Contents

Note from Editor

Author and Copyright

Introduction

Preface

Chapter 1- Streams of His River

Chapter 2- The Cut-off Branch

Chapter 3- His Mighty Ones

Chapter 4- Fathers In The Work

Chapter 5- The Place of Corporal Transformation

Chapter 6- Time for War

Chapter 7- Principalities of Evil

Chapter 8- His Workmen

Chapter 9- Workings of Deceit

Chapter 10- Unclean Lips

Chapter 11- Covered With Blessings

BOOK THREE

VISIONS GIVEN TO ANNIE

AS TOLD TO

R. EDWARD MILLER

Note from the editor:

Because the visions of Book Three build upon and refer back to those of Book One, "I Looked & I Saw The Lord" Book Two, "I Looked and Saw Mysteries", we strongly recommend that the reader first obtain and read these two 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 The Heavens Opened

Dr. R. Edward Miller

Copyright 1972 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 pre-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

Once again it is our privilege to send forth the third series of the visions of Annie. During the time of this special and precious visitation of the Lord to Argentina, God has chosen this way to bring forth a step-by-step revelation of His ways, His dealings, and His thoughts - thoughts which are as far above our thoughts as the heavens are far above the earth. These visions, in a fresh and impossible to anticipate way, bring forth each day a bit further revelation of heaven's thinking and heaven's secrets, causing us to see through the eyes of this handmaiden of the Lord the back-of-the-scenes workings of things as they are brought forth upon this earth.

In this day and age of materialism when societies are measuring themselves by material growth and wealth; when the eyes of the populace are fastened upon things; when the thinking is in the realm of the material, the practical, the prosaic, the pragmatic, the scientific; when the things of the spirituals are less and less believed or even thought about, God is speaking to His own ones to look up for He is renewing His oft-repeated message concerning the spirituals in new ways, with fresh illustrations and, at times, in symbolic and parabolic form. Yet, though the unbeliever shall always refuse to believe and will scoff at His sayings and ways, we definitely do believe and rejoice that God is again speaking to His own ones and causing them to know and to hear His voice.

We find these visions very scriptural and in complete harmony with the Sacred Word. We have also been able to prove that many things that Annie saw and foretold have come to pass true to the very letter of the word. We have also witnessed the very faithful spiritual development of this young life in which not a day goes by that she does not go apart with her Lord. She herself is growing in grace and in knowledge, taught of men and taught of the Lord. We are privileged to say in all certainty and peace that we believe this report, for it is proved by the Word, by Annie's life, by prophesied events (which we have not published) and by the harmony of the visions with the things taught to us by the Lord through-out the years.

Annie lives a very normal existence and is neither mystical nor a recluse but is gregarious, friendly and highly honest and upright. At the same time, in all her very practical and happy living, she is never frivolous, and never does a day go by but that she sets herself apart to seek the Lord until He comes to her and takes her unto Himself.

There have been many visions of a private nature or concerning specific churches, pastors, events, etc., which we do not feel free to make public or print, yet which have been strongly used by the Lord in specific cases and have also been proved out very faithfully.

Annie is married to Kenneth, the son of missionary Jack Schisler, and they are living a very normal and happy life together here in a small apartment in the Peniel Bible School. She is a happy and industrious housewife and lives a most normal life in her household duties, and with her own hands has helped her husband make their small apartment cozy and lovely. For the truly spiritual does not interfere with the work-a-day duties of this life as our Lord so fully manifested during His life spent in a carpenter's shop. Many who come to visit Annie are most struck by her total naturalness and happy, friendly and laughing manner. Her circle of friends grows rapidly, for to meet her and to know her is to find a new friend.

A word as to these visions themselves: God has spoken and we have refrained from giving any specific interpretations of these things. Surely some will try to interpret them with the natural mind and will not see the higher spiritual things the Lord is saying. And so is it also with the Bible itself. Many interpret it according to their natural thinking rather than according to spiritual revelation, so we can only urge the reader of these visions to try to realize the spiritual things are spiritually discerned and man desperately needs the help of the Holy Spirit to truly and rightly discern and understand them.

We add our prayer for all who read these visions that the Blessed Spirit who gave them forth will also accompany them and cause all of His own ones who read them to perceive and know.

R. Edward Miller

Chapter 1

The Streams of His River

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wells of Living Water

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*(This vision message was given specifically to a conference held in Mar del Plata, Ed.)

The Enemy Is Deceived

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

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

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

Race Against Him

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

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

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

Destroying Wheels

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

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

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

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

The Last Chance

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

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

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

Chapter 2

The Cut-off Branch

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

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

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

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

Dikes

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

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

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

False Enemy Angels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lost First Love

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not Deceived

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Floods Of Iniquity

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

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

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

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

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

The Other House

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 3

His Mighty Ones

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Cloud Of His Wrath

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Curtain Of Fear

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

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

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

The Builders

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

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

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

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

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

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

Taken out from among those impostors and brought together unto Him, His own became builders in His house of living stones. he told me that this was not a time in the future, but even now these things were taking place for He was forming His special builders for this hour.

In Charge Of The Light

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

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

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

False Workmen

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

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

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

A Few Left

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

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

Chapter 4

Fathers In The Work

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

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

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

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

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

Glory Or Self-hate

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Walls Of His House

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

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

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

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

Gods Of Force

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strongholds Of The Enemy

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

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

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

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

Suddenly from His great Cloud of glory He poured great power out upon these strategically located ones. And rising up suddenly and taking the enemy by surprise they threw down his walls and tore down his stronghold. Nor did they need any help from the host of His angels in the heavens. They alone - with His power upon them - were able to throw down all that the enemy in vaunted pride had built up. All his work was completely thrown down. I marveled greatly that such a strong and great structure had been so easily thrown down. Yet those who belonged to Him had been able to fully overcome and tear down these great walls and dominions by His power given unto them.

The Devil's Own

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Coming Flood Of Evil

Being helped in prayer, it was but a short while before I was taken through that cross of heavenly light and brought in unto Him. There before His great Cloud of fiery glory he welcomed me and flooded me with His love. He told me that in the future I would be seeing that which I could neither see or understand as yet. Nevertheless, He told me that when I saw it I would say, "How perfect and how wonderful has been His word!"

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 5

The Place of Corporal Transformation

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

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

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

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

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

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

* See Book 1- Narrow Passageway

** See Book 1- Touching the Earth

A Place in His House

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Life and Death Producing Waters

Again there was but a brief battle. I felt ill-humored, but having help in prayer I was quickly able to overcome this and was shortly caught away in the spirit as my soul worshiped Him who is altogether lovely.

After receiving me in that high place of peace and harmony, He took me and showed me His people upon whom He was pouring those wonderful waters from His river. These blessed waters of life full of glory light and abundant life were not only being poured out upon the sons of light but also upon a number of other souls that were not His and who were not prepared to receive it. As this water flowed over those sons of light who were prepared to receive it, it began to create a change and isolate them from the others.

This water of life operating by its own inherent powers of life and blessing was the same upon those who were the sons of light as those who were not. But I saw a vast difference. It operated good and brought forth great blessing to the sons of light, but it brought forth ill to the others. It seemed that a sickness grew upon them by the operation of these waters. There was no difference in the water itself, but these were not prepared to receive this water; hence it was producing strange and total differences: blessing to some and cursing to others. Health and life to some and sickness and death to others.

This sickness was slowly developing into death in them, and, as it worked, it brought even more separation between the two groups. At first it did not appear that these waters - so full of life - would produce death in anyone. But as the water of life flowed, it worked, as it were, a sickness, though it did not make the people appear to be sick; rather, they even seemed to be enjoying the blessings of the water.

There came a time when these waters ceased to flow upon them. Then, they remained like well wrung-out sponges, dry and without water at all. It was thus that they perished, for even the water that they had did not belong to them. It was as if they entered into its flowings as thieves and robbers to partake of that which was not theirs. In the end it did them no good for it only produced death in them. Nevertheless, the sons of life unto whom the river flowed and to whom the waters belonged were full of life.

The Greatest Power

Today I was assailed by many debilitating fears because in just about an hour I was scheduled to speak to a large group of young people. although I had shared some visions with much difficulty, I had never before spoken in public like this. Fears of failure, of inadequacy, of timidity, of all my inabilities flooded through my being.

Others joined to help me in prayer and a spirit of rebuke came over causing me to arise in the spirit and begin to rebuke those spirits of fear that were oppressing me. The Spirit of the Lord also arose within me and the rebuke was furious. Those tormenting spirits fled away and did not return so that I was able to go to the service without any fears at all. After the Spirit of the Lord had finished rebuking and causing every enemy to flee, He took me away into the spirit world.

Receiving me unto Himself with the usual welcome of love and covering me in His great glory, He took me away to a place in the heavens where I had never been before - a place where there was a tremendous fountainhead of powers, not the beings called powers, but the powers of God, Himself. Although He was that fountain, yet He showed it to me as apart from himself in His glory Cloud.

This fountainhead was not a pacific place at all; in fact, none of heaven is as pacific as our concepts have led us to believe. This place was so filled with compressed powers and concentrated energy in purest form that there are no means at all to convey the impressions I received there. It seemed like being in the center of a thousand atom bombs exploding all at once. Yet in spite of the tremendous violence, but was controlled. These powers were fearful in the extreme. Were it not that He was covering me there in that usual covering of transparent love I could not have stood the sight. These powers are not only energy concentrated into its purest form but they are also visible.

He directed my attention to one of these constantly active powers which was the most powerful one of all. It seemed to me to be a power so absurd that it was costly to even mention its name lest I be fully misunderstood. For although it was by far the greatest power, its name seemed so incongruous that I couldn't understand it at all.

The name of this mighty power of God was the power of weakness. In that great place of the fountainhead of powers this was the greatest power of all. This power of weakness came forth from Him and was directed specifically unto its own places - to certain sons of light upon the earth to whom it went directly and wavered not in its going. In this power whose destination was predetermined there was neither fluctuation nor variation; it was most constant and powerful.

