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A VISION OF A JESUS-FILLED WORLD COMING TO PASS

The Morning Star Rising on the First Day

THE VISION

Our church, Melodyland, had an annual conference that had become a tradition over its twenty-five-year history. People of God came from all over the world to teach, preach, and worship God. 

One Sunday, after our church service, pastor Wilkerson engaged my wife Pat and me in a conversation about the upcoming conference. He revealed that he needed an illustration for the cover of the conference brochures they were about to send out. It just so happened that God had given me a vision a few days earlier, and I described what I saw to the pastor. He liked what I communicated and had an artist draw it up, and it was used as the heading for the brochures. Here is a description of the vision I presented to the pastor.

A stunning image of a star in the vast expanse of space, radiating sets of uniquely colored light beams across the sky in various directions, with some of them reaching and striking the earth from a great distance.

Then, suddenly, the star and its light increased several times larger in both size and illumination. Because of the star’s massive expansion, its surface was now closer to the Earth, and because of its larger size, it scorched our planet with its superheated light. 

Isaiah 30:26 Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up the bruise of His people and heals the stroke of their wound.

Afterward, the starlight gradually dissipated into a soft cloud-like light encompassing the globe in a canopy. I believe this predicts what must transpire before completing God’s plan.

I will now present my interpretation of the vision presented above:

In the beginning, God communicated with His people from a great distance. However, His words will arrive much more powerfully in the future, scorching those whose roots were not planted deep in good, well-watered soil.

Matt 13: 3-8 Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. 4 And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds of the air came and devoured it. 5 Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth. 6 But when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away. 7 And some seed fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. 8 But other seed fell on good ground and yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.

Therefore, everyone anchored deep into God’s good ground will understand His will for their lives much more clearly than ever before, which will kindle a revival that will spread throughout the Earth, resulting in a massive harvest of saved souls. The Word of God will be known to everyone, but only the people whose roots have grown deep into the living water of life will live. 

John 4:13 – 14 Jesus answered and said to her, Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.

Then God’s love will surround and protect the Earth, and His people will prosper under His soft and gentle love.

That’s it for today, may God’s blessings be upon you and yours,

Much love, Papa Joe

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A VISION OF A JESUS-FILLED WORLD COMING TO PASS

The Morning Star Rising on the First Day


A VISION OF A JESUS-FILLED WORLD COMING TO PASS

The Morning Star Rising on the First Day

A VISION OF THE CROSS COMING TO LIFE

Some weeks later, God showed me yet another vision. In this one, I saw an old wooden cross standing unattended on an otherwise barren hilltop. God had been aiding knowledge into my brain for some time to improve my understanding of what I experienced, so I knew the cross I saw to be Jesus’s crucifixion cross. It stood there unaided, tilting backward moderately and listed at about a forty-five-degree angle to one side. It appeared tattered, as if no one had been caring for it. 

I lingered there momentarily to observe this cross in greater detail when, suddenly, something moved me nearer for a better view. My observation began by concentrating on the grain of the timbers, which gradually began to glow a fluorescent red-orange color resembling a hot electric stovetop burner.

Soon, the whole cross began glowing, faintly at first but gradually increasing in illumination until it was vibrantly beaming. The cross that had appeared dead just moments before came to life! Blood circulating through the lines of the grain became visible, appearing like the blood that flows through the veins of our bodies, transporting nutrients and revitalizing energy throughout the body.

Shortly afterward, the wood’s transparency increased, giving it a three-dimensional countenance. I could now see down into multiple layers of the wood as everything inside the cross became observable. Subsequently, the glowing red cross began firing randomly colored photons of enlightenment, one blast at a time, in seemingly random directions. Soon, the cross started emitting these photons rapidly, like a machine gun, into all areas of the Earth.

I now see this vision of the cross shooting photons of enlightenment across the Earth as a reoccurrence of what happened in Acts 2, in which the disciples were empowered by the Holy Spirit, who came in the form of tongues of fire and spoke in tongues such that all could understand their words. Here is the scripture which explains this. The photons of enlightenment are the Holy Spirit.

Coming of the Holy Spirit

When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all [a]with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them [b]divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

The Crowd’s Response

And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language. Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each in our own [c]language in which we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretans and [d]Arabs—we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.” 12 So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “Whatever could this mean?”

13 Others mocking said, “They are full of new wine.”

Peter’s Sermon

14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words. 15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only [e]the third hour of the day. 16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. 18 And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy. 19 I will show wonders in heaven above And signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. 21 And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the Lord Shall be saved.’

22 “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know 23 Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you [f]have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death; 24 whom God raised up, having [g]loosed the [h]pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it. 25 For David says concerning Him:

‘I foresaw the Lord always before my face, For He is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken. 26 Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad; Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope. 27 For You will not leave my soul in Hades, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption. 28 You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of joy in Your presence.’ 29 “Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, [i]according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, 31 he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption. 32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all Witnesses. 33 Therefore being exalted [j]to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.

