(Singing:)  "Thou art worthy . . ."
                
Now let's lift our voices as instruments and give the Lord praise and glory right now.

Hallelujah.  We glory in You, Lord.  Hallelujah to the Lamb.

Hallelujah.  Oh, we see You high and on Your Throne today.  

We know, Lord, that You're reigning, and that You're ruling, and that You are in charge and in command of all that pertaineth to us, and we thank You for it.  Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.  (Tongues)  Hallelujah.

We know, Lord, that the enemy will not be able to sneak in unaware because You are aware from where You sit.  From Your vantage point, You see all that pertains to us.  

We bless You this day in the City that You love so much.  We bless You.  We glorify You.  We magnify You.  Hallelujah.  We cast our eyes towards You.  Hallelujah.

We want to see You in Your beauty, in Your holiness, in Your power, in Your majesty.  Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.  

Blessed be the Name of the Lord.  If you know this, sing it with me before we look to the Word.

(Singing:)  "Turn Your eyes upon Yeshua.  Look full in His wonderful face (full knowledge) . . ."

We love You, Lord.  Hallelujah.  

Let's clap our hands unto the Lord today.

We just clap our hands before You, Lord.  How we love You and praise You and thank You for everything You've done and for who You are and for what You mean to us today.  We bless You.  Amen.  

Let's turn in our Bibles, if we could this morning, to Matthew, chapter 3.  

And while you're turning, we want to say a greeting to all you that are gathered here - wonderful group of people gathered here this morning.

And we also want to welcome those who could not be here in person, in body, but you're joining us over the stream.  

Matthew, chapter 3, is a very familiar verse of Scripture.  I've questioned the Lord seriously about why we would go over the same thing, but here we are.  

Matthew 3:11.

11.  I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

Somebody say "with fire."

12.  Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Father, we thank You this morning for Your Word.  We thank You for Your Presence.  And we thank You for Your people in whom You are pleased to dwell in with Your Spirit.  

We thank You that You've given us this opportunity that we could gather together in this place and we could look to You and receive words of life and help and encouragement.

And we are filled with much anticipation concerning the days that are ahead for Your body and Your Bride around the world.  

And we pray, oh God, that You will anoint our faith that we can reach up and that our expectations will grow and that we will look higher than we've been looking to see, Lord, that which You have promised and that that You're beginning to already fulfill around the world.

We give You glory and honor and praise.  BaShem Adonai Yeshua HaMashiach.  Amen.  And the church said, "Amen."  You may be seated.

Can I just ask . . . ?  It's okay.  It doesn't mean anything perhaps to everyone.  But can I just ask if anyone had an unusual night last night in the night?  Anybody notice anything different?  Wow.

Well, my wife said that she certainly did.  And she took a poll at our house and everybody at our house had a very unusual night.

Our children had a very unusual night last night.  Olivia was up in the middle of the night.  Joshua was up in the middle of the night.  Olivia came in our room at 4:30 this morning, and she'd been doing a lot better than that.

Well, my wife was beginning to hear all these stories.  So she comes into the bedroom and she said, "What happened last night?"

And so, I didn't say too much to her except to tell her, "It's no wonder that you couldn't sleep because the whole roof of the apartment was gone."

Now it'd be very hard to sleep if you're laying there where there's no roof.  But spiritually, in vision, the whole roof of the apartment was gone.

The ceiling . . .  I was laying there looking at the white ceiling and I saw it disappear.  And then I realized that I could see the whole roof was being moved out of the way.  And I could look right up and see the stars.

I'm not going to tell the vision this morning because I don't think I could.  In fact, telling it now I'm almost losing my breath to be able to share.

But the Lord was real and He was faithful.  And we'll just see how the Lord moves.

But I'm feeling very strongly that I won't share the details yet while in Jerusalem.  But most of you will have the opportunity to hear it on tape afterwards.  

Except I'll tell you that the Lord has done for me what He promised that He would in January of this year.

I was worshiping the Lord on the platform in our church in Alabama and I saw in vision . . .  Excuse me.  I'm trembling.

I saw in vision the Four Living Creatures as they were moving in an unusual shape.  They were not moving in a wheel as Ezekiel saw them.  And even one time, two times, I've seen them moving in wheels, like in circles.  But they were moving more like a square or a rectangular shape.

And they were moving very, very determined.  And it's a worshipful . . .  I don't know how to describe what they're doing because it's somewhere between a march and a dance.  

And I don't know how to describe it because it's holy, but it's odd.  It's a little bit odd.  They would move a few steps and then they would take a very deep bow, almost touching their head to the ground, and then come back up very swiftly and then take a few more steps and then bow over, almost touching the ground, and then up very quickly.

So it's beautiful, but it's very hard exactly to put words to it.  Well anyway, you've heard me tell that.

They were moving in this little pattern and all of a sudden that last of the four, the one whom the Bible describes as having the face of a flying eagle . . .

Now I find that very strange.  I love it.  I love the Bible and I love the language of the Bible.

But I find that so strange.  How does one have the face of a flying eagle?  What kind of a face does a flying eagle have that's any different from an eagle that's on a perch?  You understand what I'm saying?

The Bible said he had a face of a flying eagle.  And the only thing that I can think about is there must be a special look of exhilaration when an eagle is taking flight that he wouldn't have when he is a stationary position.

I remember Bro. Branham telling a story one time about he and his youngest son, Joseph, being in a large zoo.  And while they were in this zoo, there was a very large eagle that was in some sort of cage, you know, like maybe an aviary with a net or something.  And the eagle was just sitting there.

And Bro. Branham loved the eagle.  And it was very hard for him to see the eagle . . .  It was hard enough to see the other animals in a cage.  But it was very hard to see this eagle in a cage.

Because we all know that the eagle was not born to be earthbound, but it was born to soar through the skies.  That's the very purpose of the eagle.  It's his nature.  It's what he desires to do.

And Bro. Branham was so grieved.  He was having this conversation with Joseph.  And he said, "In this eagle's eye, there was a far-away look."

He was grieved, and yet you could see that his mind wasn't concentrating so much on the cage, but it was concentrating, kind of dreaming about what it would be like if he were to be set free.

I heard that story many years ago now, and it reminded me of something.  I've shared it here in Jerusalem before.  It reminded me of the look that the old saints used to get in our church, in our little Pentecostal church, when they were singing about heaven.

And if you took our old hymnal and you made a mark on every song that was about heaven, that was about eternity, that was about the promised land, the life to come, I think you would be marking, probably, ninety percent of the songs.

Because in those days, times were very, very hard when these hymns were being written.  It was war time.  It was depression time.  And people were trying to get their minds off of their circumstances and trying to get their minds on heaven and eternity.

And when they would sing those songs, there would be a stare, a look, that would come over their faces.  And I would know, even as a little boy, that they weren't really in the church anymore.

Physically they were there, but their spirits had already just kind of drifted away to that promised land, and they were kind of living under the influence and the excitement of heaven like that eagle.

