~ The Mystery Of The Faith
~ Drink Ye All Of It
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AS READ BY KENNETH B VISSCHER
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so
that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Hebrews 11:1-3
But without faith it is impossible to please and be
satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must [necessarily] believe that God exists and that He
is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him [out]. Hebrews 11:6
AMPLIFIED
And as
they were eating,
The
eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Proverbs
15:3
And
finally, all be of one mind, having compassion on one another, loving the
brothers, tenderhearted, friendly. Never give back evil for evil, or reviling
for reviling, but on the contrary, giving blessing, knowing that you are called
to this so that you might inherit blessing. For he that wants to love life and
to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from
speaking guile. Let him turn aside from evil and do good. Let him seek peace
and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears open
to their prayers. But the Lord's face is against those who do evil. And who is
the one who will harm you if you become imitators of the good? But if you also
suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. And do not fear their fear,
nor be troubled, but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always
to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason of the hope in you, with
meekness and fear; having a good conscience, that while they speak against you
as evildoers they may be shamed, those falsely accusing your good behavior in
Christ. For it is better, if the will of God wills it, to suffer for well-doing
than for evil-doing. 1
And the
Word of
And we
know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruit of the Spirit,
even we ourselves groan within ourselves, awaiting adoption, the redemption of
our body. For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope; for what
anyone sees, why does he also hope for it? But if we hope for that which we do
not see, then we wait for it with patience. Romans 8:22-25
Do not
err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,
and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness,
neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth,
that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved
brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the
wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all
filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the
engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word,
and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the
(2 Visions)
“The Lord then from His seated position upon
the Throne of Glory leaned forward overshadowing the earth. With deliberate
power and strength in His arms he struck the top of the earth, first with the
right arm, then with the left arm with His hands extended. As he struck the
earth the earth would shake, and veer left, then right and back again, back and
forth by the continual blows of the arms of the Lord upon the earth causing the
earth to shake and to be moved out of its place over and over again in a
continual successive pattern. This shaking the Lord controlled, but it was
nevertheless hard for the earth and the nations within it to be thus so shaken
and moved by this pattern of the Lord’s impending judgments upon it. First one
arm, then the other, back and forth the pounding continued, the earth continued
to shudder, shake and be moved from side to side with its axis being
continually moved in severe patterns and shakings. This judgment of the Lord
was being done in present real time and did not reflect the centuries or ages
past in time that has been thus far, but as to the time which the world has now
entered. What has taken place in the world of men in the way of dismantling the
systems of man is only at its beginning, the dismantling and the shakings and
the utter destruction by the Lord’s judgments are going to continue now in a
very rapid and increased rate.”
“Out of the nations of the earth back unto
the Lord was a flowing river. This river had flowed as a trickle, as a small
stream for many periods of time, but now the river widened and flowed back to
the Lord to come unto Him as a mighty river. When the river was later seen its
waters were brown with pollutions and with the contaminations that the world
carries within it. The affiliation of this river with the kingdoms of the world
caused this river to be ever so polluted and made defiled so that there was no
purity of water within it as it flowed back unto the Lord. The river did not
flow back unto the Lord of its own volition, it flowed back unto the Lord because
the Lord was the one that caused this to happen, He drew the river back unto
Himself. I saw that in times past the trickle of the river, the smaller parts
of it were pure, holy, and clean with no pollutions. But as time progressed the
waters had begun to increase in size, began to be polluted and began to return
unto the Lord in power albeit unclean. As it returned to the Lord the cleansing
power of Jesus would drop onto the river and the pollutions in it would
dissolve instantly so that the river was cleansed of its pollution and made
pure and clear and clean and so that it would in the end of its flow be a pure
river of clean water which came back unto the Lord out of the world of men. These
are the Overcomers. The firstfruits unto God and the Lamb, they that will take
part in the first resurrection being conformed first unto His death and dying
in this world, then coming alive out of this world back unto the Lord. A clear
line of distinction has been drawn between the world and the company of Overcomers,
it is not “still” being drawn, it “has been” drawn. When the Lord appears this
cleansed company will know who they are in
(End
Vision)
The intensity of our times is a complete
understatement, a bold declaration that holds within it the power to either
make a person stronger or completely break them apart. We are in a time of
great flux, a time wherein the pressures of this day are almost
incomprehensible, where we find more and more the loss of knowing which way is
up and where our hope is supposed to be. There is fraud everywhere in the
spirit world as the antichrist forces of deception have raised even stronger munitions
against the saints of the Most High. There are so very many who claim they are
hearing and following the voice of the Lord, but when it is tested, we find
that it is the voice of the imitator, that perdition which stands in the holy
place as God saying I AM GOD. The most subtle of deceptions in our time is “passivity”
which leads to “complacent stances in faith” with no boldness to stand strong
in the faith first delivered to us. A stance that is made sure by being
lukewarm seems to be the norm for this hour, thinking that the passive
acceptance of the things of the Lord is equivalent to overcoming victory. It is
during this passivity that we lose touch with the reality of the war we are
truly in when it comes to our current spiritual position.
In the natural world the systems of man are
collapsing. This mirrors what is happening in the spiritual world as the
indoctrinated systems of man are also collapsing. The entire gamut of
Christendom is being overrun with deceptions of every sort, nothing is as it
seems when it comes to those who claim they have a hold on something valid in
the Holy Spirit. When tested, the validity vanishes and those holding on to
what they thought was truth end up knowing they were deluded and the recourse
of recovery seems to be impossible to them. Many are waking up to the fact that
they have been asleep in deception which came by this same passivity.