The individual to whom this power of weakness was sent became plugged into this power, as it were, and became united with it in a constancy of ever receiving it. The manner in which it was united with this person was most unique. In itself, the power did nothing but just remain constant, invariable, and limited to its own work. It did not move out from that person in any operation of any kind. Yet I saw that it was like a tremendous background of power - a basis of strength, a giant supporting factor and a tremendous inspiration.

Through the emplacement and presence of this power and through the direct operation of its supporting role many other powers were released. These other powers always operated receiving their support, release and even inspiration from the presence of this one, great supporting power of weakness. This pushed the other powers forward and caused them to operate in complete freedom of operation. It even gave of its power to the other powers so that they could go forth and operate. These in turn did the wonderful works of God upon the earth.

My mind was much troubled at such a strange vision and I couldn't understand it at all. When I told my pastor just before going to service he said, "Little one, in this service you shall see the illustration of this mighty power of God. For Paul said that when he was weak then was he strong, and the weakness of God in Jesus was the greatest overcoming of all."

(Editor's note: In the service that followed this babe in the Lord stood up to speak to a large group of young folk. With a deeply broken spirit, her eyes filled with tears and the peace of God upon her, she began to speak. Thinking to give a part of her testimony, she was forbidden by the Spirit of the Lord to give it. She just stood and looked a while then finally thought of a vision. But again the Spirit said NO. Murmuring a few words about not being prepared with anything special, she mentioned that she was alone in front of a congregation for the first time like this. When she remembered another vision, the Spirit again said NO. So finally after about twenty minutes she sat down in tears feeling that she had failed. But God by His Spirit so came down upon the congregation that for hours there was deep crying. Some were converted. Others were filled with the Holy Spirit. Others saw Jesus, Himself, looking into their hearts and fell on the floor crying out in deep conviction of sin as they sought pardon at His feet. Truly it was a most remarkable illustration of the wonderful workings of the power of weakness.)

Evil Unto Evil

Even though I was alone in a strange city, I was not appointed strong opposition and found an easy entrance into his presence. As I was taken before Him and His wonderful love flowed around me, I realized that I would be shown things concerning the enemy. I knew this because He always covers me in an inexplicable manner in such a way that even though I see the terrible evil and feel and sense the extreme wickedness that would otherwise haunt me forever so long, with His special covering of love I am left unscathed in my own spirit by this experience.

When he told me to look, I saw the demons with greatest intelligence and astuteness feeding out from their own evil natures the evil nature of those that belonged to them. Over a long period of time I saw them draw evil out from their own selves and impart it to their charges.

At a certain moment, when they had sufficiently fed their charges from their own evil, there came a time of confrontation. Until that moment the man into whom they were feeding their evil had not been at all cognizant of the demon host and was completely ignorant of the spiritual forces at work upon him. But in that moment of confrontation he came face to face with the truth of things in the unseen world; he came face to face with his demon mentor.

This demon fed his charge over and over again, even emptying himself to do so, until his charge was filled with such evil that he was as evil as the demon himself. His wickedness was then on a par with that of his host. The demon had built up such a structure of evil in that one until he appeared exactly like his host in essence. This operation was being done in the multitudes of the sons of darkness.

In that moment of confrontation I saw that demon enter into his charge and take full possession of him so that the man himself remained like a demon within and without in his spiritual body.*

* Editor's note: Compare John 13:2 with John 13:27

Chapter 6

Time for War

In but a little while His presence drew near to me and my soul melted at His feet in adoring wonder. Through the gateway of the cross of light and into His august, fiery presence the Spirit took me where his great Cloud of glory completely dominated all the high heavens. I never see His mighty glory Cloud the same. Nevertheless, He is ever the same, yet always different. For His Cloud invariably moves into the action and reaction of the vision. In His workings of judgment, His Cloud is so totally different from His workings of blessing His own ones. Always He must especially cover me when He is working in wrath and anger towards His enemies. All the heavens and the angels themselves seem to partake of that same essence and they, too, manifest wrath. Such visions are always most terrible to behold for the very spirit and feelings of those dealings penetrate my covering in my little refuge of His love, so that I, too, feel anger towards His enemies. In fact, it is from this great Cloud in its actions and reactions that most of the sense and understanding of things which He shows me is transmitted.

Although I have seen Him change completely in His great emotions and presence even in the same vision, I have never seen Him manifesting any "mixed emotions." Always He is pure in His working with no mixture at all. His joy is all joy and His love is all love. When He blesses His own, His whole presence manifests that love. Yet when He is angry or when He moves in judgment He is all wrath and judgment and there is no tempering at all by any contrary factors.

He took me into another place and showed me His own ones in a place of great security, life and peace. Because this place was sealed hermetically, nothing, nothing at all, could get in. He was in there with them in this place of greatest rest and joy where all was light and radiant with His love permeating all things.

Then I saw Him begin to order and oblige them to leave that lovely and secure place. The time had come for them to arise and go out to battle and enter into warfare. He no longer allowed them to stay in this place, yet even as He ordered them out of this place and caused them to leave, I saw that in reality they never did leave this place. He only so changed things as to make it appear that they had left this place. Nevertheless, he was ever with His own and He was carefully watching and guarding them so as to never allow them to enter into a place of real danger.

This place of security was in reality He, Himself, and nothing else. Even though He led them forth into battle, he never did leave them for one moment. The battle was safe for them and their security never faltered.

Another Sign in the Heavens

Again I was given an easy entrance into Him, and as I worshiped I was carried away into His presence. There I was allowed time to behold the glories and wonders of His world.

Then He took me away to another place where I had been before when He showed me the sign of the Son of Man in the heavens. That great cross of living fire in the heavens - transported by four angels - in which the fire ran back and forth forming the cross of living fire for all the world to behold.*

This time He showed me the same place at a time prior to the appearance of the cross of living fire. The enemy had been permitted to bring forth his signs in the heavens and to draw forth one of God's powers and utilize it.

This sign - which was most repulsive to me - was neither fire nor was it living in essence; it was very cold and very isolated. It had been formed to show the power of the devil to the people of the earth and would be seen in all the earth. Isolating in its very character, its purpose was to impede the coming forth of the sign of the Son of Man in the heavens, and to detract from its impact, minimize its effects, rob of its importance and, if possible, to so isolate the heaven so as to make it impossible for the sign of the cross to appear.

*See Book 1 - Cross of Fire

The Knife of Fire

In but a short while I found myself being transported through the cross of light and into the presence of Christ in the Cloud of high glory. There He caused His love to flow forth over me, and while His love covered and protected me as if in a liquid cloud of golden fire, He showed me things upon the earth.

I saw the souls of the sons of darkness - men who belonged to the devil - who were taking and utilizing powers and abilities that they were receiving from the devil and operating under his authority.

Through the power, forces and authorities which they had received from the devil, they were carrying forth their works upon the earth. These works were important among the sons of men and those who received the powers from the devil were men of importance - leaders upon the earth. Because of their works and abilities imparted by the devil, they were drawing vast numbers of men to follow them in their workings.

Out of the Cloud of glory, which was greatly exercised in wrath and consuming fire, came a certain thing made of fire. Sharp, cutting and terribly finalizing in its aspect, it was a thing to strike terror into the heart of any who should behold it. So furious and filled with wrath was the instrument of consuming fire that it appeared like a sharp knife whose actions were cutting and decisive.

I saw it fall to the earth with terrible vengeance and with awful import, falling without mercy upon the powers that those men had received from the devil which had fed their works with such evil forces. This great, divine knife of fire severed in great finality all of these powers upon which they had fed, and left them greatly weakened and totally cut off forever from these forces.

This cutting off came to pass without any warning whatsoever to them and they were completely startled, for they had not been expecting it at all. When they were cut off from these powers they could no longer operate as before and their works fell apart. Nor could they find any way to save their works from failing. They were weakened forever and could not in any way bring themselves back into their former powers.

Rebellious Ones

Because no enemy force was allowed to oppose my coming in unto Him, I found it quite easy to enter into prayer, and shortly I found myself before Him in His high heavens with his love flooding my whole being.

Then he took me to another place where He showed me a certain group of people who were His but had risen up in rebellion against Him. I wondered greatly why His own ones had become so rebellious against Him until He showed me the cause of this rebellion.

He showed me that He had sent forth a truth to them, but because they were already filled with a truth that they, themselves, had developed and brought forth from their own understandings, they could not receive the truth that He was sending to them. Because they wanted to remain with the truth they already had and did not even desire to receive the truth He was sending them, they had therefore risen up in outright rebellion against Him.

Not only had they risen in rebellion against Him, but they had also risen up in fighting and battle. Then I saw that the Lord sent forth and enclosed them like a solid fence or wall. (This He did in their minds, enclosing their minds in their own errors.) After this He sent forth against them special forces which began to strike and beat against their enclosed minds. Blow after blow these forces beat against the errors that they had brought forth as truth. This process continued until those errors were destroyed in their minds and they were freed from those inhibiting understandings.

This was his way of rescuing His own ones. When this happened, these turned back to Him and received Him. Their rebellions were over.

Persecutions

Once again I was granted little opposition from the forces of the enemy as I drew near to him in prayer. It was so delightful to come to Him and not have troubling thoughts and fears hindering every effort to draw near. Very shortly the Spirit of the Lord gently transported me into that world of light, harmony and peace. There my soul relaxed and was filled with utter bliss as His glory and love flooded my whole being. There is nothing in all the universe nor in all the heavens that can begin to compare with the majestic glory and exquisite beauty of His fiery Cloud of divine manifestations. After speaking encouraging words to me and telling of His love, He took me and showed me his own ones under the attacks of the enemy.

The great hosts of the enemy, black with iniquity and furious in their raging, were sending forth hatreds and persecutions of all kinds against those sons of light so loved by the Lord. So horrible were these terrible beings of hate and fury that I trembled even in my covering shell of transparent love.