And so in this vision in January, I saw this real look, I remember seeing this real look, of exhilaration on this eagle's face.  And he turned, he stopped, he turned his head . . .  Before, all I was able to see was their profile as they were moving around.

But he stopped and he turned and he looked me right in the eye and he said, "We have an appointment with you in Jerusalem."  And they were gone.  And we've been waiting on that.

And the first weekend I was here, I had a powerful dream that I'm still, just now still, writing down to try to get all of the details.  I have the outline, but there were some specific little details of conversation that took place with each of these seven church age messengers that I feel is significant.

So I was beginning to wonder, was the dream . . . ?  Although in the dream I didn't see the Four Living Creatures.  I saw those seven church age messengers which are represented as the seven stars in the hand of the Lord Jesus in Revelation, chapter 1.

And I thought, "Well, maybe somehow this is this visitation, even though the Four Living Creatures were not in it.  I know that they also represent the overcoming anointing in every age, so perhaps this is what it was about."

But last night I received the fulfillment.

And I would just give you this little piece by saying that I was awakened, completely totally awake.  It was not a dream.  And I don't know if you would classify it as a night vision.  I'm not sure exactly what to call it.  Maybe a vision in the night is a night vision.

But I was wide awake.  And there stood at the foot of my bed, all of a sudden, a very, very large angel.

And I looked over . . . because my wife had just stirred in the bed.  And really, my heart just leaped because I thought, "She's going to see it.  It's this powerful.  It's this kind of a manifestation that it's so physical that my wife is literally going to see this angel."  And she stirred, but she never looked up.

And I reached over to try to touch her and I was paralyzed.  I could not reach . . .  I could not touch her.  I think maybe my hand moved, but my arm . . .  I could not reach over.  And she was very close to me in the bed, but I could not touch her.

The thing that was unusual about this angel is that he was holding a sword in his right hand by the . . .  What do you call the . . .?  The handle.  Do they sometimes call it . . . ?  What's that?  The hilt or something.  He was holding it down here at the bottom like this.

And normally if you see an angel, you think about the sword being raised or something.  I don't know what different positions.  But this angel was very . . . unusually . . .  It seemed so strange, but yet very powerful.

He had his hand like this.  And he didn't have wings, by the way, if anybody was curious.  But he had hands.  And his hand was like this.  He held the sword here.  And it was propped on his shoulder - the blade.  The blade of the sword was just laying propped against his shoulder in a . . .  I don't know.

It was strange.  It was like he was relaxed, but ready - relaxed, but ready.  It wasn't in a sheath.  It wasn't down by his side or in the air.  But the blade was just propped on his shoulder.

He asked me a question, I answered the question, and there was a little interchange between us.

And all of a sudden, that's when I looked straight up  because I saw a light getting brighter above my head.  And I looked up and the ceiling was gone and the roof was gone, and I was looking straight up into the sky.  

And I don't know if the night was clear last night.  It had been cloudy all day.  But I can tell you that in this vision I could see the stars.  It was very, very clear.  I could see the stars.  And I was moved out of the bed and up into the air in a very unusual way, like flying, like a flight, though I was wide awake.  

And I was able to recognize French Hill.  I was able to recognize the neighborhood very positively.  I saw our street.  I saw Bar Kochba above us.  I saw the supermarket.  I looked across the circle, the road out there, and I saw Dominoes.

This is the first time I've ever seen a pizza place in a vision.  But I saw the Dominoes sign.  And I was just being lifted higher and higher and higher.  And the angel was just a few feet above me and near me.  And I could've reached and touched him.  At any time he could've touched me.  We were that close.  And we were moving.  

And all of a sudden I saw that we were moving toward a ladder.  And it was the most beautiful ladder.  How a ladder can be beautiful, I don't know.  But it was the most beautiful ladder that I'd ever seen.  And it was very, very wide - a very wide ladder.

And there were angels moving up the ladder and down the ladder with great precision.  Angels were ascending and angels were descending.  And all I want to share now . . .  I'm getting that little feeling that this is enough, soon.  

But there was a line.  There was a line of angels, a cue of angels, waiting their turn to climb the ladder.  And as the angels were coming down, I could just see them moving out in different directions, and there was no line there.

As they stepped off the ladder, they were just moving out in different directions.  But there was a little queue, a little line, maybe five or six, ahead of us.  And we just stepped into line to go up the ladder.  

And I remember at that point glancing down and seeing that this ladder was suspended somewhere between the old city of Jerusalem and the new city.  I literally could see on my right the old city beneath me and on my left the new city of Jerusalem.  So I knew that this ladder was positioned right between the old city of Jerusalem and the new city.

And I just want to mention this.  The angels never spoke to one another at this point.  They were moving up the ladder and down the ladder.  But no one was speaking to one another.  They looked very determined.

But as I began to step . . .  My turn came.  The angel was just ahead of me.  And as my turn came to climb the ladder, I stepped up a few . . .  It was very easy to climb.  There was no effort.

Although it appeared that the rungs of the ladder were like steps and they were quite high apart, yet there was no effort in lifting the leg.  It seemed like . . .  I thought, "My, that's a long way to step."  But it was very easy to make that step.

And I felt very holy.  There was a very, very holy and fearful presence to be among that many angels of God, messengers of God, at one time.  And I thought, "I want to look at them."  All I could see was the back of the angel who was just ahead of me.

And I thought, "I want to look at them a little more.  I want to see a little bit more about them."  So I turned my head just a little bit to the left.  And as I did, they would not look at me.  They were marching down, climbing down the steps of the ladder, in great precision, very determined.

But immediately when I looked, they acknowledged my look.  I knew that they saw me and in some way sensed and knew that I was looking at them.  And they smiled with their lips only.  

It's a very strange thing.  In other words, it wasn't a big smile.  It wasn't a facial smile where your muscles move up in your face.  It was just a very small little acknowledgement in their lips as they were a little bit amused, I think, that I was glancing, that I was, you know, among them and I wasn't one of them.

There was just a little bit of interaction that took place without any words.  And then we climbed.  And it was very holy.  And, you know, I'll share more if I can at another time.  But I went on into the Presence of the Lord.  I saw the Four Living Creatures.  I saw something going on in heaven that really surprised me.

It was in a place where the Throne was not.  It was not in the Throne Room.  It seemed to be in a place in a realm of heaven where the righteous are, but not yet before the Throne.  And I know that's a little bit controversial for some people because they believe the minute you die, you know, you're immediately standing before the Throne of the Lord.  

And the Bible said to be absent from the body is to be what?  Present with the Lord.  But I personally believe, based on the Scripture, that the dead in Christ are not standing before the Throne of the Lord, looking at the Lord Jesus right now.

I believe that they are somewhere in the realms of eternity in the Presence of the Lord.  They know His Presence in a way that you and I have not yet known Him.

