her back until the Lord releases her. Many other things, however, she is allowed to bring back and tell of that which she hears. However, the things said and forgotten the Lord has told her that when He is ready and the right time comes she will remember them and will tell them.

These wonderful things are told as nearly as humanly possible in the exact words and inflections as told to me in Spanish, using her terms and her manner of comparisons rather than rewriting or changing in any way. These have all been fully checked out by her in careful perusal as there is a holy fear of making any mistake or telling one word of His or one detail that was not seen, described as closely as human words can tell.

These things were told to me in much pain and with many tears as the fear of the Lord was upon her and the glory of the vision so filled her that speech was at times most difficult, even though usually several hours would elapse before we could find a quiet time for conversing. After the evening service and the typical late supper, we would meet in our home and there she would slowly, laboriously and tearfully bring forth into human speech these high and holy things.

She stated that before telling them they remained back low in her being, not even in her memory, like she could recall other things, but that somehow when she made the effort she could sort of see deep within her like a replay. He had told her to tell these things and also told her that He would watch to see if it was correctly told. At one time she held back a difficult part and could not sleep, feeling deep condemnation till the next day when she could unburden her soul.

However, once they are told, they then come into her natural mind and then she can talk about them all she pleases without the slightest trouble and all objectively. But the first telling is totally subjective and she bares her very inner being and at times prayer must be made together that she find strength and ways to be able to bring these things to light in our human world. She is always most reluctant to discuss these things, even refrains from thinking upon them and lives a very normal, vivacious, happy life apart from these things. There is never the slightest display of any self shown in bringing them forth but to the contrary with the greatest reluctance and timidity and self-effacement which gives yet another true mark of their veracity.

The language used is very limited and simple and it is her own words, translated directly into English as exactly as will make sense. For this reason and for the emotional and subjective manner brought forth will account for stilted and at times unliterary expressions. Nor is this an attempt to write a book, but rather to give an accurate record of things shown graphically and wonderfully to a simple-hearted child who is too new in Him to have ever heard or read them before.

Preface

It gives us much pleasure to present the lovers of the Lord Jesus with this last book of visions which the Holy Spirit has given through this ministry. Although there are many today to whom God speaks in this manner, it is not often given as a ministry. Large portions of the Scriptures have been given to us in this way - a manner specially chosen by the Holy Spirit, for though it is yet another form of the prophetic utterance, it is distinctive in that it is even further removed from any possible influence of the conscious mind because it is given at a time of ecstasy, when the conscious mind is by-passed.

As it is often stated in Scriptures so inspired, we have unconsciously found ourselves to be repeating the words of the Book: "I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit... and the visions ... troubled me". Powerless to discover an explanation in any corner of our minds, we have been led to do the same as Daniel, John and others: "I came near to one of them that

stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things."

When we have entered thus in prayer into the light of His Presence, or opened His word, in His grace He has revealed to us the significance of that which has been shown in vision. This process has been repeated time and time again, and we have learned not to allow our minds to speculate on the meanings of these visions, but rather to allow the Holy Spirit Who gave them to be the One to guide us into the truth which He desires to reveal to us concerning each one of them.

To some, we know these visions will appear to be question-able and even untrue, for we realized long ago that the God and the gospel truths preached by many pastors and ministers from many pulpits today are so watered down, so humanistic, so concerned with the pleasing attributes of God, that some of His other attributes such as His Holiness, His Justice, His Holy Wrath - of which more is written in Scripture than of His mercy - are considered to be an un-God-like remnant from the Dark Ages, and therefore something to be forgotten and rejected in this "enlightened" age.

These visions are all to be considered as pictures given by the Lord to illustrate or teach some spiritual truth and, of course, must ever and always be in accord with the Holy Scriptures. Since they are pictures, it should be understood that, as with a picture, simply because certain things are not shown or not mentioned, this does not preclude their existence. Only what was given in vision is portrayed, nothing more, and nothing less.

God continues to use the means that He has always used for the guidance of our lives and ministries. The visions have in no way become g substitute for those means; to the contrary, they confirm and enrich them.

For this work of confirmation and enrichment, God in His sovereignty has used this little one who, even before she had read the Scriptures, already knew the Almighty's touch trans-porting her from the naturals into the spirituals. She has experienced this deeply and often, and might well have echoed the words of Daniel: "There remained no strength in me... yet heard I the voice of his words... and a hand touched me... and he said unto me: Greatly beloved, fear not; peace be unto thee, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened". But although Annie has often been through this type of experience, the outcome of the visions has been a greater measure of light and life added to the revelations and guidance already given by the Lord. Therefore we thank God for His ministry to us through them.

In all probability, this will be the last book thus published, for the subject-matter and ministry of the visions is changing. From being a teaching ministry concerning the spiritual truths of God, it is becoming more subjective and concerned with

events, circumstances, places, conditions and revelations concerning individuals' and churches' lives. Many of these have already taken place, and in some cases the people concerned have stated that they have derived much help and comfort from this ministry.

May these visions be of even greater blessing to those many truly hungry and thirsty to know God.

Dr. R. Edward Miller

Chapter 1

Channels and Pressures

Throughout the whole day, I had been perturbed by thoughts of falling into the error of letting His presence become commonplace to me, and of my becoming professional and entering into some kind of routine in my seeking for God. More than anything else, I didn't want to lose the sense of the freshness of His presence. As I entered into prayer, the troublesome thoughts quickly fled as He said, "Trust Me to take you in the paths that I have marked out for you, and do not meddle in my affairs or try to tell me the way I must take you. Don't be perturbed as to how I am to take you; it is sufficient for you to trust in Me. I shall take you where and as I will."

Entering the Cloud, I saw great Channels filled with life and intelligence, which channeled things into God himself. These tremendous attractions drew me irresistibly into them-selves, entering into me as it were, and becoming identified with me. At the same time, I entered into them and became completely identified with them. I seemed to be possessed by them and, at the same time, I possessed them. This relationship resulted in a total union and oneness.

After this, the Channels conducted me to yet another place which seemed like great pressure chambers filled with tremendous tensions. These powerful and intelligent Pressures were also filled with life. The Channels and the Pressures operated together to fulfill a specific mission: to bring the soul on into God. When the Channels had finished their specific work, they brought the soul to the Pressures which, in turn, con-ducted the soul into the very center of a chamber similar to the place where diamonds are pressured out from a black carbon existence.

In spite of the awesome powers that the Channels and Pres-sures exerted, there was absolutely no violence of any kind in the process. Nothing in the work of either of the two was in anyway destructive, harmful or negative; to the contrary, the result of their workings was both good and positive. The work of both the Channels and the Pressures was unwaveringly constant and did not diminish nor cease until it had brought the soul on into God.

(Editor's Note: Ps. 42:7 gives scriptural background for this vision. In the Spanish version, the word "waterspouts" is translated "channels". A literal translation would be: One abyss - or deep - calls to another at the voice of Your channels. Spanish-"Un abismo llama al otro a la voz de Tus canales.")

The Birthplace of Life

As He brought me into His presence, I found myself in the vortex of a bottomless abyss - a deep of which there was no end, an infinity in which my finite atom was entrapped. Captured by the pure joy of that glorious, eternal and endless deep, I never wanted to leave. And, in spite of the total silence of this place, there was no feeling whatsoever of abandonment; to the contrary, I was completely at rest there and felt no fear.

From the depths of this vortex I was forcibly impelled into another place which is very difficult to define. I heard strange noises unlike any sounds or voices heard before in the heavenly spheres. They were the sounds and voices of creation itself and of the beginnings of all things - the sounds of life in the concentrated energies of its beginnings. This place seemed to be the very center of the generation of life, where all things begin and where nothing ever ends that has begun. Within this place was violence far fiercer than the violence in any sun or star, and constant explosions of life that was pure, holy, strong, penetrating and filled with a light radiance beyond measure. It was like the center of a cosmic storm of gigantic proportions; nevertheless, this was a storm of life - tangible, radiant, creative and eternal life - where death is as absent as darkness is absent in the presence of blazing light.

Filled with violence and glorious turbulence, it throbbed with harmonic energies that were ever forming new life in this birthplace of life; it seemed like a vast generator of all life forces, forces that never cease. Life produced in this place could in no way die, for it was eternal, and was as far from death as heaven is from hell.

The Place of Weighing

There are many places in God, and each one is different from the others; in fact, all things are in Him. Today He took me to a new place of great severity and cold exactitude, where the balances of God weigh, with inflexible vigor, all things from the smallest to the greatest. Although the sense of warm, flowing love is absent, it is, nevertheless, the background against which the severity of His balances operates.

Here there is tremendous exactitude and perfection of harmonic distribution where nothing, not even the smallest atom, is out of place, for all things are located in exact positions. Although nothing moves from its designated place, nevertheless, all things are greatly moved upon by the tremendous operations of these powers of great severity. In this place of weighing which is in continuous and ceaseless operation, all things are examined and weighed to utmost perfection; not one thing, no matter how small, is ever overlooked.

In this judging place which is impartial, inflexible, solemn and severe, the atmosphere is not like that of a tribunal or court of justice. It is more like that of a school principal's office, where a disobedient child is brought for correction, or a godly home, where the sole purpose of the wise discipline of an upright father is to bring a rebellious child to right paths.

In prayer, God showed me that there are things in the heavenlies that are directly connected to our lives here upon earth; but there are other things which are not. Also, there are places in Him that are closed and sealed to us, and there are others that are open for us to enter, and into which His Spirit will lead us.

Today, when He took me into one of these open places, which was a place of beginnings, it made a tremendous impact on my spirit. He showed me a certain beginning that was already in process and was coming forth upon the earth, and said, "This is the place of a beginning". It seemed as though the glorious drama of Mary were about to take place all over again, although I know that the thought is absurd.

Everything in this place of beginnings was covered by a beautiful quality of light that seemingly flowed forth in strong, maternal streams, as if bringing forth a natural birth. What was happening seemed to be something normal and natural, it was neither unusual nor strange.

It seemed as though God, dwelling in His Cloud of excellent glory, was bringing Himself forth into a far more natural, tangible, approachable and understandable form - God Himself becoming far more reachable by man.

The Place of Pain

As I drew near to Him in prayer, He caused me to approach two of His closed places which are completely sealed to further revelation. He neither opened them to me nor did He explain what they were; and although He didn't allow me to enter or see what was inside, I could hear groanings, sounds of pain, strong cryings, lamentations, sighings and wailings. Waiting outside, I began to feel a deep, penetrating pain and knew that I was feeling the pain that was emanating forth from that sealed place. I realized - without knowing how I knew - that He had brought me to places of pain of blood, not physical nor my own personal pain; it was His pain. There seemed to be no easing of that pain which was terrible, agonizing and penetrating.

Feeling the impact of that pain, and saddened by the thought that I would never again be free from the sense of its terrible agony, I heard Him speak: "Fear not, little one, you shall not even be able to remember the pain that you now feel." Then I realized that there was something appealing and attractive about this pain which, instead of repelling me, drew me to His incomparable Person.

The Place of Peace

As I drew near to Him in the Cloud, the ineffable peace which continually and totally controls everything within the Cloud as it reigns in power and great sovereignty, and which is the essence and substance of God, filled my heart completely. Resting in Him in that place of peace, I came into such peace, both in my mind and in my inner spirit, that worlds could have collapsed all around me, and I wouldn't even have felt the slightest disturbance.

Later, He took me into another place of great peace which was in the midst of violent commotions. Both the place of peace and the environs of violent commotions that surrounded it were a part and substance of His spiritual being. This center of peace which was concentrated in essence and power was relatively small in comparison with the stormy commotions and violence, so tremendously filled with energy, which surrounded it; so it appeared like a heart of peace within a place of stormy excitements. In fine balance and harmony, these two total extremes were dwelling side by side, and seemed to feed one another.

The Processing of the Will

In prayer today, He brought me to an enclosed place of total, perfect and orderly fulfillment. All things within this place were to be made, yet at the same time, they were already made; they were to be brought forth, yet they were already brought forth.

I saw many compartments filled with glorious colors unlike our colors down here, for they were colors of life, as though their purpose were not to adorn and make beautiful, as in our world, but to give life. In this enclosed place, things were passing from one compartment to another in an ever-increasing scale and in perfect sequence until they arrived at a terminal place. Although they were passing progressively upwards from one compartment to another, yet at the same time, they always remained in the terminal place. What a strange thing it was: these things were always in the terminal place and never left it; nevertheless, they were progressing from one compartment to another in orderly sequence.

Then He explained that the things being processed from one position to another were human wills. The process continued until these wills were brought to the place where they terminated in God, in that enclosed place.

They were like delicate and intricate drawings; as though the pen or brush of God had designed a beautiful drawing in the air, and then the lines formed by His hand had become form and substance as they were suspended there. Each design was totally distinct, extremely complicated and of excellent perfections.

The Place of Cleansing

As I drew near to Him in prayer, He showed me His people upon whom He was pouring out a very precious and important something which was neither special gifts nor blessings; it was a part of Himself that He was giving to them.

The enemy was exceedingly angry and did not want this to take place. Knowing that the Lord would not come into unclean vessels, he purposed to hinder it by making the vessels unclean who were to receive this outpouring. Thus he began his ugly works of doubt, discouragement and flesh, in order to raise up a bulwark against the coming of the Lord. Nevertheless, in spite of all the enemy's strivings, which the Lord permitted, God said that He was going to fulfill all His purposes, and would most surely pour out this part of Himself, without being thwarted nor hindered in any of His purposes.

Then He showed me how He drew out from His people the workings of the enemy. First, He asked them to allow Him to draw off all this uncleanness; then, from those who allowed Him to do so He extracted all these ugly workings, which appeared like a huge, nauseating, black miasma filled with weapons of the enemy. Encircling all the evil, He enclosed it in Himself, and prepared to burn and destroy it with His fire.

Chapter 2

The Place of Advance

Today I saw that same great, black miasma which He had extracted from His own ones and was preparing to burn and destroy. I heard His command, "My own ones must advance," and realized that He was requiring His children to advance, seemingly alone, against this great, black power; but now the battle against the black miasma was completely outside His people and no longer within them, for He had already extract-ed it from them. Like a great mass of fortresses and weapons, it loomed ahead of them in an attempt to hinder their forward march. Then the Lord repeated His order to advance against this powerful and ugly miasma which threatened to entrap the advancing ones.

When His people began to advance against this evil mass of ugliness, it appeared to have a certain power in its very ugliness to impede their forward march. At His continued insistence upon advancing against this barrier, they did so; and as they advanced, the miasma began to evaporate, losing more and more of its density, until it had lost all power to impede their progress. When this happened, the fire of God encircled it, burning and destroying it completely. Thus, the road ahead lay wide open before His people.

A few days later, I felt real reluctance to come into the presence of the Lord. I delayed all I could, until I felt I was entering into disobedience, so I yielded to His call. As I entered into the Spirit, everything was sweet and tender at first, but almost immediately I saw before me that same, terrible, sickening mass of evil that He had extracted from his own ones. He told me to advance against it, but because it was so repulsive, I felt great reluctance to even approach it. (I think my spirit must have anticipated this from the beginning, and for this reason I delayed in obeying His call to prayer.) However, I knew I must obey His orders, so I did, and as I advanced against that terrible mass of conglomerated evil, it disappeared immediately.

The Separating Thoughts

When He took me into the Cloud, He showed me many things foreign to Himself, that He was removing because they were not made of His substance. These things were like thoughts, yet they were not His thoughts. Although they were very active, having united and reproduced, and were occupying a place they had no right to occupy, nevertheless God was allowing them to work for His own high purposes.

Calling these foreign thoughts "separators" - for they were building contrary to His purposes and causing separation, or withdrawal from Him - He sent to another place, filled with His thoughts, to seek weapons against them. In this place of His thoughts He sought a powerful, complex and invincible thought founded on peace, security and tenderness. This He used as a weapon to carry those separating thoughts into an-other place where they were harmonized and neutralized, and were no longer able to cause separation or withdrawal from Him.

The Place of His Thoughts

Today the Lord took me directly up into a new place in Himself - a place of His thoughts which was revolutionary, conclusive, and extremely violent and stormy; though it was neither the stormy violence of love nor of wrath. In this place, countless numbers of His thoughts were coursing, each one along its own path. The fact that most impressed me was that somehow, these thoughts were revolutionary in character, but I did not know why they were. The measureless multitude of thoughts in this place was very final and could not be changed in any way. Their violent coursing reminded me of a great traffic circle at the peak of the turbulent evening rush hour; but here there were no disorders nor collisions, all His thoughts moved in perfect and exact order, and were completely under control, moved by the greatness of His power.

God's Perfect Memory

In prayer, I saw another place within the Cloud where His thoughts are operating - a place vastly different from the Place of His Thoughts of a revolutionary nature. It appeared like the very heart of the memory of God, where His thoughts already thought, His words already spoken, and His purposes already purposed, are all held. It was similar to a great archive or memory bank; but not an inactive file of stored and quiescent memories, such as we would envision. To the contrary, it seemed as though each thought of God, once brought forth, could never cease nor be laid aside. Each one of these multitudinous thoughts was maintained in constant activity, ever scrutinized and always active. None was ever forgotten or ceased to be, nor were they laid aside, covered or hidden away. They never had to be called forth as from a memory bank, for they were always in the active state of being called forth continually.

In this place of His myriads of thoughts, although there was ceaseless activity, yet everything moved in such harmony and complete order, that its incomparable perfection amazed and frightened me. As I watched, I realized that God could never forget even the smallest detail, the briefest thought or the simplest word. In this place so filled with light and knowledge, not even an insignificant detail could ever be lost or go astray in the complicated maze of His thoughts concerning His people. Not one word, or inflection of a word concerning His own ones could ever fade, be forgotten or fail to remain ever before Him.

That Holy Thing

As I entered His presence, He showed me something so impressive and frightening that I feared greatly. Although He specifically told me not to fear, even so, I could not feel completely at ease, for in almost unbearable pain and in great love, He tore open, as it were, His own spiritual form or body. Even though He had told me to look at it, I feared to and wanted to hide my eyes, for after this great tearing open of Himself I could see within. There I beheld something so terribly perfect in its holiness, that even the word perfection seems to sully it in my memory. This living something was very much a part of Himself, yet it seemed as though He were bringing forth, in a tremendous beginning, a new being from His own person. It was the same beginning in God that He had shown me several days before, in "The Place of a Beginning". For long eons He has waited to manifest this most Holy Thing which He is about to bring forth.

The tremendous, radiant perfection - the holy glory of this beginning that He showed me - was so far beyond expression and so filled with holiness and God-life, that I felt greatly perturbed, and trembled even though He told me over and over again not to fear. It was something too high, holy and perfect to look upon.

When He said, "The hour has now come," it seemed that He was about to explode, not in an explosion of terrible, destructive violence, but rather a pacific explosion. Then He came forth, as it were, in this explosion, and it was tremendously sweet. From this sweet, explosive breaking forth, He extended Himself, pouring this forth upon those of His own ones who were waiting upon Him. To me it seemed so imminent that it appeared to be right now, yet I know it was not at this moment in our time.

Wherever He broke forth in this manifestation it began to extend, and the wonderful glory and ineffable sweetness of that perfect thing that He was bringing forth made such an impact upon my being that it greatly troubled me; because I could in no way understand the vision.

The Beginning in Perfection

The Lord took me directly into the same place where, in yesterday's vision, He showed me this holy beginning that He was bringing forth into such radiant, glory-light perfection. Even as He said (in a tone of lament) "There are so very few who can be brought into this perfection," I looked and saw what to me seemed a great multitude that I could in no wise number.

This beginning of perfections was something most precious to Him and was of utmost importance; it seemed to be the very apex of His works, being brought forth to crown His works in highest glory. In spite of all the pain it was causing Him to bring forth into the fullness of manifestation, it was seemingly a compulsive necessity to Him. In absolute certainty, I knew that no powers could in any way impede its coming forth; it was going to be and nothing could abrogate it.

As He brought forth this beginning, it began to spread out upon the earth; yet the spreading forth was not like the beginning - that high perfection and holy thing that He had brought forth from Himself. The spreading forth was obviously different and inferior, even though it proceeded forth from these beginning ones. The tremendous power and might, the perfections, the holiness and the manifestations of the divine nature seemingly could not extend themselves in the spreading forth.

This beginning which He had brought forth out of His own person was a part of Himself, and was a high perfection filled with the nature and glory of God, far, far beyond the perfections that had been manifested before.

Later, He took me to a place where I heard the deep, inner groanings of God for the absolute and total perfecting of this His most glorious, high and holy work. It seemed as though He were striving greatly, in groanings of intercession, to bring forth a perfection that would fully satisfy His own total standards of divine perfection; for in no way could He conform or be resigned to anything less.

God's Fierce Grasp of Love

When in prayer, the Lord took me high up into His Cloud of His glory. I saw neither angel nor any other being, only the pure glory and high wonder of Jesus Himself. So much higher is He than His heavens, that even the heaven of heavens itself is a lowly place compared to the One who is its Author, Creator and Sustainer.

There He showed me, in part, the fierce desire of His love over His loved ones. I saw it compared to the huge, hugging paws of a bear. With a strange fierceness of flaming love, these strong claws reached out and, as it were, seized hold upon the loved one, drawing him inexorably unto Him.

These strong , claw-like, golden instruments of tremendous size had two sharp edges, which would enclose the one whom He loved and had chosen for Himself. They seemed to seize hold of only a certain part of that person, the part which He wanted for Himself, sheering off the other part in a process that most deeply wounded the object of His love, and taking His portion away for Himself alone. With unimagined intensity, He would seize hold upon that one to devour him with a tremendous appetite and with a violence and desperation that utterly amazed me.

The work of these very sharp claws was a demonstration of His love in operation, for His love for His own is exceedingly great, and His zeal and jealousy are flaming desires that only divine nature can know. This revelation of His love was not frightening to me; to the contrary, it seemed wonderfully desirable to be so loved and drawn into God Himself.

The Coming Persecution

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 suffering provoked by it, for that Holy Thing shall be tremendously shocking to those who are in opposition to God.

Chapter 3

A Place of Security

The next day, while in prayer, the Lord took me again into the same place of pain and suffering, and this time I understood the reason for the strange, double reactions. Though the storm that shall break over His own ones shall be terrible as He brings them into this new place of beginnings in Him, yet at the same time, He shall bring them into a high and glorious peace and security.

This high state of peace, tranquility and security has not yet been given to His own ones, but will be given when these things which He is about to pour out upon them are fulfilled, and when He brings forth into full manifestation that Holy Thing that He will bring forth into the world through them. At that time they shall know and participate in this sense of security. Now His own ones fear, because as yet it has not been given them to know or understand this high state of security. Later, although great and terrible sufferings come to them, nevertheless, because of this place in God into which they will be enabled to enter, there will be absolutely no fear whatsoever. His own will not fear pain, death nor persecutors, for they will be held in God, and experience this high place in Him in which there is no disturbance of their peace and tranquility of mind or spirit.

