by
Jane Leade, June 1, 1699
"Ye can discern the face of the sky, but
can ye not discern
The Signs of The Times?" --Matthew 16:3.
"Ye can discern the face of the earth: but how is it that ye do not discern This Time" --Luke 12:56.
"There is a sort that may have hit the right mark and do profess and own the regency and dispensation of Christ in His Spirit, who are promoters of it and avouch themselves to be under the teachings and leadings of it, but these must not pass without being weighed according to the balance of the sanctuary. These are such as have sprung up too quickly and suddenly in the true light and notion of it but have not taken deep root from the central wheel and essence of Christ the Eternal Word in themselves. Among such there will be a mighty shaking and falling away in the time of trial and probation. And among these will great subtilty and treachery of spirit be found against those of the same profession and alliance with them, even the betraying of the spiritual life (31)[*31. This often seems too difficult for many of us to truly conceive as being a possibility. That is, that even among the remnant there might be tares that have grown up with the wheat, awaiting the end of the age when the separation comes that finds out that Judas spirit which has thus far mingled among true brethren. We might note that if it was so with the Lord Jesus in particular, it shall also be so with His members and those who follow Him all the way..] This is a stratagem of the serpent more subtle to hurt than any other.
Of this too-gloomy appearance, there is at this time that which cries for vengeance against those satanical powers who have thus craftily crept into the minds of those that were enlightened and had tasted of the heavenly gift.
Now all these signs being increased and made good at this time, do certainly foretell that the kingdom and dominion is drawing near to the Daughter of Zion. This will constitute the Seventh Order, which consists of such choice and virgin minds in whom there shall no guile be found. They have passed through the "probation-state"(32)[*(32)"Probation-state" has to do with that trial period through which each one is required to pass wherein all that is of the soulish realm finds it end and may no longer be allowed to place its obligations or concerns upon us. Here is the cutting of all shore lines and soulish umbilical cords as children, parents, family and all loved ones find that Christ is all and that they no longer have either preeminence or control over what once was almost entirely theirs. This trial period must be passed through before there can be the ascension for union or for glorification.] and have possessed the conquering bow of faith to such a degree that they are strong to go on in an overcoming might. By this they put to flight all opposing powers, whether in invisible, dark regions, or in the visible and temporary.
Now it remains that the government and power and dominion of the Kingdom will rest upon such a select number who have first passed through great tribulations for the witness and testimony of the expected reign of the Spirit. This being kept yet in abeyance and delay, does awaken a mighty cry and ardent and vehement interceding among the sanctuary-waiters and worshippers.(33)[*33. It is for His government, power and dominion to be established and fully reached within us that we groan as those souls under the altar which cry out, "How long O Lord? How long?" The answer is that those who have reached such a station, must wait yet a little season, for this is but the opening of the fifth seal in us. It is during the opening of the sixth seal in us that there comes the sealing in the forehead and the mind of Christ is imparted. With that the dominion, power and government so long delayed is at last possessed.]. This cry has entered and deeply pierced the heart of Him that is to descend as the mighty Saviour and Deliverer. For He is so deeply pierced by these cries that there was heard from the heavens a Voice saying,
"Behold, I come with a full recompense of
reward to the patient waiters and those holding out
in this hour of probation. Yet a little
while and the judgment shall sit and the decision be given,
for there shall be a sealing go forth in
the Father's name and My name and the Holy Ghost's, that
shall be the true living drink that shall
put an end to all prophetical worded testimonies, turning
them into pure act and power."(34)
[*34. I have shared for years with those
I have ministered to, some of the testimony concerning this very thing
which occurred in the life of Mrs. Martha Wing Robinson, of Zion, IL. She
lived near the turn of this century and had been mightily used of God.
But she became so hungry for more of God that she began to cry out to God
for whatever this thing called "death to self" meant. She said that she
had not prayed long before the Holy Ghost began to intercede through her
and His prayer, she said, was like that of a grandfather tick-tock clock--"Let-me-die!
Let-me-die! Let-me-die!" She said that she continued in this manner for
some months, until one night as she knelt down to resume praying, there
was no prayer in her soul. She said that then suddenly she heard the Lord
speak and the peculiar thing about it was that He spoke simply across her
lips. She said that it was as if He had taken her and put her someplace
else and Himself had completely possessed her. "I had no thoughts of my
own," she said.
This testimony was not a mere flash in the pan but remained her abiding state in God until He took her home some 15 years later. She did nothing except what she saw her Father do. She spoke nothing except what she heard her Father speak. The Lord worked such a supernatural work in her body that her natural body was changed in certain ways. She found that she could eat, but she didn't have to. He gave her another body not subject to the same laws our natural bodies are subject to. She had stepped over into the reality of "Not I, but Christ" --Gal. 2:20.