It's so real.  It's real enough.  It's real enough without actually seeing Him on the Throne.  It is that near Him and that close to Him that they know He is there, even though perhaps they're not physically before His Throne.

I was for a little while in that realm before I moved up into a higher realm.  I was for a little while in that realm.

And there were classes.  This is very strange.  And I have . . .  That's the reason I don't want to say so much.

But it was as though there were classes going on.  You know, I don't like school so much, and it's not a pleasant thought for me to think that heaven is school.

But anyway, in these conferences, or it was like a session, there was a myriad, there was a multitude, of angels who were standing in this great room, and they were being taught.

And this was what was so strange.  They were not being taught by other angels.  They were being taught by what looked like men of this realm, mortal men, that had gone into this Presence of the Lord.

Now, they had a beautiful look about them.  There was a heavenly glow about them, but they were certainly not angels.

They were certainly men, and there were a few women present, that surely have lived in this realm and have gone into the Presence of the Lord.  And these men were teaching these angels.  

Now this is what I really have to think about, because I need some time and here I am on the stream.  But I need some time.  Because I was in the shower this morning and I thought, "Lord, this seems so strange."

And all I can tell you is a Scripture came to my mind, and a question said, "Didn't the Word say, didn't the Bible say, that we would judge angels?"  And so . . .  The Bible does say that, by the way, for you that don't know it.  The Bible does say that we will judge angels.  It was kind of quiet.

And all I can tell you is I was able to hear and observe some of the lessons that were being taught.  And it pertained to this time that we're living in right now.

And I recognized that these were men who had lived in ages prior to where we are right now - some from Laodicea, some from earlier church ages that we read about in the Book of Revelation.

And they were teaching these angels again about the overcoming power and the overcoming anointing and the difficulty.

And then something kind of registered to me this morning and that is that angels are heavenly creatures created by God.  They are not humans.  And they don't understand, totally completely.  They may not . . .  Let's just say they may not completely understand real humanity.

This is what's so precious about our Messiah, our Savior.  He was all God.  He was all God and yet He became all man.  He was very much God and yet He was very much man.

He chose to come and live among us in a man's body, an earthly body, a physical human body so that He would be able to understand our groaning, so that He would be able to understand our temptation.  You believe that, don't you?  . . . So that He would be able to understand.

We have a high priest who can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities because He has lived this life - without sin, the Bible said.

And yet the Scripture teaches He was in all manner tempted as we are.  So He understands our temptations and our suffering.

But I'm not so sure that all of these angels, although they're powerful and they bring great blessing and deliverances and they're warriors . . .  I'm not sure that they completely fathom . . .

Because these overcomers were talking to the angels, sharing and testifying before these angels, of the glory and the strength and what was given.  And I knew in my spirit, but I didn't trust my knowing.

And I asked this angel, "What is going on?"

And he said, "These angels are being prepared for what is ahead."

And I thought about that a moment.  And I realized that before these angels could descend this ladder, they were given instruction and they were given commissions and told where to go and what needed to be done.

And what I was observing was some of that training and some of that preparation that was being made for these angels to come and bring breakthroughs and miracles and deliverances, and so forth.

And anyway, this was powerful enough, but it was greater and it went beyond.  And the Lord took me even into a higher realm to see some other things that were going on before the Throne.

Can I just end this little introduction to it?  Because it may be all I share while I'm in Jerusalem.

Can I just say that heaven is so busy.  I've never seen in the Spirit a busier place.  I've had several visitations into that Presence of God in the heavenly realm, but I've never seen it so busy - bustling.  It was as though angels would be bumping into one another, but they weren't.  They did not.

But there was just activity - moving and whizzing.  And as I was standing there watching in the Spirit these things take place, constantly there was movement around me.  The angels were moving in front of me and beside me and around me and behind me.  And some were carrying things.  And they were moving in such swiftness.

It looked like chaos, but I sensed that it was not chaos, but the opposite of chaos.  It was divine order.  And they each knew where they were supposed to be.  And they each knew what they were supposed to do.  Heaven is busy, hallelujah.  

There's great acceleration of activity in the heavenlies.  And we know that whatever's happening in the Spirit, it types out in the earth.  And what God is determining . . .  The Bible said, "Whatsoever ye bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever ye loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

And so we understand there's a great communication between heaven and earth.  And I just feel like the busyness in the heavenlies is a type of great busyness that's about to take place spiritually in the earth - real commissions.

You know, I didn't see any angels floating on clouds, playing harps.  I didn't see any angels in diapers with bows and arrows like cupids.  But these were very, very busy and determined messengers of God.  Hallelujah.

And I believe that there is going to be a real spiritual awakening and awareness.  The fear, of course, is that we must not focus on angels.  Because when we do that we lose focus of the Lord Jesus.  

That's what's happened in the New Age world, in America especially, is people begin to focus on angels and they do all their communication with angels.  We don't want to do that.

They're here to assist us, to make war with us and to bring breakthroughs and deliverances.  But they're not here for us to focus our attention on angelic beings.  We must focus our attention on the Lord.

However, there is a new crop of angels that are being trained right now.  I'm sure they've existed for a long time in the heavenlies.  But they are chosen and commissioned for this hour that we're approaching right now.

And they're being strategically trained and positioned and made ready for very powerful warfare that's about to take place in the atmosphere just above us.

And yet I know in the Spirit that they're not going to be caught up eternally in the atmosphere above us, but they're going to break through into the realm that we're living in.

And we're going to see assistance and aid.  Somebody said, "What do you mean, assistance and aid?"

The Bible said that . . .  The psalmist David declared that He would give His angels charge over us lest we would dash our foot against a stone.  I believe that's rendering aid (don't you?) and protection.

And God's people are going to become more aware as this new graduating class of angels is released in the earth.  They're graduating.  They're coming to their . . .  Their training, I feel, is very near to being over.  

In fact, I can tell you that it's . . .  I don't know how much longer they have, but I can tell you that they have just heard from some of the overcomers of this age that we're living in right now who went by the way of the grave, but they went as overcomers.  They died as overcomers.

And they have just received this last session of teaching from those who overcame in this age.  So what's left?  What's left to tell them?  Who else can come and instruct them?  It's time for them to come on the scene and fulfill some of the works of the Lord.

When I woke up . . .  And that's enough.  When I woke up, the thought on my mind was not about anything that I had seen.  The thought on my mind was about the Fire of the Lord.

It wasn't that I saw fire in this vision.  But I woke up, and the first thought that came to my mind is "We've got to have the Fire."

We've got to have the Fire of God in our lives - not just corporately as a body, but we've got to have a real baptism of Fire individually.

We've got to have the Fire of the Lord.

And so I went back and read some prophecies that Sister Elfrieda had sent.  I didn't get to read them last night.  She attached a letter.  I read the letter, but I did not read the prophecies.

So I went back this morning and I began to read the prophecies that she had sent.  