Raging and persecuting in great fury, they greatly pressured and imprisoned many of His own ones. Although they took great delight in every pain and suffering they could inflict upon these lighted ones, nevertheless, they could not in any way put out their light.

The Lord then caused the evil that the devils had sent forth against the lighted ones to rebound against those same evil spirits that had sent it. The same pain and suffering they had caused others returned back to them like bouncing balls to their senders, in such a way that they had to partake of every pain and every bit of suffering that they had caused the others.

This rebounding caused the spirits of evil to become even more inflamed in their wrath and fury. Because they so delighted in evil and hatreds, they could not, and did not even desire to desist in their attacks in spite of the increased pain it caused them. Instead, they increased their onslaughts against His own ones.

This rebounding of evil brought forth an unloosed fury and unbridled wrath that was terrible to behold. In furious strength they tried to destroy those objects of their hatred, the sons of light, but they could neither hurt nor injure them. He did not permit their evils to penetrate his protections over His own ones in any way, nor were they able to bring forth their hateful desires upon them any longer. Their continued onslaughts only served to bring terrible wrath back upon themselves in an unbridled fury of hatred and evil.

The Intruders

After but a short while of prayer with no spiritual forces allowed to come against me, I was able to draw near to him. As always, He received me in great love, tenderness and freshness. Never is His welcome the same, but always with great renewing of all my inner being he receives me into His world. After a time of love in the presence of His mighty angels, He took me to another place and showed me things upon the earth.

He showed me a certain sector of His people - the sons of light. I was not given to recognize this sector as being in any certain place, but rather I understood that it was a place that represented many such places. Among His own were many intruders who were not the sons of light but who pretended to be, putting on the outward appearance of the sons of light but having no light at all in themselves.

With great tranquility and impertinence these had entered among the sons of light mixing among them because they thought that in that place the Lord's presence would not be drawing near, and therefore they would not be discovered and thereby revealed as intruders.

The Lord said that after a while He was going to draw near to them and cause His presence to come to them. Then after a certain time, just as He had said, He caused His glory cloud to descend upon them. Suddenly those intruding ones became very frightened because their falseness was clearly defined and it became clearly visible to all that they did not belong to Him.

So obviously marked were they that they could in no way disguise themselves any longer nor attempt to appear like the sons of light. Furthermore, being discovered and marked, they could no longer deceive His own ones nor draw them away from Him. The light of the presence of the lord had fully taken from them their power to deceive His own ones.

Hard Dealings of God

Again it was easy to come to him, and soon I was taken through the cross of cleansing light and brought before Him. There He spoke many things to me that were related to my personal life, things which brought me much encouragement.

Afterwards He showed me a mixed multitude: sons of light and sons of darkness. The Lord was desiring to draw near to His own and reveal Himself to them and tell them who He was and what He could do for them. Nevertheless, He did not desire those who were not His to be present at such a time. He did not want them to see or know the intimate scenes of self-revelation and love He desired to give to His own ones.

Therefore, He sent forth strange, hard dealings to them all, dealings that hurt and offended and caused pain. Although His own were under the same dealings, also, yet I saw that His own were under the same dealings, also, yet I saw that in an invisible manner He was caring for them lest they should receive any injury. Thus His own were really not hurt at all, yet the others were injured and this made them rise up and withdraw themselves from His own. In this way He took out those intruders and then He was able to draw near to the sons of light in His love and reveal Himself to them in a greater and more intimate way.

Small Revelation

Again I was allowed to come to Him without enemy opposition. The sweet Holy Spirit drew me gently unto Himself and 'ere I was aware of it, I was passing through that cross of divine light that conducts directly into His mighty presence. Oh, the fears that flood through me as the awful impact of His pristine glory falls upon my being!...I am as a dead one. But He immediately receives me with a command, "Fear not" and all those fears are driven away by His word. Then at the same time He reaches forth and covers me with that transparent covering of His tangible, liquid, cloud-like flow of love. Oh, how delightful it is! how I long to be able to stay there forever. But He only gives me a time there then to stay there forever. But He only gives me a time there then takes me to another place. Still covered in His love, and still beholding His fiery Cloud, I obey His command to look.

This time He showed me a group of His own people upon whom He had poured His love, but who seemed to show very little development. Although they were not those who had grown and developed in Him, yet they were not infants, either. I saw that He was with them but they hardly knew it.

It seemed that He had covered his parts so that He would not be visible to them. Almost all of His visible parts He had covered entirely so that His glory was not shining through. Nevertheless, I saw that He had left open one tiny hole in all His coverings by which He covered Himself, and through this tiny opening a few rays of His glory were visible so that they could see him and know in a measure who He was.

Through this small bit of revelation that was given to them they were required to develop and grow. At that time they were not able to receive any more of His light and glory for they were too small in their growth and it would have harmed. So He had covered Himself from them not in anger, but in love. yet He had given them sufficient light in which to develop and grow.

As they utilized the small revelation and light that came to them and developed their capacities and abilities to receive more, then He could open wider His coverings and make greater His revelation and thus He could eventually bring them into a fullness of the revelation and knowledge of Himself.

Chapter 7

Principalities of Evil

This time I could not draw near easily; to the contrary, it seemed like every opposing force I had ever known arose against me. Illness of body. Torturing fears. Ill humor. Wonderings of the mind. All these and more came to withstand my drawing near to God. After long, wearing hours of battling, the Holy Spirit took mercy on my frailties and set me free from them all at last. In welcoming grandeur came that mighty cross of purest light before me. Passing through it, I was cleansed from all the stains and unclean debris of the battle and was brought in to His glorious presence before the high majesty of his fiery Cloud of glory. There He received me unto Himself with the tender welcome that He always gives me, taking away my fears by His word and covering me with His love. Among the many words of tender endearment and encouragement, he said, "I shall cause to break forth incessantly from your heart and lips "How great is Thy faithfulness." For I am He that shall ever feed thee. Rest in Me for I shall never leave you nor forsake you."

Tenderly covering me with the protection of His love, He took me away to another place where I saw monstrous princes of evil who were not angels. Larger and greater than the evil angels I had seen, they were horribly evil, frightening in their aspect and so repugnant in their forms that I felt tremendous revulsion even within my hiding place. There are no words or ideas among men to adequately express the powerful, horrible, sheer frightfulness of evil as it reigns in fullness in these princes of evil. Not only monstrous in size and hideous in shape, they were also filled with violence of fury and hatred.

These princes of evil were in a hiding place from which they could not see God - although they knew that His eyes penetrated into this hiding place and He could see them. From where I was, I could see God in His high glory Cloud and, at the same time, I could see into this cave of high iniquity. In spite of the deadly aspect of their visages, I was so protected that they could bring me no damage nor leave any haunting horror in my mind. Nevertheless, I could still feel in my whole being the repugnancy of the greatness of their evil.

Filled with tremendous violence of evil pleasure, these princes of evil were in a greatly lifted up and exalted state. Lifted up against God and openly defiant of him, they had devised something very great and important which they now brought forth to use against the Lord and against His people. Holding it in their hands and waving it defiantly against Him, they were showing it to the Lord whom they could not see. This something - which to me was indefinable - was a new and dreadful weapon which they had ingeniously devised. Most horrible and dreadfully powerful, it was a weapon of which they were very proud. Feeling completely secure and assured of its success, they were enjoying their sense of victory against the Almighty because of the magnitude and power of this weapon that they had devised.

Suddenly God spoke to them in greatest irony and derision. "Oh," He said, "how greatly prepared you are now and what a mighty weapon you have in your hands!" (As though He were surprised at their great preparation and at the sight of this new weapon.) Nevertheless, He was laughing at them and holding them fully in derision.

Allowing them in this way to fulfill still more their appetite for greater evil and destruction, He permitted them to go forth and use this mighty weapon upon the earth. However, once they had brought to the fullness of fruition their devising of evil and had actually utilized this awful weapon among the children of men, God suddenly arose in greatest wrath. His Cloud turned to a livid, consuming fire of vengeance. Stretching forth his hand He utterly destroyed their hiding place so that they could no longer find any place to hide. I saw Him place upon them something which I could not define - something which they did not want to see, yet in no wise could they evade or avoid seeing it constantly before their eyes.

False Leaders

Again there was a battle to enter into prayer because many fears arose to impede my going to Him. But again the Lord in mercy allowed me to stand before His presence in His world of light, life and harmony. He told me to rest for He had brought me thus far, and my pathway was already ordered according to His ordaining. In the appointed times ahead I should see that truly it was his hand that had brought me through.

Then He took me and showed me a people who were His people but not His strong and robust ones. With them were other people who were not His own ones and indeed would never be for they were most obviously the sons of darkness. Although the outer covering of their spiritual bodies was most unclean, in their interior they were even far more vile. Both within and without there was no cleanness at all in them; they were utterly vile.

As false shepherds leading their sheep, these strong sons of darkness were leading those who belonged to Him into strange and wrong paths causing them to stray from the path of righteousness.

Then the Lord went forth to rescue his own ones finding them and bringing them back to Himself and into the right paths. After this, He punished those evil leaders by greatly multiplying their iniquity and uncleanness. This multiplication of their iniquity brought them forward into an even greater destruction because they had dared to lead his own ones astray whom He so dearly loved.

Blessing by Drops

Deep feelings of insecurity and many fears came against me. I would turn away from them but they would come again. It took such a long time to press beyond those dark shades that came to impede my entrance into Him. yet in His great faithfulness He came to me, releasing me from all their stubborn opposition and bringing me unto Himself. When He had allowed me a little time in His presence (and it always seems such a little while for I never desire to leave there), he took me away to another place where there were some of His people who were not very far advanced in Him. Very small in their growth and very under developed, these smaller sons of light were praying and asking Him for all sorts of things. But they did not know Him very well at all. In fact, they did not know Him well enough to know how to ask for that which they were requesting. Although they were his own ones and His love was upon them, yet their knowledge of Him was very limited.