The New Life and the Angry 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, 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 pace. 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.

The Coming Explosion and Storm

In prayer, I was taken to a new place in Him in His Cloud that covers and includes all things, for the Cloud is God Himself and all things are of God. Within I saw something difficult to define which appeared to be of deceitful character, that would ensnare and entrap. It was very large and dangerous, and

would come forth with the explosive force and suddenness of a tremendous atomic bomb; yet it wasn't an atomic bomb, though similar to it in size and explosiveness. This was imminent and definitely connected with the things which are about to take place upon the earth.

After this, when I contemplated the great storm that would shortly break, I became very perturbed. He explained that this storm would be like a great flood of blood breaking its boundaries and gushing forth upon the earth. This terrible flood, which was about to break and flow forth in a great deluge, would bring death very close to me. It was as if the flood of death itself, with all its fury, intensity and hatred, were to come close; but it would not be able to touch His own ones. He who commands the winds and the waves, and says, "Thus far and no further," is able to control this deluge of blood completely; and even though it may draw very near my feet, I know that it will not be able to touch me.

The Limitless Place of Limitations

Returning home to Mar del Plata on the bus, after a weekend of ministry in Buenos Aires, I was very tired. During the day I had not been able to pray; and though now it was long past midnight, I could neither rest nor sleep, and felt miserable within, for I had not prayed nor taken time to pour out my love to by adorable Savior. So sitting there, beside my husband who was now asleep, I shut myself in with God. After a while, I was caught up into the Spirit and taken into Him, and He showed me a most unusual place, utterly without limitations of any kind. He had purposed that this place be totally without limitation; nevertheless, it was filled with many limitations. None of them belonged there, and though they were not of God and they limited Him, He had allowed them to remain.

He showed me that these multitudinous limitations were being produced by a multitude of hands working and bringing forth many operations. However, these hands working and bringing forth many operations. However, these hands were not God's hands, nor were they doing the work of His hands.

He showed me an operation of His blood within Himself, which was a very strange thing, for His blood, like a great cutting instrument, was severing something within Himself. This great body of blood was not in a vessel of any kind, nor did it appear like the blood we know and see here on earth, for it was unlike flowing liquid. Nevertheless, it was blood, for He told me that it was. He also said that this blood, violent and filled with inner activity, was sharp and cutting, and that He was about to sever something in Himself which was undesirable to Him. This thing which He desired to separate from Himself would be cut off forever by this operation of His Blood.

The Place of Liberation

During a precious outpouring of His Spirit in the evening service, I was taken into the heavenlies, where He showed me one of His works that had already been determined and accomplished in the heavens. Before me was a great sieve, through which He was sifting His own ones. Only a small portion of them, who were small enough to pass through that fine sifting, were falling through the large sieve. The rest of them who did not pass through that great sieve, stayed inside and were later vomited from the place of sifting, having lost this opportunity.

Then God took those who had passed through the sieve into another place, which I had seen before without knowing what it was. He told me that He had never taken His people into this place before, nor had He done this to them at any other time. This place in God, into which His own ones had now been given permission to enter, was the most complete place of liberation ever given - liberation from the enemy and from sin - in which not even a tiny shadow from the enemy could ever disturb them in this high and holy place. This was something that His own ones had lacked so far, for God had never before permitted them to come into this place; but now He was fulfilling promises already given to His own sons of light, for the time had come for their fulfillment. The only way to enter this complete liberation from the enemy and from the spots of sin was to be taken into this place in God, a glorious place and greatly to be desired. God greatly longed that His loved ones should enter this place, and it filled Him with joy to take them there.

Although God had given permission for His own to enter this place, this permission was now coming to an end; it was urgent that they enter now, for the allotted time would shortly end. The Lord was moving swiftly upon them to bring them into this high and holy place of such purity in Him, as the time was limited and the things determined would be accomplished in the fulfilling of His promises.

Absorbed Evil

Taking me into the Cloud, He showed me a place where He had absorbed into Himself a poison, or as it were, a contamination of evil. After absorbing it, He then took it to a certain place where He enclosed it.

As this something was very ugly and loathsome to Him, I wondered why He had enclosed it hermetically within the Cloud; nevertheless, He had, and I saw that this strange, poisonous contamination was composed of beings, and was not abstract evil at all. At the same time God allowed me to feel His great pain, loathing and disgust concerning it.

When I first saw this sealed and enclosed place which was so humiliating to Him, I could not discern whether the beings were men or spirits. The thing that most struck me was how humiliating it was to Him. This place would have to be cut off from Him and cast out completely. Though at present it exists in Him and He allows it to, a time is coming very shortly when He will cut this part out and cast it away forever. Within me I felt a great rejection of this place in God that was so humiliating. It was the only time that I had felt such a strange feeling concerning anything I had been shown in Him. At other times I had seen pain, sorrow, suffering, men and angels, all existing in God; in fact, all things exist in Him. Yet now He was showing me something in Him that would not remain in Him; although it was a very part of Him, yet it would be cut off and cast away, and would be no more. Because it so greatly repulsed me, I could feel no sorrow whatsoever that it was going to be discarded and cast away.

The Liquefied Ones

When He took me into His glory Cloud, He showed me a very high and holy place - the Place of His Presence - which He had prepared for His own ones. After carefully forming many entrances into this place, He then proceeded to close them up, covering them over and sealing them so that no person or thing could get through them.

Within this place there was a great secret which, like a huge key, would unlock and open all these numerous closed entrances. This secret, nevertheless, was carefully hidden within the place itself, which was completely closed and sealed.

All around this place and outside the sealed entrances flowed a great quantity of a strange substance - a liquid which looked like water but wasn't. This substance was composed of human beings who, having been melted, had come into what appeared to be a liquid state, and were thus enabled to filter through into this closed and sealed place. The only way to enter it was to become like liquid and then flow or filter through into the place that held this great secret.

Those who succeeded in entering this place were given the power, authority and understanding to open up the many entrances and make them accessible.

The Lord then took a part of these melted ones into an eternal and invariable place which was for Himself alone. Never, at any time, would these chosen ones be separated from this unique union with Him.

In God there are many, many places; but this one seemed to be a very special place.

The Force of Brokenness

In prayer today, He showed me something that He had given to His own ones which had the appearance of a great whirlwind full of power and might. He told me that this was the force that would bring forth the entrance into the power that He had promised - that special power which He had never given before but would now be giving to His own ones shortly. This mighty whirlwind which was the force that would bring His own into this special power was the Force of Brokenness.

The Place of Brokenness

The Lord showed me that He was going to bring forth a far truer and greater brokenness in His children, for He wanted them to know Him in the brokenness of love. These deep melting of brokenness would, in turn, take them on into a place of transparency in love and communion with Him.

In His great Cloud of glory where He had taken me, He showed me that there are many kinds of brokenness, yet only one is of any true value. It is possible for people to come into almost a vice of crying out, in a brokenness which is not the brokenness of love at all. Brokenness, without love, could become simply a form, or religious work, similar to any other form of religious worship. I understood that there is only one acceptable breaking that will bring forth this melting and transparency that is necessary, and that is the brokenness which comes forth out of a deep, personal, intimate love for Jesus.

The Growing Light

He took me into His Cloud and showed me a small ball of celestial light which, though not large nor exceedingly bright, was nevertheless His light, and He was dealing with it.

Many pressures surrounded this ball of light and pressed upon it with all their strength. It seemed to me as though the many pressures that pressed with such force against this ball of light were shrinking and compressing it into an even smaller ball; but the Lord explained that, very much to the contrary, the ball of light was growing, and because of its growth it was pressing with great force against all the pressures that were surrounding it. As it pressed with great force against these encircling pressures, it caused inner pressures to form within them.

At the same time, God was blowing His breath in compact gusts of power that seemed like blows falling upon that ball of light. Through these breaths of power, which were purifying and not feeding the little ball of light, it was growing and enlarging. This purifying process caused the ball of light to grow and expand, and as it grew and enlarged, it also became more transparent, purer, brighter and more beautiful than it had been before.

As it was being transformed, it forced back the pressures, and occupied the very same space that they had occupied. This process continued until the ball of light had occupied all the surrounding area in which the pressures had been, and the pressures could no longer be seen.

In a later vision, I saw the same growing light developing and pressing against the pressures, causing them to have internal pressures and stresses of their own which, in turn, began a process of growth and development in the pressures themselves. Parallel to the growth and development of the light, the pressures also grew inwardly against themselves, and being turned inward, they were increasingly unable to affect the growth of the light.

These pressures - which were forces of darkness arrayed against the light - adopted the same form and even developed at the same pace, having the same size, grandeur, degree and dignity as the majesty of the light. Yet, though the light and the darkness grew simultaneously, they were fully independent, the one from the other. And in spite of the parallel growth in greatness and size, the darkness could in no way prevail against the light.

These forces and pressures of darkness became like a machine plugged in backwards, bringing their own confusions upon themselves. They could not, in any way, comprehend the ever developing light, and ended up fighting against themselves. Despite their great and ever growing energies and pressures, they only succeeded in bringing an ever lessening power against the light.

Chapter 4

The Three Forces

He took me away into the Spirit and showed me three divine forces, enclosing three very negative things: Defeats, the Pain of Paralysis, and Confusions. The three divine forces so encircled and limited the operation of the negative things that they always kept them within bounds, and so enclosed them that they never escaped certain set limits. Defeats and the Pain of Paralysis were completely shut up and enclosed, and though they were also very large, only a small part of them was in active operation. Confusions, which was very large and open, looked like a great sleeping body with only its heart beating, only a small part of it was in activity.

The first of the three forces that limited and enclosed these negative things was Divine Light - a vibrant and powerful force unlike radiant light, for it was the light of God as a tremendous force. The second force was the force of indestructible life - life as a life-force, rather than life resident in some being, or some other manifestation of it. The third enclosing force was the high force of security. These three - Divine Light, Indestructible Life and Security - always held the three very large, negative factors firmly within bounds.

The Place of Accumulation

As I waited before the Lord in prayer, I saw a place where God was heaping together and accumulating something which He called the Place of Accumulation. When the accumulation was completed, it began to flow forth in tremendous extension to the very limits of the glory Cloud itself, and appeared to be flowing out, not as a loosened flood, but through prepared channels.

When He caused me to return to the original place where this great extension had been accumulated and from where it had flowed forth, I was amazed to see that the work of extension had neither depleted nor diminished, to any extent, that which He had originally accumulated. It seemed as though the great accumulation had never gone forth through its great extensions.

As I watched I was greatly amazed, for the tremendous extension that flowed out was far greater than the supply that had accumulated. Even though the accumulation had been sent forth abundantly, nevertheless it had not lost its original supply in any way.

The Place of Restored Life

The Holy Spirit took me to a new place which seemed to be connected to the 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 of a work of new beginnings, that would bring 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 as yet been fully restored before these workings which I was now 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 inherent quality to that of the former.

An Open Door

I saw the Lord set before His people an open door into something of highest value; it seemed as though He were offering them a very part of Himself. Nevertheless, this something that He was offering them was not at all attractive; it was like the gift of a most valuable jewel which was not pretty at all to the natural eye.

When He set this open door before His people they veered off into a side road, and instead of moving into the open door they went off in another direction, where they collided with frustrations and confusions. They chose this side road, for it appeared to lead into something far more attractive than what He was offering.

His Spirit

When pastor asked me if I was ever directly aware or conscious of the Holy Spirit, I told him: "Many times I see the Lord in His Holy Spirit who is like a mighty power, yet not at all like any other power of God. He is like a breath of God, a tremendous breath that comes out from Him. When the Lord goes out to His people to do something for or to them, at times He goes forth in His Cloud and then it is God Himself doing the work. At other times, He sends forth this power in His breath, and this is also the Lord, yet He remains in His Cloud and it is His Holy Spirit that goes forth in a mighty power which is distinct from all His other powers. God's Spirit is exactly like He is.

Love In The Trinity

Saddened by some of the things He was showing me, I had been reluctant to enter into God in prayer, but He caused me to enter in spite of my determination not to, and said: "You shall never be able to accept a lie that will deceive you." Then He showed me a mighty force in Him that was ever feeding itself or was feeding upon itself; it was the force of love. It was the love of God for God, which flowed eternally and mightily within God and for God. For the Holy Spirit and the Son are manifested as God, and the Father also is manifested; but the latter is without form or visible substance. Yet the three are most distinct and real. From one to another this mighty force of love ever flows, and feeds itself as it flows throughout the Mighty Three who are as One, yet who are distinct.

Life In The Mold or Pattern of Life

When He took me into the Spirit, I saw what appeared to be a pressure mold imprinted with an intricate design; in this mold was life. As I watched, this same mold was taken into another place where intense power and force were in operation, bringing forth this life into the fullness of the mold or pattern set for it. It seemed like a place of incubation or development, which was powerful and exerted great forces upon the life that was in the mold. Under the powerful influences and pressures of these mighty forces, this life developed and began to flow forth in all fullness into this mold of great size and complicated intricacy, and was thereby fully formed and brought forth according to the pattern of the mold.

I understood that the original place where the mold had been, in the Cloud, was not sufficient to bring forth this life into its full pattern; therefore, the mold had to be brought into the second, more powerful place, so that the life therein could be fully developed.

The Place of His Treasures

In prayer, I saw a place that appeared like a smooth, leveled-off piece of ground. Underneath the surface of this ground, He was doing some kind of work similar to the digging of a well, but this seemed more like a powerful volcanic action which had not as yet broken through to the surface. This action continued like the action of a whirlwind, growing ever larger, until it heaped unto itself more substance as it forced its way upwards.

Finally it surfaced, not in an explosion, but in an opening and a bringing forth of itself into sight. He explained that this was His treasure for His people. As I looked carefully, I saw that it was not what we would consider to be a treasure, for His treasures were like great lassos or bonds that were of Him, and which He was going to place upon His loved ones. There was nothing destructive nor harmful in these bonds; to the contrary, they were of great value and were works of His love which would bring no ill whatsoever to His own.

Later, in another vision, I saw many lassos - our lassos and the Lord's. I understood that we could not lasso Him without lassos; but that He had to catch us in His. The truth is that we want to catch God in our lasso, and do not want to let our lassos cease form their activity. He told me that when He lassos us, He will cause the workings of our lassos to cease; for we cannot enter into Him by our own force or strength, but only by His. Within us is a hidden idea of our own importance, and we greatly over-estimate ourselves and our spiritual abilities, and this very thing is an impediment to His working for us.

The Two Lives

He took me away into the Spirit and showed me what appeared to be a heart with a shell or rind around it (though it did not have the literal appearance of a heart). Between the central core and the shell around it there was conflict. As the inner part was in the process of development and growth, it caused the outer shell to come off. The inner part accomplished this, not by breaking off the outer shell, but rather by swallowing it up and consuming it.

The outer shell was hard and unyielding, and though it had life in it, it was not like the life that God gives, it was an inferior life, most distinct from the life that the inner heart possessed.

The inner part, filled with life that proceeded forth from Him, was shining and filled with glory, and appeared very much like Him in substance. It did not like the outer shell at all, and was in strong conflict with it.

The Place of Straightening

When He took me into the Spirit, He showed me some of His own ones whose eyes were twisted out of direction and focus; I realized that this was because of their carnal, unsanctified nature.

Then the Lord began to work on their spiritual eyes, to straighten their vision and redirect their eyes to see Him, and Him only. This work of straightening was a process, and not a single act or experience, and each operation of the straightening process was a process in itself. Not only was it a healing of their spiritual eyesight; but it was a straightening and an aligning of their whole spiritual being. It seemed as though not only their spiritual eyes, but their whole spiritual being also, was warped and twisted. As He straightened their vision so that their eyes focused solely upon Him, He was, at the same time, also straightening their whole spiritual being so that it would be perfectly aligned with Him.

The Circle of the Valiant Ones

In the Spirit, I again saw the vision of the circle of mighty men (in Book 2) who were valiantly pressing on in battle against their enemies. Others within the circle were following behind the valiant, warring ones and as they opened new frontiers, those following were claiming new territory. The more battles these valiant ones fought against the enemy, with their sharp weapons with fine cutting edges, the more they won, and the more they extended the frontiers still farther out. Just as soon as the mighty men stepped forth into new territory, those within the circle who were following them entered into the new places that had been opened up. This whole process was a vast operation, extending over a great field on all sides and continuing to extend. The battle continued ceaselessly; there was no end to the great places the valiant ones were to occupy in Him.

The Place of Piercing

The Lord took some of His own and wounded them, opening a hole in them and as it were, piercing their spiritual bodies so that all the putrefaction and poison within could be released; and because the whole being was filled with this noxious, poisonous and toxic substance, a great quantity gushed forth from the place that He pierced.

After He had taken out the poisons, He also drew out a certain life that was death in the form of life, and replaced it by another life; so that at no time was there any part left empty. In reality, when He had finished the process, He had taken nothing out and there was no loss whatsoever.

The life that took the place of the death-life was distinct and completely different; it was life in perfection which was a reflection of Himself. This new life came in through the wound that He had opened to allow the poisons and the death-life to be withdrawn.

He told me that only by this wounding or piercing could those who were coming into Him in this present hour be freed and released from this poison. Of late, He has insisted repeatedly that this purifying process which would bring forth this cleansing wound is neither pleasant nor attractive, but painful to His own.

Then He showed me a wave of gigantic proportions that would sweep over all the earth, and would reach every one that would be coming into what God is now doing, and would push and carry forth this purifying process into fulfillment. Those who entered into Him would be picked up and struck by this wave, and would be wounded and thus purified; the others, who rejected this wave and the special wounding, would go off onto a side-track. Sadly enough, I found that they obtained what they desired from God, but they did not find God in it. These would be greatly disappointed at having been left out of what God is now doing for those of His own ones who will listen to Him, and following Him in love, permit this special wounding.

The Place of Definition

As He caught me away into Himself in His Cloud, He showed me an indefinable living thing that had both exterior and interior parts. In great wisdom, God was working on the interior of this living thing, causing it to boil and rile convulsively with great movements and agitations. However, during all this process, the exterior part was neither aware of, nor affected by what was transpiring within. Seemingly, it was a secret process which the exterior was incapable of sensing, knowing or understanding.

Suddenly these great, convulsive operations began to surface explosively, not in violence, but in revelation. As they exploded above the surface, they caused the exterior surface to know and understand that God was working on the interior. Nevertheless, it did not know how, nor in what manner God had done this.

These countless explosions (which were as many as the number of God's workings in man) were vastly different, the one from the other, and came forth in many ways and manners. When they exploded onto the surface, there came forth a definition of things within, sometimes unto good, and sometimes unto evil. The coming forth of these inner workings in explosive suddenness not only brought forth a revelation of the definition, but a state of being as well - a state which was progressive and which brought that definition forward into fruition and finality of being. (This was true both for the good and for the evil.)

On the positive side, this definition brought a new sense of security, or certainty, to those who were defined unto good, resulting from a new, more intimate relationship with God. This new position prepared and enabled them, by giving them new powers to sustain, uphold and bear the great weights and responsibilities that the Lord would choose to lay upon them.

Chapter 5

The Remade Vessel

The Lord showed me something that He was working on that He dearly loved, which looked like a tree. He was literally cutting and hacking it into tiny fragments, with the purpose of utterly destroying it so that nothing of its former form or shape remained. This working of His, which so destroyed the little tree that it was impossible to recognize its former existence, was done, not in wrath or in judgment, but in love. Then taking these same, tiny particles, He remade them into a large and beautiful vessel of fire. Suddenly, into this empty vessel He began to pour a heavenly water, which pulsated with life and celestial splendor; and the water continued to flow until it completely filled this empty vessel.

The Place of Recognition

Taking me unto Himself in the Cloud, He showed me an implanting of faith which was brought forth through a process of development. Then He showed me a place which He called the Place of Recognition, into which He was seeking to take His own ones. There were many openings into this place, which were the same as the implanting of faith; that is, when He implanted this faith, it made an opening into the Place of Recognition. It seemed as though He were seeking ways to create these openings into this high and almost forbidding place. I use the word "forbidding" for it was a place in His love which was terribly strong, fierce and immovable. It was not His soft, sweet, tender love that is so attractive to us as humans; rather, it was the side of His love that is high, strong and terrible.

The Two Swords

Taking me unto Himself He showed me two swords: one of wrath and the other of destruction. He told me that these two fierce and very determined swords had been allowed to rise up, in order to detain the storm that had already arisen, and that their work was necessary.

Then He showed me certain things that were united to the Lord, but did not really belong to Him. They had been united to Him by means of false bases or foundations, and these swords had come to cut through and destroy these foundations and their forms; yet their operation was not a beneficial one, for the swords had come in destructive force, to destroy without mercy. In this way, they would separate from God those things which had been united to Him upon false bases and which were not actually a part of Him, even though they had been allowed to be thus united for a time.

Coming Fiery Trials

He caught me away into His Cloud, then talked to me concerning the intense trials that are coming, which it is necessary for His children to pass through in order to become the overcomers that He has promised they will be. He said that He will permit many things to rise up in great fury against all His own ones - things which will appear to consume them completely. Yet at the very moment when this happens, God will give them a strong force and power, just as He had promised, which will be a manifestation of His power in its fullness. Thus will they overcome and not be defeated. (I understood that this uprising would be in the political, physical and spiritual realms as well.)

In spite of the great fury of the coming fiery trials, God did not allow them to operate freely. These powerful waves of forbidding forces of the powers of darkness were completely controlled. Evolving, developing, and extending out to all places, they were then drawn together and enclosed.

These forces of evil and destruction from the powers of darkness desired to encircle, enclose, and drag all His own ones into themselves, but these were too firmly rooted in Him to be plucked up and dragged into the encompassing action of these hateful, destroying forces of evil. They completed their cycle of allowed action without accomplishing their intentions or purposes, and God's own ones emerged from all these fiery trials as triumphant overcomers.

As I looked down from the Cloud, I saw a very ugly part of the earth below which looked like the inside of a wasp's nest filled with stinging insects bent on fulfilling their hateful purpose of hurting.

In the midst of all these fiery trials, Christ arose with two things in His hands: a crown and a sword (not of fire nor of wrath, but of power), and proceeded to reign over all in powerful dominion.

The Light of Judgment

In prayer I saw a manifestation of light which was different from His other lights that I have seen. (In fact, there are so many lights in Him that I don't know how to differentiate between one and another.) Although this light seemed like His other lights, its operation was most distinct: it was operating upon the earth bringing forth judgment, not upon His own ones, but upon the sons of evil. The Lord said that this was the light of judgment which would be working on the earth among the sons of darkness, to bring them into judgment.

