~The New Jerusalem~
~The New Jerusalem~
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“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD. Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.” Haggai 1:7-11 KJV
“And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,
that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not
the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” 2 Thessalonians
2:11-12 KJV
“[As] an example of suffering and ill-treatment together
with patience, brethren, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord
[as His messengers]. You know how we call those blessed (happy) who were
steadfast [who endured]. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have
seen the Lord's [purpose and how He richly blessed him in the] end, inasmuch as
the Lord is full of pity and compassion and tenderness and mercy.” [Job 1:21,
22; 42:10; Ps. 111:4.] James 5:10-11 AMPLIFIED
“And there shall be no
night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord
God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. And he said unto
me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets
sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy
of this book. And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard
and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me
these things. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy
fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the
sayings of this book: worship God.” Revelation
22:5-9 KJV
“In conclusion, be
strong in the Lord [be empowered through your union with Him]; draw your
strength from Him [that strength which His boundless might provides]. Put on
God's whole armor [the armor of a heavy-armed soldier which God supplies], that
you may be able successfully to stand up against [all] the strategies and the
deceits of the devil. For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending
only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers,
against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness,
against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere.
Therefore put on God's complete armor, that you may be able to resist and stand
your ground on the evil day [of danger], and, having done all [the crisis
demands], to stand [firmly in your place]. Stand therefore [hold your ground],
having tightened the belt of truth around your loins and having put on the
breastplate of integrity and of moral rectitude and right standing with God, And
having shod your feet in preparation [to face the enemy with the firm-footed
stability, the promptness, and the readiness produced by the good news] of the
Gospel of peace. [Isa. 52:7.] Lift up over all the [covering] shield of saving
faith, upon which you can quench all the flaming missiles of the wicked [one].
And take the helmet of salvation and the sword that the Spirit wields, which is
the Word of God. Pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the
Spirit, with all [manner of] prayer and entreaty. To that end keep alert and
watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the
saints (God's consecrated people). And [pray] also for me, that [freedom of]
utterance may be given me, that I may open my mouth to proclaim boldly the
mystery of the good news (the Gospel), For which I am an ambassador in a
coupling chain [in prison. Pray] that I may declare it boldly and courageously,
as I ought to do.” Ephesians
6:10-20 AMPLIFIED
“From the
side that I stood upon I did see indeed the Army of the Lord, glorious with
banners and full of light and glory. These did stand in the Armor provided to
us from Ephesians 6: 10 - 18. In perfect array did they stand in rows of rank
and order. Moving in and about them were the ministers of the gospel as though
they were authorities inspecting the troops, readying them for the work that
was ahead of them. These were but a very few in number, their ranks and the
order of the column of troops was not long but rather short and very small was
the tally of those who were part of the Army.
I saw them
and they stood before the Throne of God in the height of the New Jerusalem upon
the
And I saw
the fire enfolding in upon itself upon the Throne, the fire and the heat
thereof increased in intensity, and above the Throne in the atmosphere of the
terrible crystal came forth a great sound and a shaking as the fire did
increase and the billows and waves of the fire extended more and more in great
heat and billows of flames in the winds that came from the atmosphere above the
Throne. This fire then began to extend itself over the heads of the soldiers in
rank and order in the Army of the Lord in front of the Throne. The fire went
over their heads then settled down in front of the Army. At the very same time
that the fire extended over the heads of the soldiers and settled down upon the
earth the Army in rank began its forward march. I could hear clearly the sound
of the marching footsteps in perfect order of this Army with the fire of the
Ancient of Days going before.
From above
the Throne and in the atmosphere above this Army came a sound deep and loud as
God did speak, His voice in utterance before this Army in the fire that was
before it. And forward out of the Judah Gate and into the earth marched this
Army of the Lord. And I cried, for terrible was the sight.”
( Not the end of the Vision )
As I waited
on the Lord concerning the next writing it became apparent to me that the Lord
was wanting me to write concerning that which is “new”. For we are studying the
“New”
What I want
to see in the readers of my papers and in my own life also is a deep increase
in the Fear of the Lord. For there are a great many of our brethren who have
fallen into the abyss of new age fallacies and doctrines which tickle the ears.