I saw Him pour out His blessings upon them, but He did not pour them out as He did upon others of His own. It seemed that He poured out His blessing in small drops - as it were - because they could not receive any more at a time. Being too under developed to be able to receive any more of His blessing than what he carefully measured out to them in drops.

He did what He could for them in order that they might grow and develop, desiring to prepare them so that they would be able to come to know Him in truth and receive more of Him.

Servants of the Devil

Many fears came fiercely against me which seemed to swallow up all my faith; I could hardly pray at all. After a while His Spirit forced them to leave, and I was brought into the wonder and glory of His blessed presence. There He called me His loved one and asked me if His power was not great enough to enable Him to fulfill all that He had promised me. He told me not to fear for He was ever with me and would never abandon me and had promised to keep me forever in His love.

Then he showed me a certain group of men on the earth who were of evil aspect and were filled with darkness. These dark beings believed that the devil was stronger and greater than the Almighty, Himself, actually believing that they would see the devil defeat God.

Through obedience to their many gods, these were servants of the devil, for they knew that the devil was back of their gods. Nor were they deceived in this, for they truly believed that their devil gods would overcome the true God. Because of this, God moved forth in such a manner that out from their own gods went forth torrents of torment and fearful forces of pain which attacked them fiercely. In no way could they liberate themselves from these painful and tormenting forces. Whichever way they would turn, or wherever they might go seeking to find release, these forces would follow them. In no manner could they find release from them. Out from their own gods came forth their punishment.

They Reject Him

Many fears concerning the future rushed in upon me and I could find no peace in prayer; yet I knew that persevering I could pass through all the opposition. After a long while these diminished enough so that I could reach out to him in spirit and be brought through that wonderful cross of light into His glorious presence where all is filled with that beautiful celestial life and light in radiant abundance.

As I rested in the covering of His love I was thinking, "I have been given to come in to Him in this high place; I want no more. This is enough for me. I want to stay here and go no farther." Immediately He answered my thoughts saying, "Fear not, for it is I that cause you to fulfill. The things ahead which I have planned are my will for you. I shall cause all to come to pass, for by Me shall all these things be fulfilled." So I understood that there is no stopping place and that He would cause me to press on.

Then He showed me some of His people somewhat scattered over the earth who were but little developed and who knew but little of him. Nevertheless, He was in the midst of them.

After a while they began to reject Him not wanting to continue walking with him any longer. They were weary of Him and rebellious against His ways. Desiring their own ways, they did not want Him any longer.

After they had rejected Him and turned to their own ways He allowed it to be so for awhile, then He turned and rejected them. After He left them I saw them wandering aimlessly here and there like a boat without a rudder.

Warning them of their great danger, He said, "There shall no longer be a place for you if you go on in your own ways." But they heeded Him not and didn't pay any attention to Him at all.

Calling to them urgently and in strong warnings, He said, "Come out from among the rebellious people and come to me, for the rebellious ones are going to be lost and go into perdition. Remain no longer among them." Some of the people heard His voice and arose, disconnecting themselves from the rest of the rebellious ones. These He took apart into another place.

After taking His own ones out from among the others, only the perverse ones remained who wandered about until they were thoroughly lost and never again returned to Him. Not one of His remained any longer among them.

The Vine on the Top of the Mountain

A feeling of great rebellion against prayer came over me. Because I did not want to pray at all, I put it off hour after hour. Finally His call was so strong and I felt so miserable that I could not hold out against Him any longer. Dropping all my hands were finding to do, I went to prayer. Even so, a long time went by before i could overcome all that rebellious spirit within me and draw near to Him. When I entered His presence, He covered me with His love and spoke away my fears saying nothing at all about my rebellious feelings.

Then He showed me a place that was exceedingly dark and ugly - a place so unclean and filthy that my soul cringed as I looked at it. In that place He picked up a piece of something which was very ugly, filthy, dark and unappealing to me. Although I could not quite see what it was, yet I had the feeling that I knew what it was.

This small ugly piece of material he took away into another place which was separate and apart. This place was not a desert place but looked like the top of a mountain. As He held it there in His hands it was no longer dark and ugly; but neither was it lovely.

High over the top of that mountain He held it in His hands. Just below it there sprang forth a plant which grew and grew until it became a lovely vine. This vine which was full of life grew and grew until it filled the whole top of that mountain. Its long, steaming branches continued growing until they had extended far down the side of that mountain and had covered it completely. Even the valley around about it was also covered with that vine whose branches were filled with fruit.

Then He spoke to that small piece of material which He still held in His hands saying, "This is as a spark that shall kindle my fire. Fear not, for My hands have formed all of this and the care thereof is in my hands, also." Upon saying these words a fire broke forth in all of that plant - a beautiful and powerful fire which did not destroy nor consume the vine. In this manner the whole of that vine was filled with fire.

He spoke again to that small piece of material that was in his hands and said, "The place from whence I took you was not your place. Even though I found you there in the dirt and filth, nevertheless, that was not your place even though you were there. My hands have formed you and even then My hands were forming you. Even though you were there, even so you were not there, for you were in My hands and I was forming you. And thus shall you ever remain in My hands for you are mine."

His Chariot

Today I was terrible nervous because I was scheduled to take the whole evening chapel service and I was greatly afraid. In prayer I was given to intercede for the people in strong crying. After a while He took me away unto Himself and showed me how He sent forth a special force - as it were a chariot - to bring man unto Himself. This force He used to bring all of His own ever nearer and closer to Himself. This chariot was not made of fire but of special forces which were tribulations, trials, pains and sufferings.

The Lord, himself, was occupied with the placing or withdrawing of these forces and His purpose was to bring His own unto Himself in order that He might reveal Himself and allow His word concerning Himself and His being to shine forth to them. These forces came into operation by his word alone. He did not allow any other, not even the people themselves, this responsibility. He alone ordained and sent forth these forces which like homing chariots would ever draw and bring His own ones ever nearer unto Himself.

Nor would He permit anyone else to withdraw these forces until they had done their good work. Before His set time no one was allowed to touch them for they must accomplish that for which they were sent forth and must not cease until the chariot returned to His very door. Whether it be pain or sufferings, problems or dark clouds, trials or persecutions or any other force of tribulation, all were sent forth from Him. And He was quite ready and willing to send forth even more, and one after another, in order to be certain that His people should reach Him.

As they reached Him they must then be separated from that force and trial. They must no longer abide in His chariot but alight from it and come into His house, as it were. Although He had no pleasure in sending forth these forces, He took great pleasure in bringing His own ones unto Himself.

Nevertheless, He did not desire them to stop in the way and begin to behold the chariot. They must not look at the pressures He was using, for to do so resulted in a delaying of the journey. These forces would do their work effectively and certainly, but His people must keep on traveling forward, ever keeping their eyes upon Him and upon their destination and not on the forces he was using.

The Lord concerned Himself with the withdrawing of these forces at the right moment when the chariot of the forces of tribulation would be dismissed having fulfilled its task and having brought His own to the place He desired.

Chapter 8

His Workmen

Because He did not appoint strong opposition I was able to press through to Him shortly. Even though every day I am given to come into His glorious Presence and see the wonder and beauty of His world, it is ever a wonderful excitement that fills me with fear and trembling. Only when He speaks and commands me not to fear can I feel comfortable. And though I now recognize things which now seem somewhat normal to my eyes, still the sight of the glory and beauty and inexplicable wonder of His Cloud of fire with His angels of light in all their beauty and harmony are ever as fresh as if it were the first time I had ever been there. yet, above all, the time of love spent with him as his love flows over and through me and my whole being seems absorbed into Him is the greatest bliss of all heavenly delights.

Today I saw Him separating a part of His people from the rest of His people and equipping them to serve Him. It seems that He had called them apart from the others in order to have them work upon the rest of His people. They were to enclose, capture, and attract the sons of light for Him even though as yet they did not know that they were His. These equipped ones were to do their task in such a manner so as not to raise rebellions against their works, and they were to make their work sure so that those taken by them would not be able to escape their loving capture. They were to capture them, enclose them and hold them for Him until He could take them and transport them into another place - a place that was great, extensive and of much enlargement.

These special workers who were taken from the midst of His people were like them except that out from their inner-most beings came forth a lasso of light and power which had the power to capture, enclose and attract others. This lasso which God had given them went forth from Him and enclosed His own, then passed out through them to others. This lasso of the power of love which came forth from God, Himself, seemed to be in very substance and essence a part of His glory Cloud.

The Blind Ones

For several months now I have had to pass through a dark valley, as it were, in order to be able to come into His presence. As I draw nearer into the spirit world the opposing forces which are very frightening begin to become visible and try to stop me. I have to press on through them to reach that gateway of the cross of heavenly light. But recently I have been given a different entrance. As I pray and worship Him, it seemed like His very cloud comes and covers my coming to Him so that it is like walking through a tunnel of light where all those opposing forces are totally isolated from me and I am transported directly into His adorable presence without passing through that cross of light which seemed necessary to cleanse me from all the frightening fears, doubts and strange indescribable feelings that those opposing forces cause me as I pressed through them. But now I am able to come directly through to Him.

There in His world of light and harmony my spirit entered into the joy of the celestial world where rest and peace flooded me and light and harmony - the very atmosphere of the heavenly realm - filled the great expanses around me. In great power and mighty strength the angels of God were all occupied in carrying out the will of God.

Then He showed me a people who were enclosed in a rather large place and said, "These cannot behold me for I have closed their eyes. Even though I am here before them they can in no wise see me because I have blinded their eyes." As I watched them I realized that they did not know that they could not see Him; in fact, they did not believe that they could not see Him. To the contrary, they made out as if they did see Him. By their words and actions they pretended, or even deluded themselves into believing, that they saw Him clearly, but they did not see him for He had closed their eyes.

As the vision cleared I saw that in reality there were two peoples mixed together. With the blinded ones there was another people to whom the light shined and whose eyes did behold Him. To these the Lord had given light to enable them to see Him, and to these He said, "Come out from among the others to the place that I shall set before you for I have another place for you.