Identified With Nothing

Caught away into Him, I saw how the wicked ones that did not belong to Him were going through a slow process of identification. They were becoming united and identified with an evanescence - a vanishing smoke. More and more they became like something without substance, until they disappeared completely, for it was with a vanishing evanescence that they were becoming more and more identified.

Tripartite Man

As I was with Him in the Cloud, I saw Him working in one of His human loved ones. One part of this being which was His had already been made one with Him and was filled with God. But now God was working upon another part of that being which, in turn, was composed of two parts. He worked upon one part, separating it from the other to which it had been united and thoroughly changing and transforming it, so that it did not appear at all as it had before. Then He transported it over to, and united it with the part that was already His, so that those two now became one.

The third part was not to be changed, transformed or transported, but was to be cast away as if no longer having any value. Subsequently, it was cast away and I saw it no longer.

I understood that this was a very special work of His that was being accomplished at this present time in His own ones.

The Place of Intimacy

Taking me into His Cloud once again, He showed me a process of bringing His own ones into a close intimacy of love with Himself and told me that only this intimacy - the closeness of a love relationship with Him - would bring forth the desired manifestation of His Presence.

In this process, His desire was to bring forth this manifestation of His Presence and it was His goal - the end result toward which He was working. He showed me that He was working to bring His own ones into this place of intimacy where His Presence would become manifested, and that it was not a sudden experience, but rather a process of His workings upon and within them. His aim was to procure from them a true and deep "yes". After that, any "no" that developed during the process of His workings would have no value, because He had already procured the true "yes" which was even now reigning in heaven over them and could in no wise be set aside.

The Voice of Thunder

Of late He has been telling me that the coming storm will be the cause, not only of great development in His own ones, but also of the manifestation of this development.

During this time a voice like the voice of thunder shall come forth out of His own ones and defy the enemy mightily. Before His own, God shall place things that will call forth this thundering voice, and by it they shall destroy their enemies as if they were but houses made of paper. (I saw this operating not only in the natural world but also in the spiritual.)

God had already provided one refuge for them in an intimate relationship with Him, but there was still another refuge - the manifestation of the Lord to His own ones as He fought with them against their enemies.

He was organizing all the operations of these coming works, but was sharing His secrets only with His chosen few. I saw Him walking with certain captains in a most tangible and visible manner. Others of God's soldiers were following them, but they were not in the same intimate relationship with Him as the captains. Although He was not visible to these other soldiers, nevertheless in being directed by the captains, they were also being guided by God.

The Time of the Storm

He showed me that this coming storm that is about to break is the goal to which He is bringing everything in this hour. It seemed to me as though the whole world was suspended by great cords. God was about to cut those cords asunder, causing all things to fall in one great cataclysm of chaotic rubble, both in the naturals and in the spirituals.

During the storm He was carefully watching over His own in tremendous power as His almighty forces

operated to protect them. Although His own shall not be united physically or have much contact one with another, for they shall be scattered in many places, yet they shall be strongly united to Him, and all these things that are happening shall only serve to unite them even more closely with Him.

In this great storm of suffering and persecution, God sent forth from Himself and placed within His own ones a strange substance which provoked and established a limiting factor as strong as an impenetrable wall. Being both strong and indestructible, this limiting factor became an impassable barrier to all the destructive forces of the storm.

God shall place a revelation in His own ones - of Himself, and at the same time, another in the evil ones - the realization of the enormity of their own evil which shall greatly surprise them. During the storm, this revelation of evil which is progressive, will transform the evil ones from bad to worse.

A Work of Development

Through the illumination of the Holy Spirit, I saw a certain work of development in His own ones on the earth. This was done by the operations of the storm of evil working upon the earth. I saw that His own ones had to be formed into a specific shape, and to accomplish this they had to be taken along a certain pathway into God. No other pathway would accomplish this formation in them. I saw that only in passing through this prescribed course could they be correctly formed and could this work of development be fully accomplished.

Light Over the Refuge Entrance

At the entrance to the place of refuge that God has already prepared for His own during the coming storm of tribulation, I saw a glorious and most penetrating light - His celestial light. In order to enter this refuge, His own must pass through this light which penetrates all darkness and hidden places. Completely unafraid, His children began to open themselves to that penetrating light as His Holy Spirit moved upon them to bring them ever nearer the radiant entrance.

Then He showed me His own ones ensnared and very much wrapped up in themselves. They wanted God because it was to their own interests to have Him, but in order to have Him in fullness during this time of storm they had to leave their self-love and enter into the place of refuge that He was offering. This penetrating light that rested over the entrance revealed all the hidden operations of self-love, so that it could not come into that high and holy place in Him.

More and more God is sending forth to all His own ones this penetrating light, which shall come as a powerful attraction and be irresistible to them. Although it shall be judging, discerning and very severe in its actions, nevertheless, it will not be destructive nor evil, but shall bring forth into blazing manifestation every hidden, impeding thing, for God shall allow nothing to remain in His own ones that is not pleasing to Him.

He explained that at times the light of these visions is not received - even by His own ones - because of fear, and therefore they cannot see or understand them. This is because God is requiring and demanding much in this hour. The love that He desires from His own ones today is something more than an emotional sweetness with joy and peace as its only ingredients; it is a demanding love like the love of bridegroom and bride.

False gods

When He took me into His world, He told me that there are false gods - not idols, but false gods - then He showed me one god that men had raised up which was ugly, repugnant, and very, very strong. It was like a dominating force or power that was served and worshiped in the hearts of men as though it were God. This false but powerful god-force operated in great strength and in perfect control until God stretched forth His hand and severed this control factor by withdrawing it from him. Then this god of force and power began to seek desperately to find the control that he had lost; yet, in spite of all his seeking, he could not find it at all. Nevertheless, he was certain that with still more seeking he would be able to find it. In the strenuous and even desperate seeking for the lost control, this false god began to consume itself more and more until it was completely destroyed.

Chapter 6

The Armies of Righteousness

Above in the heavenlies I saw the mighty armies of righteousness which were advancing inexorably and irresistibly. These hosts were neither men nor angels, but were forces and powers of righteousness.

Below upon the earth, I saw the army of His sons who were going forward inflexibly and deliberately, advancing together with His armies in the heavenlies. As they advanced they were given strength and power by the hosts of forces and powers that were advancing in the heavenlies.

Prince of Evil Loosed

Three times today He took me into the spirit and told me to loose and bring forth what He had given me to tell, but I could not understand it at all. Then in the service that same evening He came again and loosed my tongue: "Mark this date in your calendar (September 3, 1971) for today the prince of evil is loosed. My people are not to fear, but are to take and declare their place in Me for this prince of evil cannot harm them." Then He showed me that not only had he loosed this prince of evil who would slowly bring in his evil reign, but that this prince could see beforehand the manner of his own destruction and those whom God would use to destroy him and his kingdom: he would be dethroned and his kingdom destroyed by God's own ones as they walked in Him. Then I saw this prince begin to put into action the operation of his kingdom which was built slowly, with great care, and with many astute wiles of evil.

Then He showed me His own ones like an army prepared for battle who were marching in victory with fire under their feet - the fire of this kingdom of evil that was loosed. In no wise could this evil fire of wrath harm them.

Over their heads there was still another fire - the fire of God which was for them a covering by day and by night. Under their feet was the fire of evil and the prince of evil loosed, and over their heads was the fire of God. These two fires were so totally different that there was absolutely no resemblance between them at all.

Above this fire of God there marched another army - God's army of powerful forces which marched with His army below and gave them strength and power for victory. The battle began and was carried forth unto victory by these powerful forces of God that accompanied the army of His own ones who were marching under the fire of His covering love and victory. These powerful forces of the heavenly armies of righteousness were put into action by the action of faith of His army upon the earth. Because they were continually taking faith for victory, those powerful forces were continually in action giving them the victory. Those heavenly forces did not fight with any visible or spiritual weapons, but simply by exerting their own mighty forces and powers.

I understood that this kingdom of evil shall not appear as evil at first; to the contrary, to be able to deceive His own ones (if this were possible), it shall come camouflaged as something good. In order to cause the saints of the Lord to sleep, and to cover up the truth of the mighty storm of evil that is breaking forth, it will come camouflaged as good, for the enemy desires at all costs to hide from reality what He is doing.

Yet at this very moment God shall awaken in His own ones a powerful uprising and warfare against this very movement of deceit which, as a sedative, had lulled them to sleep.

However, even before the chaos of this storm of evil breaks, God shall liberate in His own army a victory of faith which shall enable them to walk upon the fire of this flood of evil. This powerful faith, which shall be given as a gift of God, is the only thing that shall be effective against the kingdom of evil that shall be loosed at that time.

Another Fire

After this I saw still another fire which was neither above nor below His chosen ones; it was within them.

At a given moment, the enemy came with powerful forces and weapons in an attempt to put out this fire that burned within His own ones. In outward appearances and in the naturals, it seemed that he was able to accomplish his purposes to a certain degree. However, in spite of all his efforts, this fire only burned all the brighter in the spirituals.

Suddenly, seizing this same force that the enemy had used to try to extinguish this fire, His own ones turned defiantly about and used that force with great power and effectiveness against him.

The Dressing Room

Today I saw a place like a dressing room where His own are prepared by the Lord. It seemed that God was clothing them and that this "clothing upon" was divided into three processes which brought forth complete transformations. Although He did not explain these processes to me, I understood that their completion brought His own ones into a state in which they became completely invulnerable to all the attacks of the enemy. God completely freed them from every part which belonged to the enemy, so that he

could find nothing at all in them to take hold of and use against them.

The Moldable Vessel

I saw a large and beautiful vessel which was pliable and moldable, and because it was pliable, an evil force came against it to try to mold it into another form and take away its beauty. Although it appeared that this powerful force of evil would be utterly successful in its attack, as it drew near it collided with the beautiful vessel as with a powerful counterforce. God did not allow the enemy to accomplish any of his destructive purposes.

Although the symbolism is utterly different, I realized that the former vision of the invulnerability of His own ones is directly connected with today's vision.

Even though this large vessel was moldable, it was completely invulnerable; it was now beyond the powers of evil to affect that molding in any way. They could do nothing at all: their power was invalidated and annulled.

The Shining of the Light

The light of God, which until now had been enclosed in His own ones, was being loosed; it began to shine out in a new strength and way.

The forces of evil were awaiting this moment to bring forth an open attack against this light of God now shining through His own ones. But as the forces of evil collided violently against this light in all their hellish fury, they could accomplish absolutely nothing. Instead of prospering in their attack, they only caused the light to shine forth all the stronger. God used the very power of evil to cause the light to grow and expand.

The Burning of the Fire

God showed me that His fire worked together with His light, and that the fire that was in His own ones would be the weapon that His light would utilize. His light would cause this fire to break forth and burn many - a burning which would be both to good and to evil. As God's fire burned upon some, it would bring forth a burning unto God and unto His kingdom; but this same fire, burning upon others, would take them away from God and burn them unto evil.

The power of evil was working ceaselessly against the light and the fire, and one of the weapons it used to combat them was confusion which the enemy sent, pretending that it was a work of good. The purpose of confusion was to cause withdrawal and separation from God, and it had tremendous absorption power which continued to absorb until it had consumed its victim. However, those that confusion absorbed were not truly His own ones. Although His own ones would be engulfed by it, yet they would not be affected by it at all.

God permitted this tremendous confusion to come, and it was necessary that the light prosper and that the fire burn upon all. However, even though confusion, by the very scope and magnitude of its attack, would appear to conquer even His own ones, they would not be absorbed at all, for the light and the fire in them were far too strong.

The Swords, The Fiery Altar & The Traps

In prayer the Lord showed me a great sword which was operating what appeared to be a great curtain of swords. Like a restraining wall, these swords were protecting His own ones and keeping them from entering the traps that had been set to catch the unwary and the unprotected.

This restraining wall of God's swords worked to keep His own ones from leaving the altar of fire which God had prepared for them. This fiery altar was, at the same time, a cross of fire.

Then I saw another of God's swords - a great cutting sword which was working to cut asunder all the ties and inclinations that tended to draw His own ones into traps and snares. This cutting sword, acting apart from the restraining swords, was cutting asunder every bond or tie that was working in His own ones to draw them into these traps. God's swords ceaselessly worked to protect them and to keep them from falling into any of the hidden traps. Nevertheless, those very traps were set by Him so that those who were not truly His would fall into them because of their strivings to evade His cross of fire. They preferred the traps to the fiery altar and the cross of fire.

Dividing the traps from the altar, these swords held His own ones safely in the cleansing and purging fires of His altar and in His cross of fire. God Himself had set this altar aflame and had chosen His own ones, then placed them there so that He could transform and change them into His own image according to His plan, and according to their true will and desires.

Beautiful Yet Unattractive

Once again God showed me certain parts of Himself - the largest and most important ones which, nevertheless, to us are disagreeable, unattractive and unacceptable.

They do not come to us in an acceptable form nor in an expected or anticipated manner; as yet they have not been accepted.

He explained how one may seek Him and enter into Him without having his blessings to entice one. God would have us seek Him wholeheartedly, with intensity of desire, in full dryness, without any aroused sentiments or emotions. It is God who is working and not we ourselves; and He wants us to seek Him for what He Himself is.

He desires to connect us in the spirit to that which is very beautiful in Him. Nevertheless, to us, in our immature state, with our present imperfections and inabilities to discern rightly, this unattractive part does not appear very beautiful; to Him it is most beautiful.

The Two States

He showed me two different states: an inferior state in which certain detrimental forces were working to rob and detract, and a good and right state in which these same forces, although continuing to operate, could no longer rob and detract. Taking away those forces, God was preparing to so weaken them that they could no longer operate nor take his own ones out of their place in Him where they belonged. When He took this power away from those forces, they arose in great rage which caused them to become even greater in strength, but now, as this power was sealed within themselves, it no longer had the ability to hurt or hinder His own ones.

Once again He allowed those forces in their enlarged state of enraged power to return to His own ones. But now they were completely yielded to God and were strong in their weakness. In the strength of that weakness and yieldedness, they could no longer be hurt or injured in any way by those forces.

Consumed by the force of good, these evil forces could no longer stain or injure His own ones; they could only bring forth good out of every intent of evil. All the force and power of the rage and evil in those forces could now bring forth only good. Thus God brought forth good out of evil.

The Workings of Evil

He showed me princes of evil in high spheres who were able to direct a flow of their evil below as a development of their own evil beings. By giving forth of their evil to their own subject forces in the lower spheres upon the earth, they were able to extend themselves and cause their evil influences to flow downward and outward in an ever increasing development and extension of evil.

Their cohorts, the evil beings who were much nearer the earth or on it, received the evil flow from their princes above and took it to what appeared to be storehouses where they carefully stored and tended it. There everything was carefully controlled and ordered. The high desire for evil in those evil beings below caused them to work in highest cooperation to receive and bring those strong evil forces and emanations into the storage places below, in order to have them constantly available for their cohorts of evil among the sons of men.

Evil men then took this evil from those storehouses and utilized it upon the earth for the furtherance of the extension of evil and the development of the kingdom of darkness. Quite evidently the evil men upon the earth knew exactly where to go and what to receive from the forces of evil sent from the principalities of evil, in order to bring forth their evil designs upon the earth.

The Contagion of Death

Once again I saw an operation of those great princes of evil that are so revolting and horrible. Although I am not given to see them clearly nor closely, I can feel the repulsiveness of the whole sphere in which they operate.

These evil princes were causing the death that was in them to flow forth to others, and it flowed between them, and also downward to those of lesser rank and power, and through these to the sons of man. There was a great urgency and desperation in them to be able to share this death with others. Being so terribly warped and perverted, this sharing of death with others was their greatest passion and desire. When they were able to cause this death to flow to many who were found among His own ones, they considered it their greatest victory, and it brought them tremendous satisfaction.

Chapter 7

The Place of Liberty

In today's vision I saw God accompanied by a great number of His own ones. In His hand were a large number of actions and operations which were delicate, complex, and not at all attractive to man. When He began to work He did not bring forth all His operations, nor did He bring them forth in all of His own ones.

These operations caused a separation and a definition in certain of His own. Some received them to full advantage; others, who did not receive them in such a manner, were not benefited by them. The manner of receiving caused a separation and those who did not benefit were excluded and separated. Those who took full advantage of God's operations were taken into a larger place of advancement; the others, who had not benefited by these same operations, were unable to enter.

This new and different place of advancement was a place of liberty, not liberty for those who entered, but liberty for God Himself in them.

In those of His own ones who had been taken into that new place God had freedom to do as He wished, working in and through them in full liberty of action; but when He came to the others who had not benefited by His operations He was not free to do in them as He wished.

His Presence Develops

God placed within His own ones something that did not fully develop in all of them. The development of this living thing only came forth into fullness in those who came into a state of His continual Presence, and who were continually dwelling with Him. This development came not by works, nor by strengths, nor by the strivings of man, but only by the continual Presence of Christ in their lives.

The Broken Pool

In vision I saw a large number of pools, all beautifully tiled and filled with the water of God. All of them, save one, were whole and without any cracks or breaks at all. This one was completely different form the rest: it had a large crooked, jagged break or rent which looked like an open crack running almost all the way through it. In spite of this jagged crack, this broken pool was completely filled with the water of God, fresh, beautiful and filled with light and life. Through the crack these waters continually poured out; nevertheless, from some unseen source they were continually being renewed and did not diminish at all.

The water of God also filled all the other pools which had no cracks or breaks in them, but because it had not flowed out it had become stagnant and spoiled, and was no longer attractive. No more living water had flowed into these unbroken pools.

Afterwards, I saw a large multitude of people come to drink at the place where the water poured forth from the broken pool, but they could not reach it. Even though these waters greatly attracted them and they desired to partake of this water flowing in light and life, they could not receive one single drop because this water poured forth in abundance as if directed to another pace. It flowed directly to another people as if intended for them, and were given all the amount they desired to drink.

The Hidden Workings

The Lord showed me that when He desires to do a greater work in some of His chosen ones and still further perfect His doings, He encloses them in His own enclosures. Hidden from view, His workings are neither visible nor known to others. These upon whom He is working cannot go out from His enclosures, but are kept within so that His hand can do its greater work. Hiding them and enclosing them, He brings them in hidden ways unto Himself. God does not wish His own ones; nor are these perfections manifested before their time.

Those who are not so enclosed have a lesser work done in them, and His perfections of higher order are not revealed in them for they have not received the hidden workings.

The Princes of Evil

Seeing the great princes of evil once again filled me with great loathing. God was feeding them with some of His forces and powers so that they would grow to an even greater size and power. This He continued to do until they appeared able to accomplish anything they should undertake; it seemed that there was nothing impossible for them to do.

Then I saw a strange thing: when they arrived at this zenith in growth and power they could accomplish absolutely nothing at all; in fact, they were far more helpless than before.

I saw that God was offering them, one by one, a certain part of His kingdom that they greatly desired to have. A tremendous lust to possess this offered prize filled them. In spite of this terrible lust and avarice that consumed them, not one of them could take even a small piece of the prize God was offering them; in the end, they took absolutely nothing.

Again I saw these same princes of evil concealed in their hiding places which to them were places of refuge from God in which they manifested utmost security and impunity. They considered these places as their own possessions and felt totally secure in them. Besides being places of security, they were also fields of activity and operation.

However, in spite of all the vaunted thoughts of ownership and sense of security of these princes of evil, the truth was that they did not possess these places at all; they belonged to God and He had only allowed them to use them for a time.

At a certain predetermined moment, God came and claimed His own places, repossessing and enclosing them in Himself because they were His and a part of Himself. With one stroke God virtually dispossessed these princes of evil, leaving them no place in which to hide, no sense of security and no field of activity in which to operate.

The False Light

After being caught up into the heavenly spheres, I saw a dazzling and powerful light full of strange forces being directed by some unseen will and flowing out to some who were among His own ones. God told me that this wasn't His light and that He hadn't sent it; it was a light sent forth to deceive those who were not of the elect.

Although this light was already operating and trying to deceive, it could in no way deceive His own ones, for it was utterly different from the light that comes from God. They rejected it because it was lifeless and lacked those high qualities of glory, purity, holiness, and radiant life of the light of God. Although this other light did not attract nor deceive His own ones, nevertheless, many of those who were among His own ones were deceived and did receive the false light.

Channels of Communication

Taken by the Lord into the heavenly spheres, I was shown a special time - a time of petition - which His own ones were given. It seemed as though God had opened wide all the channels of communication during this period of petition which was offered to all. If this offer was accepted and His people entered this time of great petition, they were also given to enter into God with these requests, thereby finding new access and relationship with Him.

However, this time of petition was limited and was very short, as it were but an hour. If His people entered during this time of petition, they were also given the power to continue on in this communion with Him and proceed on in Him. Although this time was offered to all, not all entered into it, but those who did enter could continue on.

The Growing Forces

A certain operation during the coming storm of evil was shown to me. Two great forces sprang forth like gushing fountains: one was the negative force of evil fully grown in power and magnitude; the other was a great fountainhead of powerful, dynamic forces - God's forces of righteousness.

The evil forces had grown to their fullest extent, but the forces of God kept on growing in strength, power and enlargement. Their growth continued until they covered the stream of evil and completely overwhelmed it.

I also noticed that at no time, not even in its beginnings, was the gushing forth of the stream of evil unaccompanied by the stream of light, life and righteousness; and although at first the stream of the forces of light was smaller than that of the evil forces, finally it became so powerful that it overcame the latter completely.

God's Consuming Fire

Today I saw God send forth a fire that was burning fiercely and seeking to consume - a fire which He directed to many of His own ones. As this fire burned, it consumed, as it were, a certain part of them, for example, an arm or a leg. This process left them without this part of their spiritual bodies.

Having passed through this fire, they were made much more beautiful and presentable than before the fire began to consume. Although maimed and lacking some part or parts - for each one was differently treated according to his own need - they were obviously and wonderfully improved by the action of the consuming fire of God which burned up the offending part or parts.

To others this same fire came, but it consumed nothing for there was nothing to be consumed. These latter ones were by far the most beautiful, and superior in every way. Quite evidently, it was most desirable to be by-passed by this fire.

Thus, I concluded that it was a good thing when this fire found something to consume, even leaving the person maimed; but it was still far better when the fire found nothing at all to consume.

Receiving Reflected Light

God sent forth His light to some living beings whom He did not identify. Others of His people were receiving that light, but not directly. They were receiving it as it was being reflected from another place. Only as they received the reflection from that light He sent forth to the others, would they march forward. They were incapable of receiving it directly.