And guess what they were every one about?  Fire.  

I was so surprised.  And I want to read a little of it to you because I didn't even know I'd be able to say this much.  I'm amazed that I could get this much out.

And so that's the reason I prepared to bring this, in case I couldn't even get that far.  This came in '99.

"I am the Fire, saith the Spirit of the Lord.
Yea, I am the Fire.
Yea, I am the Purifier and I am the Sanctifier.
Yea, the Fire is in My Word, saith the Lord,
and I have carried My Fire by My Spirit.

"Yea, the Lord would say unto thee,
in the bush that burned before Moses,
I was the Fire."  

Now that's just simple truth.  He was the Fire that was in the bush.  That's all right with me.  

"Yea, it was I, saith the Lord, that was in the midst of the bush.
And yea, the Lord thy God would say unto thee, draw Me.
Draw Me, saith the Lord, into thy bosom
for I am the Purifying Fire.
And yea, the Fire of God shall burn upon thee,
saith the Lord, if you so desire."  

And I so desire this morning to pull this Fire into my life.

"Yea, the Lord would say unto thee,
I'll not push myself upon thee.
But yea, the Lord would say,
if you'll draw Me in,
I will come, saith God, and purify thee.
Yea, I will purify your thoughts, saith the Lord,
and I will even purify your intentions."  

We need that.  I feel an emphasis on our intentions.  God help us.

You know, they have this saying, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

Intentions are not enough.  But we have to have pure intentions so that we can have pure actions and pure behavior.

"Yea, the Lord would say unto thee,
I will go even into the depth of your life,
into the marrow of your bones, saith the Lord,
and purify all that is about you.

"Yea, the Lord would say unto you,
for so long you have walked with motives that have not been Mine, saith God.
Yea, you have had intentions that have not been Mine.  

"But the Lord would say unto thee,
release your motives to Me
and release your intentions to Me
and your thoughts and programs to Me,
saith the Lord.
And your plans for the future -
release them to Me for I am the burning Fire.
And yea, I am in the midst of thee this night
to purify My people,
yea, to burn thee with an unquenchable Fire.

"Yea, Satan has tried to put out the Fire.
Yea, he thought if he could kill the Fire-bearers, saith the Lord,
that there would be no Fire.
But I say unto thee,
when one generation of Fire-bearers has passed,
I have raised up another and another and another.
Yea, the grave was not able to stop
those who have borne My Fire
and have brought My Fire.

"And yea, the Lord would say unto thee,
I have got a ready army scattered, saith the Lord.
Yea, many of them walk yet in ignorance,
and they don't know the fullness of My power.
  
"And yea, many of them are still bound
by ideas and traditions that are not of Me.
But yea, I am preparing them,
and I am getting them ready, saith the Lord.
And they will take forth My Fire.

"Yea, the Lord would say unto thee,
how is it that you think you could carry My Fire
to even the one standing next to you
until you have taken it into your own bosom?

"Yea, the Lord would say unto thee,
draw My Fire in -
not a strange fire,
but the Fire of the Most High God.
And I will purify and I will quicken thee
by My Holy Spirit, so saith the Lord."

To me that is a very powerful promise of the Fire of God, and it makes me hungry to pull for this Fire.  

In this same meeting, I think it was . . .  Yes.  In this same meeting, there was a vision.

"I see the army of the Lord
as they go forth in His Name like Gideon's army.
Yea, I see them now even -
not as a great, great, great multitude,
but I see them as a multitude.
I see them hand picked for this hour.
I see them chosen for an appointed time.
And I see them going forth.

"And I hear the Voice of the Captain saying,
'You've been narrowed down.
You've been tested and tried, yea,
and your ranks have known the sifting of the Lord.'  

"But I see the army of the Lord going forth, yea,
and many have turned back
because they were not chosen for this hour.

"But I see the army of the Lord going forth
with torches raised high in their right hands
above their heads, like fire.
And the Lord said,
'It's like Gideon's army going forth.'
Their army is shiny and I see the reflection . . ."  

This was powerful to me.

". . . I see the reflection of the flames in their breastplates.
The fire that they hold in their hand upon the torches,
I see it as it flickers in the shield and in the breastplate.
And I can even see the flames as they reflect off
the helmets.

"This army is not an army that is ill prepared (hallelujah),
but it's an army that is well prepared of God.
And everything she says and everything she does reflects the Glory and the Fire of the Living God.
It's reflected out of her breastplate.
And that's her righteousness.
And it's reflected out of her shield.
That's faith.
And it's reflected out of her helmet.
That's salvation."

Glory be to God.  The Holy Ghost said in another Word in the same service:

"The world may look upon you and they may think that you are so far behind . . ."

Have you ever felt that way spiritually - that you're just way behind everybody else?  

You get in a group of intercessors and they've all got it and you don't, you know.  You feel that way sometime.  This is a Word I was giving from the Lord.

". . . but I see you written on the edge of the Sword.
And the Spirit of God says, the cutting edge.
And you're written on the cutting edge
of the Sword of the Lord.
So the world may look at you,
and they may see your rejection,
and they may see the misfit part of your life
and how you don't fit in,
and they may sense how you feel like a square peg
trying to go in a round hole.

"But the Lord said, don't listen to them.
They don't know you like I know you.  (Hallelujah)
I have written you on the edge of My Sword,
and I will make you the cutting edge.

"And the Lord said, I will do nothing in the earth . . .
He said, right now, you're having to hear what . . .  
You see, you're hearing what He's doing here
and you're hearing what He's doing in other places.

"But God said, when My work is perfected in this place . . ."  

It was a Word given out over our ministry, but I believe anybody who's hearing from God in this hour can claim this.  

"When My work is perfected in this place
and you have recognized that you're on the edge of My Sword,
you won't have to hear what I'm doing anywhere else,
but You'll be able to taste it fresh
because I'll bring it right upon you
because you'll be a people that I can trust.

"I let these things fall in other places sometime
to see the course that they're going to run,
to see the course that they're going to take.
But when I get you in that place,
when you allow Me to place you in position,
you'll be written on the edge.

"Wherever that Sword is striking, you'll be there because you're right on the edge of the Sword.

"The Lord said, sometimes when you look around
you feel like that you're so far behind
and what a lot of people have grabbed,
you're just kind of in a dark age.

"But the Lord said, I see you in a completely different way.
I'm putting you on the edge of My Sword.
You're not bringing up the rear,
but you're taking the forefront.

"I see the Captain of the host of the Lord
raising that Sword toward a fenced city.
I see in the valley a fenced city.
And I see the watchmen of the enemy's kingdom on the wall.
But I see you written on the edge of the Sword.

"And the Sword is not bringing up the rear,
but the Captain is standing (hallelujah) before the army,
and He's reaching you out upon the edge of His Sword.
The walls will come down
and I will give you the spoil, I hear God saying.

"And with the spoil, I'll give you a host of Rahabs."