She said that no one knew at first what she had come into for there were no books, no tapes, no preaching or teaching on it in those days. Then the Lord showed her that it was the mystery of the indwelling Christ and was a taste of something that He would do in the last days. Her experience was given as an example and an encouragement to those called into it in this day. Thus far, there has been much teaching about it, but none of it has come near touching the glory of it. The account may be read in the book titled Radiant Glory. Inquire of Mrs. Leslie Dessain, Zion Faith Homes, 2820 Eschol Ave., Zion, IL, 60099 (847) 872-2771. We do not have this book.]
This was the joyful sound heard from the
Throne and Kingdom of the Lamb which gave also further intimation whereby
it should be known by some following signs in whom the Kingdom of God should
first appear, at first invisibly and internal, and afterwards, visible
and external. This will be in such qualified persons as have been separated
and called out of this worldly principle to see to the ends of their own
earth and their [own] sun, [own] moon and [own] stars of the rational and
sensitive life that ruled and governed in the earthly part, to be darkened
and fall away.(35)
[*35. We are to know that when our sun of
reason is darkened and the moon of our sense-life does not give her light,
and every starry imagination has been cast to the earth in us like untimely
fruit and every island and mountain of human self-strength has fled away--then,
then shall we see the sign of the Son of man coming in the new heavens
with great power and great glory. It is upon such a blessed ruin that Christ
makes His advent within those who are looking for Him. This glorious appearing
shall first be an inward and invisible one, but it shall soon be contained
and restrained no longer but go on to fill and lighten the earth with both
the glory and the knowledge of the Lord. These are that city Abraham looked
for--coming down from God out of heaven adorned as a bride for her husband
in the glory of God. In this city there is no light of the sun,
neither is there the light of the moon. There isn't even the light of the
golden candlestick of Bible-knowledge that was once needed in the Holy
Place. The only light in this city is God and the Lamb.]
This is an evident sign that the true Son
of Glory will break forth and enlighten the whole inward
heavens and earth in man. Thus He will set
foot in the inward ground of the heart that it may be His Throne-habitation,
there to reign until He subdues every thought, and every motion made subject
to Him. Then shall the heavens and earth, in the new creature, rejoice
that the King of Glory has taken to Him His great power to reign internally
in the Omnipotence of His Spirit.
Seven Signs Following and the Sevenfold Process
As it is thus invisibly made manifest,
so it will open itself also and spread into a visible
kingdom. There are seven visible signs that
will make out the dominion and kingdom in its first
appearance in whatsoever persons it shall
open.
The First is the dying marks, whereby they are thoroughly slain and crucified to the love of all inferior things pertaining to this earthly principle and kingdom.(36)[*36. We will do well to keep in mind that it is only Christ who is able to lay His life down. We therefore need to abide in the place of "Not I, but Christ.", by faith. The spirit of that life is a sacrificial life. It is His life.]
The Second sign is that there shall have been a sowing into the death and perfect crucifixion, so that it rises and becomes a resurrection-plant in the Love-principle and Light-Kingdom. Here is all liberty, power and might to act and do visibly, according to the property of Christ's Resurrection-Life. Nothing of the worldly principle can any more touch or bind them down, being translated from out of the power and dominion of the satanical kingdom.(37)[*37. Unless I err, this is that into which Martha W. Robinson entered. The life she knew in this place had nothing of the imposition of the flesh nor any actions or assertions from the flesh about it. It was the beginning of the glorious liberty of the sons of God [sons are not the Brides].]
The Third sign that follows is the marks of the Ascension into those goodly tents which Christ, the Kingly Shepherd, has pitched for them near Himself. Here they may have free and immediate recourse to Him and He to them, receiving the impression and similitude of their Lord and having such relation to Him by standing so near His Glorified Figure.(38)[*38. Here is a manifestation of a further work of renewal which we are to expect. There comes such a union with Christ that no longer must we turn aside by the shepherd's tents asking after our Beloved. We are joined unto Him.]
The Fourth sign is their being constituted
and deputed by virtue of the gift of the Holy Ghost to bear rule and government
over the starry constellations and earthly elements (as to their malice)
so as that no destructions or wounding weapons can enter here.(39)
[*39. What she here alludes to as the "gift
of the Holy Ghost" is not as it had to do with the in-part realm but speaks
of His bestowal upon some in fullness. "By virtue of His power they are
to rule over the starry constellations and earthly elements" denotes the
imaginations and workings of the rational mind and the lusts and workings
of the flesh, to which she characteristically refers in a metaphorical
sense.] Nothing contrary to God's love can enter here because those in
this place are encircled with the eternal burning element of God Himself
which will devour all pricking thorns and briars that shall spring up and
set themselves against them but which must turn to dust and ashes before
them.
The Fifth sign is the opening of the mighty spring of the Spirit of Faith that shall rise and conquer all self-reasoning so as not to admit of any doubt or staggering, but make its pass in a straight line up to the Glorified Jesus, as He is invested with all power in the lower regions as well as in the upper: and so unite with that powerful name, Alpha and Omega.