The Wave of Purest Light

With tremendous assurance of purpose, the Lord spoke to me of a great "now" when He would be gathering in multitudes. In contradistinction to His elect ones in whom He has been doing a secret work, these shall be brought forth in great openness and clarity.

God showed me a new and tremendous wave of purest celestial light-life that He is forming and waiting to bring forth, which will develop below the storm of evil that is forming. He told me that He would wait no longer nor retain this wave, but would proceed to bring it forth because His great Now was come. As He loosened it, it would flow forth upon the earth and multitudes would be brought in.

This new wave, filled with the powers and forces of light and life, was His instrument and had a dual force: one pricked open like the incision of a sharp sword, and the other penetrated beyond all defense and accomplished that which He had purposed.

The Light Wave

This new and mighty wave of purest light and power began as a work underneath the operation of that black and terrible storm of evil and persecution. Even while the storm pursued its course, this new wave of purest light-force was being prepared and exploded, as it were, in the greatness and suddenness of its force and extension. He showed me how this new wave operated: there were what looked like raking arms, which gathered together in ever-increasing scale a countless multitude of souls for Him. In amazing operations of God, and in great power and force, thousands and thousands were gathered in to Him.

However, there was a difference in the levels and states of these souls that the light-wave gathered in: they were obviously inferior to those elect ones who were walking above the storm. Although inferior in state, they were still far superior in numbers. In spite of this inferior state, they were still very beautiful and exceedingly precious to Him, and He was tremendously interested in the coming forth of these multitudes. With great joy and power He was working intensely to bring this to pass.

Then He showed me more concerning these two groups: those far superior ones who were walking above the storm as it worked its fury underneath their feet, and the newer ones brought in underneath the storm's covering. Although the latter were inferior in their beings, they were tremendously important, both to Him and to those elect ones who were walking above the storm.

The Lord gave the greatest importance to these new ones. Their inferior state was not in appearance but in their relationship to God. Those who were walking above the storm had a very intimate relationship with Him, with great flowings of love - as mighty fires and strong currents - binding them and relating them to Him. As these new ones took great blessings from God, this blessing rebounded to His elect ones, thus blessing them as the others were blessed.

There were different times for their preparation, for although the elect were already far advanced in their preparations even before this new wave was brought forth, nevertheless, there was a further advancement and fulfilling of their perfections in and by the development and perfecting of those who were on that inferior plane of relationship to God. For even on that inferior plane, a perfecting and a fulfilling of their development was necessary.

This wave of purest light was working in the midst of great darkness underneath the storm. He showed me a terribly dark and forbidding section which showed no promise whatsoever, where that wave of light had not yet reached. Then He told me that this light would be spread abroad in places where it had never been before, and where darkness had reigned until this wave of light arrived. These places were many, and they were awaiting the coming forth of this light.

He said that He would carry forth this wave of marvelous life-light to a certain state of development - to the very border of its exploding forth. Although He desired that this wave spring forth into this explosive force of pure life-light, one thing was yet lacking to bring it forth. This explosion would be brought forth by His elect ones who were walking above the storm. Each one of them individually had to open, as it were, a door within himself and come into a still higher place of communication with Jesus, which would open their inner doors to the bringing forth of this light-force in great power. As they opened these doors, that great wave of light would pass through them and begin to fulfill its purposes and works upon the earth.

Even though this wave, filled with great power and force of harvest, would gather in multitudes, yet it would advance slowly, step by step, taking its territory only as the elect ones took steps forward and opened their doors to it.

He told me that these sons who are to bring in this new wave must be very purified. This purification is of great importance, not only for themselves, but also for those new ones who are to be brought in. The high, full purification of these elect ones is the opening of the doors within them which shall rebound in great light-force unto those thousands who are still in darkness.

In the beginning of this new wave and in the first steps of its development, things will appear to have certain deformations, which will result in this wave taking two directions. (However, these factors will influence only in one direction that this wave will take.) From God Himself will flow various things which will permit these deforming forces to enter with definite purposes and operations. These very factors and deformations will further purify the elect sons of light who are in the other part of the now divided wave.

There are special places prepared for those brought in during this new wave under the storm, dark places directly connected with the storm of evil, fury and destructive force in persecution, which have already been taken and annulled, but must be claimed by them. The new wave reactivates these places wherein the new ones are to be formed and molded.

Certain things will produce great "wearing out" in those new ones, for there are certain things that must be worn down. Only when they are worn down will they be advantageous to them: the very battle of this wearing down process, which is of God, is for the reforming and transforming of their beings.

He told me that I must not attribute anything to the power of evil in these things, for all things proceed forth from God - not from some diabolical force, but from Him. In all things pertaining to His elect, nothing proceeds from the devil; all things proceed forth from God Himself and are for the good and the development of His loved ones.

Chapter 8

The Fullness of Time

God showed me that the time for this wave to appear and operate has not yet arrived, nor shall it appear before its own time. To the contrary, the coming of this new wave of light-life force shall seem impossible, for it will appear that these multitudes are all closed against His light completely. Because God has not as yet given them the capacity to receive light, they shall remain in that state until their time comes. Yet, when His time comes and the wave begins to flow forward, God shall give them understanding so that they shall be able to receive and understand the light which shall then flood upon them.

Fire Tried by the Storm

He showed me the signs of His fire that He had given to His own ones, and which were burning brightly in them. Those who possessed these signs of fire were covered by the great storm of evil which came to test and to try them. The storm greatly concentrated its fury upon these signs of fire to quench and to destroy them; yet in spite of all its poured out fury it could do nothing against them.

Even in the midst of the storm, these signs of fire from God still had the power to kindle and ignite other fires. Thus they extended themselves, and nothing could hinder their force.

Pressures That Pressure the Storm

Today I saw many of God's pressures that He had developed and was bringing to bear upon His beloved ones. Beyond the workings of the great storm that was now raging, these pressures upon pressures were working to bring His own ones into a place of being able to confront the workings of the great storm and even be able to attack and challenge it.

The Essential Condition

He showed me His elect ones whom He was preparing, and the endless variety of ways, preparations and treatments that He was giving to each one. No two received the same dealings from God. Each person experienced his own type of persecutions, oppressions, attacks from the evil one, and their accompanying dealings of God. No one was passed over; no one escaped these dealings. Some processes were pleasing, some were painful; yet all were of God. These continued until all of His own were brought forth to one and the same condition. This condition which was a mark of distinction, was visible, obvious, tangible and evident, even in the world of the invisibles.

This one great condition into which they would be brought by these multitudinous processes was something worked within them. There had been, as it were, a cutting out and a doing away with something in order that this new thing might be implanted and ingrafted in fullness.

I realized that this essential condition which made them all alike (in spite of such varied processes) was that each one had within him the perfect will of God. This outstanding condition made them all alike: through these processes that He had chosen for them, He brought them to possess this high and holy position; they became, as it were, His perfect will.

God's View of the Storm

In prayer, God lifted me up into Himself and again showed me the great storm of evil and persecution that is coming upon all the earth. For the first time He showed it to me as He sees it, and not as I have seen it through my own eyes. To Him this storm was a most beautiful and glorious working out of His perfect will, which was bringing forth great blessing and not the destruction I had hitherto seen. In spite of being such a tremendous storm, nevertheless, it was not evil at all, but was filled with goodness. Seeing the storm as God sees it took away all the horror I had felt before concerning it.

Before it had appeared tragic and evil to me, and its image had haunted my natural thoughts because of its evil portents and terrible power, darkness, destruction and pain. I now saw an entirely different image: the storm as it really is - a wonderful and powerful wave of His cleansing power and grace which is bringing forth rich blessings.

Those evil forces that God had loosed into that storm went forth wearing themselves out. This continued until all save one, which was stronger than the rest, were worn out completely. This stronger one had tremendous power and rose up till it enclosed everything and everyone in its grasp.

At this point in its development - the peak of its power and extent - a great disaster of tremendous magnitude took place, which was not defined to me. By this great disaster, a mighty loosing of the Spirit of God was brought forth upon the earth, so that its final result was tremendous grace and blessing.

Spiritual Form and Order

Today the Lord showed me that all things in the spirituals have perfect form and order. Things which in our world seem so incoherent, disordered and even chaotic are not so in reality. Although in our world, and to our perceptions, all things are apparently in such a disordered state, according to the divine viewpoint all things are coherent, beautiful, and in perfect order.

He showed me how His wisdom developed within His works and how this wisdom has ordered and coherent spiritual form and substance. This is not merely knowledge of an intelligence, but His divine wisdom in His workings and works which is vibrant with its own life and radiant in the powerful force of His workings. This divine wisdom, like all of His spiritual powers, beings, workings, things and attributes - has form and order, and is visible, palpable, coherent, harmonic and beautiful.

Possession: Now or Later

While I was with Him in the wonder and glory of His invisible world, He showed me His own entering into the possession which He gives them. He explained that there were two distinct times of tremendous importance in which there could be an entering into one's possession. Now, before the storm or later, after the storm.

Those who entered their possession before the storm became His elect ones, with a far superior place and development. In them the perfect will of God was brought forth. Occupying a place very near to Him, they became the instruments of God in His workings.

Those who entered their possession after the storm were perfected upon a definitely inferior plane. The timing of their coming into their possession made the great difference between whether they became His elect ones, who lived in great intimacy with Him, or His own ones, who lived on a much inferior plane.

His Discipline

He caught me away unto Himself and showed me His own ones who had another part of Himself and His finished work accomplished and implanted in them. This part was His discipline. Because God is totally disciplined in His whole being and works, He brought His own ones into this new phase of their development, and imparted to them the very life-force of His discipline. This impartation was a still further revelation of His being and His life, through His own ones. He was doing this in order to be able to accomplish - through His elect ones who fulfill His whole will - all that He had promised He would do.

The Development of Faith

He took me into the Spirit and showed me faith developing in His own ones by steps, phases and times. As that faith developed, other things that were disturbances to that faith tried to grow along with it.

From time to time, God would cut off a portion of those disturbing things, in order that faith could develop to a greater degree. He told me that our faith must become a separate thing, neither dependent upon, nor contaminated by those hindering things. Thus, little by little, He isolated and separated faith so that it became a strong, independent force of great stature and power.

This was God's work and not ours, and thus He continued to work until faith was fully isolated. Faith stood alone, independent and undisturbed.

Those Who Hide Their Glory

Caught away into the Spirit, I saw still more clearly than ever before a class of spirits I have frequently seen, yet not too closely nor distinctly. These spirits, of which there are a great number, are not as the angels and powers who always appear in the same spiritual forms, shapes and spiritual bodies. They are like a race of beings apart, who are always different, yet ever the same; it is their appearance that varies and changes.

These spirit beings are so far superior to all the angels I have seen thus far, that I hardly know how to describe them or explain the difference between them and the angels. Perhaps one could say that the angels, in spite of all their tremendous power, beauty, glory and size, seem to be more like the servants in the employ of the Great King who dearly loves them. Because they also are filled with love, their service for their King is likewise filled with love.

These other superior beings are still more greatly loved and they hold a more intimate place with Him. They seem to be a race that is completely set apart, and dwell on a plane far superior to the highest angels. Their power, glory and spiritual height are incomparably higher than the highest angels. It seems as though they were always desiring to hide their glory, and majesty, and beauty, and power. They seem to change their appearance, as it were, to hide or cover their glory. It must be because of this very hiding that, though they are at times very near, still I am not able to see or apprehend them clearly.

Not only are these high spirit beings of great importance and intimate relationship with God, but they are also very important to us. For together with God, they are directly working in the development of His elect ones. These high spirit beings seem to be sent forth to sustain and support what God is building up in His elect ones.

As His elect are working together with God in the spiritual building which He is building above, at the same time, they are sustaining and supporting that which God is building in His elect ones here below.

Watch-Care

Caught away into the Spirit, I was shown the wonderful watch-care of God over His own elect ones which, though constant and glorious, was not a total thing; there was a self-watch-care that He desired of them. God had liberated them from chains and bondages and He kept them constantly. Yet He warned them not to put these same chains and bondages upon themselves again, by trifling acts and petty carelessness. It was possible for them to enter those same things again by such carelessness. Thus, together with Him in His great and glorious watch-care over them, He also required them to keep constant watch over their own lives.

Abiding Under the Covering

In prayer I saw a glorious covering under which some of His own ones were dwelling, which was from God and was most desirable. Through that covering He brought forth many, many gifts and blessings to them - things that they greatly needed. Thus, as they remained under this covering He nourished, sustained and blessed them, bringing life and health, growth and protection.

However, none of His blessings came to those of His who did not abide under that covering, for He only gave them to those who were dwelling under this canopy. No matter how dire their need or how pressing their circumstances, still they could not receive these provisions because they were not under the covering He had given them.

His Joy in Triumph

As I waited before Him in adoration, He began to show me His tremendous joy and His high power and wisdom. In His own time and in His own way, in total righteousness and in utmost justice, He had captured every enemy of righteousness, His enemies and ours. Not one of them had escaped; they were all bound in great chains of His power and of His almighty word.

He had bound them tightly and brought them unto Himself in judgment and enclosed them in His hidden places. For Him this was a mighty reward of His triumph - the triumph which brought Him this immense joy that radiated and reverberated throughout all heaven and all the universe.

I Am The Vine

Bringing me into the world of living light, He showed me Himself as a mighty, living plant filled with Divine life. Although He was this vine, at the same time He Himself was in this great living plant, and the plant was also in Him. He was far greater than the plant, which was perfect in its beauty of perfection, radiant in the light of life, and completely devoid of all sickness.

When He told me that He was going to feed this plant continually, I realized that the daily food that He was pouring forth into it was "purity". Glorious purity continually nourished His great living plant.

I know and understand - though I do not know how - that even though this plant was God Himself, it was also those high, glorious spirits He has so frequently shown me. Those high and holy ones who are intimate with Him and exceedingly dear to Him are, at the same time, very useful to Him; they are as His own hands that work and fulfill His high will.

Channels of Light

Today He showed me how He sent His glorious life-light into the inner beings of His chosen ones who were close to Him. After being received, this living light then passed from the interior to the exterior. The only way that His living light could pass through to the exterior world and thereby to others was by passing from the interior to the exterior of these chosen channels of light. It would not, and could not come forth to others in the world below in any other way. In no other manner could this light shine forth into the dark, exterior world, except by God sending it forth into the inner beings of His elect ones, and they, in turn, bringing it forth into the darkness that surrounded them.

A Final Opportunity

Taking me into His world where everything vibrates with divine life, He showed me some of His workings with His own ones here below in this dark world. He was showing me His dealings, including His saving works to bring forth His own ones unto salvation. These workings took place amid great conflicts between acceptance and rejection of those things which God offered them. In their moments of opportunity, when He granted them the privilege of His offers of grace and mercy, those who received entered into the blessing He had purposed for them, and all was well. Others continued to reject His gracious offers all through the period of their God-given opportunities. This conflict waged its fierce battle within their wills: they could "will" to receive, or "will" to reject. There came a time when this opportunity came to an end and was taken away from them. Those who had rejected could no longer choose; there was no longer any inner conflict, for the time of their opportunity was over.

Then the Lord showed me how He granted them yet another opportunity; this time they were forcibly brought to His gracious offer. Once again they were forced into this inner conflict of their own wills; once again they had the option of choosing the thing that He was sending; but this time the pressure greatly increased, for he sent a still greater light to them.

Those who chose unto good and received that which He sent forth to them entered into good, and it was well with them; but He was much displeased with those who still rejected and refused His mercies in this further period of their opportunity. When He took this opportunity away and withdrew His offer, it was very final; it would never again come to them. Their rejection was now final, and there was no remedy nor place of recalling their lost opportunity.

Chapter 9

The Evil Ones Shall Not Enter

Caught away once again into His wondrous world of the Spirit, where all is in coherent order, I saw His own ones in whom His light and glorious revelation were brightly shining. I also saw the children of the evil one in whom there is no light at all, nor indeed can there ever be.

These children of the evil one were allowed to behold the revelation of God in His own ones, and for them it was yet another form of punishment. They could behold the wonder and glory of Christ in His own ones, yet they thoroughly understood that they could in no wise enter into this glory. Not even one tiny drop would ever be given them. They could behold this glory in others, but could never participate in it, nor touch it themselves.

The revelation of this glory was not shown to them in divine wrath, nor in ridicule and mockery of their desperate and deplorable state; but rather, it was done in divine justice and in the righting of past wrongs, to put things into their right balance and perspective.

Their love of their own evil ways, the constant operation of their own wills in choosing evil, and their rejection of Christ, had closed all opportunity and sealed them out forever from all hope. Their evil ways, their persecutions of His own ones which had brought them pain and suffering, were thus vindicated and righted, even in their own eyes. Now, to their own pain, shame and hopelessness, they could behold the truth of light and life openly manifested in His own ones; and in contrast, the pangs of their own hell were made all the more painful.

Special Security Given

Taken by the Spirit into His world, I saw a strange and indefinable something which proceeded forth from God. Within this indefinable something were certain living beings whose activity proceeded forth unto blessing, and not unto evil. As the vision began to open and unfold, I realized that these beings were the same ones I have frequently seen of late, who are far higher and more intimate with God than any angels.

These higher beings, who are ever seeking to conceal their glory, came forth to being a very special work of God with and for His own ones upon the earth, though at the time I did not understand the kind of work it was.

Eight days later He showed me this same vision again, and explained that this work was the building up of special security forces of love, which He is going to give His own ones in the hour of the storm of tribulations which shall sweep forth over the world. This security is not a place, but an intimate relationship with God in which His love and His person are built up in His own ones, so that they are brought into the special security that they shall need in that hour.

The Place of Independent Life

Today He spoke to me again concerning those elect ones - His chosen instruments that He shall perfect and purify to bring forth the high manifestation of Himself in that great wave of glory and light that He has already spoken of.

For many months He had poured out His grace and blessing upon certain people; but in spite of that, they still had not come into the place of independent life - the place of having life in themselves. Because of this, they had been rejected from being numbered among those chosen instruments that God is preparing in this hour. He said they would not be rejected nor cut off from being His people, and would be taken along their own plane and level of spiritual growth, but they had been rejected from becoming those choice and elect instruments through whom God shall manifest Himself.

Empowered Yet Powerless

He took me into His world and showed me an operation of the men of evil in our world who were able to obstruct and impede the development of good in some of His own ones. Although they could somewhat impede, yet their powers were greatly limited.

Later they were granted much power to do evil; but to my surprise, when they had such vastly increased powers of evil, their ability to impede and hinder the works of good in His own ones was greatly limited. As their power increased, so did their inability to work their works of evil; in fact, they could no longer impede or obstruct at all.

Purification

When He caught me away into the realm of the spirit and His constantly flowing love surrounded me like a boundless sea, He spoke to me of His work of purification. God has a separate plan for the purification of each person. In this individual plan there are various phases, countless factors and numberless dealings. A part of this work is done by the many fires He sends; another part is done by tearing out, destroying and thereby eliminating offending parts. The various ways and dealings concern different parts of our beings, and He has a distinct way of purifying each part or member.

The process of purification He was showing me was a work on the interior rather than the exterior life. It seemed as though each member of our inner being was out of place. Being disordered and grotesque in appearance, it could no longer function.

He began to relocate these disordered members, bringing each part into its correct order and functional placement. Out of the maze of chaotic disorder, He brought harmonic order in a smooth, flowing condition of life. All this disorder had totally impeded and obstructed the further purification which He was bringing into the lives of His own ones. This was a work of His own hands. In great wisdom, patience, love and power, He was bringing forth a beautiful inner being out of that which had been so dislocated and chaotic when He began to work upon it.

The Beautifying Process

He showed me that even as the storm of persecution and evil progressed unto the purification and perfecting of His own ones a tremendous joy was kindled in Him. As He brought them forth unto the fulfillment of their perfection, His joy greatly increased and grew.

He further showed me that right now, during this present time, there is a general preparation which He is giving to all His own ones, which will bring forth many and mighty changes in their spiritual beings. It is a wonderful beautifying process: the in-working and the absorption of His person, in order that they may be able to partake of Him.

The Fullness of His Word

Once again in marvelous mercies He reached down; lifting me up in His arms of love, He took me into the world of light to show me more of the wonders and mysteries of His unseen things.

God does not communicate with us as we communicate with one another. His words and ways of communicating are so utterly different from ours that there is really no comparison. Sending forth a few bits of information or an idea that will enlarge man's fund of knowledge is our way of communication, but it is not His. When God communicates with us, He sends forth a word with a part of Himself in it. His way of communicating is to send forth a very part of Himself to us. His word - if word it might be called - is a part of Himself in living power filled with light, vibrant life and creative force. Thus, when His word comes to us it is filled with the very life of God Himself.

He has given His own ones a special gift: the faculty of reception that enables them to receive this communicated part of Himself. This ability, which is far superior to hearing, is a spiritual sense that enables them not only to receive this living word from God, but also to receive all the fullness with which it comes to them. No part or portion of His word is either lost or screened out for lack of our ability to receive its fullness. In this way He gives us, time after time, a living part of Himself which builds up His nature within us.

From God came forth a living word, accompanied by a force of fulfillment which caused His word to be executed and thereby fulfilled. This word was sent to bring forth, as it were, a very concentrated essence from among His own ones, which came forth by the power and force of His word sent to them.

Evil Unto Evil Only

Upon the earth I saw men, so utterly filled with malice that there was no goodness in them at all, who desired to build their evil into evil buildings. As permission and power had been granted them, they were feverishly building their buildings of evil with great devotion to their task. They labored intently and were successful in all their undertakings of evil.

Then He showed me others, also filled with evil, who wanted to build, not unto evil, but unto good: desiring to raise up structures of goodness and righteousness, they, too, worked with all their might. However, in spite of all their labors, they had no success whatsoever in their efforts. Labor though they might, they were utterly incapable of bringing forth a building unto righteousness. Therefore, evil could only bring forth unto evil; never could evil bring forth unto good.

Knowing God

Today in His world of light He showed me His manner of revelation: from Him proceeded forth a breathing upon His own ones which came as a light, heavenly breeze. This was the breeze of knowledge that came forth from God in lighted revelation. It blew upon His own ones only for a brief time, then passed away. If during that brief space of time there was not a laying hold of the knowledge thereby revealed, it passed away forever and never again could there be a laying hold of that particular portion of the knowledge of God. He would not repeat it to His own ones. This was not an isolated working, because He often breathed forth this breath of light and knowledge upon them.

The Light Purifies

Once again He showed me that wave of light which shall come forth through His chosen ones to sweep over the inhabitants of the earth. Proceeding forth from God, it passed through His elect ones in a constant stream. It could reach the earth in no other way then by passing through them.