Listen.

". . . a host of Rahabs
for I have kept them, saith the Lord,
even as I kept Rahab, the harlot.
I have made them a promise.
And I would say unto thee,
those that have called out to Me,
but could not walk in freedom,
yet I've promised them
and I have covenanted with them
that there will come a day of freedom."

Do you recognize that there are people who have loved the Lord, who have been called of the Lord, but have never been able to overcome the things of this world that have them bound?  They are not free.

They have a love for the Lord and they're a little bit conscious of the Lord's love for them, but they are not overcomers.  They cannot break out of the cycle of sin and bondage that has them bound.  

But God was saying here, "I've got them hidden like Rahabs."  Hallelujah.  

And He said, "I've promised them.  I have covenanted with them."

"I have married myself to Rahabs
that are in the fenced cities.
And I will hang a scarlet thread of redemption
upon the walls that I give you in the cities in the Spirit.
And you will know that I have seed there.

"Prepare yourself.
For as the Fire of God purifies you,
I'll place you ahead of the army and not in the rear.

"For the Lord would say unto thee,
the Word shall surely come to pass.
The last shall be first and the first shall be last,
saith the Lord."

A little more . . .  I'm discerning in the Spirit now.

"How is it that you're written upon the Sword of the Lord?
Steven is not written there
and Wesley is not written there,
and Jonathan or Daniel or Kary,
whatever your name might be.
But what is it that I can see written on the Sword?

"But I hear the Voice of God saying,
I've written you there.
I see what's written upon that Sword.
And this is why you're there.
Written on the blade of the Sword is
'Holiness unto the Lord' - not your personal name
but 'Holiness unto the Lord.'

"And He said, because you've been faithful to Me,
you will partake of the holiness of the Lord
(we need that),
and it is by that holiness that you're identified."  

By His holiness - not our holiness, not our righteousness - His.

". . . it is by that holiness that you're identified.
Your holiness and your purity of life
has caused you to bring up the rear.
But the Lord would say unto thee,
the same thing that has caused the world to reject you
has caused Me to favor you.
Prepare yourself for the cutting edge.

"I see the army mobilized and moving forward in the Spirit."

All this was the same night.  This was a powerful service.

"And I see the Fire of God bringing up the rear.
And I see that on either side of the road,
the Fire is devouring the stubble in the path
that this army has taken.

"And God said, because of the Fire of the Lord that'll follow this great army that He's raising up,
that Fire will spread down even into the valleys
and the villages of those that you would never be able to reach with your physical presence.

"But when the army moves out in divine order,
and when she moves out under that anointing,
I see the Fire of God coming behind her
as the Scripture has said -
'The glory of the Lord shall be your rereward.'
I see that Fire.
And I see it going down in the shoulders of the road that the army of God is moving upon,
and I see the Fire of God consuming all the stubble -
you know, all the growth and the weeds
and all the things that are on the side of the road.

"And God said, that Fire won't stop
by just devouring the weeds and the stubble,
but that Fire will go forth into the valleys
and across the hills and into the villages,
and the Fire of God will find the seed of the Lord.
The Fire of God will search and find the seed of God.

"The Spirit of the Lord said, I'm getting ready
to mobilize a search and rescue mission
from the Throne."  Hallelujah.  

Maybe that's part of what I was seeing - that search and rescue mission of angels.

"I'm getting ready to mobilize
a search and rescue mission from the Throne.
And the Fire of God is going to go in
and search out the seed of the Lord
and rescue them from their bondage."

Can I share one more?

"God said, I told you you were the head and not the tail."  

Oh Lord, we don't know what that feels like, but we claim it right now.

We don't know what it feels like to be the head.  But we're going to know it if it we hold onto the Lord.  We're going to know it.

"He said, I'll make My people the head and not the tail.  

"He said, as the foolish virgins came to the wise
to buy of their oil, the Lord said,
they will come to you to receive of your oil.
For a short season there will be enough oil
that you may share it with those who come.

"But the hour will surely come
when the supply will be to such a measure
that you'll have to fulfill the parable of the Lord
and say, 'Go, buy for yourselves and find it.'  

"But the Lord said, for a glorious season
there'll be enough of His oil and His anointing
that you might be able to give to others
who'll come to you searching and seeking Him.

"The Spirit of the Lord said,
and the descendants of Joshua shall lead the way.
The children that have been born
under the leadership of Joshua
shall lead the way,
and our Joshua is the Holy Ghost."

The last one is this:  

"I saw that same vision
that Jonathan had described earlier.
But I saw those two mountains
as they were melting.
I saw the tops of these mountains begin to melt,
and they began to run low and run together.

"They run down the sides of the mountains
until they formed a plateau.
The breach, the chasm, between the two mountains
was gone because the tops of the two mountains
had melted down.
And they formed a plateau.

"I heard the Voice of the Spirit saying,
not one stone is lost.  Not one stone is lost.
But it's the  repositioning.
I'm repositioning the stones and the soil.
And nothing is lost from the Spirit.
Nothing is lost from the Truth.
But I'm melting them together
and repositioning them to form a great plateau
and a foundation for the Bridegroom to stand on."

Hallelujah.

"When the Bridegroom comes in His fullness,
He'll stand on that plateau that's being formed
by the repositioning of these stones -
the mountain of the Spirit and the mountain of Truth
becoming a great platform
for the Son of Man to stand on in these days."

I believe God was speaking to us about a time when those who have stood on the Word of Truth and those who have been schooled in the Spirit . . . when they'll begin to come together and flow together and not against one another.  

Even in the conferences and meetings in America, sometimes a preacher will get up and he'll say, "We need to focus on the Word of God."  

And the next preacher who has the afternoon session will say, "No, no, the emphasis now should be on the Spirit."

And you know, they're both right and they're both wrong.  They're wrong because they can't see that there has to be a marriage of the two.  

The Bible said that His Words are Spirit and they are Life.  And He said, "They that worship Me must worship Me (how?) in Spirit and in Truth."

And so anyway, there's some powerful things.  

I have something there, but I don't think it would be exactly what you'd be looking for.  But it's . . .  

Brother Branham prophesied this day when others out there would begin to get a hold of the Word of the Lord and what would happen.  And I believe we're coming in that day.

I want to close.  

I didn't even go through these Scriptures, but I feel like I'd better hush soon if I possibly can.  I wanted to just share just a little portion of this last vision that came in October of this past year concerning the Fire.  

I don't know why God is so emphasizing the Fire, but I'm going to emphasize what He's emphasizing, and I want to get it.  

In this vision, it was Mt. Zion and there were cracks in it.  

And you've already heard it.  It's been shared.  You've heard the tape.  But I feel like it's got to be put in here as a caboose of this sharing about Fire.

I was reaching up, and we were climbing and we were trying to get up higher on Mt. Zion.  And I could look down into these cracks and see Fire beneath the surface.  