We are in a war, if you think you are not,
then delusion is your portion. Tell me, why would the Lord in this hour be
preparing His Army? Why is it His will to form His Overcomers into the
Here is the current “state” of the Overcomer
right now in our time. Although you may vary a bit from this triple definition,
you will nevertheless bear witness to these words. For those whom the Lord
calls “Overcomers”, there is a very distinct pattern, right now, today, in this
time.
* First, the knowledge or awareness of the presence of the Lord has “waned” from them. They are unable to accurately perceive the presence of the Lord in their hearts, it is there in a very small extent as a still small voice, but it is very minute, very distanced from the scramble of thoughts in the mind.
* Secondly, the Overcomer is not sure which the next step to take is. Where do we go from here? How do we continue to OBEY the Lord when we know not what that step is? The Lord, for the firstfruits manchild company, has taken from them the ability to know what is or is not the current course their faith is to take them in. They have no idea as to where and how they are to currently walk.
* Third, they have no clue as to when the promise of the Lord’s coming and the reception of their glorified bodies is to actually happen, this too seems distanced from them.
As the true Son and Daughter assembly of the
Lord, these who are seeking to be part of this great manifestation are finding
that they are also “estranged” from one another. The camaraderie that they were
supposed to enjoy with each other is instead fraught with separation, division,
discord and disharmony. I am not speaking of those who have continued on in
lukewarm assemblies getting “new” revelations all the time and having “new”
words all the time which support their lukewarm new age condition. I am
speaking of those who have abandoned everything to follow the Lord, forsaking
everything and everyone in the process. These have found themselves utterly
abandoned to the Lord, their eyes fixed on Him alone, but estranged from their
fellow Overcomer. Each one is singled out by the Holy Spirit to be “separate”
and “alone” with their Heavenly Father while He corrects everything about them.
In other words, the thought they had of
unity and unbroken fellowship with others is actually opposite at this time,
they are singled out by the Lord, held apart from all others and they seem to
be completely alone.
The other part of this experience is that in
this condition of being alone with the Lord, alone from all others, and apart
from any other external supports, that it seems like the Lord removes His hand
of protective covering from you. Instead of being held under the shadow of the
Almighty in contentment and peace, we find the railing accusations of enemy
spirits hounding us in our thinking minds from every direction, from every
source imaginable and from every circumstance that surrounds us. The “He that
dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High” found in Psalm 91, and the “abiding
in His shadow”, is exchanged just now for the railing accusations of the forces
of darkness. These forces couple themselves with your own personal carnal mind
and they tell you that you are a total and complete failure and that your life
is overcome with grief because the Lord has forsaken His promise to you! “You
won’t make it as an Overcomer”! , is their railing accusation! This is a very
real experience! It is happening right now, TO THOSE WHO WILL BE FOUND PERFECT
AT HIS COMING! I say it again; this is a very real experience!
So what is happening to those who have chosen
to obey the Lord and come apart unto Him?
They are eating the flesh body of The Lord
Jesus Christ, consuming all His flesh.
They are drinking the filled up cup of the
blood of
The Lord is requiring us to “drink ye all of
it”. This is part of the overall plan of the Lord, that all external supports
be removed and that faith alone carries us to the point of His return. Or if
you’d rather see it another way, that faith alone brings you unto the Lord IN
PERFECTION. What the Lord is after is PURE FAITH IN HIM ALONE. To bring this to
the forefront is necessary as He prepares to return and to take us unto Himself
in glorified bodies in the first resurrection. To do this FAITH MUST BE FIRST
COMPLETE, THEN HE SHALL COME. To have this complete faith, the cup of
When
Then He shall come. And His coming will end
this separation one from another as we in perfect rank and order are formed
into the Army WHICH IS YET TO MARCH. At this present time however we are still
in the same outward circumstances, the same problems of life, the same current
tide of disintegrating systems of man and the unanswerable problems between
nations. As individuals we are still working in this world, doing what is
necessary to survive, trusting in our faith for the Lord’s promise to be
fulfilled in us. At the same time, THESE PRESSURES ARE INCREASING. The pressure
of longsuffering and patience waiting for our change to come and of our lives
to see the forward motion of the spirit of the Lord sweep us up into the fuller
unveiling of His purposes in the next age that is dawning. Ours is not to
“plan” a future, ours is to “live it”, by walking out this perplexing time with
our faith alone to carry us, that is exactly what the Lord is after. He wants
us to not only exercise and walk in faith, but to be examples of it in the
Lord’s eyesight having fully partaken of Christ’s body and blood, eating all of
it, and the phrase “drink ye all of it” as being our sole purpose now until His
promised appearing. Then we shall eat the new feast which will be given not
just to the Overcomers, but to all those in the world of men who will need to
be fed the righteous things of the Father.
Those in delusion will live opposite to the
scenario painted in this writing. They are content and ok and have no serious
distresses to affect them. They claim they have a word from the Lord, but that
word is fraught with whatever doctrine they hold to which allows them to live
in such utter contentment with no real hard tribulation to endure. The Overcomer
is sometimes overcome of heavy trial, heavy testing, not knowing at times which
way is up from down. They are held in such a place in the Lord because FAITH
keeps them, their trust is ONLY in the Lord and in nothing else, they do not
have any crutches to their walk nor delusions to feed them. The Lord is LORD in
all they do. The deceived ones have brought the Lord down to their level and
have lifted themselves up to the heights of the Holy. But the Overcomer has
made themselves of NO reputation and are only able to have faith at this time. This
is the final stage before He comes!
To be continued……………..
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