As it passed through His chosen ones - who were His instruments for this great wave of light - the light itself became a purifying force. Because it had within itself the power to purify, His chosen instruments were being cleansed continually. This process resulted in the light coming forth from them in ever increasing clarity and purity.

His High Spirits

He showed me a little more of the activities of these high spirits who are so near and dear to Him: they appeared to be priests or intermediaries for Him. When God sent forth His power to someone, it was only through these high ones that it came. They had within themselves the power to give to others below what God had given them. They could release it little by little, or even - if they so desired - withhold it altogether and not give it forth to the recipient at all.

His Presence

From the high realms of glory I saw God manifesting His Presence to His own ones as a mighty, two-edged sword. Although it came in great blessing, light and power, still it was manifested in great violence. This was not so much the violence of great forces, but manifested violence in what it was doing and accomplishing. Because it was operating so very powerfully, it even appeared as something wrong, or bad; nevertheless, I saw that even though it was operating in great violence, it was still producing transformations that could not have been brought about in any other manner. If His Presence had been manifested in sweet grace and loving tenderness, it could not possibly have accomplished these mighty transforming purposes.

His Presence has, as it were, two sides: one sweet and loving, and the other one which appears rough and violent. However, both aspects are the manifestation of His Presence, and both are positive and good, and do a work that can be done in no other way.

The Abyss of Eternity

Caught away by His Spirit into the realms of eternal light, I was shown something like a mighty pit or abyss; this was not evil, but positive, good, and very desirable. Within this mighty abyss were individual things of inestimable value and greatly to be esteemed and desired, which were to be possessed one by one.

Before being able to possess the things in the abyss, there was another place of preparation in which the ability and faculties were developed, so that the individual could assimilate and receive the things that were for him in his great pit. The individual parts in this pit were parts of a whole which He desired His own ones to possess in entirety, and not only in their various parts. He showed me that one could possess some of these parts individually, rather that all at once; but it was His highest will that one possess them all.

What was most incomprehensible to me was that He called those individual parts within that great pit "eternity". I could not at all understand how one could possess only a part of eternity, until He caused me to understand that to Him eternity was not to be understood within the framework of my sense and understanding of time. For eternity is more that time; it is quality, comprehension and receptivity, as well as many other concepts beyond my human understanding.

His Prison House

Caught away into the realms of the Spirit, I saw His prison house which was very beautiful and greatly to be desired. For all its beauty and desirability, it was still a prison house which was not desirable to the flesh, and was a heaviness and a weight of no small proportions.

To this place, His choice ones, His loved ones, would be brought. Functioning within this prison house was a wonderful absorption of His own self, where God was absorbed and assimilated and received into one's own being. On the basis of this very absorption there was also a releasing - a discharging of that which had been received. This was a continuous process: on the one hand a continuous absorbing, and on the other hand a continuous discharging.

In spite of all the wonderful work and operation which flowed within this glorious place, it was still a prison and those therein were His prisoners.

Chapter 10

Evil Ones Entering

I saw sons of darkness who desired to enter into the things of God upon the earth, yet in the condition in which they were, they could not enter. They did not desire God, nor were they interested in repentance, but rather, they desired to enter into those things concerning His workings upon the earth. Yet for all their desire, they could not enter. Out from the cloud of glory He sent forth something that proceeded forth from Him, which looked like a black smoke, filled with a force of ugliness. Most of these sons of darkness received this gladly and absorbed it into their own beings.

Thus they were empowered to enter into those things of God upon the earth. Although they could now enter those things, at the same time they had now become exceedingly ugly and repugnant. Whereas before they were evil sons of darkness, now they had become far worse in appearance: ugly, disfigured, deformed and frightful. Their former state was more to be desired than their present one.

In spite of their present ability to enter the things of God upon the earth, still they were not enabled to come to God himself. They could enter into His earthly things, but this did not bring them any nearer to Him at all. Thus they remained as far away from God as before, and were in a far worse state.

Closed To God

Today, in the supreme wonder of His high glory, when He told me to look upon things below, I saw a great multitude of men, who at first were neither identified as sons of light nor as sons of darkness.

Little by little and in ever increasing layers, they were putting on a coat similar to a coat of mail. This coat was a fear: a strange fear of being seen and exposed to His eyes. Thus they were closing themselves to God. When I first saw them they were not closed and covered, but little by little through their fear, they built upon themselves this defense against God, enclosing themselves in a hard shell until they were totally covered by it.

There came a time when, by the continual hardening and increasing thickness of this covering, they began to lose their spiritual identity; no longer were they entities, but unknown, unidentified beings.

Gradually, they were manifested as sons of darkness, although they did not expect to end their workings in that way. Contrary to all their own expectations, they literally built themselves into sons of darkness. Although they did not begin their workings contrary to God, nor were they closed to Him at the beginning, in the end they were fully revealed as sons of darkness.

Those High Spirits

He showed me again those high spirits who are so near and dear to Him and who are so like Him in essence and being. Because they are so much higher than the angels, I cannot ever see them clearly. Just as He is hidden in His great glory Cloud, so are they hidden, as though too high for me to see.

He showed me their high perfections, especially in their workings which are highly attuned to the perfection of their wills. This outstanding perfection was exceedingly high and of greatest importance. Their supremely perfected wills were most pleasing to God. These high beings are very attractive and there is an attitude of great security in them; unlike the angels, they are in a state of tremendous completion, and seem to have all perfections and attributes. Whereas the angels seem to be made specifically for their particular works, these high beings seem far more complete in themselves.

Wrath of Evil Fulfills His Will

Taken into the realms of light and eternal glory, I was enraptured with Him as my soul rested in the delights of His mighty Cloud. From there He showed me how He sent forth an unidentified power to the forces of darkness and evil - an incentive force that greatly provoked them to move forward in their evil workings. They moved forward to raise up their kingdoms, spiritual powers and dominions, encircling them with spiritual enclosures which could not be penetrated. The most surprising thing was that, even in all their evil doings, they were nevertheless still carrying out God's will. Within these enclosed kingdoms God was working His works, and the will of high heaven was being fulfilled.

As God entered those enclosed kingdoms, He caused a great stampeding and a tremendous desperation, for the workers of darkness could not tolerate His invasion. His coming caused them to rush out in great disorder and total rout, leaving their powers and kingdoms behind. In this manner, God fulfilled His will. After causing them to build up these kingdoms, and routing them out, He alone ruled therein.

Warfare on Lower Planes

Today in the realms of celestial light He showed me a number of His own ones who were not those high, chosen ones, yet who were being used for His glory. He loved them and they loved Him, but they seemed to be spiritually asleep. Neither wide awake nor filled with the light of understanding, they looked more like sleep-walkers. Nevertheless, they were soldiers fighting for Him. Even though they were not being used in all parts and phases of the war, yet there was a certain part of the war where they could wage battle effectively, and there the Lord used them.

Although He used them on a much lower plane, still He used them many times, and His tender love was over them. To the best of their ability, they were fighting the battle for Him.

The Complaint Department

Today, transporting me into a place that was like a great hall, He said, "This is the place of complaints where nothing passes by unnoticed by me. Here, every complaint is carefully investigated, completely revised and fully measured. In this place there is never a complaint that is not fully investigated." God shall never allow the slightest reason for any complaint made to Him. To every reason for complaint that the complainer presents, the Lord had already provided another side so that the complaint is rendered null and void, and falls worthless before Heaven's Almighty Judge.

Never in all history shall there be a complaint made before Him that shall be either right or valid. It seemed as though, for every point man made, God had already provided the counterpoint, so no one could ever have just cause or claim to present before the Lord.

Not even the slightest complaint shall pass by unnoticed; every single one will be noted and examined, and God shall be found righteous in all His actions. Never shall one complaint be found against Him in all His workings among the children of men.

The complaint department was a very large place, where great activity was taking place. I saw that the Lord was not pleased with the complaints presented there against Him, and took great pains to prove them totally unjust and ineffective.

The Death of an Opportunity

Today He told me to look, then showed me a strange thing. Because I could not recognize it, He told me that it was an "opportunity". This opportunity was proceeding forth from God to man, not alone, but in a stream of them, one after another.

If this opportunity was not received it began to die, even though it had the life of God in it. It could no longer live if it was rejected; it could only remain alive if it was received. As one received an opportunity, the next one in line appeared, and so on. As long as the opportunity was received, it not only remained a living thing, but opened the way, as it were, for the next opportunity in line to advance and be accepted. Thus the process continued.

When the opportunity was rejected, it not only died but it closed the way for those other opportunities which were following in its train. The subsequent opportunities could not reach the one who had allowed his opportunity to die. Not only did he lose the first opportunity, but he also lost all the other ones that were to have followed that one.

Glory Seeking Evil Ones

With tremendous cravings, great evil ones - as extremely repulsive, inflated princes of evil - strove intensely to take glory unto themselves. God, who diligently watched over their strivings, carefully measuring each thing they did, had such absolute control over them, their actions and the glory they sought, that He allowed them to deceive themselves and appear to have gained what in reality they had not gained at all.

Reformations

Today as I nestled in the glory Cloud of His love, He told me to look then showed me another of His dealings with His own ones which was a working like a process. This was not a specific work for some special group, but was a general working for all men everywhere. It was a work of reformations - not a reformation of Him, but a reformation in Him which brought forth clear definitions. God forced no one to enter into these reformations against his own will; if it was truly against a person's will, he was not forced. However, God helped those who were desirous and whose wills were so directed, and He gave them power to enter into all these workings. Only upon entering this dealing could the reformations that brought forth these definitions take place; therefore God greatly desired His children to enter.

Ardent Ardor

Causing my vision and understanding to penetrate the veil of flesh, God showed me something concerning Himself. Because it is unlike anything I have ever seen before - either above in the heavenlies or below upon the earth - I find it most difficult to describe. He explained that what I was seeing was one of His attributes - His high and holy ardor. As I watched this divine ardor - which was of utmost importance and very basic in Him - it was like participating in a mighty passion of intensity.

The place where this high and holy ardor dwells was not secret and inaccessible, as many places in Him are. To the contrary, this high and glorious place was both accessible and open, and had no restrictions of any kind. It was His delight to share this place with His own ones who loved Him and to them it was never closed day or night.

This place of ardent ardor was not like a fire, but like a tremendous intensity, yet without any emotional restlessness. It was continuous, extensive and perpetual, and negated any thought of instability or temporariness. This intense ardor was a mighty sign that marked and sealed the perpetuity of His workings and sharing with His own. Its intensity was immeasurable and unsound-able. Contemplating this attribute, which was continuous and eternal, it seemed as though one were looking into a part of eternity which would never end, weaken, wear out, slow down or be consumed.

Error

In the world of light - in which there is no darkness at all - He showed me one of His workings which seemed very strange to me. Certain people were entering into a specific period which He told me was a "period of transition". Then I saw Him proceed to send forth to them what looked like "error". When they entered this period of transition, they became enclosed therein. Although the exit itself was not closed, it was impossible for them to leave the transition period.

He spoke to me and said, "I sent this error to them because they were looking for it and seeking it; therefore I gave it to them, because of their own desire."

Riches

Today when He took me unto Himself in the glory of His Cloud, He showed me a secret place in Him, and told me that He was showing me some of His riches. I was surprised to see that these were not riches as we consider riches in the terrestrial sense, nor were they the riches of places, things or positions in the celestial world. They were the riches of a certain relationship with Him.

He told me that the name of the place of these riches was "solitude" - the place of being absolutely alone and shut in with God Himself. These riches, which He gives as high treasures to His own ones are of highest value, even according to the divine scale of His eternal riches in the celestial regions.

Serpent Fangs

Wrapping me in His love, He carried me away in spirit into the world of harmonic life and light. There, after His usual welcome of love and taking away of my fears, He told me to look. When I did so, I saw what seemed to be dark, evil-looking teeth which were sharp, pointed, long and ugly. Coming out from these teeth was something very repugnant which He named "poison".

Then God took something that was a part of His very own being and gave it to those ugly, hollow teeth that looked like great serpent fangs which were pouring out poison.

This poison from the fangs flowed into that part of Himself which God had given to them, and in this way was fully satisfied. Flowing into the part which God had given, the poison was fully satiated. This part - which had come forth from Him and was a part of His own being - completely absorbed all the poison that these great fangs poured forth.

Voices of God

In prayer today He took me to a place where He showed me His voice speaking to His own ones - a voice which was multitudinous, varied, and both simultaneous and concurrent. In all degrees of importance and in many ways He was sending forth His word to His people.

Each voice and speaking forth was directed to its own place and to its own hearer. Each hearer needed to be in a certain state of development to be able to hear a specific word. For even though the word was spoken forth, it could not be heard save by the ear prepared and developed to hear that particular word.

His voice continued to speak, regardless of whether the spoken word was heard or not, and whether there was a listening ear or not.

His word could only be heard when the listener was in the right place or attitude of receptivity; otherwise he could not hear the word from the Lord.

The Ways of God

God's moving and goings forth are only and always according to His own ways. Today He showed me His ways. Some of them were very complicated, while others were simpler. These very high ways - which were hidden, in secret, and could not be found out - were continuous, eternal, and not at all temporary. God continually moves forth exclusively according to His own ways.

His ways were most defined, distinct and clear, and were neither haphazard, confused, nor blurred. Because they were so complicated and intricate, they could not be traced out.

Although His ways were innumerable, each one was well marked, clearly defined and distinct. In spite of the great number of His ways, there still was no confusion. Each one followed its own path, and there was nothing capricious about it. When He showed them to me, it seemed that these ways were very clear; nevertheless, they were completely veiled and hidden, and could not be seen.

Chapter 11

Demarcation

Today He showed me a place in which there were innumerable places, all clearly marked and reserved as states or positions. Each place was totally distinct from the others, there was no duplication whatsoever. In each place, Christ Himself seemed different also. Nevertheless, in spite of these distinctions, these places were all on the same level; none were either higher or lower than the others.

Totally defined, different and fully demarcated, these places showed no connection whatsoever between one another; each one was separate and complete in itself.

The Base of Hope

He showed me a great base or strong foundation upon which He was building, then told me that this foundation was called "hope". Upon this base or foundation He began to build His strengths and His forces. This foundation of hope was not proceeding forth from God; but seemed to be external to Him. Nevertheless, the forces and the strengths that He built upon this foundation were His own and they proceeded forth from Him. These strengths and forces could be built exclusively upon this foundation of hope, and could be built upon no other.

Human Intervention

God showed me a place in Him which He shared with man. He permitted man to come into this place and intervene, build up, and accumulate as in a place of storage. What man stored up in this place - in which he could intervene - was a part of God Himself.

In this place man was allowed to intervene, and even to influence God. God desired man to enter and share with Him in this positive place that had been specially set apart and designed for man's intervention.

The Possession of Protection

Today He showed me a place that is attainable in Him, not a general one given to all His children, but a very exclusive one which is most desirable and is well worth the effort to attain. Being constant, this place remained for the whole lifetime of the individual who reached it.

The name He gave to this place was "the possession of protection". I was not given to know what kind of protection He implied or included, but I understood that it was a high and beautiful place.

I had been much concerned about losing out or escaping from God, but He said that even though I desired to escape, I could not, for He would fulfill all His words and His work in me.

Deciphering

Taking me into His world, He showed me a most complicated place of deciphering where there was tremendous activity. The things that needed to be deciphered were taken to this place of deciphering.

Before the deciphering there was an accumulation. The accumulation of spiritual works and processes helped bring forth the deciphering. This action and reaction became a continuous process.

I realized that I was given to see only a very small section of a large place where this work was being carried out by Him. He also showed me that this process of deciphering was directly involved with times and timings. It seemed as though during this period, God was accumulating these things which, in turn, brought forth their deciphering. As the deciphering took place, it focused these things into a oneness.

Rigor

Today God took me unto Himself and showed me a strange yet most desirable place in Him and His dealings - a place of great rigor, without any mitigating or softening features such as sweetness or tenderness. This special place was most productive for the man who was taken into it, for such rigors brought forth tremendous spiritual glory.

Perseverance

In the world of light He showed me a place of highest purity and purification, and called it the "place of perseverance".

This expression of Himself in high and holy purity and perfection was palpable and tangible in its inner workings. It was God's own perseverance, engendered and brought forth by Himself alone, which continued forth in never ending expression of Himself.

Provoking Unto Pain

Today He showed me a most paradoxical state that seemed to be coming to me and even hovering over me. This state that was coming forth from Him (even as a part of His own being) was a provoking action which brought forth pain. This provoking action, like an intense pressure, came forth from Him and proceeded to provoke this pain, even against Himself. It was brought forth unto Him and He allowed it to be so. I wondered much, for He brought forth this pain unto Himself deliberately. Passing through Him, it was then shared with His own ones. God was like a filter to this pain, and absorbed much of it before He shared it with His own ones. Thus His children only know this pain in a small measure.

Contamination

God showed me a place completely filled with contamination into which He brought a holy and pure thing. To my amazement, I saw that this pure thing was not at all affected nor contaminated there, nor did the holy thing affect the place of contamination.

God explained that this pure thing was "His own ones". It was inevitable that they pass through this place where these two contrary states - purity and contamination - were mixed. Nevertheless, in spite of all the intermixing, intermingling and intimate contact, still there was no contamination at all. In no way could these contaminating forces affect His own, whom I saw as something exceedingly pure and holy.

Communications

Today in the kingdom of peace and light He told me to look, then showed me His "place of communication" where all His communications were organized and in perfect order. There were various orders of communications, ranging from the very easy and simple to the most difficult and highly complicated ones.

In this labyrinth of communications, some of the more complicated ones were brought forth in various and intricate manners; yet in spite of their complications and intricacies, still all operated in perfect order, resulting in an orderly procedure, step by step and word upon word.

Longings

He showed me a place filled with deepest longings - the longings and desires of God Himself. Because it was composed of an infinite number of such longing desires, it was interminable and invariable. It was an exceedingly beautiful place, even in the heavenly sense. Intense in its creative force, it brought forth still greater longings, and by this eternal force it continually and powerfully enlarged itself.

Divine Vigilance

Today He showed me what looked like a special place of divine vigilance, into which a certain type of the purposes that originated in His own ones were brought by His orders. Even though they originated in them, only those purposes that were according to the Sovereign will of God were enabled to enter this high place of vigilance. All other purposes that originated in His own ones were not allowed to enter this high place. Once a purpose had entered, He took it from the very beginning, then gave it life and substance of its own. It then became almost personified and He carried it forward, seemingly apart from the soul in which it was brought forth. Carefully watching over it, He cared for it so that it would come forth to its final work.

Submission and Subjection

Brought into Him, I saw a very high and beautiful place which was, nevertheless, very strict and controlled. In this place I saw the souls of His own ones filled with life and will, over whom He had been able to place His reins of control and His bonds of subjection. Because they had come into submission and remained in willing subjection to Him, He had been able to bring them thus far and to bind them tightly unto Himself. In spite of being a place of close control and great strictness, it was nevertheless a most desirable place of high glory.

His Magnificence

He took me unto Himself and showed me a place of great grandeur that had many divisions, into which He desired to take His own ones. Here, in many ways, He shared His grandeur and magnificence with His own ones. The door that opened into this place of such greatness was so tiny that it seemed incongruous: a small and insignificant doorway into a magnificent place. Once a person entered, it seemed as though God's greatness, magnificence and grandeur were manifested in their many phases. God revealed them to the ones who entered through the tiny doorway.

The Cutting off of His Love

Caught up into the celestial spheres, I saw a most glorious place which was for His own ones. He told me that it was a place for bringing forth perfection. Here He cut off parts of His love so that it would not flow out unto those who were therein. He did this because it was a part of the process of life in Him for His own ones. I saw that He cut off the parts of His love that normally would have been manifested, so that this love would be less evident. Being in this place was an advance for His own ones, but not everyone entered.

Contact with God

I saw yet another place - a place that His own ones could enter; but in order to enter, there was a certain loss of another state that seemed more secure and humanly desirable. Because the place was exclusive and elective, and could be avoided, many did not enter. Nevertheless, it was a place greatly to be desired, and was of great importance and worth. By entering this place one obtained contact with God.

Illumination or Revelation

Brought by the Holy Spirit into the Cloud of great glory, I saw yet another place in Him where certain of His own ones were brought. This place was the place of "illumination" or "revelation".

Within this place these were trapped, as it were, and could in no wise come out. Once this divine light had flooded their spirits and they had entered this illumination or revelation, it was impossible for them ever to come forth from this place. They were forever bound and sealed in there; that is to say, they could never take out from themselves that light or that revelation, but were ever bound to it and could in no way escape from it.

Surrender

He showed me yet another place or position in God - the place of surrender. This surrender was specific and had very definite purposes. It was like a base upon which something was brought forth which seemed to be a combination of three factors: first, fellowship; second, worship; and third, the fear of the Lord. This was a strong, even severe place in which these factors were brought forth united in great fervency. This position was able to function to the fullest extent, even when it was combined with any other place in God at the same time. God was working in this place also with His own ones, and it was a place of high glory greatly to be desired.

Over Confidence

He showed me, as it were, a place of confidence that seemed like a place within a place; that is the outer limits enclosed a position in God that was not so evil, but within these limits were yet other limits in which much greater evil was involved. This inner place was a place of over-confidence, a place of intimacy that brought forth contempt of divine things, a familiarity which was evil. It seemed like a profaning of the holy things through over-familiarity, like the handling of God's things in an evil way. Those who entered this place were trapped and could not come out.

Recompense

Taking me into the Spirit He showed me a place into which all deeds and actions, whether small or great, were brought. To each one was granted its full reward, and every deed, whether good or evil, was fully recompensed. It was inevitable and absolutely certain that each good or evil deed would pass through this place to receive its just and full recompense.

Inheritance In Him

Taking me into the world of light and revelation He showed me two places, one superior to the other. Both of them were given the same name: "our inheritance". The first place, which was the inferior one, had as its reward an inheritance which was only partially of God. The second and superior one was composed of an inheritance which was entirely of God Himself. All His own ones were given the choice of going from the first place into the second. Being in the first place, they were offered the opportunity of coming on into the second and superior place. Although all had the same option, yet many did not choose to go on into the higher place, but chose to remain behind in the lower inheritance.

Reasons and Causes

From His Cloud of great glory, I saw a place where there were reasons or causes in which evil was able to work. These reasons and causes had been brought forth from the spirit of evil. Then God took and modified these causes and reasons, so that finally only what He had modified came forth; He permitted none of them to come forth without His modification.

Made Powerless

Lifting me into the unseen world, the Lord spoke to me and then showed me a place filled with the spirits of the evil one. These were made to pass through this place before Him for what seemed to be a remodeling, where they were reformed and became different. Although they had great power and were very strong, nevertheless, they had no life at all in themselves, and were useless and without movement.

