PREPARATION FOR DIVINE VISITATIONS

3 visions & promises of His coming glory cloud

2/22/00

Hi Loved Ones,

It’s been a couple of weeks now since I returned from a Bob Jones & Bobby Conner conference. At the conference I received an experience of a visitation from the Lord’s glory cloud and want to share it with you. I believe the experience and the environment in which it happened is a Word of the Lord for us all.

This Pacific Northwest conference gave wonderful promises of the Lord’s coming glory and that was very encouraging. Among the Words given, one said that the Lord was getting ready to visit His people. He said this would be individual and personal visitations, (rather than corporate visitations, for those would come at a later time) and many would see angels and even Jesus!

However there was a strong theme from each of the speakers of a need for the circumcision of our hearts, repentance and a return to holiness. At the end of one such meeting, there was a call for repentance and intercession over the sins of our forefathers. There was weeping and mourning at the altar. (Joel 2:11-18) I was repenting over identified generational sins passed down in my family blood line. Afterwards I felt empty and saddened at the sins and I heard the Lord say, "I forgive you. I forgive you. I forgive you." I knew it was for the 3 generations I had been praying about and His forgiveness put the matter to rest and I was comforted. I had been especially concerned about this being passed onto future generations and knew that it had been broken in Jesus Name.

Immediately following, the pastor announced He felt impressed that the Lord was saying, "Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow I will visit you." (Joshua 3:5) He suggested that we would not waste away if we forwent the trip to Denny’s after the meeting, but instead kept the same heart and quietly returned to our rooms to seek the Lord. As I quietly left, I noticed the walkway and halls back to our rooms were filled with people all walking in silence. This in itself was a work of the Lord. As I silently climbed into bed I noticed that the clock said 11:56 PM. I realized that it was 4 minutes until "tomorrow" and I felt the Lord was going to visit me, just as the pastor had said. My parting words to the Lord before falling into an exhausted sleep: "Lord it’s only 4 minutes until tomorrow. Please come!"

I was not disappointed. At 4:45 I was awakened with a vision. I saw the cloud of the Lord rolling in on the same glory train tracks I had seen in previous visions. This cloud was moving like the speed of a train down these tracks. I perceived that the train was inside the cloud and being covered by the cloud. Since 4:45 AM was quickened to me as important, I immediately thought that 4:45 represented Ezekiel 44:5, although I could not remember what the passage said.

As I lay in bed quietly worshipping the Lord, I realized His cloud was in the room. I literally breathed the vapor into my nose and lungs. I began to breath very deep as Bob Jones had suggested in an earlier meeting, and then after a while the humid vapor turned into strong incense. It was the same smell of incense that I smelled at Mahesh’s Watch at a conference last year when the Lord had opened my sense of smell.

While I was smelling His incense, my right hand had a surge of His power go through it, then it began to tremble. I heard the Lord say, "Lay it upon your shoulder." I remembered that Bob Jones had said that the shoulder represents the government of the Lord. (Isa 9:6) It was quickened to me that the Lord was about to place His right hand of power upon the shoulders of those whom He has called into His divine government or rule. I felt that the right hand also represented His 5 fold ministry being endued with His power and going forth in His authority.

It was impressed to me that this vision and prophetic experience was somehow related to the environment of the conference meetings: the need for circumcision of our hearts, repentance and a return to holiness, as well as the Word, "Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow I will visit you." However it was not until a few days later, after I had pondered the experience and interpretation, that I found time to look up Ezekiel 44:5. The passage fit exactly.

Ezek 44:4-9

4Also He brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple; so I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD; and I fell on my face. 5And the LORD said to me, "Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes and hear with your ears, all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD and all its laws. Mark well who may enter the house and all who go out from the sanctuary. 6Now say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "O house of Israel, let us have no more of all your abominations. 7When you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to defile it--My house--and when you offered My food, the fat and the blood, then they broke My covenant because of all your abominations. 8And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but you have set others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you." 9'Thus says the Lord GOD: "No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter My sanctuary, including any foreigner who is among the children of Israel.

The life stories in the Old Testament were written for our admonition (or warnings), even for our time today. (I Cor 10:11) They teach us as parables or examples of what He is wanting to teach us in our time. The above Ezekiel scripture clearly tells us those who may enter His Presence. If you note, verse 4 said that the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord. His Presence is waiting to fill us! However He will not fill our temples when we have uncircumcised hearts… hearts that feed upon unholy things.

On 5/13/97 I had another experience with His cloud. I heard the Lord say, "A matter of time." Then I saw a 3-D cloud coming to me. It was hazy and I could see through it. Somehow I recognized that He was inside the cloud and I cried out, "Jesus!" Like a magnet, the cloud came immediately into my pores all over my body. It was like being quickened in all of my cells. I heard Him say, "Cloud. I AM with you. Follow Me." Although I literally experienced His cloud coming into my cells, since I had heard just prior to the vision that it was a matter of time, I believe this was a promise of what was literally to come. We will literally be experiencing the Presence of His cloud, not just in visions!

Annie Schisler, a missionary in Uruguay had numerous trips to the throne room 30 years ago. In her visions, she experienced many aspects of Him in His glory cloud. With her permission, the following is one of her visions.

Note that the Lord spoke to her in "now" language, which is customary to prophets. He is not limited by our slow sense of time. It is so easy to get our prophetic time mixed up because of this. However, I really do feel that with the pieces of the puzzle written in this post, (and more that I do not have space to record) that the time of His visitation is VERY CLOSE. He is hovering over our heads and waiting to visit us and fill us with His glory!

THE CLOUD DESCENDS

[quoted from Annies Visions Book One, page70]

Again I was taken into the realms of the Spirit and lovingly welcomed by the Lord. After covering me with His love He especially told me that I need not have any fear because He would not abandon me. Then He showed me Himself as the Glorious Cloud of Fire and Light. The Cloud was the most excited and exceedingly exalted that I have ever seen it save in anger and wrath, but this time He was not in His wrath. Mighty power and all kinds of rays and emanations were upon all sides. In a most marvelous and tremendous manner He was filled with violence and activity yet it was not in wrath. I cannot describe at all what He was like in the Cloud.

Then there came out from Him in a huge wave something that appeared to be His very own self in mighty glory and in the Cloud yet He did not leave His high place in the heavens either, yet He did. He was in so much activity and moved about over the heavens that opened below Him. This great wave of Himself in the Cloud also descended with tens of thousands of mighty angels down towards the earth. It did not descend slowly nor softly but in great haste and speedy activity. When it was as yet some distance from the earth it hovered there for a while suspended over the heads of the people, but they did not see it nor did they know it was there. And there it rested.

After a while this other Cloud that was Himself - so much so that it seemed that He had partly left the heavens - became again very active and then with another speedy movement it descended again. This time it went clear on down to the earth and was covered from my view.

Then He spoke saying, "This which you see will not take my loving sons by surprise because they are waiting for it to take place. They are already knowing and have been advised and are waiting for Me to come to them in love, for they will love My appearing." He also said that His hour had been fulfilled and that it was now the time that these things must shortly take place."

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We have so much to look forward to! May we search our hearts and ask Him to cleanse us from the sins of compromise and mixture.

For those interested, I have had the books of Annie’s Visions for many years and have been greatly blessed and enriched by them. Books 1& 2 are now reprinted and available to purchase at my site, books 3 & 4 will be available in a few months. There is also a 49 page file at my website of visions and rhema about His coming glory train from people all over the world. For those not able to get to the site, a 78 page booklet is available for sale.

Lovingly,

Sandy