And it was a very strange thing because I had this premonition in the Spirit, this inspiration - "We've got to get the Fire inside of us."  

And I thought . . .  And I know it's a little strange sounding, but how are we going to get the Fire from inside the mountain inside of us?  How are we going to do it?  

And all of a sudden there was a man who was a little bit higher up the mountain than me.  

And you know what?  Somebody asked me did it bother me that someone was higher than me and was getting . . .  

I said, "Absolutely not.  That didn't bother me at all."

I need somebody going before me, don't you?  I want somebody going ahead of me and helping me to know what is just up the way.  

And then if God will help me, I'll be faithful to help those that are behind me.  But we need each other.  And we don't anyone need to think that we're the ones that's going to do it all.  

But anyway, I was blessed, although I don't know who the man was.  

But all of a sudden, I saw how he got the Fire.  He just asked for it.  He said, "Lord, I need the Fire."

And all of a sudden, he bent over and placed his mouth near the crack.  

And all a sudden, I heard a swishing sound almost, a vacuum sound, and I heard the Fire as it went up into him from the crack like "whoooh" - just like that - "whoooh."  And now it was inside of him.  And he swallowed the Fire that was inside Mt. Zion.

I remember hearing thunder and voices up a little bit higher, and I couldn't hear what they were saying.

But I knew that I needed the Fire to give me the strength to get up to where those thunders and voices were sounding.

And I said to those behind me . . .  I could see some people even that I recognized . . . and I said, "Go ahead and put your mouth down and take in that Fire.  It's His Life.  Don't be afraid to swallow it.  It looks like Fire, but it's really His Life.  It's the Life of the Messiah in the Fire."

And I could tell that they were afraid behind me.  They were very afraid.  And I reached down and I did exactly what I saw that brother doing.  

And I could feel that Fire when it went into me burning in my belly.  And then the next sensation that I had was my bones were on fire.

I could feel that Fire running even down my fingers and my arms.  And it was serious.  

There were some who were afraid still to take the Fire, but I knew that I had to go up a little bit higher.

And all of a sudden, when they saw me leaving them and that I wasn't going to stay with them . . .  If they weren't going to take the Fire, they were going to be left out.  

All of a sudden when they saw us going on ahead, they began to swallow the Fire.  

And I'm kind of making it a little funny, but it said, "I wished you could see them now.  They were licking and lapping up the Fire like dogs.  They didn't want to be left behind.  They wanted the Fire of God in them."

I could feel it in my belly - a burning sensation.  And then other things happened in the vision.  

I don't know exactly how it's going to be.  But I know that the Biblical precedent all the way through the Bible is that the Fire precedes the glory of the Lord.

If you want the glory of God and the heaviness of God and full knowledge in your life, the Fire always comes first.  

There is an example that's given in the early church fathers.  It's strange because it's mentioned several times in the anti- and post-Nicean fathers in their speaking.

And it was an illustration that was given of the sword, and they even used a term that's a modern term.  

How many of you have ever heard the word "infusion"?  They used a cruder form of this word "infusion."  

Sometimes you'll go into a store and you'll see vinegar or either olive oil that has been infused with other flavors or other herbs.  They call it sometimes herbed vinegar or herbed oil.  

And it's not just sticking sprigs of herbs in vinegar or in oil, but it's a heating process where they heat up the vinegar, or they heat up the oil, and they put in these other spices.

And the oil and the vinegar takes the flavor of these other spices and it can be very, very tasty.  

Now I like garlic so you can imagine which one I like.  I like olive oil that has been infused with garlic.  It's a wonderful flavor for dipping bread.

The early church fathers . . . they used an example of the sword.  And they said, "A man can lay his sword in the fire and leave it there until the blade becomes so red hot that you could pick up that sword by the handle and almost see through it."

Has anybody ever seen metal that hot?  I've seen it - metal in its smelting process where it takes on . . . literally, it really takes on the fire, doesn't it?  

We take our children sometime to an Indian festival that they have near our area because I have Cherokee blood in my family.  And so I like for the kids to at least know a little bit about the Indians.

And when we go, they also have pioneers there and they have . . .  What do they call them?  Blacksmiths.

And you can see these old blacksmiths doing it the old-timey way where they use these bellows, you know, to provide the air to feed the fire.  

And you see the iron in the fire, and it becomes so red hot.  They can hold it up with tongs, and it's so red hot you can see through it.

The early church fathers said, "You lift that blade out of the fire and it's so red hot it looks like fire.  It will burn you with fire, like fire, but the sword doesn't become the fire.  But the heat of the fire is infused into that blade."

And they said, "This is the way that we need . . ."

This is early church fathers, and they weren't always the greatest . . .  You know, they didn't always speak with the greatest revelation because they were heavily influenced by the organized church.  And they often missed the leading of the Spirit.  

But in this beautiful illustration, they said, "This is what God wants to do for us.  We don't become the Fire, but He lays us in the Fire until we take on the nature and the characteristics of the Fire."  

You take that blade and you lay it against something, it can set it on fire even though it's not fire.  It can cause something else to catch on fire because it has taken on the attributes of the fire.  It's an infusion.

And I believe that's what God wants to do in this hour.  Hebrews 12:29 teaches us that our God is what?  A consuming Fire.  

And He said, the Spirit of God said, in these prophecies, "I am the Fire."  

So don't get it in your mind that you've got God, and then you've got the Fire, and you've got the Spirit of God, and the Wind of God, and the Breath of God, and the . . .  It's all God.

And that's what He's saying.  In fact, He goes on to say, "I was the Fire that was in the bush that Moses was seeing.  I'm not only the Voice that was speaking to Moses.  I'm not only the Finger that was writing the Commandments on the pillars of stone.  But I was the Fire that was in the bush."

And that same Fire . . .  And you know, that's the kind of Fire we need because it didn't consume the bush.  The bush was not consumed, but the bush took on the nature of the Fire.  Amen.  

I'm sorry I'm boring somebody.  But oh, how this is what I want.

I don't have time for what a lot of people have time for.  But what I have time for now is I must get this infusion of Fire into my life.  I've got to have it.

Have you ever heard of an old Baptist preacher by the name of F. B. Meyer?  He was a teacher on prayer.  

And one time he was having a hard time struggling . . .  He was sensing . . .  You know, he didn't have the doctrinal foundation to understand some of these moves of the Spirit.

And he knew that he wanted the Fire of God in his life.  But he didn't really want Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues.  You know, he was . . .  This was a hard thing for him.  

He wanted more of the power of God, but he had been doctrinally taught against the baptism of the Holy Ghost.  

And so he was really struggling here about how to surrender.  Because he was afraid that if he surrendered to the Lord, that God was going to do something in his life that he didn't want Him to do.  Have you ever felt that way?  Of course not.  But I have.

And this was his prayer when he was struggling with this issue.  He said, "Lord, I'm not willing . . ."