In this place in Himself into which he brought them, He took them through a process which, at first, was a development of what they were. However, He did not work directly with them, but caused this development to take place according to the process through which He brought them.

This process of development forced them to become separated from the inherent powers and forces in them, causing these powers to revert back to God, who had given them originally. Until this time He had left these powers with them, and they had used them for evil; but now God took them back for Himself and emptied these evil spirits of all their power. As a result of this, they showed a most incomparable and unimaginable emptiness. Although they still existed and continued on as spirit beings, they were, nevertheless, null and void, lifeless and empty.

Chapter 12

Suffering and Pain

Today He took me to a place in Him where He takes all His own ones and showed me that it had two appearances. To us it appeared very painful, dangerous, and full of much suffering; therefore, we considered it an evil place. But, as He spoke to me He caused me to see it as a completely different place, for He showed me that it was filled with great blessing. This blessing was sent forth from Him to His own ones, and they could only receive it in this place. To all appearances there was absolutely no blessing apparent to those within.

It was a wide place that covered a variety of conditions of His own ones, yet it was neither continuous nor unending. Within were dangers, much suffering and pain, and it was not a sweet or lovely place at all; rather, it was a place of much severity - severity that nonetheless was thoroughly covered by the love of God. In this wide place, that covered a great range of stages and states, flowed many and great blessings. Regardless of their state, this was given to all His own ones. Later, when its blessings had been received, the time came when He took them out of this place.

The Storm of Darkness

Taking me into His realms of light and revelation He showed me, once again, the great storm of darkness and evil that is even now engulfing the earth - the storm of darkness composed of the forces of death and destruction. With His own purposes and dealings with them in view, God was taking His own ones through this storm.

In the midst of this very storm, He desired His own ones to enter into a definite possession - a possession of even greater life. This possession was not obtained by their own warring, nor through the force of battle, neither was it a special gift of God; rather, it was the natural result of being taken into this storm and taking their position in it. And this, then, became the position of possession. As a result, the occupied part, where death and destruction reigned, was changed into life and received life.

This possession directly involves their relation and involvement with the storm into which He is taking His own ones. He further showed me that this is a process rather than an act, and that this process is long, involved and complicated. Only through this storm, and the process of entering and passing through it, can this position of possession be attained. This storm is a long, dark time in which the forces of evil are allowed great power and freedom - according to His control and limits - in which to work out their evil ends.

The fightings and battles of this time, or period, are going to be much clarified, and not as hidden as before. With a new clarity and a coming into focus, revelation and understandings shall be given His own ones, so that they shall know what they are fighting against.

These fightings and battles are realities, and His own ones shall not come through them without paying a price. Spiritual battles must be faced and directly confronted. Although they know that the victory is already assured, nevertheless, they shall not gain that victory without doing battle. During this time He shall teach His own ones how to fight in these battles.

There is still another part of this process: an emptying out of His own ones, that He might send still another infilling in a new and greater way. This battle - that He shall bring His own into - is not a battle for liberation, but rather is a battle to bring His own on into the position of possession that He is desiring for them.

There was one process for His ministers and yet another for His people. There would be battles of different kinds to bring forth the preparation for this position of possession. These battles were to be fought and won, not to obtain liberation, but for preparation.

For His own ones there were two battlegrounds: one in the spiritual realms, where the battle was fought in the spirituals and the other in the earthly plane where His own ones live. However, the battle is centered in the spiritual plane, and there the battle is won and the victory gained.

These battles shall be centered in His own ones, and these victories shall be openings in the spirituals, but they shall remain in the way without attaining the position of possession. This "remaining in the way" means that it shall be impossible for them to continue on from that place where they stop. The reason that they shall remain there is because they are unwilling to confront the battles that are necessary to take them on into the possession. This time shall expire without their entering into that possession.

It was necessary for His own to add their own natural decisions and forces to this battle. In the spiritual man, in the innermost part of their beings, in attitudes, feelings, sentiments and will, there must be full cooperation on the part of His own ones in seeking Him and the obediences He requires. Thus God Himself shall purify the channels for His own use, and He shall do it sovereignly, for He already assumes this cooperation on the part of His own ones. Nevertheless, the aspect of human cooperation is not the producing factor; His own workings are.

Beings and Things

Today He showed me two things that have to do with this storm of darkness and evil, of which he speaks much to me at this time. First, He showed me beings in the spiritual world, and then He showed me things that would take place and be in evidence during this time. Both these beings and things were negative, and both were against His own ones. These beings and things and events would be working in great power and in full opposition to God and His purposes in His own ones, but the most difficult to overcome was the opposition of the evil beings. However, the victory of His own ones was sure and absolutely certain.

Further Work of the Storm

Concerning the great tide of evil sweeping over the earth, He showed me that there were many purposes. One of them He made known to me as a specific thing: the positive effect it would cause in His own ones, in its wake. He showed me that there was a specific and prepared path through which this evil tide must pass. By passing through that place, it would in all surety leave strong and positive effects.

There were two forces in the storm: one positive - yet much mixed and impure - and the other, negative, and also mixed and not fully composed of evil. In the storm, these two forces collided, coming face to face in the fury of their inner forces. In this collision there were violent actions and reactions, and great commotions. In all the confusion, both sides lost some of their composition and both were purified: the good purified unto good... and the evil unto evil. Because the collision of the forces was violent and powerful, the purification was also of great effect and power.

Operations of the Storm

In prayer today I saw the storm advancing into its prepared place through various stages which transpired one after the other, each succeeding stage being more powerful and decisive than the former.

As I watched, I saw that below this storm was a great mass of light which either advanced or remained quietly in place. As the light advanced, it caused the storm of evil to advance also. Thus the storm was controlled and inspired by that mass of light and its action, for the light forced the advance of the storm. Then He spoke to me saying, "Pay much attention to what I am saying and showing you, and be very alert and learn what I am teaching you in this."

Then God proceeded to separate the storm into two parts to show its dual forces, as though dividing it into two poles; the evil became polarized into much greater evil, and the good into much greater good. The various stages were operations of certain forces, each stage accomplishing that for which it was intended.

The operation of this storm was not continuous, it proceeded in stages, as though having periods of rest between stages. In this same manner, both the great mass of light and the storm of evil operated.

Again He told me to pay strict attention to what He was telling me.

As the storm gathered and enclosed in itself certain spirits - that did not appear as evil to my eyes - I saw that they were processed by the storm, and became manifested plainly as evil spirits. Now fully manifested, they remained planted and rooted in the very storm itself - a planting and rooting that God Himself caused to be.

He showed me how all the spirits of evil sought out similar spirits of men who had like tendencies, even though those propensities toward evil were not as yet fully manifested outwardly. Each one of them sought out his own kind and united them into groups: there was a coming together of those given to sexual perversion, violence, thievery, lust, avarice, etc. Those spirits brought forth into open manifestation these propensities of evil, even though up until now they had not as yet been manifested outwardly. Seizing their own ones, they contaminated them with their own evil and brought them together unto themselves.

These evil spirits could do their work below with their own ones, but they could not establish any roots in the spiritual spheres; they could only form roots below upon the earth. These roots were the bringing together into groups of the evil ones gathered around these evil spirits.

His Acts Speak Forth His Glory

He showed me one of the stages towards the end of the storm. Hitherto, all its forces had been very fluctuating, but now, during this stage, the storm was allowed to operate with a tremendous power that was continuous and non-fluctuating. Until this stage ended, its action was continuous, without abating for a moment.

He promised that as the storm increases He will show forth His word and express Himself to His own ones, not only through words, but through acts: by His acts He shall demonstrate His word to them. This shall be of great encouragement to them, for His acts shall speak forth His glory.

The River of Life Sent Forth

God sent forth a portion of life like a river. Those who partook of that river possessed it within themselves as the rest of the river went on flowing. Then I saw the forces of opposition rise up against the river and advance against it, causing the river to decrease and to continue decreasing. Under the attacks of evil it ceased to flow altogether. Those who partook of the river were allowed to keep that water which they had received, but because the river was allowed to stop, no one else could take of those waters of life which He had sent forth at that time.

Waves In The Storm

Today I again saw the storm of affliction and trouble that will sweep over both the world, and over His own ones also. Like waves, it rose and fell with times of rest between waves; this was true both in the dark part of the storm as well as in the workings and dealings in light. Below all things was God, controlling, motivating, directing, and giving forth strengths and powers. God was there in great constancy, fulfilling His own purposes and His own ends in love. In His great love over His own ones there was absolutely no change or fluctuation whatsoever. During the time of the strength of their waves, the powers of evil were allowed to detain the forces of light for temporary and predetermined periods of time.

In the workings of the waves of light there was an operation of a preparation of faith, in order that His own should be able to believe for a work of God that He desired to give. This was a preparation for a further revelation of truth. In order to bring forth a faith that could be brought to an operation of truth, God showed it forth as if it were an accomplished work.

Under one of the waves of light of His workings below, certain ones were walking in the way of light. Some distance behind them were certain who did not know how to walk in the way of light. This wave of light had come to them as revelation, but they had not reached up to receive it.

At a certain predetermined moment He awakened and put into action certain spiritual forces that operated exclusively in the spirituals in relation to the storm. One of the purposes of the storm was to establish and strengthen the glorious things which were loose and scattered. Through the action of the storm of affliction and persecution, they were made to shine in a wonderful development.

The Destroyed Tree

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 forth the organization, orders, powers and beings of darkness that worked below in the out-workings of the storm.

Concerning the Storm

For His own ones God provided many entrances into a positive place - a place of strength and forces, these forces helped His children pass through the entrances and brought forth important changes and improvements in them.

In a further scene I saw attachments or fastenings, as it were, in the spiritual sphere which connected up with spiritual forces. Man cannot exist without being connected to a spiritual force. Some at first were connected to God by their spiritual fastenings, but later, their connections became broken. When those connections and bindings with God were broken, they reconnected in the spiritual realm, not with God, but with the enemy. Thus they were connected once again and were able to exist; however, now they were bound to the powers of darkness.

Again He showed me developments above the normal rate of growth, which were caused by specific circumstances and situations that God Himself had prepared for special and rapid growth.

God showed me how He would design situations especially for His own ones. He worked in these spiritually prepared situations, in order to bring them into certain preparations or awakenings. However, not everyone would take advantage of such situations. God would prepare an enclosure, as it were, and this enclosure was His own self; there He would allow the pressures and the attacks of the enemy to build up to a high degree. Then, all around this enclosure, he opened up what looked like doorways, so that those who desired to escape in this way, because of the high pressures and enemy activity, did not realize that they were escaping from Him. They did not realize that this, too, was a situation prepared by Him which was for their own development and blessing. Thus they "escaped" into loss, and withdrew from blessing and benefit.

Fears

God showed me that both the people of God and the people of the enemy have fears. His own ones know and recognize these fears, and little by little are delivered from them; in the end they have no fears left at all.

To the contrary, the fears in the children of darkness are so little recognized that, in the beginning, they are almost nonexistent. Their fears grow and multiply and draw to themselves the very spirits of fear, so that they are never set free from them at all.

When evil, dark fears try to enter into the people of light, though surrounding and accompanying them, they can in no way penetrate within them, for God Himself had set boundaries around His own ones, limiting these menacing fears to the outside only.

Pass and Re-pass

More than once God would take His own ones through the various places they had to pass through, in order to enable them fully to possess all that those places had for them. The first time they passed through such places, experiences, situations and circumstances, they were not able to receive fully, so God prepared many repeats so that there would be a full reception of all that these places offered. This process produced the full knowledge and consciousness of Him that these places were designed to produce.

Chapter 13

Forming A Connection

I saw God's people passing through a period when they were forming a connection with God, in order to receive His communications which continually flowed forth to them. This connection had to be formed during the time of much communication. Once such a connection was formed and established they could always communicate with Him, even in times of scarcity of His flowing forth in this way.

He then told me that there was always a principal wave of His blessing, preceding further waves, which was most important because it formed, as it were, bases for future and further flowings forth.

More Concerning The Storm

He showed me that the great storm of evil had yet many predetermined works to fulfill, and needed to enclose, in distinct ways, new places as yet unreached. During this storm God gave certain opportunities to His own ones, but they did not seize them. In great love and patience God would renew these opportunities, in order to give them another chance. There were many "fixed times" in the storm and each one had to be fulfilled; there was no cutting short of any of them.

The storm generated pressures which accompanied a certain blessing; this blessing could not be obtained without the pressures operating. There could be no going forward to the next blessing - also accompanied by its own pressures - until the pressure had been completely fulfilled. God explained that those pressures and their burdens had all come from Him. Because He alone had caused them to be, all of them were fully under His control. These pressures and burdens brought fightings which could not remain in a static condition, but had to be carried forward.

The forces of the enemy upon the earth entered the storm and activated certain inert forces, thus fortifying the storm's evil forces.

Many evil beings manifested themselves in the storm, but they were only images or projections of one great evil. In this storm God purposed to join together all these "projections" and make only one; that is, there would be only one evil being composed of all those evil beings formerly manifested as separate entities. This joining together would reveal all the inherent evil which had become united in one.

Consuming Fire

A consuming fire was working in His own ones to consume and thereby purify them by burning out all the dross. This same fire was also burning in the children of evil, not to purify them, but rather to burn out what they had and thereby remove them from their position.

To His own ones He gave a force of life in addition to the life they already had - a force of life which gave them a resistance and made them very strong. It was necessary for them to take this life-force with them. God purposed to stabilize their faith so that it would not fluctuate. These pressures and fires of the storm would work this grace of faith in them.

Firm Foundations

For His own ones God sought a firm foundation - a rooting and grounding for each step they would take forward towards the goal. He could not lead His children on to the next stage until the grounding in the present one was completed. When those who pressed on without forming that secure foundation had gone on apace and looked back, they discovered that they had no foundation, and could no longer go on without one. Unless each step was firmly rounded, there could be no reaching of the goal.

God's purpose was to place within His own ones the "fear of the Lord". In many distinct ways He worked to do this; any one of these various ways could be successful and cause this "fear of the Lord" to enter the hearts of His children of light. It was vitally necessary that this fear of the Lord should be within each one of them.

The Will Of God

The will of God went forth seeking the will of His own ones. When His will was successful in uniting with the will of His child, the latter will yielded. Being yielded and united with His will, it now returned to God again. Only in the yielded state could it return to God. This operation of God's will seeking the will of His child was repeated countless times. Each time He was successful, the yielded will remained enclosed in God in His high and holy will.

He also showed me that there are places where many alternatives are offered, but only one alternative is the plan of God; any other one chosen results in error and missing the mark.

He further showed me that His children only see a very small part of the fruit of their lives, and no more. In reality, the fruit is far greater and more complete than His own ones can ever imagine.

Light to the Sons of Light

God sent forth light to the sons of light in two ways: first, it came to them where they were; and second, it went into a certain spiritual place. In order to possess this other light, His children needed to press on into this second place. Because the light would not come to where they were, it was necessary for them to go into this other place. This certain spiritual place was like a piece of spiritual land which they needed to possess.

Connected In the Light

I again saw the great wave of light that accompanies the wave of darkness that is called the "great storm". Within this wave of light, certain stabilities were formed which were a part of the very nature of God Himself. As this wave of light moved in certain rhythmic vibrations or oscillations, those stabilities of God neither moved nor oscillated.

Directly below, in the lower part of the wave of light, were His own ones who had to rise higher and be connected with those stabilities of God. However, they could not rise up in their own way for there was only one way to ascent: that is, to move in harmony and rhythm with the movement of this wave of light. As they moved with the wave, they would be enabled to ascend. This moving with the movement of the wave had to continue until they had ascended and become connected with those stabilities which were far superior to the light in the wave of light. As a result of this, His children then became like centers within the wave of light.

Letting Go of Things

As the wave of light covered His own ones, God sent forth special forces to help those who were in the outer fringes of the wave, so that they also might rise. However, many fightings broke forth which were manifested by much oscillation and instability. To terminate the fightings, His own ones had to let go of hindering things that they were holding, even though they were not evil things. As they let go of them, they became stabilized and could rise to the place God desired for them.

Possessing the Land

In prayer today I saw God give to His own ones what seemed to be a certain possession of land which they must occupy. Some of them, who occupied only a part of the land that was given to them, were taken into a crisis place and brought into an encounter with God Himself. There He asked them for all that they had occupied, in order to give them yet another opportunity to occupy the portion of land that was left. If this latter operation of God was unsuccessful, all their possession - both occupied and unoccupied - was taken away from them.

Power to Build

I saw God take His own ones into a place which He called the "power to build". God brought them into this place without their knowing either the entrance or the exit. There they found even more than they had expected or hoped to find. It was necessary for them to find the "power to build" in order to be able to carry this power out with them. God then took them to other places where this "power to build" would go forth and raise up buildings. Without this power, which they had to find in this special place, they could not build. If, being in this place, they did not find that power to build, it remained in their memory only as a nice place that they had visited. They were not taken on forward into the positions of building for Him.

Defenses Overcome

God loosed and sent forth predetermined battles to His own ones who had raised up defenses around themselves to be able to evade those battles. The time came when one of two things took place: His child either rose up and went outside his own raised-up defenses to face the battle God had sent to him, or else the battles penetrated his defenses and forced a confrontation. The battle had to be joined, there was no way of escape from the battles that He allowed His own ones to go through.

Easy Entrances

The vision of the Lord that came to me as I remained in His Presence in prayer was concerning a certain type of entrances into specific places in God that were presented to His people. These entrances were wide and provided easy entrance into this place. Nevertheless, those who entered this place had very limited capacity for receiving and possessing the light and knowledge that abounded in this place. In spite of the great abundance of knowledge and light their-in, those who had entered were able to capture very little.

The very ease of entrance was the specific factor that caused such a limited ability to be able to receive or perceive the light that was manifested in these places.

Identifying

During the storm, the Lord sent forth manifestations of His own grandeur, power and might, before the time of the definition and alignment of people. The enemy likewise sent forth similar revelations of his might and power.

According to who these people were, they chose which of the two revelations they would receive. As the revelation entered into them, they became identified as to where they belonged: light united with light and darkness with darkness.

Spiritual Guides

Today in the vision God showed me the operations of the spiritual powers, who were high spiritual beings quite different from other kinds of angelic beings. These powers were operating with men upon the earth. This same process operated both with the powers who were sent from God, and also with the same type of beings sent from the forces of the evil one.

Both spiritual powers, the good and the evil, operated in the same manner. First, they sent forth influences upon their own ones which continued until they were brought to a specific time and place, where certain definite connections took place between these powers and their own ones. These men were then directly connected and definitely bound to these powers. When they had become fully connected and, as it were, had bands upon them, these influences were strengthened and changed. They became guides that led forth step by step, each one in its own direction: good led unto good, and evil led unto evil. Being changed into guides caused an enlargement of both the men and their unseen spiritual powers.

A Judging Light

In the midst of the storm of evil, God allowed me to behold yet another of His operations in the great workings of light upon the earth: a high body of light became established. Although it was composed of the very same light, it was distinct from it; not only was it high, but at the same time it maintained the rest of the workings of light.

This body had within it a certain factor which enabled it to judge and examine. All that was within the work of light - which appeared like a great wave flowing over the earth - was caused to pass through this examining judgment. This operation was similar to being required to pass through a sieve.

Only that which had the proper substance, and did not pass through the sieve of this examining judgment, was considered adequate and fit to be taken up and formed into the high body within this wonderful wave of light.

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The Covering of God

In today's vision I saw His own ones in several given states. Regardless of the state in which he found himself, God's child was supposed to have a covering. However, this covering from God depended upon the reaction of the person to and within his state. That is to say, if the reaction to this state was negative, his covering both remained and increased. In whatever state God's child found himself, this principle applied.

Small and Little Things

In prayer God instructed me about the operation of evil within that great wave of light. I saw spiritual powers - very powerful spirit beings from the forces of darkness - who were permitted certain operations within the realms of light. Although these operations were totally limited and circumscribed, they were still very active. In spite of the fact that these powers operated through very small and insignificant things, they nevertheless operated with great power and consequence.

In this manner these powers purposed to cause evasions in the people of God. When God desired to give His own ones some specific blessing or gift, these evil powers, through these insignificant-looking small things - which to all appearances were inconsequential - sought to exert such attractive forces and operations that God's people were brought under their power of evasion. In this way they evaded and thereby lost the gift or blessing which God had sent forth to them.

Lost Blessings

I saw God send undefined blessings to His own ones who were within the wave of light upon the earth. These blessings were not given directly, as others were, but appeared to be latent blessings. If those who were in the wave of light did not open themselves to receive these blessings, then the enemy was permitted to come and capture these very same blessings and turn and use them against the people of God. God permitted this to happen because His children did not receive these blessings that He had sent to them.

The Wave of Light

With the light of God's presence upon me, I saw that there was to be a time in which certain ones belonging to God would be completely surrounded by the dark forces of the storm of evil that is to come upon the earth. When they were completely surrounded, they were brought to a halt and could progress no further. Then suddenly, at tremendous velocity and with tremendous forces and pressures, the wave of light came to them. Little by little - in spite of the great speed with which it moved - this wave of light began to penetrate this storm of darkness and evil that had surrounded His own ones. When this light reached these surrounded ones, it transferred its forces and velocity to them, and gave them power to be able to break forth once again from these places of hindrance.

Darkness Within the Church

Commanding me to look, He showed me His own church during the time of the great storm of evil that is coming upon His own ones. The darkness that surrounded His church had been able to penetrate within. Suddenly that great wave of light swept in and completely separated the light from the darkness within the church.

Outside of the church, there also came forth special powerful spirit beings who had such great spiritual power that they were able to take away the controls that had been placed upon the forces of darkness in the storm of evil. Although these powers built up an enormous number of evil works, nevertheless, they could build nothing that would remain. All they painstakingly built up did not prosper; it fell down immediately. They could build nothing at all that would be lasting.

In the storm of evil, great fury, pain, and much blood will flow around His own ones. I saw this flood come up to where I was standing and almost touch me; however, in spite of its great fury, and its desire to do so, it could not come near enough to actually touch me.

In the wave of light during the time of the storm of evil, He showed me a certain sector of His own ones who had an opaque covering about them. This covering had been given to them to challenge them. If they overcame, the opaqueness became clear and transparent and they could clearly see the light about them; but if they did not overcome, they remained in the wave of light but could not see it.

Developments and Capacities

Today in the vision given me by the Holy Spirit I saw a certain series of developments which appeared like possessions, which His own ones could reach and acquire. These developments were given according to the capacity required to possess them.

There were two classes of capacities: the first, a fixed and basic one given by God. The second, a capacity which could grow and increase, and was moldable, pliable, and dependent upon the efforts and will of His own ones.