Furthermore, He told them that if they did not come forth from among the others and go into the other place that He had prepared for them, all the judgment that was coming upon those of darkness - who thought that they could see - would fall upon them, also. For to the blind ones was coming forth the rightful judgment of all of their works. If they did not separate themselves and leave that place He would close their eyes and they would no longer be able to see. The same judgment would fall upon them as upon the others.

Division Through Revelation

Again I was brought by the Holy Spirit into the glorious majesty of His presence where radiant light filled the whole heavens with a brightness that is beyond all human comprehension. There He showed me another of His works of manifold wisdom in His dealings with his people.

At first appearance all the people that he showed me were his own people. (It is not unusual for Him to show me His own and those who are not as all equal when I first see them. At first I am not able to distinguish any differences between those who are His and those who are not.)

Then He sent forth from the Cloud a manifestation of Himself which was like a new revelation or a newer light upon His path. This manifestation which revealed him in a still more glorious manner went forth and was placed over the people that He was showing me.

As I watched, some of the people upon seeing this new manifestation of the Lord did not receive it and hid themselves from beholding it for they did not want it at all. When they separated themselves from the rest of His people, I could clearly see that they did not belong to Him at all.

Nevertheless, there was a people who joyfully received this manifestation which built them up in a wonderful way. Taking these away unto Himself, he separated them from the others. Then He told me that the manifestation that He sent forth was like a stone of stumbling. In stumbling over this stone, the rejecting ones would never rise again even though they had been given the option to be His own ones if they had desired to receive Him in truth as He came to them.

Victory by the Blood

I was carried by the Spirit into the heavenlies into the realm of light where all is filled with the harmonies of His divine being whichever emanate forth from His Cloud. There before Him I was enveloped by the strange, golden fire of pure love that ever covers me. He allowed me a short time just to revel in and absorb His wondrous love and beauty. Then He took me to show me yet more of the mysteries of His workings in His people and the mysteries of the iniquity that now abounds.

He showed me His own ones in their fighting against the forces of evil. Having risen up in battle they had completely surrounded the evil beings that had come up against them. God had given them the power and ability to entrap and surround the enemy and pen him in as though in a corral from which there was no escape at all.

When the unclean spirits of the nether world were all surrounded, the Lord poured out upon them a most devastating and destructive flood - His own blood. This wrath-filled blood came upon them in great fury giving them no way to escape from its terrible flood. To those demonic forces it was a most frightful destruction for it came upon them without mercy.

As they were destroyed and consumed and buried under that terrible flood, his own ones beheld their defeat and destruction, and were made to rejoice in the wonderful victory brought forth by the power and operation of the blood of Jesus poured out in great wrath upon the enemy.

In the Capsule of Love

Of late I have not been carried either through the dark vale or through the cross of light; rather, I am taken directly into His presence by the Spirit where His glorious welcome awaits me. There He always speaks away all my fears and then converses with me telling me of His love and sometimes chides me when I displease Him. Sometimes He tells me why He does certain things with me, but He only tells me what He wants to tell me and I never dare to ask him any questions and I can only ask what he tells me to ask. No one would ever dare any type of familiarity or lightness with Him for He is far too awesome for any such attitudes.

He caused me to remember a vision of many months previous in which I was made to pass through a thick, dark cloud; yet as I was actually passing through it, I found that it had no substance at all. He told me that he had required me to pass through that dark cloud in order to strengthen me. When He reminded me of another vision where I was with Him in the heavenlies at the same time that I was here upon the earth, I realized that there is no time when His own are not with Him continually.

Then He said, "Do not think that when I speak to you it is for mere conversation and empty words. When I speak it is for absolute certainty for all that I speak shall surely come to pass. It is like a balance in which I put my words one by one like grains of sand on one side. On the other side of the balance I place my works and the fruit of my words and, lo, they balance exactly. They are of the very same weight."

Saying, "Do not be frightened at what I show you," He took me to another place and showed me the inner spiritual state of each one in a group of people. It seemed like I was looking at them though some kind of X-ray. Each one was clearly and obviously defined in their state yet He had given them an opportunity of changing their state. Even though they were all clearly lacking in their spirit being, there was nothing hidden at all. Each one in clearest detail showed their inner state; nor were there any doubtful cases.

To each one was given the opportunity of changing his state, but he offered them one opportunity and one only. In order to change they had to enter into His love which was like a wonderful capsule - a transparent shell that would cover and surround them. Inside of this capsule burned a fire which would change them within most completely. These fires were not fires of wrath or destruction - which are ever so fearful and terrible to behold - but were beautiful, radiant fires that burn with a terrible intensity yet never consume and are ever attractive in their flaming beauty. On the outside this capsule was wonderful with the light of love in all its glory as His love ever is, yet on the inside it was all fire.

This opportunity was given for a limited time only. After that there would not be given any more opportunity, and this time was very brief and not long extended. After this time all were totally defined, marked and sealed forever. although they carried this mark on the inside of their own beings, nevertheless, it was fully visible and obvious. Both the sons of light and the sons of darkness were marked and sealed. And this sealing was for eternity, for it was their final definition. In no wise could there be any hiding for all were fully transparent in the spirit world. Nothing at all could ever be hidden. Every finest detail, every thought, intention, motive or desire was fully visible. So also was the mark the people carried. In those who entered into this capsule of love and fire the changes wrought were both total and final.

The Three Peoples Defined

This afternoon the Holy Spirit took me into His august glory where I trembled in fear as I always do, for no one can look upon Him without feeling greatest fear. Immediately, however, He spoke away my fear and covered me in the tender, intense enfolding of His love as He spoke to me, saying, "Little loved one, nothing, nothing at all depends on chance. Even the most unimportant things I have ordained. Rest then in my love...I have spoken to you and your ears have heard my voice. I have declared to you my purposes which shall surely come to pass. Behold, every word that I have spoken and every purpose that I have declared your eyes shall see in your life time upon the earth."

Then He showed me a people who were separated and set apart from the rest. In them - and unto them - He had fully manifested Himself and spoke with them in the love of an intimate relationship. They were a people very dear to Him and were his own ones in a unique relationship. To them His word came and His love covered them constantly. They were very special in His sight and were different from the rest of His own. They knew Him...and to them He ever manifested Himself so that they would know Him even more. These were his delight and they delighted in Him.

Afterwards I saw another people who were sons of light, also, but their light was far inferior. Because they were fearful of coming near to Him, He could not draw near to them as to his dear ones of the first group, for they were unable to withstand the glory of His presence. They were not prepared for they had feared the preparation and had drawn back from His workings. Therefore, they could not receive Him directly as His special loved ones were able to receive Him. The second group could only receive his words and workings through those of the first group for they could not come to Him directly. All they received came to them through those special ones of His love. From these they could receive His words and works, for He could never come to them directly or manifest Himself to them.

Then He showed me a third group who feared to draw near to Him at all. Terribly afraid of Him they did not desire Him in their inner hearts. I saw that their states were defined and sealed and there was no altering of them.

He said, "I shall never receive or draw near to them for they are the false ones. Although they gather together with my own ones, they are not mine nor will they ever draw near to me so that I might change them. Nevertheless, they pretend to be my very own ones. These are those who are most tranquil in their deceived state - conformists who rest upon their own deceits. Their hearts - which are like stones - are full of death. These shall be separated from my own ones and forever lost.

As I beheld these three separate groups of people I realized that they were all congregating together. As we were having a conference at the time, He showed me that these three groups were together in that very congregation. I wept much to see that this group of people gathered together in this city were in reality three congregations. yet I saw that it was so by their own wills and choices. Those who were not His at all were devoid of fear, being certain that all was right with them. His own ones were careful and trembled before Him in the fear of the Lord. But those other ones had no fear at all and were deceitfully secure in their false state.

Chapter 9

Workings of Deceit

Enfolded in the burning flowings of His mighty love, I rested before the glory of the eternal fires of His beautiful Cloud. All heaven was filled with the harmonious workings of his will carried forth by His radiant angels who with great might and power filled the heavenlies with their workings and praised in high glory Him who ever reigns.

Then he showed me a people given over to the inner workings of deceit who had been brought under the power of deceit in slow, small stages and little by little. This deceit was given to them in little packets like small doses in order not to alarm them as larger doses would. These deceits which were greatly desired fell like seed entering fertile ground and grew, developed and flowered according to what was already within them.

Within His own ones He placed something (which I could not distinguish) whose form or substance revealed and discovered the deceit in its true light so that they did not receive it. They completely rejected it and it found no lodgment within them.

Many were those that did receive this deceit and within them it grew and developed until they themselves became a very part of that deceit, being united and identified with it.

This deceit - an evil power that was very dark, ugly and earthy - was not at all like spiritual powers. Exceedingly powerful, its whole substance was evil as it sought to implant itself in human beings, desiring to permeate their whole inner structure and penetrate into every fiber of their spiritual being.

Because its workings were little by little it had the power to immunize its host in such a manner that it could keep on growing and entering even more and more without the host realizing its growth. By working in this way it could give ever increasing doses to its victim. This process of deceit continued until it had become very large and powerful in its victim and the victim became fully identified with it.

Frightful and horrible in its appearance and in this workings, the fountain of this power of deceit was a consuming substance that sought continually to devour, restlessly grasping outwards for victims in which it could work and operate.

This deceit was able to work to consume its victims for they themselves accepted it and desired it to be so. It worked by the permission of their own will. They desired this power for themselves and for this reason it was able to draw near to them and they accepted it.

The Power of Pride

Caught away by the Spirit into his glorious presence I was wrapped in his mantle of love-light and there feasted my whole being in the glory and wonder of His beauty, love and highest glory.

Covering me by his love He showed me a working of evil in the sons of darkness. (He especially covers me in His mantle of love when he shows me things of evil or else I could not stand the awful impact of the forces of evil.)