Do you know what God wants?  He wants honesty.  He wants us to be honest.  Sometimes when it's just you and God, me and God, or you and God, we still try to be heroes to God, super-heroes, when we're praying, like God don't know.

You know, "Oh Lord, I'm willing.  Oh God, I'll go the longest mile.  I'll stay up the darkest hour."  

And we don't . . .  You know, God knows us.  And He knows what we're willing to do.  You're not going to impress God with what you say.  He knows what's in your heart.

And He's not looking for a super-hero anyway.  He's looking for honesty - just somebody who'll say like F. B. Meyer, "Lord, I'm not willing.  I'm not willing.  But I'm willing for You to make me willing.  I'm not willing, but I'm willing for You to make me willing."

And you know, that's a big prayer.  I got to thinking about that and I thought, "Is that a cop out?"  No.

That's a big prayer because God has many ways of making us willing.  It may not feel good.  It may hurt.  

But at least this man could say, "Right now, as of today, you know, 12:34 PM in Jerusalem on the 29th of April, the day after Brother Shelley's birthday yesterday, I am not willing, but I am willing for you to make me willing."

And you know, God's pleased with that prayer.  It may not sound very religious, but I believe it would be pleasing to the Lord if we could come to that place.  

Let me read you one verse in closing.  

Hebrews, chapter 1.

At least you'll know in my heart . . . it's in my heart to tell you, to share with you, because, you know . . .

I guess, about these spiritual things, I've never felt like it was my place to convince anybody of what I see - just to share it.

And I hope you'll know in my heart that I'd like to share it all, but I know that I just can't because again I'm still processing it.  

I've been working even the last few days making more notes about the night vision and now I've got some new material to just go through in my head.  

And I never expected, you know . . .  I think I got a little bit of extra on the way to seeing the Four Living Creatures.  And I wasn't expecting the extra.  And it's some of that extra that I have to process.  

I mean, I'm amazed that literally there were overcomers who had died, gone by the way of the grave but died living an overcoming Christian life, and they're literally teaching angels.

They were testifying and sharing.  And these angels were so excited.  You know, I don't believe it's jealousy, but I believe there's maybe a little godly envy.  What do you want to say?  Anticipation.

It seems like these angels, you know . . .  

The Bible said that there's a song that even the angels can't sing.  And I know that one time when I went through the front door of heaven . . .  

I don't always go through the front gate.  Sometimes I go in . . .  He takes me different ways.

But I had the privilege, at least one time, of going right in the front gate of this spiritual place, wherever it is.  We call it heaven.

And these angels that welcomed me . . .  Maybe some of you've heard me tell it.  They were waving banners and they were . . .

It was amazing.  They were dancing, and they were excited.  And they were excited because I was coming.  

They weren't jealous, but they knew that I had an inheritance that they didn't have.  And they weren't jealous of my inheritance.  They were excited for me because they're happy.

You know, angels are content in the estate that God has given them.  

But they were so happy that I was going to get to see it and experience it.  

And I think you remember, maybe, that there was a particular time in this vision when before we approached this platform where we would look over and see that host of people before the Throne worshipping the Lord, as we were getting ready to approach that, there were these angels who came and they started bowing.

And this was very, very bothering.  It bothered me very much.  

And I said to the angels, "Make them stop" - the one that was leading me, "Make them stop," because, you know, you're not supposed to worship anybody but the Lamb.  And of course, angels know that.

And the angel said to me, "They're not worshipping you.  They're giving honor to the Lamb."  

And I didn't . . .  I mean, what does that mean?  It looked as though they were bowing in my direction.  And they're not supposed to worship . . .

"Oh, they're not worshipping.  They're giving honor to the Lamb.  Because they live to give honor to the Lamb . . ."  And then he said, ". . . and His wife."

Wow.  That's big, because that's who I am by the grace of God - not by anything good that I've ever done or will ever do, but simply by His grace I've been chosen to be the Lamb's wife, the Bride of Yeshua.

Hebrews 1:7, I think it is.  Let me see.  

Hebrews 1:7.  Yes.  Says,

7.  And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

Now when we see ministers, we see pulpits.  But we shouldn't.  We shouldn't see pulpits.  We should see all arenas of ministry.  

It didn't say, "He makes his prophets a flame of fire, His apostles, His pastors, His teachers, evangelists."

It said, "He makes His ministers a flame of fire."

And do you know who His ministers are?  Those who minister unto Him.  Those who minister unto the Lord.  

And how do we minister unto the Lord?  With our praise and with our worship and with our service.

Do you know that makes us all ministers?  That makes everybody under the sound of my voice a minister.  

You may be a minister without a pulpit, but you're not a minister without a sphere of influence because every person that God has called, He has given them a sphere of influence, a realm of influence.  

There is somebody that you are influencing with your life.  

There is somebody somewhere that your life is ministering to and making a difference to, and God said He wants to make us a flame of Fire.

And I want that Fire.  I want that Fire.  Because we know the purpose of Fire is to burn out all the chaff.

And you know, it's coming.  It's here.  In some sense of the word, we have experienced the Fire of God.

But I believe there's a new level of His Fire that He wants to infuse into our lives.  

We will not perhaps become the Fire, but we take in this nature of the Fire.  And who is the Fire?  He said He was the Fire.  

So the infusing is His character, His attributes, His wisdom, yes, His knowledge.  We want that full knowledge that we spoke about last Sunday.

(Marybeth, would you come?)

We're going to wait before the Lord for just a few moments and see if God will just help stir within us a desire for more.  

We know that there is full knowledge to be had.  And we know, as we learned last week, that full knowledge . . . it issues forth from His Throne.  And in order to have it, we've got to spend time before His Throne.

Hallelujah.  Thank You, Lord.  Thank You, Lord.  

I believe there was significance to where the ladder was.  I looked down to the right.  Beneath me there was the Old City.  I looked down to the left.  Beneath me there was the New City.  

And I don't believe that I could've had this experience anywhere else in the world and it would've meant the same.

I believe God ordained it.  As He said, "We have an appointment with you in Jerusalem."  

And there's so, so much more that took place, but God knows.  And He knows the time that we can share it.

Lord, we bless You this morning.  Hallelujah.  We glorify You.  (Tongues)  

Fire of the living God, breathe on us.  We want to take You into our lungs and into our inner being.

We want to breathe in the Fire of the living God, yea, the consuming Fire that will consume.
  

I remember Gideon.  I remember how the Angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon and called him a mighty man of valor when he was treading out the wheat near the winepress.  

And I remember that it was his desire to make the Lord a meal.  He wanted to serve the Lord something and he killed the kid and he made the cakes and put it on the rock, and the Angel of the Lord caused fire to come up from the rock and consume the meal, the offering that Gideon had placed before the Lord.

Lord, we are giving You an offering of sacrifice from our lives, from our inner beings.  But only You can accept the offering.  It's Yours.  It belongs to You.  Let the Fire of God come up and consume us - all that needs to be consumed.  Transform us.