There were five distinct possibilities into which these capacities could grow in aspiring to the development offered them. Of these, the first was the highest. This first capacity grew and enlarged until it was able to encompass and possess all the development that had been offered; it completely attained all the possession or development.

The second did not enlarge sufficiently and only grew enough to be able to touch its development, but not enough to be able to contain or receive into itself any of that development. Therefore all the offered possession was withdrawn; this capacity possessed nothing at all.

The fourth capacity grew still less and could not even reach out to touch its development, never having even drawn near enough to realize it was there; therefore, it completely lost all the offered possession.

The fifth capacity was so stunted and limited in its growth that it could not reach out to its development in any way or manner. Therefore, all the offered possession was taken away and offered to the others who would attain.

Revelation to Build

In the vision today God showed me His own ones dwelling under their covering of light. By sending His voice and word to them, He was communicating with them in many ways, forms and manners. It was necessary for them to hear and receive a certain number of these communications in order that they might be able to build with Him through these communications. If the revelation or reception was incomplete because they did not receive a sufficient number of the words He sent to them in various ways, they could not build with Him in that which He was building.

Necessary Pressures

As I waited before Him in prayer today, He showed me how great pressures came against His own ones, whose purpose was to try to force them to leave their possessions in God. However, in spite of their violent activity, these great pressures could not accomplish their purpose. In actuality, they were necessary to produce a further entering into that same possession.

Human Force

God showed me the ministry of a certain pastor, who was utilizing human strength and force to operate the things of God. Instead of utilizing the forces and powers of God during the services, he was using his own strengths. These human forces provoked certain reactions in the people, causing them to move out and do more than God was doing. This manner of ministry was displeasing to God, for it was not His way of building nor were His strengths operating.

Concerning this work, God showed me that when they think that the work is well formed, He shall touch it and cause it to fall in ruins. At that moment God shall pick up of those same ruins and build His work in His own way. This will happen because, as yet, they have not entered into the true construction and manner of building of God.

Our Angels

When taken into the presence of God by the Holy Spirit, I was told to behold hidden things. As I did so, I saw His own ones upon the earth, accompanied by their angels whom God had sent to them. I watched these angels operating; so great is the sphere of operation and so immense and powerful are they, that they operate with and over His own ones as if they were God Himself.

Although they are still limited and not unlimited beings, they operate, in guiding His own ones, with a wisdom that is divine, and with a watchfulness that is truly awesome and ceaseless. Because power had been given them to be able to control fully all the circumstances, happenings and environments that surround God's children, they minister to them with a sovereignty and totality that is the very power of God working through them. They are directly united, even tied to His own ones, and they operate with them and over them.

These are angels of the highest order whose charge over His own ones is very sacred to them. They operate in tremendous power, yet with great and tender love.

A Certain Church

The Holy Spirit showed me the people of a certain church to whom He had sent the light and atmosphere of heaven, which had come to them and flowed around them. These people had received it, rejoiced in it and felt its blessing. But even as it flowed around them, it was nevertheless still outside of them and did not enter into them. However, it was good that they received this flowing of divine light in this way and remained in the heavenly atmosphere.

This operation continued until the light had completely surrounded and enclosed each one like a shell. As little by little they were surrounded and enclosed by this light, they were enabled to pass through the storm of evil that was already with them and would pour forth even more upon them. In being enclosed by the light, they would be protected and enabled to pass through the storm. Although the light of knowledge had not entered into them, and they did not understand very much because so little light and understanding had entered, even so, God allowed them to use the light and blessing that surrounded them. This place was their "good place" in God.

The storm that was already operating within the church developed more and more until it became manifested openly - a process which brought forth a whirlwind of disturbance which resulted in the bringing forth of two churches. Those believers who had been surrounded by the light were protected, and they passed through the storm well. Of them God made another church, unlike the first one in which the light and atmosphere of heaven and divine understandings were only flowing around the outside of them.

As a result of all the workings of the storm and its whirlwind of disturbance, this light - which had formerly surrounded them like a shell - had now entered into them and caused them to be filled with confidence and faith and understanding.

As this church passes through much storm, God's light shall enter more and more into His own ones who allow themselves to be brought progressively into that light which God had already sent forth to them.

Although this storm is already working and shall continue to work ever more powerfully, for His own ones it is not a negative thing, but a positive one, because it shall bring forth the opening of their hearts and understandings and spirits to the light.

The knowledge of God - as divine life from heaven - shall be within them.

Personification

Today the hand of the Lord lifted me up into the world of light and showed me once again the forces of light and the forces of darkness as they operate in the higher spiritual realms. These forces were purposing to work upon the earth. In order to be able to operate effectively, they had to become personified: they had to enter into and operate through living persons upon the earth.

In the spirituals, the number of the forces of darkness was far superior to the number personified upon the earth. Although those below were less in number, they were, nevertheless, not inferior in power: the same power that was in the "many" in the higher spiritual regions was ably and fully reflected upon the earth in the relatively "few" persons taken over by them. This power was in no way annulled by the lack of numbers; the few became as effective as the many.

This same operation and effect took place in the forces of light, who also had their corresponding persons of light upon the earth.

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His Fire Kindled Upon the Earth

The Spirit of the Lord opened my eyes as I waited in God's presence, and then showed me how the Lord was preparing to pour forth a living and blessing fire upon the earth below. This living fire - which was directed both to individuals as well as to congregations or groups - would come as blessings or gifts.

First God sent forth a fire to His people. If this fire was allowed to fulfill its purposes in filling them, He would then send forth more fire; but if the fire did not fulfill its ends, He would send no more to them. The fire would then become a latent thing during the time of the storm.

In fury, yet in great disorder, the forces of evil attacked His own ones. When these attacks came against those in whom He had placed these fires, the strength of the evil forces was diverted. It could not touch the living good because it had been completely covered by the operation of His fires.

Because God had placed His fires in His own ones, this living possession and light of direction caused them to flourish. Later He drew near to His children to claim for His own that which He had given them, because it had now produced fruit for Him.

Principalities

When the Lord took me into the glorious realm of purest light where His presence overshadows all things, He showed me how the forces of light are sent forth and how they are given their charge. For specific purposes and determined times, they are given the reins of government. When one of them terminates his charge, another reigning being comes forth who is also ordained and given his charge; he too fulfills his reign. After that one, another comes forth, and so on successively.

As I was watching what God was showing me regarding these reigning ones, I realized that they are truly mighty princes, who reign in great authority and power.

Spiritual Ambitions

Through the light of revelation God showed me yet another operation, in which He sent godly ambitions to His own ones, which would cause them to draw near to Him. These ambitions had within themselves a faculty of enlargement that caused them to grow and develop like a growing stream. Watching this growth as the ambitions progressed, I realized that the operation of these ambitions was very delicate, because within these ambitions were many hidden and strong cords that would bind them in holy bondage. If these cords were seen and firmly held, then all went well and these holy ambitions fulfilled His divine purposes; but to the contrary, if the ambitions were received without a laying hold of the inner bondages involved, then these ambitions would produce a diversion of direction that would lead completely away from their intended mark.

Three Processing Realms

Today the Spirit of the Lord showed me yet another mystery of His workings in His own ones: three separate realms which were processing areas. The first was called the "realm of God's dealings". The second, the "realm of growth", into which His own ones were taken after they had passed through His dealings. And the third, the "realm of enrichment", where all was adorned and made beautiful.

These three realms of processes were consecutive in their order: the "realm of God's dealings" being followed by the "realm of growth", and this realm followed by the "realm of enrichment". Each of these three realms could be possessed partially or completely. However, the acceptance of His dealings only in part brought a corresponding limitation in growth and enrichment.

He also showed me that there are other "realms of processing" apart from these first three. For example, a certain process with its resultant blessing from God had been purposed for a certain individual; but that process was still far from him. If that person remained open and receptive, this process would move forward to him and he could receive it on the condition that He remained receptive and open, and in an attitude of expectancy. To the contrary, if he did not remain open and receptive, he would lose the offer completely and would not even be aware that such a process with its resultant blessing had been offered to him. He escaped both the process and its resultant blessing, without even knowing that it had existed and been destined for him.

Violence and Charm

Today the Spirit of the Lord showed me the wave of darkness that was operating in two manners: firstly, in an open violence full of darkness and evil, and secondly, in a way that was just as full of darkness and evil, but was completely covered by a most deceiving charm and was very attractive. In spite of the excellent camouflage of this second wave of darkness, its evil was the same as the open violence of the first wave.

Two States In Light

The Spirit of the Lord came upon me and flooded my being with the light of revelation as He transported me by the Spirit into the realms of light, where He showed me two states within the workings of His light upon the earth. The first state was empty and lifeless, and the second one - living and filled with life. The first state He called "anxiety" and the second one, "power". These two states - which had the same outward appearance - were vitally different within. Each state had the attracting power to draw into itself corresponding persons, according to what was within each individual.

He further showed me two positions: one, a position and nothing more; the other - a position filled with fire and great blessing. These two positions also had the same outer appearance, but within they were utterly different.

Then He showed me a series of enlargements or depths which seemed to be like the digging of a well. The digging or enlarging process continued until at a predetermined moment it ceased, for there was no possibility of further enlargement or deepening. What had been accomplished was accomplished...there was no time to do any more.

Trusting Confidence

When the Spirit of the Lord took me into the world of light, He was pleased to show me the operation of trusting confidence in its three phases. This confidence operated in one of three ways: the first was an exaggerated operation, and because it was too much, it was paralyzing in its workings and did not bring forth any activating principles nor produce any works.

The second operation of this trusting confidence was just right: it was the trusting confidence that activates and operates in its continual abiding.

The third phase was a trusting confidence so weak that it could not bring forth any activity or works because it was too passive and useless.

Manifesting His Dealings

When the Lord opened my eyes to see into the world of the Spirit, He showed me His people, in whom the dealings and possessions they had received from the Lord were sealed up. Then the Lord told them to bring forth into open manifestation these dealings and possessions. Some obeyed His word and brought them forth. Others were disobedient and unwilling, and kept these dealings sealed up within themselves.

Yet another group of His people desired and were willing to openly manifest these possessions, but because they were too weak, they had to seek help from the Lord in order to be able to bring them forth in obedience to Him.

To Draw Back

The Holy Spirit showed me a truth of the spiritual world. God offered His own ones entry into a new place which to them appeared very attractive and beautiful, being filled with light and promise. They could decide whether or not to enter. It seemed that all of them decided in the affirmative, but later some of them decided to draw back. Because of their attitude and action, the appearance of that place changed before their eyes: it now became ugly and totally undesirable to them, and they no longer considered it lovely and attractive. This "drawing back" became a serious charge against them.

Two Ways of Possessing Life and Light

With the light of God illuminating me in the realm of the Spirit, I saw that there are two ways in which one may possess spiritual life and light: one can possess them on the outside of the spiritual being - a possession which results in a great superficiality; the other way is to possess them on the inside of the spiritual being which is far superior.

Proceeding forth from God came an operating force - like an activating force or principle that activated life and light - which had the power to cause reactions. When this force operated upon those in whom these were superficial, the light and life were separated from them and became absorbed and lost. Because they were only exterior, they could not be retained. To the contrary, those who possessed spiritual life and light in the interior being were brought to positive reactions only; there was no loss whatsoever.

This activating force which came forth from God was only positive and good, and not at all destructive.

The Way of Progress

Taking me away into the kingdom of light where the spirituals are revealed, the Holy Spirit showed me another factor in the processes of development in God. Because there are three ways in which God's processes can be received, I will try to explain them as he showed them to me.

In the first scene, I saw one of His own ones located in a certain state of development. In this state he was given opportunities through the dealings of God - opportunities to become conformed to God's purposes for him through these dealings. Since the former state had been transitory - and not a permanent state for him at all - as he became conformed to these purposes, he was then carried forward to the next state.

Another way to respond to this process was to receive the dealings of God without conforming or yielding to these workings, nor taking advantage of them. Because of this reaction, this person became stagnant in his development and did not advance any further.

There was a third way of receiving this work: a person in this transitory state who accepted the dealings of God and yielded, and even became conformed to these purposes, but who enclosed himself in that state and refused to be moved onward from there, remained in that place and progressed no further. Because of their "enclosing", that state became permanent for him.

His Sons Empowered

Today He again caught me up into His world of spiritual light and illumination, and showed me things concerning His own ones. To His angels - these great and mighty beings whom He has given charge over His sons - God gave mighty power. In all things relating to their dealings with His sons, their power was without limit. These mighty angels of God were ministering to His own ones, giving each one of them a specific and controlled measure of power which had a specifically measured limit of flow. Although each person had his own measure - and each measure was different from the others - each measure of power was fully sufficient for the development of that son. If he used his given fountain of power, he developed properly and all was well; he brought forth fruit. But if he decided that his measure of power was insufficient, and refused to remain within his own measure, and sought for another and larger measure, he could obtain it. However, this "reaching and grasping" only resulted in a vacuum which was fruitless and therefore useless to him. That which God has given is quite sufficient already, and there is no need to insist upon a further measure. Be the measure given great or be it small, it is quite sufficient to bring forth the fruit God requires; no one needs to force himself into another measure.

(This specific and controlled measure given by God was the power for development, and in no way referred to the operation of ministries or giftings, etc.)

The Two Guiding and Attracting Forces

I saw two guiding and attracting forces: one attracted unto itself and guided on into a place of walking in authority and direction in the way, and the other one guided into weakness and the total inability to know the way at all.

God placed before His own ones two classes of fightings or battles. The first one reached forth to visible ends that were defined and specific.

The second one led to ends that were real and tangible - but at the same time were invisible, and neither defined nor specific - and were more concerned with the sentiments, capacities, and abilities which led forward into enlargements. This second class of fightings was far superior to the first one, and was much more important.

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Strength Unto Strength

Catching me up into the regions of light, He showed me one of His own ones covered by a great shell of negative forces. Resist and struggle though he might, he could not pass through this negative shell that surrounded him. However, as he used all the strength he possessed in this struggle, another strength came down to him from above and connected up with his "little strength". When this divine strength joined the lesser strength already being used in fighting, this shell of dark, opposing powers was broken through. In spite of all the opposition of the powers of darkness, through this great shell of negative forces, the joining up of these two strengths caused yet another purpose of God to be fulfilled.

Painful Preparations

In the realms of light I saw a stage of preparation of His own ones, in which strong and painful dealings of God were involved. This took place during the storm of evil that is ever increasing upon His own ones and upon the world. Later, I also saw another stage into which they must pass: a stage of fulfilling which took place outside the storm.

The purpose of the first stage of preparations and dealings was to take His own ones on into the second stage, which also contained pain, yet not excessive pain. There was much movement and activity in this second stage, all of which proceeded from God Himself, who was moving and operating during this time.

If His own ones chose or desired to, they could remain in the first stage and not move on into the second one at all.

Two Ways of Growth

By the operation of light in the spirit, I saw that there are two ways in which there can be growth. The first way is to utilize that which is given by God in its beginnings, without adding anything to it; this growth is wholly exterior and is both weak and hollow on the inside.

The other way is to take that which God gives in the beginning and gradually add to it. This growth develops from step to step, ever increasing and advancing until it reaches the full enlargement which God had proposed and desired; it is neither hollow nor weak, but full and flourishing.

When God spoke to me He said, "I cause all the inconveniences, and order all the frustrations that are troubling you."

God as Fountainhead

In the spiritual regions of light and revelation, I saw the soul of one of God's own ones connected to Him as his fountainhead. With this connection intact, he pressed ever forward until he reached his God.

Then I saw yet another soul that at first was connected with God as his fountainhead; but later, beholding other forms and ways that appeared good and attractive to him, he connected to one of them as well. Little by little he lost his connection with God as his fountainhead, and became fully connected to that form, and pressed onward in it. This other form tried to connect up with God as its fountainhead, but it could never reach high enough to be able to establish that connection. Try though it might - and it was ever trying - it could never establish that connection. Therefore, the soul that had connected to that other form - which had appeared godly to him - lost his connection with his God, and continued on connected to the other form which never did connect up with Him.

Bound or Free

Catching me up into the realm of His glorious presence by the power of the Holy Spirit, He saturated my being with His love and glory and told me to look at His own ones who were in two conditions. After He had liberated them from their bondages, they proceeded to form new bonds which were His bonds. No longer were they free, but were now closely bound to God through these bonds of love. This was the first condition.

Then He showed me another group of His people who, having been liberated, stubbornly insisted on maintaining their own freedom. As they proceeded forward in this state of freedom - without permitting Him to put any of His bonds upon them - they became wrapped up in emptiness and headed definitely toward the spiritual destruction that was the end of this way.

Three Kinds of Possession

The hand of the Lord caught me up into the heavenly spheres and caused me to look upon His own ones as they entered into their possessions. First He showed them to me as they were following Him in love. Then I saw Him place before them something which was given them to possess. In this thing which He set before them there were great extensions and ramifications, whose purpose was that their store of possessions might be filled to the utmost. Glorious and greatly to be desired was this possession that He offered them.

Later, I saw another group of His own ones who also desired possessions. These gazed steadily off to one side, then followed another road which was not the way that He had set before them. This other road led to another possession which was much easier to come into, but was not a great and strong possession; it was weak, filled with limitations, and had no fullness or extensions.

Then He showed me a third group of His people who were also taking a side road into a self-chosen possession. As I watched, I realized that what they were going toward was in reality a "nothing" - a large facade with nothing at all behind it. In appearance only, it was a possession, but it had neither reality nor substance; it was empty and hollow.

Two Ways

Taking me into His glorious presence and filling me with the wonder and glory of His own radiant Self, as He manifested Himself to me, He caused me to look and showed me the "Way of the Lord" that He placed before His own ones. They had to choose this way that He placed before them and then walk in it. However, certain ones had already chosen and formed another way within them. Not only was it within them but, at the same time, they ware already walking in it. These also chose to walk in the "Way of the Lord" that He had set before His own ones, but in the truth of the things revealed in the spirit, they had never really walked in the "Way of the Lord" for they had never really walked in the "Way of the Lord", which was already within them. Apparently they chose the "Way of the Lord", but in reality, at any given moment they were walking and living in that other way. Because it was continually within them and had already become a very part of them, it appeared to be incorporated into their spiritual beings.

A Streams of Grace

Today, with the hand of the Lord upon me, I beheld further mysteries concerning His workings with His own ones. Before some of them He placed the revelations of His purposes. He did this in the invisible and spiritual in a work which was not visible to their eyes. With this revelation, He also opened up a stream of living grace which was glorious, shining, and filled with tender strength. The purpose of this stream of living grace was to accompany the revelations and enable it to be completely fulfilled. As this revelation proceeded forward - under the power of this grace - it became transformed from the invisibles of their life into the visible and tangibles. When this process of grace and revelation had completed its work, it had brought forward into the visible the whole revelation of His purposes.

When He spoke to me and told me to look, I saw that within the pressures of life and the oppositions that He allows to come, He always provides ways of escape that are positive. So that His own ones will never be enclosed nor surrounded by these pressures and oppositions with no way of escape, He provides these ways, which are His ways of escape.

Valor and Courage

Lifting me out of myself and into the lighted world of revelation, the Lord of all knowledge showed me His own ones to whom He had given light, revelation, anointing and His presence. However, in order for them to go forth in the power and purpose of their Lord, there was still one more thing lacking. It was vitally necessary for them to come into the "reasoning and thinking of valor and courage" - into the large and valiant thoughts of their God. For as yet they still had the "reasonings of defeat, fear, and smallness". They were afraid to launch forward in the new guidelines and ways of God, which He was setting before them. Although God was desiring them to find His ways which were yet higher and newer - ways that as yet they had not walked in - they lacked the courage and "reasonings of valor" to walk in them. Not having these divine reasonings in fullness, they could not use the anointings, light and revelation they had already received from Him.

When He spoke to me He said, "Even in the same dealings and workings, your goals and Mine are totally different". And He taught me that even though I may say, "I can't stand any more", and "I've reached my limit", God will still go on extending my limits during all the process of His dealings, until my goals and my limits reach the preset goals and limits of God.

Evil Into the Visible

Lifting me into His light where all things are visible, He showed me a working of evil in the great storm of darkness that is even now unleashed upon the earth. I saw how evil forces were operating, seeking to form themselves into a veritable part of this storm, and how they grew until they reached their limit of expansion. This process continued until every part and every force had reached its utmost limit of growth. When this happened, what appeared to be a great deflation took place in them, like a "dumping" of themselves into the visible. Before they could be "dumped" into the visible they first had to reach their limit of development in the invisibles. This "dumping", which appeared like a great self-emptying, was their manner of moving downward into the visible of this earth.

Adding Strength

As the Spirit of light opened my eyes to the world of the Spirit, I beheld two spiritual forces upon the earth, pitted in battle against each other: the positive battled against the negative, and light warred against the forces of darkness. I watched the interaction as each force in this battle array activated the other force into still greater strength. Although each one had adequate force and strength to begin his battle, nevertheless, as the battle progressed, and their original portions of strength were completely utilized, they could then acquire more strength by adding "strength unto strength", and could continue to do this until the battle ended. In so doing they became progressively stronger. This process of adding "strength unto strength" was true both for the forces of light as well as for the forces of darkness.

These positive and negative forces could bring forth reactions in the visible upon the earth, and these reactions of light and darkness, in turn, brought forth growing enlargements.

The Workings of God's Power

When the grace of the Lord enclosed me and lifted me into His presence, I was given to see His glorious and light-filled power in one of its operations related to the workings of the forces of darkness. He showed me a full cycle which was marked by three separate times or, as it were, sections.

The first section was when God's power was working in the invisibles only, and could not be seen by His own ones upon the earth. During the second section of this cycle, His power could be plainly seen at work. During the third section, the powers of darkness were allowed to stretch forth and again hide His power from the visible, so that this power could no longer be seen at work. However, it was still fully at work in its operations against the works of darkness.

On being enclosed and hidden by the powers of darkness, there came forth a renewing and an adjusting of this power of God, which then reached forth again and initiated yet another cycle with the purpose of fulfilling the will of God.

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The Reigning of the Holy Spirit

With the light of revelation shining into my soul, I saw a son of light in a place enclosed by the Holy Spirit. Within this place where the Holy Spirit was reigning and dominating there was great peace and rest. This was because the forces of evil could not penetrate that place, nor touch that son of light.

Then I saw another place - similar to the first - in which the Holy Spirit was not reigning nor dominating. Because the forces of evil could enter, and because the "man" was reigning and ordaining his own walk, there was neither rest nor peace in this place.

Then He showed me a roadway at the end of which was a purifying force. If His own ones passed through this purifying force, all was well and they would arrive at their destination. But if they resisted that force of purification and fought against it, they could neither pass through it nor arrive at their intended end.