34 “For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, 35 Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”‘ 36 “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”

37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?” 38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the [k]remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

Let it be known that, according to one of Kim Clement’s prophecies, God has raised up one He calls My David, who lives among us today.

Take Up the Cross of Christ

I now realize this vision to imply that the Christians who seek to be members of the bride of Christ must have the fire of the living cross in their hearts. If they do so, they will do what Jesus did.

John 41:12 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 

Doing these things is how the bride prepares for Jesus’s second coming. The bride is ready for the return of the Bridegroom because she has taken up His cross. The cross of Christ must become alive in our hearts and minds. These things must happen for Jesus to come again.

That’s it for today. May God bless you and yours. And remember to:


A VISION OF A JESUS-FILLED WORLD COMING TO PASS

The Morning Star Rising on the First Day

In a recent posting, I shared my spiritual experience as one or a component of the bride of Christ (THE BRIDE OF CHRIST AND HER VISION). This experience came to me as I participated in a prayer group meeting as the other members were praying vocally, one at a time. I began to hear (not with my ears) the thoughts of the bride of Christ as she prepared herself in her chambers, for her marriage to Jesus. I heard her reminiscing about the old world, her love and phrase for Jesus, and the victory over Satan.

I somehow knew that I was but a small component of her spiritual body, perhaps an atom in her brain, listening to her thoughts as she prepared in silence for the most significant event in history. I soon understood that the bride is the amalgamation of righteous souls, each doing their part, just like the components of our body. Her mission on Earth is to take up the work Jesus commissioned us to do by entering the spiritual war against evil and subduing it. The following two lessons on the Lord’s prayer reinforce this mission (The-meaning-of-thy-kingdom-come, In-heaven-as-on-earth.)

Other Visions For Those Who Seek To Follow Jesus And Become One With His Bride To Be

My experience in the prayer group meeting was not the only experience as God began to communicate in numerous ways. For example, I previously shared my experience of hearing the audible voice of God call my name (The Voice of God)

In today’s posting, however, I present God’s vision of a straight path leading to His glory on the horizon. This vision illustrates the straight path leading the bride to become one with Jesus.

In this vision, I find myself in an unfamiliar forest where the branches and leaves of the trees spiral into a shape similar to a tightly coiled watch spring. From my position, I saw a path cut straight through the forest, revealing the hills and dales below the foliage. There were no impediments on the pathway. Further, it had been cut down into the earth, having walls on each side. I took this to mean that the focus had to be on the glory of God rising on the horizon.

Teach me Your way, O LORD, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies (Psalm 27:11).

It appeared that a giant lawn mower had driven through the forest and cut in a way that nothing remained. There were no bends in the pathway; it was perfectly straight.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the LORD; Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill brought low; The crooked places shall be made straight and the rough places smooth; The glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken (Isaiah 40:3 – 5).

I now realize that this vision is a message for His bride to make a straight path to prepare the way for the second coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. She is to play a role similar to that of John the Baptist, making the way of the Lord Jesus’ second coming to Earth.

Until next time, may God bless you and yours, and remember to:

A VISION OF A JESUS-FILLED WORLD COMING TO PASS

The Morning Star Rising on the First Day


A VISION OF A JESUS-FILLED WORLD COMING TO PASS

The Morning Star Rising on the First Day

When God Called Me By Name

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One day, I was on my deck, catching some sun while gazing at the magnificent seacoast view. When I had received enough sun, I walked back toward my loft door. Then, as I proceeded through the doorway, I heard a powerful, masculine, yet calming voice speak my name.

From the moment His voice began speaking, everything around me started moving in slow motion – as if time was slowing down. The familiar sounds surrounding me faded, and I instantly knew that I was listening to the audible voice of God. I instantly lost muscle control as my body became as limp as a jellyfish. My legs had suddenly stopped supporting my weight, my knees buckled, and I plunged downward through the doorway, out of control. My forward momentum now propelled my head onto a collision course with the glass top of a pinball machine just inside the loft door. 

Psalm 29:4 The voice of the LORD is powerful; The voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

I had no muscle power to shield my head from being slammed into the pinball machine, and I presumed that I was about to be seriously injured. Amazingly, my muscle function recovered the instant that His voice stopped speaking. Consequently, I got my hands and arms up to the metal frame of the pinball machine to protect myself from harm.  

I then reset my legs back under me and gradually stood upright. I looked around for God’s visible manifestation while waiting for His voice to return. But neither happened. Not knowing what to do, I replied in the custom of the prophets who spoke these words: Here I am, Lord. My heart was pounding as I stood there perfectly still, anticipating a reply, but there was none. Eventually, I walked off, very perplexed. 

Subsequently, I could not help but think continuously about God’s voice. It was so perfect. How could I not wonder about a voice so powerful and yet so soothing at the same time? How could I not wonder about this voice that exhibited perfect articulation and pace and simultaneously used inflections and tone to convey an attraction to it? How could this voice create such emotions of harmony and peace? Why would it call out my name and utter nothing more? I would get insight into some of these questions the very next day. 