We've seen the effect of natural fire.  We've seen what natural fire can achieve.  And our hopes are enlarged for what can be accomplished with spiritual Fire - the Fire that emanates from God.
Even Your eyes, as the Ancient of Days, are like Fire.

Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.

We thank You that men and women are beginning to see visions of You as the Ancient of Days, as the Eternal Judge.  

It is a sign to us that the days of the justice of the Lord are at hand.  I so appreciated what Brother Kary was preaching the other night in our church at home about You being our Judge.

And he read the Scripture, "Judgment must begin in the house of the Lord."  

And he said everybody cringes because they're expecting a hot fiery message on God judging the church and cleaning up the church.  And he said that it's in our nature to not want to be judged.

And yet he said, "If anybody was going to judge us, it should be our desire that You would be our Judge because we know You.  We know Your justice.  We've seen it.  We've experienced it.  We know Your fairness.  We know Your equity and we know how You move.  And we thank You that the justice of the Lord . . ."

Years ago, You showed me a vision of the scales of Your justice.  And we know those days are right upon us, that the Ancient of Days is going to start measuring out the justice of the Lord.  

And when He does, there will be major, major breakthroughs for us in the Spirit because we recognize that everything the enemy has stolen from us . . .  The Book of Proverbs teaches us that anything the enemy, the thief, has stolen . . .

If he steals because he's hungry then we have to understand and we have to look at it differently.

But if a thief is caught in the act, the Bible said in the Book of Proverbs that he must restore seven fold.  

And we realize that all of the injustices that have been done against Your people, even now, today, the injustices that are being acted out and carried out against Your people . . . they're raising up in Your nostrils.

You, O Ancient of Days, Just Judge for all eternity . . . You're being made aware anew of all the injustices that Your people have suffered down through the ages.  

And we know that when the Ancient of Days steps forth, He is going to make right every injustice that has ever been acted out against the people of God all the way back to the Garden of Eden.

And there's going to be a generation of people here at the end that will receive the blessing and the benefit, the power and the anointing, and the seven-fold restoration because of the injustice that the enemy has been allowed to carry out against the people of God down through the years.

Sixty-eight million people's lives lost in the name of religion because they heard from You and they trusted in what You said more than what the preacher said.

And sixty-eight million lost their lives, burned at the stake, stretched apart, fed to lions.  They became the entertainment for the Romans.

Your precious people, saints, those who wandered about in dens and caves, of whom the world was not worthy . . .  And You allowed it, God, because You're the all-wise One.  You watched as Your children were fed to lions.

History records that the Coliseum in Rome . . . and I've stood there . . . was at times flooded with water and sharks were brought from the oceans.  

Can you imagine the effort that went forth for the entertainment of a sick society?  

The sharks were captured and brought in cartons . . . and flooded the Coliseum, and sharks were thrown in for the entertainment of the Roman people as Your people were thrown to the sharks, fed to the lions, murdered and massacred - not only the Coliseum, but the Circus Maximus and all down through the ages.

And all of those injustices have built up in Your mind and in Your heavens.  You've not missed it all.  It was all written down.  It's all been recorded.

And one of these days, the Ancient of Days is going to open those books.  And when You do, Lord, You're going to rain justice upon this earth.  

And those who have eyes to see and ears to hear are going to reap the full nature of God because of what others have lost prematurely up to this age.

And the enemy of our soul is going to one day reap his just reward for all the hell that he has poured out upon Your people.  We have caught the thief in the act and we demand the justice that has been promised to us.

Lord, come and give us justice for what the enemy has stolen out of our lives.  Let this be the new day of restoration and restitution.  Let this be the new season.  (Tongues)  In the name of the Lord.

I was just reminded of a vision that I had when I was less than eleven - probably ten years old.  

I was standing in a valley with the Lord, and I saw these great huge vats or tanks, like water tanks.

And I saw that there was a liquid inside that looked like water.

And I asked the Angel of the Lord, the Lord . . . I asked Him, "What is this?"

And He said, "This is the tears of the saints that have been bottled up.  And some day they're going to be poured out upon the heads of their lost loved ones and those that they've prayed for and interceded for."

And I remember even the Scripture says it.  I didn't know it at the time.  But even the Scripture says that God seals up our tears.  He doesn't miss a thing, hallelujah.  

Don't that make you want to serve Him again?

Why, it almost makes you want to get saved all over again just so you can serve the Lord - a God who keeps up with every tear, with every pain, with every injustice.

I'm telling you, there's a day of God's justice coming just before the coming of the Lord.  

We're waiting on the Lord to come and then we say, "Okay, then His justice is coming."  

But I believe that God is going to reign His justice upon His people before the coming of the Lord.

We're going to know, hallelujah, the mercies and justices of heaven.  The devil had better run.  He has a lot to give account for.  

He has gotten by with a lot down through the ages.  But he's coming to a time very soon where he's not going to be able to get by with another thing.  God is keeping a record.

Hallelujah.  We love You, Lord.  We thank You, Jesus.  Hallelujah.  

If you're able, would you stand?  

Let's give Him worship just a moment.  He's so worthy.  Worthy is the Lamb.  Worthy is the Lamb . . .  I love You, Lord.  I praise You, oh God.  (Tongues)  

You're the Living God, and we bless You.  We bless You.  We bless You . . .  Hallelujah.  

Fire of God . . .  Fire of God, we want it.  We open our mouths to receive the Fire that purifies, that sanctifies, that quickens, that anoints, hallelujah, that empowers.  (Tongues)  Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.  Glory to God.  (Tongues)  

If you're a sister near a sister, would you take her hand?  If you're a brother, you can reach up and take another brother's hand.  

Brother West, will you reach up and take Brother Jack's hand?  We're just going to pray together right now.  Hallelujah.

There's really something . . .  I feel it in this little place.  There's really something being released to us in the Spirit right now, even in this little place.  Hallelujah.

We receive the impartation.  We know that You have come this morning by the Angel of the Lord to impart to Your people something - this Fire, this overcoming portion.  Hallelujah.

Oh, we agree . . .  (Tongues)  Loose us to receive it right now, everything You have for us this morning.

Oh, we love You.  We love You.  We love You . . .  (Tongues)  Worthy is the Lamb.  Worthy is the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world.  

My God, we love You.  We send You love.  We send You love and praise.  We send You honor.  We worship in Jerusalem.  Hallelujah.  (Tongues)

We stand in this old City representing a remnant of people who love You.  We stand here as symbols and representatives of those who love You.  We stand here, a seed, oh God - a seed of another harvest of those who love You, those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.  

We stand here this morning as a little token of that great host of people that You're making Yourself known to around the world.  

Fire of God . . .  New men and women . . .  New men and women . . .  New men and women for Your sake, for Your honor, for Your glory . . .  (Tongues)  

(Singing:)  "There's a fire burning all across the Land . . ."