God placed negative attractions near His own ones which caused seeds - that had been deeply hidden on the inside - to surface and to flourish. In this way God caused, or even provoked, certain reactions in them which caused these seeds to come forth to the outside. These reactions were either negative or positive; the positive ones brought forth into a new place by an entering into new strengths and forces, and the negative ones were unfruitful.

Moments of Rest

Today the presence of the Lord surrounded me, and lifting me up into the world of light where there are no shadows, He bade me look. As I did so I saw yet another way in which the waves of evil move in the mystery of their operations: each wave gathers unto itself force and grows until it reaches its maximum force and workings. Then it enters a time of rest, like the times of rest between the waves of the sea. At this time, the workings of the light of God take unto themselves force and power, and grow into yet greater force. By this growth they weaken the forces of the wave of evil.

Upon the earth, the wave of light also comes into a time of rest. This resting time gives the powers of evil the opportunity to rise up in another upsurge of the wave of evil and darkness, thus repeating the same cycle.

Uniting

The shining forth of the divine light revealed a working of God among His own ones upon the earth. Because some of them were walking loose and disconnected and alone, there could be no operation of the power of God with them. In order for this divine power to work with them, they had to be united. Then I saw the power of God come forth and begin to operate upon them and work to unite them and bring them together into one body, so that He could come forth upon them in a greater way.

The Work and Its Form

As I was worshiping Him, the Spirit of the Lord shone into my mind and spirit in the power of His revelation. I saw that the power and workings of God had taken unto themselves to work in a defined way. They continued on in this prescribed manner of working and operation. Then I saw the power of evil also take unto itself this same form, imitating the exact way, form and type of operation. In fact, the form that the evil had imitated and adopted was of greater strength and had more attractive power, so that it might attract the unwary ones unto itself. Although it deceived many, there was no danger at all to the true work of God, nor to His true ones.

Entrances Into Light

While basking in His wonderful and radiant presence, the Spirit of God showed me great doors into light. These doors opened into higher levels of light, and God desired His own ones to enter them in their journeyings on into Him. These higher levels of light were glorious and most desirable, being superior to the level in which His children were dwelling. These doors were wide open to everyone in the previous level and could be entered with no forcing at all. In fact, it was very easy to enter this new realm because the doors were wide open; nevertheless, everyone did not enter. Some, who remained on the same level, did not want to move on nor progress at that time.

After a certain time those same doors closed tightly. Once they had been closed there could be no forcing of an entrance through them into these superior levels of light. Those who had remained on the outside of these doors could not force them open, try though they might; and those who had moved on while these doors were wide open progressed onward in this new level of heavenly light as they grew and developed in Him.

The Responsibility of Ministry

By the power of revealing light that shone from the great cloud of His mighty presence, I looked and saw His ministering ones as strong ones among His own upon the earth. In their train were smaller ones who followed these strong ministering ones as they led them on towards the purposes of God.

One of the workings of darkness in the great evil storm on the earth today was to try to cause these strong, ministering ones to turn aside into other paths. This turning aside would result in a leaving and a going downward from the way God had set before them. The evil ones in the storm diligently sought to turn these strong ones aside and cause them to deviate from His high paths, which led forth into the high purposes of God for this hour.

When they turned aside and downward, they carried with them all those little ones who were following after them. As a result they all fell from the high way of His chosen purposes. This does not mean that they were lost eternally, nor that they were thrust into hell, but simply that they lost the high calling into His high purposes.

Because these workings of darkness in the storm of evil seemed most plausible in their artful arguments of deceit, there was real danger of falling away, and those ministering ones had to stand firm and remain true against all deception.

Uniting and Forming

With the presence of the Lord surrounding me and His light shining upon me, I saw three parts, each one of which had its own shape and was complete in itself. In each of the three parts there was a true and full working of God.

As I beheld these three parts, I realized that they had to be joined. As they moved towards each other, they became formed into the shape of a vessel. This "joining together" of the three parts gave them the ability to be filled with the glory and blessing of God in a far greater measure than they had possessed when each one had been separated from the others. This "joining" also brought them into a far greater weight of glory.

Attracting Powers

As I waited before Him in the wonder of His radiant love, He showed me how the forces of the spirit world exercise their attractive influences over men, especially those of His who are not in the center of His workings. Those who are "shortsighted" in spiritual things and live in spiritual mediocrity receive the attractive powers of both the spirits of light and the spirits of darkness. Because of their feeble state, there is a possibility of their being dragged away by the attractive power of darkness and evil but, at the same time - on the positive side - they can also yield to the attractions of the powers of light and be brought forward into God.

Challenges

In the realms of light the Lord showed me the entrances into progressive levels of light. Before each level, a divine challenge faced His own ones which was not defined to me but was, nevertheless, very real and obvious.

These challenges had the appearance of negative values, as if they would be harmful to one if accepted; nevertheless, the truth was that each challenge of the Lord - if accepted - would lead His own ones on into a higher level of light. To reject a challenge from the Lord caused one to lose the light which it was meant to bring. These challenges, which were many, were progressive.

Later He told me that the stream of ministry would increase each time it flowed forth, and in this way would become progressively more useful.

Pathways With Pain

His light, radiant in revelation, shone into my spirit as the Lord showed me a pathway in which there was a "wounding" of all those who entered. This wounding caused a pain that was positive and good, and not at all destructive; nor was it the working of the powers of darkness. For a long time, this wounding caused pain to those who walked in this pathway; in fact, the pain lasted until they arrived at the end preset by the Lord Himself.

Then He showed me another pathway which was also a pathway of wounding and pain. In the first pathway there had been one original wounding which had caused pain throughout the whole length of its course and never healed; in contrast, this second pathway was filled with wounding one after the other. There was a wounding, and then a self-healing began immediately which continued on until the wound had quickly healed. Being completely restored, it now caused no more pain. Then suddenly the traveler in that second pathway received yet another wounding from God. The healing processes again began quickly, and brought healing and cessation of pain. This wounding and self-healing process continued right on during the full length of the entire course.

Then the Lord showed me that it was His own ones - the sons of light - who were walking in one or the other of these two pathways. Those who walked in the second pathway, which was so full of woundings, discovered that it was by far the more valuable way. The weight of glory in the second path far superseded that in the first pathway which had but one initial wounding and pain throughout its course, without any self-healing processes.

He continued to speak to me concerning His pathways. Before the sons of light stood what appeared to be sections. In each section there were obstacles and obstructions which had been placed there as prerequisites for the fulfilling of that section. If that son did not overcome the obstacles in that next section, he could no longer remain there, but had to return and remain in the previous section whose obstacles he had already overcome.

The Purpose the Storm

He showed me the purpose of this world-shattering storm of evil that is coming: to bring forth and produce the government of God in and through His own reigning ones.

They shall gather together the things that remain in all the earth, in order to build them again and to restore all things under their government under God. Thus He shall form His reigning ones in power and in glory, and they shall reign with the Lord and bring together all things into one, for the storm will have destroyed forever the power of things as they now are to sustain themselves any longer.

The Only Covering: Possessing Him

As I entered the presence of God, I saw the storm approaching - that great, angry, black cloud of evil that covers all - the time of great suffering and persecution that is already gathering its powers and forces together. I realized that before this storm breaks, His people must possess Him in a very intimate and personal way, a possession which can only be attained through a love relationship with Jesus. However, this love is far, far deeper than the glorious and beautiful love which flows freely in a fleeting moment of blessing; this is the state of love abiding within the heart as the one strong, constant and nonfluctuating foundation of the inner being.

I saw that such a relationship of possession formed a mighty covering power of God over His own ones, which was filled with grace and light and mighty strength, like a great, invincible mass which cannot be divided or separated in any way. I was shown the enemy rushing against that covering in great fury and with much blustering; but they collided against that mighty covering of grace and light and were thrown back. They could do nothing at all against it. This covering was effective as long as the love relationship with Jesus was constantly nurtured and maintained; it could never be retained apart from that feeding and nurturing, but was at the disposal of His own ones as long as the connections with Him was maintained.

Some - even of His own ones - who had not entered this place of possessing Him in intimacy, saw only the storm, and could not see any higher than that cloud of evil and darkness, for the storm had the power to cut off their vision of Him.

There were others, however, who learned to come into Him and to possess Him, to the extent that they knew they were His and He was theirs. This intimate communion with Jesus, this state of constantly loving Him, this life lived with Him and in Him, was such a covering and protection that they had no fears, they were filled with security and peace. God opened their eyes to see Him high and triumphant, ruling over the storm, and they were not afraid. Because of this, the storm could not enter into them to possess them at all.

The Story of Annie

April of 1949—the month that revival began in Mendoza, Argentina—was also the month that Annie was born. Raised in a cultured home, all went fairly well with her until she was about sixteen at which time she entered into a most high state of rebellion and deep estrangement from her family. Going out into the world of sin, she became an actress in the theater where she came up through the ranks until she became the star of her company.

In spite of having everything she wanted in a fairly well-to-do family, and being able to do almost as she pleased, she still found neither love nor happiness. Hounded by the evil spirits of suicide, she attempted to take her life four times and was only spared because God so ordained it. Filled with deep rebellion, restlessness and consuming anxieties, she suffered inexplicable anguish and fear. Her problem was also compounded by cancerous growths that gave her much pain. For many months she could eat almost nothing and was often in intense pain as she was acting out her roles in the theater.

Seeking help in medicine and in psychiatry, her family spent a small fortune but all to no avail. Their desperation increased to the unbearable point after they had exhausted every possible means of help.

Just at this time a cousin invited her to accompany her to a certain church on Sunday morning. Out of courtesy she consented to go, but went in a high spirit of rebellion, dressed in a most flagrant manner. When she entered the church she challenged the pastor to throw her out and made it most clear that she was in no frame of mind to accept anything that he might want to tell her.

It happened that I was visiting the same church that morning, and when the Holy Spirit began to move over the people, He sent me to pray for this stranger who had entered an evangelical church for the first time in her life. Being totally agnostic, neither she nor her family knew anything at all about God or the Bible. Yet, from the first moment, God reached out His hand to her. Bowing low in deep repentance, Annie found the first measure of relief she had ever known. Returning to other services she was only partially released, for when she returned to her home all her problems returned just as before.

One Sunday morning several weeks later, God told me that He would bring her to the service that evening and that I was to insist that she return with me to Mar del Plata, for she could not receive full deliverance where she was.

“What an amazing order!” I thought to myself, “when I do not even know the young lady’s name.” As I talked with her that evening, I learned that her name was Anna Marie (Anna meaning “full of grace” and Marie—“bitterness and rebellion.”) When I asked her to come she was thoroughly amazed at the audacity of my demand and presented every possible excuse to keep from going. But even as she talked with me—she told me later—each excuse was refuted by a quiet voice within which convinced her that it was indeed possible for her to go. Surreptitiously packing her suitcase and slipping it out of the house, she quietly left the next morning without advising anyone of her going.

The first night in Peniel, God moved out to her delivering her from the fears and oppressions of the enemy, the spirit of suicide and all the other forces of hell that had bound her life. With great praise, high worship and strong faith as their weapons, the whole student body, together with the ministers, joined joyously and fiercely into the battle. Those evil ones that had raged against the Holy Son and His Spirit were conquered, fleeing before the light and glory of His presence as she cried, “I am free. I felt them all leave! ” And, of a truth, free she was.

The next night as we were singing, “Oh, the Blood of Jesus,” the Holy Spirit came to her in a glorious new birth. Glory, peace and joy washed into her soul as faith laid hold upon the cleansing stream of blood. Radiating joy she began to sing, dance and glorify the Lord. In a trance the Lord transported her into the heavenlies where she found herself ascending through strata's of light and darkness until she found herself in fullness of light.

The next night as a cleansed and empty vessel she was filled with the Holy Spirit. God so moved upon her in glory waves that she was transported into His presence and ended with peals of laughter—she who had formerly been so filled with anguish—until everyone was laughing gloriously with her. Even though she had never heard them before, she sang all the choruses along with the others as if she had always known them.

Free, clean and filled with the glory of the Lord she moved out to minister to one and another of the needy ones without ever having heard about the anointing that flows out to others. Instinctively she knew, or rather was obedient to the direction of the Holy Spirit within. There was a beautiful deliverance.

Three weeks later God came to her and began a healing of her body. His fire came upon her and in two sessions which lasted about ten hours she was literally operated upon by God, bringing up out of her body great quantities of putrefaction and pieces of the vile growth that had laid hold upon her. Finally, she was almost choked by a part of the growth that was hard, rubbery and white and was about five inches in girth. It seemed that she could not pass it up through her throat. But the fire of God so increased within her that one young lady who touched her burned her fingers. Suddenly as she made a great effort, this huge growth literally popped through her throat and mouth. Through the operation of the Divine Surgeon upon her small body she brought up some four quarts of putrefaction.

From the very first, her life was one of total commitment and love for her Savior as He placed within her an insatiable desire to seek His presence daily. The Lord told us that she was a very special but fragile vessel and that He had purposes of ministry for her. From the first He took her into His world and showed her things up there. The visions and trances continued for a while before we realized that these were more than normal visions that He gives to any one of His children from time to time. From the beginning as she sought the Lord, giving more and more time to personal, private prayer apart from the regular meetings, God began to take her in an ecstasy into the heavenly world and show her many things. At first He showed her most specific things which in the months that followed took place exactly as He had shown her.

Finally, God spoke to me to write these things down. As I began to do so in obedience to Him, I realized that He was speaking to us in a new and unique way.

It is of special note that Annie had never read the Bible before coming to us, neither has she received any religious teaching of any type. Her lack of knowledge of all that refers to God was total. Nevertheless, the visions are extraordinarily exact and in conformity to Bible teaching. It is also important to note that she never comes willingly or exaltedly to tell her visions, or shows any pride in the telling of them. To the contrary, with an extreme reluctance even involving deep fears, great pain and many tears she brings these things to light. It is also noteworthy that she cannot tell them in a flippant or easy manner. Only after a time of prayer as the presence of the Lord draws near does she even want to talk of them. They are too high and holy to be able to casually put them into the thought and tongue of man. Although they are brought forth in much travail and the pain of that travail, there is a “must” of the Lord laid upon her. She would avoid telling them if she could but she cannot. She also would desire to stay in the heavenlies and not return, but when she asked the Lord about it, He told her that He had healed her because He wanted her to stay here and do a work for Him.

She fears greatly lest she err in any of these things. Knowing so little of the Bible or of its doctrine, she is in great fear and almost panic that somehow she has been mistaken in something, and with great reluctance she brings them forth so that they can be proved. The Lord told her that she must bring them to me so that I may approve and judge them, which she does, bringing everything to light that He shows to her. She is most transparent.

In the earlier days after her conversion, the visions meant nothing at all to her, for she could not even understand the symbolisms, knowing nothing of the Bible or of God’s ways. At that time, the only things she knew were what she saw and heard up there. She only knew that He had showed it to her and commanded her to tell it to us. This ignorance brought her great oppressions, but now she has progressed in her knowledge to where God now shows her in a trance and vision a specific church or person. She has traveled with us to minister in those churches and there tells what God shows her regarding that church. This has brought much blessing.

Annie is a very lovely, yet religiously ignorant, child upon whom the hand of the Lord lays heavily. She who before was so filled with rebellion that even the psychiatrists marveled is now so obedient and submissive unto the Lord and unto us, her pastors, that we often marvel. Because of His word to us to take her into our home as our own daughter, we have watched her life at the closest point of observation —the home. And still she proves out to be just what she is: a genuine

prophetess and seeress taught of the Lord who speaks forth the word of the Lord in much fear and trembling. So fearful is she of erring and somehow "missing it” that there has been no room for pride and self-exaltation to enter in. God has protected her from this tremendous snare by so filling her with the fear of the Lord and the fear of erring in the things of the Lord that it is actually painful to her spirit and soul and a constant wall about her to save her from herself. Apart from this she is a very normal person for her age. She doesn't walk around with a halo, as it were, nor with a religious holier-than-thou attitude. She likes to play and share life with others normally.

We of the Argentine church who have been privileged to watch her growth in the Lord from the closest vantage point have been edified and inspired by His work in her. Her life is so transparent—she never hides from us what she is thinking or going through, but in honesty and transparency she bares her soul. We have been challenged anew in an even deeper realization of the supreme importance of daily hiding away to seek His presence and to hear His words.

Her growth has not always been easy nor without heavy enemy opposition. directly or indirectly. Nevertheless, the fruit of His work in these few months of her life in Him has drawn us all nearer to the One who for years we have loved, and has given us a fresh and refreshing quickening of the Scriptures which we have read many times. There has come a renewed decision and dedication to seek Him while He may be found and call upon Him while He is near.

This book has been prepared with the prayer that the sharing of these visions will cause you to love and seek Him even more, and make even more real that invisible—yet, very real—city to which as pilgrims and strangers we press.

R. Edward Miller

Update:

Annie, her husband Ken Schisler, and four children are missionaries in Uruguay. There, they have established a vibrant local church and various outreach missions.

They also travel extensively ministering in many other countries.

About the Author

Dr. R. Edward Miller spent many years in Argentina as a missionary, evangelist and teacher - pioneering churches, building Bible Schools and orphanages for abandoned children. For the next seven years, he ministered with his wife, Eleanor, in over 65 countries throughout the world.

He was pastor of the Peniel Bible Assemblies church in Atlanta, Georgia. He also continued to minister abroad.

During his lifetime, he has had the privilege of being in seven major revivals (including that of the renowned Dr. Charles S. Price and Aimee Semple McPherson).

Dr. Miller's rich insight into the Scriptures, and the presence of God in his personal life, have brought spiritual awakening and enrichment to many who have desired a deeper walk with God.

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by Dr. R. Edward Miller

Books

Secrets of the Argentine Revival—Dr. Miller’s original writings of the Argentine revival were recorded in Thy God Reigneth and its sequel The Flaming Flame. These two books were later reprinted into one volume entitled, Cry For Me Argentina. With all three of these books now out-of-print, this personal account of the extraordinary revival in Argentina (from 1949 to 1968) is once again available in this new audio book. Many features have been added, explaining in greater detail the tremendous outpouring of God’s Spirit over the land of Argentina. To anyone earnestly in pursuit of God, His ways and principles of operation, this incredible story will disclose many of His secrets.

Secrets of Revival—portrays the ways and means to revival and the battle of deliverance from spiritual oppression. Not only are the secrets of revival hidden throughout this historical event in the life of Israel, but God used this event to foretell—through prototype—the redemptive story of Jesus in His battle to deliver His people from their sin. No other military victory has equaled the glorious triumph of Jesus the Conqueror.

Romance of Redemption—is not only an ancient romantic history of Ruth, but it is also an allegory—drawn by the Holy Spirit, which depicts the progress of a soul from its sinful depravity to bridal union with her Husband-Redeemer. This heart-touching story reveals the factors in a believer’s life which develop that fruitful bridal relationship with Christ.

Secrets of the Kingdom—contains eleven enlightening allegories, which takes the reader behind the veil to discover some of the remarkable hidden Secrets of God’s Kingdom. Many lives have been deeply affected while reading these Allegories. These visions and parables will undoubtedly motivate the reader to want a more intimate relationship with the Lord Jesus, and long for closer fellowship with Him.

Victory in Adversity—The lives of ten Bible believers show us how, out of the burning crucible of Adversity, God brings forth the gold of Victory and that no matter how adverse or hostile the circumstances of life may be, they are only Crude Wrappings for God-given Opportunities.

I Looked & I Saw The Lord—The first in a series of four books of Annie’s Visions as told to Dr. R. Edward Miller. In it are many visions received by Annie Schisler. Many of the hidden workings of God in the invisibles beyond the limits of time and sense are revealed. This book helps the believer to enlarge his concepts of God and make the Heavenly City more real.

I Looked & I Saw Mysteries, — The second in a series of four books of Annie’s Visions as told to Dr. R. Edward Miller. In it are more visions received by Annie Schisler. Because these books refer back to and build on past visions, it is recommended that prior volumes be read first. Many of the hidden workings of God in the invisibles beyond the limits of time and sense are revealed. This book helps the believer to enlarge his concepts of God and make the Heavenly City more real.

I Looked & I Saw the Heavens Opened— The third in a series of four books of Annie’s Visions as told to Dr. R. Edward Miller. In it are more visions received by Annie Schisler. Because these books refer back to and build on past visions, it is recommended that prior volumes be read first. Many of the hidden workings of God in the invisibles beyond the limits of time and sense are revealed. This book helps the believer to enlarge his concepts of God and make the Heavenly City more real.

Audio Books

Secrets of the Argentine Revival—Dr. Miller’s original writings of the Argentine revival were recorded in Thy God Reigneth and its sequel The Flaming Flame. These two books were later reprinted into one volume entitled, Cry For Me Argentina. With all three of these books now out-of-print, this personal account of the extraordinary revival in Argentina (from 1949 to 1968) is once again available in this new audio book. Many features have been added, explaining in greater detail the tremendous outpouring of God’s Spirit over the land of Argentina. To anyone earnestly in pursuit of God, His ways and principles of operation, this incredible story will disclose many of His secrets.

Secrets of Prayer—Dr. Miller shares valuable insights concerning the principles of prayer as embodied in the powerful and successful prayer of the Jewish captive, Nehemiah. If you have longed to know the secrets of how to pray more effectively, this exceptional narrative will show you the way.

Making a Man of God—A life-changing teaching from the Book of Ezekiel, revealing the secrets of the ways and means God uses for the effective development of His ministers and servants. This audio book will bring much spiritual illumination to the child of God who finds himself being formed in the hands of the Master Potter to become a vessel of honor. Highly recommended.

Perfecting a Man of God (sequel to Making a Man of God)—Through the vision of the mysterious Fire Creatures, God reveals to Ezekiel the secrets in the formation of His glorified Sons. A very enlightening teaching that will bring helpful understanding and encouragement to any child of God who finds himself in fiery trials of all kinds.

Secrets of the Holy Spirit—In this illuminating Olivet Discourse, Jesus shares the most profound revelations of the Person of the Holy Spirit ever given, including the divine nature of the Holy Spirit and the purposes of His coming. The remarkable truths Jesus gave are absolutely essential in order for us, as His disciples, to truly know and understand the wonderful Comforter.

Secrets of Brideship—God conceals, through this outstanding narrative of the life of Rebekah, the secret prerequisites He will establish in believers in order to bring them into a bridal relationship with Jesus, His Son.

Secrets of Sonship—Through the mystery of Mary (a type of the Church) and the birth of Jesus (born in the image of God), Dr. Miller skillfully depicts many secrets of how God brings us forth as new creatures into His own image, called Sons of God. Discover priceless spiritual insights and truths.

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