He showed me a people - the sons of darkness - who were calling to an evil power that was outside of them and above them. This power - which seemed most desirable to them - was the power of pride. Although they greatly desired this power to come to them, yet coming to them it would transform them into devils.

This power of pride which was very negative, powerful, injurious and had great desire to ever extend itself, was very distinct from the powers of God. Not only was it dark and full of evil, but it was also very earthy. And although it was a spiritual power, yet it was not nearly as spiritual as the powers of God, being far more earthy and carnal and pertaining to the lower realms.

It made every being into which it entered try to extend and impart itself into another being. Yet to be imparted it had to be called and could not enter another without being thus called and desired.

It fully transformed every being into which it entered into a devil. Such was the transforming power of pride.

God was watching over this power very carefully and, although He allowed it to work, He never allowed it to go beyond His limits and it was never out of His control. He would allow its workings up to a certain point then He would restrain it so that it could continue no longer. This power of pride desired to reach and obtain a certain goal, yet it could never reach it. God would intervene and, as it were, dis-inflate its workings. Then it would rise and try once more. Yet for all of its trying, it could never succeed for He watched over it continually to keep it in strict control.

Order of Battle

From the heights of the glory of beholding His all-penetrating and radiant light He told me to look then showed me His people filled with his light. He was in the midst of them and was leading them onward. Having given the order to advance into battle, He was ordering all things. Each one of His people was in his own place and was advancing against the enemy. At the same time the enemy had risen up to withstand their onward march but he best he could do was to try to hold his place. He could not advance against the people of God; to the contrary, God's people had the power to advance against him.

"My people cannot advance until I give the orders," He said to me "for if they try to advance without me they cannot go ahead at all. I must give the order to enable them to advance. I shall go with them and they shall not go alone. They shall not go ahead of my orders, nor can they go at another time after my orders are given. When I give my word is their time to go."

As the Lord's people advanced with Him, a bridge was formed that went right up over the enemy so that in reality there was no battle at all for the forces of the enemy were below God's people and could offer them no opposition at all.

Some feared the enemy ahead with all his vengeful noises and threatenings and lagged behind turning back from the battle ordered by the Lord. Their fears had overcome their faith. These were the only ones the enemy was able to reach through to and defeat in the battle because they were open to his attacks.

Anointings Lost

By the Spirit I was taken from that place of highest glory before the majesty of His fiery Cloud and again shown things upon the earth concerning His people upon whom He had poured forth from himself a manifestation full of life and power and of great value - an impartation of His spiritual substance.

Although these were true sons of light, a strange, foreign-like something had developed within them which was contrary to the substance that He had given them. It almost seemed like another being that had grown up within them.

Something very ambitious and almost lustful now began to possess them and they wanted to take hold of more than He had given to them, even desiring to seize hold and take possession of God Himself. Taking hold of all He had given, they would not be content with this but ever demanded more and more.

In order to be able to reach down to destroy this evil growth within them He had to go to them and cut down all that He had already given them.

Cutting down everything - even the good with the bad - He thereby left them with less than they had possessed originally. Even so, they were His own ones and this operation was done in love over them in order to save them, lest this strong, ambitious thing developing within them destroy them and consume all the light within them.

New Forces Given

I had been praying but a few minutes when I was caught away into the spirit and shown things of the heavenly world. This time He took me into a realm where He showed me His powers on several distinct levels. It seemed that the high, reigning powers in turn nurtured powers and forces below them. These powers - which I had seen before - were not celestial beings as were the former powers that I saw as High tremendous beings of the celestial sphere.

I saw them as tremendous light-emanating powers that seemed completely shorn of all inhibitions and restraints. Operating in the fullness of their inherent strength, they existed on a very high realm. Although I did not know at that time what they were doing, he showed me the direction and purpose of their workings. How can I ever describe the sheer glory and terrible, violent energy of those powers? There seemed no limit at all to what they could do. Nevertheless, they were both controlled and directed in their operations and were not operating in any way on their own volition. Not destructive in their intent, neither were they wrathful.

Below these powers were certain forces that seemed to be receiving new re-vitalizing and energies as they absorbed strength and living emanations from the higher powers. This empowering caused them to change in both substance and appearance; enhancing, beautifying, multiplying and magnifying them. This change in their inherent nature transformed them into forces with energies immeasurably powerful with specific ends and purposes and defined places of operation.

Being no longer left in their non-operative state, the latter had become powerful weapons, as well-directed weapons, they were sent forth against the powerful enemy forces that had arisen against the children of light. Sent forth to help them in their fightings , these weapons were most formidable.

Because the enemy could devise nothing to counteract or even defend himself against these weapon forces, he was terribly afraid of them. Seemingly knowing that they were coming against Him, he was terrified, for he had no forces or powers at his command to even compare with these new weapon forces. In fact, I realized that God's weapons were a very part of His own spirit substance - a very part of Himself.

These forces did not come against the enemy like a battering ram or like a stream roller making an impact against him. Rather, their method of operation was what made them so feared by t he enemy for they came against him seemingly penetrating inside the enemy beings like water penetrates the sands on the shore. Even as X-rays penetrate solids so did these forces enter deeply into the very spirit substance of the enemy forces.

These forces radiating a powerful light continuously penetrated and unmade, destroyed, and utterly spoiled all abilities, forces and strengths of the enemy who could do nothing to either defend or protect themselves against them. Then He spoke to me and said, "Now I am going to give the special powers to my own ones that I have reserved for them. Thus shall they be empowered against the enemy."

Creative Words

After but a few minutes of worship I was caught away in the spirit and presented before that glory Cloud of His majesty. There He welcomed me with tender words of love filling my heart with the ever new miracle of his goodness and the wonder and glory of His faithfulness. He began to speak to me of His faithfulness and of the fact that He would never leave me nor depart from me.

Even as He was speaking to me He showed me that there are various levels upon which man speaks. He showed me especially one level as it relates to things of the heavenly world. I saw words that went forth and then returned to the speaker; these were empty words which went forth and then came back. They were void, dry and useless and accomplished nothing.

Then He showed me powerful words - creative words that came forth from human lips. Whether good unto good or evil unto evil still they were creative and had power to bring things to pass. When uttered they became filled with power and their power lay in their ability to create channels or ways in which their import would come to pass. They would be turned into receptacles into which divine blessing would flow.

This same force worked in the same way unto evil as it did unto good. Powerful forces were waiting to utilize the lips of man to bring forth through them either blessings or cursings.

Death in the Living

His world is filled with light and glory, beauty and praise. Some angels seem to be formed and created specifically for the purpose of praising God and others for the beautifying of His places. Light, clean and pure, tangible and penetrating, filled the place of His abode. Love, harmony, peace and praise filled my whole inner being as He took me and showed me things below: secrets of the mysterious workings of His enemies. How terrible and abysmally repulsive are the differences between the two worlds. The shock and impact of the comparison would be unbearable were it not that I am with Him and ever covered by that wonderful covering of the golden flood of His love. But even so, the very sight of those things which are so sad, black, and evil - so totally opposite from the things of heaven - fill me with disgust and with a sickness in my spirit that greatly saddens me. Yet after He returns me to my own world I am no longer affected by them. It is as if He somehow erases all but the memory lest it affect my inner mind.

He showed me a people mixed together with his own ones; in fact, at first I could see no difference. But as I continued looking I saw that in many of them a most repulsive and nauseating thing was taking place. Those souls had within them a tremendous and deceitful illusion of eternal life. They fully thought themselves to be in a state of spiritual well-being considering that life was developing normally within them. But at the same time, and in the same being, I saw death working. Death...ugly, consuming, nauseating, evil and repulsive with its nameless form and insatiable appetites. The repulsion of what I saw most strongly affected me even in my hiding place. Never until now had I been given to see anything so ugly and horrible. This was not only a state or power but it was like a very being itself. There working and operating avidly in those people this death was consuming all the life that they were absorbing from their surroundings.

As they received life from those around them, this hideous being of utter darkness would embrace that life and consume it, without those persons being conscious of it at all.

How unusual that death and life were both prospering together in the same person! But it only prospered in deceit, for as life was developing on the outside, all the while it was being consumed on the inside. It was as though a hollow shell had been developing around that person.

As I watched the life being consumed by death I was filled with sadness. A horror gripped me for nothing was so terrible as that awesome death creature in those people. This process continued on for a long while until a time came when the force of death fully prevailed over all the life forces around those souls and they were swallowed up by the death that had been resident within them all the while.

These in whom the death and deceit processes were working were not His people, for His own did not have that death creature within them, but had with them the light and spiritual substance of Christ, Himself.*

*Editor's note: 1 Tim. 5:6 gives the scriptural support for this vision.

Chapter 10

Unclean Lips

As He caught me away into the world of light, my spirit was filled with the sheer penetration of the celestial light that fills all his world. Every heavenly creature and every heavenly substance is filled with that pure light which emanates from them in wondrous glory. Yet all pales in comparison to the beauty and shining effulgence that streams forth from Him in celestial radiations of ineffable glory. Because everything is filled with light and is so transparent, nothing in all of heaven could ever hide. Outside of Christ, Himself, there is no hiding place at all. And this tremendous, penetrating light ever fills my being with wonder and delight as it floods in upon me. Great security fills me and peace floods my whole being as His love flowing over me in ever increasing billows covers me in the warmth of His embrace.

He showed me some people upon the earth whom I did not see as flesh and blood; rather, in the spirit there was a revealing of their souls to my view. These were those unto whom He had sent forth a certain something from Himself - a substance that I could not ascertain precisely nor did He tell me what it was. But I could see that it was good in essence and pure and holy in substance and was neither negative nor destructive in its import or purpose. Sent forth to prove them and to provoke them unto the truth, it brought forth an evil reaction.