The morning began like every other, as I had made it a practice to read a portion of the Bible every morning before prayer. I had set a goal of reading the entire Bible at that time, and the scripture below was a passage that I read that morning:

Isaiah 43:1–2 But now, thus says the LORD, who created you, oh Jacob, and He who formed you, oh Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you

This scripture confirmed what had just occurred in my life. Chills ran up and down my spine as I realized that God had just called me by name. I belonged to Him now, and if I did not know it previously, I now knew that He would be with me without a doubt through all the challenging times ahead. God was with me then and would be there throughout my future. He would be there for my walk toward His plan.

Until next time, may all of God’s blessings be upon you and yours, and remember to:

A VISION OF A JESUS-FILLED WORLD COMING TO PASS

The Morning Star Rising on the First Day


A VISION OF A JESUS-FILLED WORLD COMING TO PASS

The Morning Star Rising on the First Day

What has been done in Heaven that we are to also do here on Earth?

We look to Luke 10 for the answer to the question above. There, we learn that Jesus sent 70 of His disciples into ministry, telling them to heal the sick (a spiritual gift) and communicate that the Kingdom of God has come near them (the infilling of the Holy Spirit.)

The Seventy Are Sent Out

Jesus Sends Out the 70

Luke 10:1 After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go. Then He said to them, “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest. Go your way; behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves. Carry neither money bag, knapsack, nor sandals; and greet no one along the road. But whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’ And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on it; if not, it will return to you. And remain in the same house, eating and drinking such things as they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not go from house to house. Whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you. And heal the sick there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ 10 But whatever city you enter, and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say, 11 ‘The very dust of your city which clings to us we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near you.’ 12 But I say to you that it will be more tolerable in that Day for Sodom than for that city.

The Seventy Are Empowered for Ministry

Jesus commands His disciples to tell the people they encounter that the Kingdom of God has come near them. This indicates that they are filled with the Holy Spirit and, therefore, are empowered for ministry by the gifts of the Spirit, as demonstrated by the healing of the sick, a gift of the Spirit. (see The Lord’s Prayer – The Meaning of Thy Kingdom Come, and Why it Matters.)

They Are Sent

Another essential detail of Luke 10 is that Jesus sends the seventy out with precise instructions. Today, in addition to this scripture, we can receive Jesus’ directions via the Holy Spirit through a word of wisdom, knowledge, or prophesy. God continues to disseminate messages to His people through visions and dreams and through His prophets, who convey God’s words to them. These three gifts of the Spirit lead people to act according to the Lord’s directions.

Also, in Luke 10 above, Jesus instructs His disciples to heal the sick they encounter, which is also a gift of the Spirit. The primary use of this gift is to demonstrate God’s love for the people and the power of God given to those He sends.

Jesus Prohibits Some Provisions

Jesus also sent the seventy out with meager provisions. Today, vast sums of money are often required to launch a ministry. This is a sign that God does not get the glory for what man does but rather for what man is incapable of doing when he does so in the name of Jesus. In the case described in Luke 10 above, a man would not likely initiate such a venture because of the high probability of failure and/or harm. So, let’s see how things turned out in Luke 10 when the 70 returned, having deployed the name of Jesus in their ministry. This scripture will help us understand the meaning of the following phrase of the Lord’s prayer, “On Earth as it is in Heaven.”

The Seventy Return with Joy

Luke 10:17 Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.” 18 And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”

The significant point of the above verse is that the seventy returned to Jesus, communicating that they had power over evil spirits by ministering in Jesus’ name. Jesus responds by articulating His observation of Satan being cast down like lightning from heaven, and that they have power over the spirits and that nothing will harm them.

This clarifies the statement’s meaning in the Lord’s prayer, “Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.” Namely, to exercise power over the evil around us, removing it from our presence by using the power and gifts given to us by deploying the name of Jesus. To have victory over the devil and his angels, cast them from our presence, so the bridegroom can come for His bride (THE-BRIDE-OF-CHRIST-AND-HER-VISION.) When this happens, the Earth will be transformed, Jesus will reside in the core of Earth, and the entire planet will perpetually bloom as a beautiful flower (A VISION OF A JESUS-FILLED WORLD COMING TO PASS.)

Additionally, because of the timing of Jesus’ communication to the seventy after their return, one would envision that their actions somehow fulfilled the Lord’s prayer, ” Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven,” as their actions achieved spiritual warfare victories over Satan, just like the victories that resulted in the casting out of Satan from heaven. This further clarifies that we work in coordination with God and His angels to eliminate evil from our presence.

Therefore, we must seek the Kingdom of God, the infilling of the Holy Spirit, exercise our spiritual gifts, and put on the whole armor of God to cast out the devil and his minions from the Earth so that Jesus may return for His bride. The time to act is now, as Satan is waging a spiritual war for control of the Earth. It is time to prepare and enter the battle for the sake of those we love.

Until next time, much love from Papa Joe.

A VISION OF A JESUS-FILLED WORLD COMING TO PASS

The Morning Star Rising on the First Day