This is a very serious matter, and for those who have contact with some of
these who have fallen, the realization is apparent that they cannot hear your
words to correct them. They have fallen into powerful delusion and they have
been disqualified from receiving the prize. One of the greatest maladies which
proves to me that the Fear of the Lord is not as it should be in us is that
these who are of such a high and a holy calling and who have fallen into this
abyss of missing the Lord’s best, did so by first putting off the cross.
So when
waiting on the Lord about this writing, it became apparent to me that there
needs to be in my writings a continued display of two issues, that there be a
showing forth of that which is error from that which is good. The time of great
warfare has begun and we will soon see much tribulation in the earth effect our
very lives. If this type of writing showing the warnings of our hour “wearies
you”, then you may very well be adamantly opposed to your own personal cross!
For this hour requires that the cross be worked into our lives more than at any
other time in our past testimony. The cross, and its power to capture us away
from the life of the world is what is necessary to complete the overcoming
process. With all that being said, allow me to show you the “new” of what we
are looking for in our hope and the “new” of what some are now walking in which
is deception. All of this just to reveal the purity of The New Jerusalem and
the tribulation which is ours when we desire that City. You cannot enter the
purity of this City without first having been through your personal cross. You
cannot be counted as one who has overcome if you first have not borne this
cross to the end of your natural life. For as long as you are in a body of
flesh and blood, you will be applied to the arms of this wooden cross to cancel
out your own will that His will might be established in you.
No matter
how long you traverse this world and whether or not you live or die waiting for
the Lord to appear, you will have both the cross at work in you and the life of
Christ also manifesting in you. Whenever I look at our brethren who are falling
into the abyss of new age deception, I see that the first thing they lost was
the power of the cross. The cross no longer became to them important. That
there was a point in their doctrine where they assumed the cross to be
completed and past and no longer of the order for our current walk in God. That
is the skew point which caused their steps to end in delusion and their
testimonies to go unfulfilled. And my, how many have fallen this preaching
where the cross is laid aside! The fruit of this is the proof, for these who
have done this have EXALTED THEMSELVES as being ones in the Lord of “special
stature”. Such is the malady of leaving your cross lay upon the ground rather
than taking it up.
I also
studied some of the past revivals in the church. In every case the revival
would come to an end when the cross was nullified. Every time the minions of
hell would rob the recipient of the benefits of revival, the cross was the
first thing forsaken and the display of it reckoned as past history, not
present needful reality. The cross thus eliminated allowed deception to come
across as though it were a true motion of God when in fact it was perdition.
Such is the repeat of this very hour wherein we hear doctrines that are
contrary to Christ’s great commission to go into all the world and to preach
the gospel to every creature. The preaching OF THE CROSS is the same as the
preaching OF THE GOSPEL. One cannot be separated from the other.
My heart
longs for each one who reads my writings to be pure and Holy and to be
permitted to enter by the Gates into this City. I know that it is desired that
the interpretation of the Gates and of this City be made apparent, it is, along
with these warnings. It behooves me to warn you continually of the hour we are
in, that there is going to arise against the overcomer the beast who has its
power from the dragon, who will war against this man-child and who will kill
the bodies of the Two Witnesses – the Body of Christ in the earth. This beast
that will war has done so in measure, but in the immediate future before us
where we are anticipating the revelation of the Christ in us, there will first
be a great war in the Spirit. The beast of scripture will war against the
Saints of God and overcome them and kill them. That’s us. We will be forsaken, cast
out, cast down, ignored, rejected, despised, hated and thrown away as useless. If
at any time the Overcomer needs to fix his gaze on Jesus alone, that time is
now.