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

The reaction came forth out of their own mouths and took the form of something ugly, filthy and unclean with the power to sully and to make unclean. Thus out of their own lips they were vilifying and sullying that which he had sent forth to them. Pouring forth from their lips they were vilifying and sullying that which he had sent forth to them. Pouring forth from their lips it made dirty with its own uncleanness that beautiful, radiant, white blessing that He had sent forth to them. They would not refrain their lips from speaking and therefore that unclean flood poured forth upon that which He had sent forth to them.

This was the manner in which they brought to themselves condemnation and thereby lost the opportunity they had been given. Even more, they were in a place and state of having had the opportunity of receiving light and life from Him. Yet as this uncleanness streamed forth from their mouths I saw that they lost forever their place of hope of ever becoming His own ones.

Polluted Blessings

Caught away into the realm of the heavenlies my spirit rejoiced in harmony with all the praising angels. It seems that some are especially made for that task - or so it seems - for all they ever do is to sing forth in mighty voices the praises of Him who ever reigns. This rejoicing seems to be their highest joy. These are not of the lower angels but are high, angelic beings of this elevates sphere who by their spiritual stature and august bearing proclaim them as belonging to the highest and most powerful order of mighty beings.

After I had witnessed things in the heavenlies for but a brief while (no matter how long it is, it always seems too brief) He told me to look then showed me a people unto whom He had sent forth a great bundle of blessing as it were. I saw that this blessing was from Him, but in some manner (I cannot explain how) when He sent it forth to them it was somehow disconnected from Him.

This bundle filled with great blessing and power was received in two distinct manners: By some it was received then hidden away within themselves. Laying hold upon a portion of this blessing they took it and hid it deeply within themselves. There it began to spoil and become polluted and putrefied within them. As time proceeded they became very ill because of the effects of this polluted blessing. The end was destruction, for their systems could not withstand the powerful putrefaction that had developed within them.

Other people also received His blessing but did not hide it away in themselves; instead, they brought it forth to light and manifested it to others. They neither hid it nor kept it within them but ever and always brought it forth to the outside, sharing it and making it available to all who desired to behold or partake of it.

Then I saw that this blessing within them began to change into more and greater light within them. Thus they were changed into beautiful, shining lights for His light was in them.

The Head Stone

Being in the spirit in the glorious presence of His Cloud I realized that He had understood all that I had been thinking. Even though He had promised certain things for my joy, I had been thinking that some of His provisions would not work out very pleasing to me. Having heard all the thoughts that I had not even dared to express to Him audibly, He answered them none the less. In all patience and loving-kindness He told me just to be patient and wait until all had been fulfilled. Then I would find out that His word to me had not been wrong at all but that of a truth everything would be a fulfilling of joy.

Covering me by his wondrous, flowing love He showed me another place in His great house of living stones. How vast and tremendous is this house! Although size and distance are not related to our physical world, nor can there be any comparisons, nevertheless, this room seemed truly astronomical in its dimensions.

I saw this house once again as I always see it filled with light and beauty with each living stone in its walls different in form and essence and contributing to the over-all glory. Filled with tangible light in incomparable colors - colors that I know and recognize and others that I have never seen and cannot describe - all combined to beautify His house.

There, also, were those beautifying angels whose sole task seems to be to adorn and to worship. Their praises, adorning beauty and harmonic movements made this a place of such sheer glory that no human can describe it adequately nor even imagine the wonder and magnificence of His house up there.

In the midst of this vast room or great hall there was an immense stone - a living stone vastly different, distinct and greater than the other living stones of the walls. Every part of it was fully transparent, yet it was not made of crystal or any like substance. I had never seen this radiant substance before nor can I find expression or likeness to anything known to be able to describe it. Although fully transparent, this living, spiritual substance seemed to be abundantly overflowing with pulsating life.

This stone in the center of the temple was permeated by the same spirit that was in the living stones of the walls. Being marvelously and directly connected through the spirit to the living stones in the walls, nevertheless, it was at the same time far superior and greater than they. It was as if the spirit and life in the walls made of living stones were nourished and inspired from the spirit and life resident in this immense head stone which was covered with many eyes which were transparent and seemed to be composed of that strange substance of spirit.

This head stone, exceedingly transparent and filled with light and overflowing with divine life, was a tremendous being of vast intellectual powers. I was astonished at its tremendous intelligence, for it was unlike any other celestial or angelic beings I have seen before. Neither did He tell me any more of its nature than I now describe, nor did He let me know who it might be.

Vast powers were resident in that head stone which operated directly into and upon the living stones in the walls which I shall call "the little stones" to distinguish them from this great head stone which was vastly greater in size and nature. The power and spirit connection between this head stone and the little living stones showed a most unique unity - a unity of their inner forces and natures.

But the most outstanding feature of all concerning this head stone was its total domination of the little living stones. It reigned over them fully in a constant stream of total spiritual domination. (Yet this domination was not in a negative sense at all for all were filled with great joy and peace and glory and there was no sense of any negative motion at all.) In fact, this head stone reigned over the whole place that was shown to me. If this head stone was Jesus he did not show it to me as Himself. (Nor has He ever done so when He has shown me a part of Himself in operation.) All I can say is that I know no more at present about this head stone than what I now tell.

The Healing of His People

Taken into the spirit world I was brought before Him in the wonder and glory of His high presence where all heaven is filled with praises and light and where abundant life, joy and peace radiates from every spirit creature.

He showed me His people who were very sickly and filled with disease. Then He caused me to remember the great tree made of individual living stones that became sick and lost its luster.* Jesus, Himself, was in the midst of His people, and He was beginning to give new life and healing to them. As He was speaking to me a glorious life filled with love, life and healing power flowed out from Him. This life substance flowed out upon His people ever so slowly seemingly infiltrating them. Though it was slow in its workings, it was tremendously powerful and determined and was absolutely irresistible.

With all certainty this visible and tangible life substance penetrated into His people deliberately flowing out over them. Accompanying this life flow was His very own presence.

He told me that until now He had permitted the sickness to remain in His people but no longer would He allow it. The time had come when he would raise them up in the fullness of life and they would be filled to overflowing with His life.

*See Book 1- The Great Tree

The Cleaving Ones

From the glory of His high world of reigning light He showed me again some of His workings with His own. (So many of the things that He shows me are concerning His own ones and His wonderful love which is over them so constantly as He ever brings them on into Himself.) This time He was right in the midst of His people and He was pouring out upon them something from Himself. I could not distinguish precisely what it was that He was giving them, yet I could see that it was something filled with light and life which came from His own marvelous person and was a further gift of Himself and a revelation of His glory and power.

But I saw a strange operation of His gift upon the sons of light. With great joy and blessing some of them received this outpouring; yet others rejected this gift of light which He offered to them, not desiring to have it under any circumstances.

Those who received this outpouring were brought nearer to Him and were made to cling to Him in a far greater manner. As they were cleaving to Him in intense love a strong covering of His tangible, golden cloud of fiery love came out from Him and overflowed them - a process that brought them into a still greater place in His presence.

To the contrary, those who rejected these outpourings of His love and presence were also given a covering which was a completely different - a strange covering that caused them still further sadness. A division came among all the sons of light; some cleaved unto Him and others drew further away from Him.

Paths of Power

Again He showed me the works of His love among His own ones. Although He reigns in the high glory of His fiery reigning Cloud far beyond all things in the high and holy majesty of his person, at the same time, he is somehow able to be in the midst of his own people here upon the earth. Even though they cannot see Him, nevertheless, He is here in their midst and He never leaves them.

The Lord was marking out pathways for His own: pathways of power and love filled with shining glory and wondrous light and, at the same time, pathways of tribulations and trials that would bring pain and sufferings as well. His own ones who chose to walk His marked paths would feel the pain and suffer the reproaches of Christ because they had accepted His paths and were walking in them.

Another people who were offered these same paths refused them, for they would not willingly accept anything that would bring them pain or suffering. These did not want to suffer these things for Him nor to fulfill His will for them and to them were given other pathways in which to walk. although I couldn't see what kind of paths they were, I realized that they had thereby lost all opportunity to taking those first paths that He had marked out for them.

Those who had accepted those paths which were marked out by the Master for them were conducted directly through those paths unto Jesus, Himself, being thereby brought into a very glorious and large manifestation of Him. Thus were they made like unto Him.

Made Tender

Once again after allowing my spirit to bask in the holy glory of His visible presence and conversing with me concerning my own personal life, He took me and showed me His workings in His loved church.

He showed me how He was bringing His people into receptivity, working upon them and softening them in an abundant manner desiring to bring them into great tenderness until their hearts were very warm and sensitive in order to work in them a high state of receptivity.

When He had done this He sent forth to them a special manifestation of Himself - a part of His own high glory Cloud. Being fully receptive they could receive this manifestation of the Lord, and as it entered into their beings, they received Him in this new revelation of Himself. Thus was He enabled to dwell within them in a totally new and higher way.

Together with those whom He was softening were certain ones who only apparently were softened. Although they were in the same place and in the same workings, there were no inner softening. When this manifestation came forth - and it came to them, also - they could not receive it for they were not in the state of receptivity. Thus He was not able to come into them and dwell with them as with those who had permitted His workings to be fulfilled within their beings.

Chapter 11

Covered With Blessings

When I entered prayer today he showed me a strange and highly favored people whom He did not identify. Upon these He had showered great blessing, covering them with Himself and protecting them from every storm and buffeting. Protected and freed from fightings and warring, they were not given the terrible stresses and strains that other people were given. They were a remarkably free people in this sense.

Nevertheless, few of them had the wisdom to correctly use this protection from the Lord over their lives, and as a result, they didn't seek the Lord or draw near to him or open their hearts to Him. They could have drawn very near to him through the blessings of his covering, yet they didn't utilize this ability. To the contrary, instead of taking advantage of this protection to be enabled to seek him and draw near to Him, they sought Him still less, wandering ever farther away from Him. All, save a very few, relaxed and were at ease drawing ever farther away from the Lord. It seemed that only a few sought Him and drew near to Him.