Together we
joy in the future ahead of us when we are glorified. For now however, I am prophesying
to you that there is immediately ahead of the true overcomer a great time of
tribulation. Those who WERE of our rank, who skewed off into ear itching new
age deception will be found REJECTING YOU. Those who now pledged their
allegiance to this false image of blasphemy, even that perdition that sits in
the Holy Place as God saying I Am God, but who is not God, these will rise to
persecute the true overcomer. I am actually prophesying this to you, that your
rejection by your fellow comrade in the Body of Christ will not be any further
away than those who claim oneness with the Lord. The delusion will be that they
“think” they are walking with the Lord but they are instead walking with that
which “appears” as the Lord. This delusion I have warned my readers about
continually all this time.
To form the
structure of the walls of the New Jerusalem and to enter into this City by the
Gates one must be an Overcomer. You cannot be a living stone in this
You dear
reader, must test yourself. You must examine your heart as you read these
lines. Test and examine your heart and see if you are indeed fixing your gaze
upon the Lord Jesus Christ alone and n-o-t-h-i-n-g e-l-s-e. And if you are certain that your
gaze if fixed on Jesus alone, ask yourself this question. “Does my gaze upon Jesus work also in me my own personal cross?” For the
malady we have right now in our circles of fellowship is the same malady
repeated in the history of the church, that men have forsaken their crosses to
choose an easier doctrine and a gentler path. I guarantee to you that those who
have chosen to listen to preachers that tickle the ears will not be manifested
in bodies of glory and they will not be a part of the Army of the Lord found in
Joel chapter 2. I also guarantee to you the reader that those who have heaped to
themselves these teachers because they have itching ears WILL NOT be allowed to
enter by the Gates into the New Jerusalem UNTIL they have also gone back to
their basic start and picked up first their personal cross. There is simply NO
OTHER WAY.
Test yourself in this hour this way:
1)
That - I do indeed
fix my gaze on Jesus alone no matter what it costs me personally.
2)
That - I do indeed
ask the Lord to glorify my past, my present and my future as I fix my gaze upon
Him alone.
3)
That - in the
fixing of my gaze upon the living bread of life, that I too would be bread to
the eater, flesh denied that others might see the life of Christ in me.
4)
That - in the
fixing of my gaze upon Jesus Christ that I might be a life poured out that
others might see that my life is as seed upon the ground, laid out as it were
in self sacrifice for others to follow my example and enter the
5)
That - I allow the
Lord to fit me into that perfect place in His Body, even that placing that is
done alone by His hand and not the hand of man. That I would walk in that
place, IN His Body. Part of the Two Witness company.
6)
That - in so doing
as I walk in this perfect place that I allow the daily trials of life to be my
cross, my cancelling out feature of my character so that the life of Jesus
might be made manifest even in my mortal body.
7)
That - I itch not
my ears with that which would ‘sound’ so nice and ‘be’ so gentle as a breeze of
a wind which would tickle my fancy. That EXALTS me, and not Jesus alone.
8)
That - I do indeed
enter covenant with the Lord through drinking His Blood and eating His flesh –
partaking of the life and death of the Lord – until that full measure of Him be
worked into me in fullness, in both suffering and in joy.
9)
That - anything that comes to me by way of a writing, or a
preaching, or a testimony or a word of prophecy or anointing would be tested
again and again, confirmed by the Word of God in the scriptures and not because
“everybody” believes it. The malady of this hour is camaraderie in doctrine which
reinforces error. This association of one with another is the stealing away of
our gaze from Jesus alone. This is what the true Overcomer cannot do.
10)
That - true
fellowship of the Overcomer with the Overcomer is by this fact that there is
indeed an identity of one with the other in tribulation, but also in hope for
the soon appearing of Christ and His great descent unto they who will partake
of this 1st resurrection.
Once the
time comes when you are glorified, you will know that it is because you obeyed the
Lord and bore your cross to the end of your natural life in the earth. This is
what God exalted Jesus in, that His sufferings were fulfilled. So it will be
for they who overcome. They too will be exalted in the same measure as the Head
of the Body, so that Christ then will be seen as He who was dead, but behold,
He is alive forevermore.
To be continued……….
Kenneth B Visscher
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