After the lapse of a long period of time the scene changed, and I saw the Lord arise in wrath and send forth storms, buffetings, tribulation and many evil things against those who had abused their privileges. Their condition was worse than that of those who had not been so protected by His covering. Only a few were able to survive these things; the rest seemed to be dissolved, as it were, by the fightings, pressures, storms and buffetings that now came against them. They had not had the wisdom to rightly use His blessings to them.

Projected Illusions

Today in prayer I found myself in another place which was completely surrounded by His power and the wondrous grace of his own presence. His Cloud - like a fence - encircled it making it absolutely secure.

Nevertheless, He allowed a certain aperture through which the enemy could send His words and lies. The enemy - who was a very great distance away - could in no wise draw near, yet He could send forth lies and illusions which were like a mirage. He projected them into that secure place as if he were really there, but the truth was that he was far away and was only sending forth his words and illusions to the protected people. The enemy had no power at all over those who were dwelling in this secure place in God.

However, if anyone within that place accepted these reflected images and projected illusions as truth, a certain rare power was formed or released that could transport a part only of that person into a place much nearer to the enemy. There - in that nearer place - this power made them receive this projected illusion as very truth even though it was totally untrue. Nevertheless, only a part of them was thus transported outside of this place of security; the other part of them remained there fully secure.

At the same time that the enemy projected this illusion, the Lord offered something that was contrary to the lie projected by the enemy. At the moment of receiving what the Lord offered rather than what the enemy sent forth, this projected illusion was destroyed even as a mirage disappears or is broken down by a change in the viewer's position. The illusion just simply ceased to exist any longer.

The Power of Self-Knowledge

In prayer today the Lord showed me a people on the earth below upon whom He was pouring out a certain power that came forth from Him with great light. This power was most penetrating and would burrow its way through, as it were, into the innermost parts like some type of perforating machine. Coming forth in great might, it brought with it the power of a strong light force.

This brilliant light-power was the power of self-knowledge or the ability to know and perceive one's own inner self - an inner revelation of light and truth. This power was cold, penetrating and wounding and would pierce through defenses and through flesh into the interior. Although it was a wounding, piercing force, yet withal it was not destructive; it was painful and not the most welcome blessing sent forth from God. But still it was sent forth from God and came as a blessing to these people. It had the power to illuminate the inner recesses of the heart and reveal the things hidden therein in the spirit of truth, discovering all hidden deceits and bringing them forth unto the light.

This power was accompanied by another power, the power of wisdom. This second power was neither cold nor wounding; rather, it was warm and filled with tender love. The light that accompanied this power of wisdom was not severe but rather was a healing light which brought healing to all the wounds caused by the penetrating, piercing power of self-knowledge. I saw that the power of wisdom and the healing light worked together to bring forth enlightened understanding and dissolve confusions and deceits. Not only did they bring forth healing and understanding but, at the same time, they also worked a wonderful transformation in the inner being. This was not an instantaneous operation but was prolonged and ever increased in its perfections, working through a process and during a period of time. This process was universal to all of those to whom He sent it and it was continuous and not an intermittent process.

I also understood that the majority of the people rejected the cold, penetrating power of self-knowledge. They were afraid of its operation and of the pain that came with it. Therefore, they were incapacitated or unable to receive the accompanying power of wisdom and of healing light because they could only receive the power of wisdom as they allowed the power of self-knowledge to first do its needed work.

The act of rejecting the power of self-knowledge sent forth from God closed the understanding and it remained dark, enclosed within its own darkness of deceit. This rejection also closed the people to the second healing, enlightening power of wisdom. It could not find entrance neither could it function in them.

The Way Into God

After filling my being with his glory He brought me unto Himself then took me and showed me another of His works with His own people to whom He sent forth a part of Himself - a part of his glory Cloud which was like a sample of Himself to show what he was like.

This small part of His Cloud became to them a way - a way that led directly unto Himself. Through this part that He had sent forth to them they could thereby come in to Him in His high place. He did this in order that His people might know the way that led directly to Him.

His Way Attacked

From the beautiful covering of his love in the world of light He showed me a continuation of yesterday's vision of His people unto whom He had given a part of Himself - a way into God where Christ, himself, was the way.

With evil in their hearts and deceit in their lips, an evil people had risen up against those of his who were in His way purposing to deviate them from that high way. Devising ways, means and lying words to effect their evil purposes, they desired to work subtle deceits and bring His people to destruction by cleverly taking them out of his way and into a substitute way.

In His Cloud the Lord drew near to those evil ones and threw them into confusion and in this manner destroyed their evil workings and purposes.

Beholding the confusions that the Lord had put in the minds of the evil ones, His own were completely delivered from all of their deceiving and were not carried off in the false ways they offered. Nor did they leave the way of God. The evil ones had no success at all in their purposes, nor could they in any way impede His own ones form coming to Him.

Thus His own were kept safely by His love in the way He had provided for them. He did not allow them to fall into deceit but ever kept His eyes upon them and carefully guarded them for they were very dear to Him.

Dissatisfied

As my eyes were feasting on the glory and marvel of his great Cloud of glory and wonder my whole being seemed to harmonize and come into a totally new operation of inner life. He washed me and flooded me with His endless billows of glorious love then directed my attention to his loved ones below upon the earth who were seeking Him with a tremendous, consuming desire. Determinedly and intensely they were seeking to have Him satisfy that desire.

In order to satisfy them He poured out upon them with great pleasure and joy all that He could give them and still not harm them. (For He could not give them all they asked for nor all He desired to give them for they were not ready to receive any more.)

This blessing that He poured out upon them was like a living power. However, they were not satisfied with the blessing that He had poured upon them but continued to avidly seek more. This avid seeking caused them to begin to depart from the Lord and to draw away from His Presence; it even led them into evil.

Then He arose and went to them taking them to a place of destruction. All that had been built up was torn down, even His blessing was destroyed and cast down. This work of destruction continued until this strong, consuming desire was also destroyed. Furthermore, I saw that this operation was a rescue work for He was saving them from themselves and was not destroying them at all.

The Door of Pardon

As I was brought before Him in the glory of His Cloud He spoke to me promising to reveal more of himself to me. I did not realize then what He meant but as he began to take me into other areas I understood what He meant.

When He told me to look I saw a people brought by great drawing power into a pathway that was very attractive. Before them was placed an open door which was also very attractive and abounded with promises of blessing; it was the door of pardon and forgiveness.

As the people drew near to this door pardon which appeared so attractive and inoffensive they discovered that hidden therein was a definite offensiveness as though an angel were hidden there with a sharp knife in his hand. This door was well marked and no one could draw near to it without seeing very clearly the offense that awaited him there.

This door was open to everyone and each one seemed tremendously drawn by the attractive force which operated from within its portals. Many were drawn to this door only to turn aside as they drew near and clearly understood the painful offense that awaited them if they passed through its portals. As I watched I saw that now and again there was one who was willing to endure the offense in order to have the promises and blessings given or conferred upon everyone who entered.

Forces of Security

Again it was easy to enter as I was helped in prayer by another. In just a short while and with but little opposition I was able to come into His presence and worship Him whom my soul loves. There he received me and covered me with His love and fully satisfied my whole being with the beauty and wonder of Himself.

Afterwards He took me and showed me a place where a great structure of force was built up where forces were brought forth and were operating within its limits.

The base of this structure of force was at the same time the source of alimentation of the many forces that were working harmoniously together in bringing forth this structure. These forces were called the forces of security. These forces of security, though operating with great power and energy, were always and ever controlled. In spite of being such powerful forces, they operated pacifically within the limits that formed this place.

This place - I was made to know - was the heart of his own people (although it did not have either the form or the appearance of a heart.) It was within the hearts of the sons of light that this structure was raised up and these forces were operating with such power yet at the same time so peacefully.

The base of this structure which was the source of this springing forth was very stable and strong and showed no fluctuation at all. The wonderful base of this great structure of force was the relationship of the sons of light with Jesus in love - not love in its beauty and glory awakened in a moment of blessing, but the state of love built up as a firm base of all inner forces which built this structure of the forces of security. This love was the state of a life lived with Him - a love which is constant, unmovable, stable and strong and it provided the base of this whole structure.

Outside of these limits of the heart of his own ones there was another force working - a dark, opposing force that was totally contrary to the force of security within. This opposing and opposite force was ever trying to enter inside those limits but could not. Try though it might it was continually frustrated in its design.

The reason that this opposite force could not enter into the hearts of his own was because they wee so filled with this mighty structure of working forces, all harmoniously operating together and constantly fed from this love in Him, that the whole space within the limits of the place was filled. There was no room at all for the opposing, contrary force to enter because this place was totally filled with securities.

The Place of Refuge

Today I felt great fears about the future. After the Lord gives me a complete sense of security, the enemy comes and tries to fill me with a great sense of insecurity. But at last all my fears were overcome and I could enter into His presence. After granting me a wonderful time of love and beauty before Him, I heard Him speaking to His people.

In a most imperious tone of greatest urgency and haste, He gave this order: "Come ye out from all places of cursing and damnation for I shall totally destroy them." I understood clearly that He was mostly speaking of the places that were within His people rather than on the outside of them.

Because he was going to fill the earth with great terror and anguish - and that day was drawing very near - He was warning His people and giving them weapons which would enable them not to fight, but to find for themselves a place of refuge in that day of great anguish. Without these special weapons they could neither find nor enter into this place of refuge that He had prepared for them.

And this place of refuge was actually not a place; it was a state - a state based upon relationship and intimacy with Him. Even as a small child is taken by the hand of a strong father and is thereby made secure and strong, so would it be with His own.

In that day when he destroys all things without pity, He shall hear no cry for mercy. It will be as if his ears were covered so that He could not hear. And because this day was fast approaching He called out strongly for His own ones to hurry. he told me that only those who have found their place of refuge in Him would be able to pass thorough this time of fury in safety and be able to wait it out with patience and victory.

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

Note:

Since the visions have continued, there are three other books offered that are a continuation of this same series.

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.

Other Titles

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 Visions of God, — The final 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.

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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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