Which faith in this great Name must produce those mighty works and deeds mentioned by our Lord after His resurrection as the signs that shall follow them that believe--"In My name shall they cast out devils, they shall speak with new tongues, they shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay their hands on the sick and they shall recover."
Now by virtue of these mighty acting powers,
redemption will be wrought out, setting free from the burdens and oppressions,
penuries, maladies and other miseries that the whole creation has groaned
under for so many ages.(40)[*40. From the reading of this line we may form
some idea, although altogether deficient, of that which God is about to
begin bestowing upon mankind through Jesus Christ, manifested first in
a remnant. Those coming into the "glorious liberty of the sons of God"
shall no longer know anything of such as are listed in this line and further,
they are to be completely released from the burdens of the fallen physical
body [they are not released from the burdens of the fallen physical
body, nay, they have even more! They are released from
the negative, debilitating nature of the burdens of the fallen physical
body that they be not restrictive burdens but that they be carried
almost
without noticing and certainly without hindrance].
How truly spoken is it that "Eye hath not
seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the mind of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that love Him . . . but God hath revealed
them to us by His Spirit" --I Corinthians 2:9,10.] From this no deliverance
can be until these resurrection powers can come down to rest upon those
who are to be the first risen witnesses hereof.
The Sixth sign will be the great amazing
wonder of all appearances that yet have been. A New
Paradise shall again spring in the midst
of this worldly Babylonish principle. The rose and lily plants will lift
up their heads as being installed again in their own native kingdom. It
is the goodwill and pleasure of their Father to restore to them the rich
dowries out of Wisdom's bank and storehouse which never was opened before.
They shall be commanders both of what is needful in the upper world and
in this nether world. No need of taking thought for this or that which
belongs to the outward bodily state, for it will be given them as they
stand united with Christ, their Head, to possess the earth and to inherit
all things.(41)
[*41. It is to be reckoned a great irony
and paradox that what was lost through Adam's transgression is to be restored
and know its debut right in the midst of the Babylonish principle working
as yeast or leaven in its midst until the whole is thoroughly transformed.
Here all is brought forth from the supernatural ground of faith, the new
currency by and through which
all is to be procured. While some do presently
share out of their abundance of carnal things today, they shall discover
that they have made to themselves friends with the mammon of this world
by using the mammon of this world discreetly. For those elected to enter
first into these glorious things still need sustenance in temporal necessities
until entrance is fully gained. When the great overturn occurs and a new
coin is stamped, those whose temporal needs they have attended to shall
now begin to furnish their needs, both from that which is spiritual and
eternal and that which is temporal and natural.]
The Seventh sign is putting on Transfiguration,
which will be accompanied with the descent and
appearance of Christ in them, in His Glorified
Figure by the glimpse of which glory they are
transformed into the express image of His
bright body. To this prepared Spouse, a Voice was heard saying, "Arise,
Shine, for thy Light is come and the glory of thy Bridegroom is now become
thy covering." The marriage here will be consummated from the High-Throne
Majesty, who gives His full concurrence. Now what may be less expected
from this matrimonial unity but such an offspring and new creation of spirits
that may be all pure and perfect as was designed by the Father of eternity
to bring forth after His own similitude before Adam's fall.(42)
[*42. It should be ever remembered that
God never deviates from a thought or an aim. He is able to do all that
He desires to do. The fall and all that has taken place from the beginning
is all part of the original purpose God had for man at the start. We are
not involved in Plan B or C, for the Lamb was slain before anything of
the original creation was ever undertaken. He worketh all things after
the counsel of His own will.]
This was God's original purpose and could never be made void, though a stop was permitted to be put to it temporarily in order for the bringing forth of the manifold (and very highest) wisdom and wonders by Him who was, from eternal generation, the Son of God. By Him, all that was lapsed was to be repaired again to far greater advantage, which in the concluding part of all, secrets will be made manifest for the admiration and astonishment to all throughout the whole universe of God's creation.
It remains now to observe what the seven
eyes have truly discerned: the signs forerunning the
kingdom and those that follow its arrival,
as evidences of when the kingdom is truly come. And it will begin, as it
was in the first Paradise, in male and female, through the restoration
of the lost eternal Virgin-nature.(43)
[*43. We must understand that if God made
man in His image and after His likeness and made him male and female, it
can only follow that God had His female, Virgin Wisdom, within Himself
just as did Adam before he began to look without himself for his completion.
Jacob Boehme and Jane Leade both have much to say about this.]
And as Eve did suck in the serpent's venom
and introduced it into the first Adam, she thereby corrupted and involved
him in the same transgression, leading to a going out and dividing from
God the eternal root. Hence the banishment out of Paradise, and an exclusion
and loss of the kingdom and dominion, was pronounced.(44)
[*44. It strikes me as most interesting
to note that Adam and Eve, in this garden called Eden, typify the spirit
and soul. The spirit is the masculine and the soul is the feminine. In
fact, the Hebrew word, Ruach, (spirit) is a masculine word and the Hebrew
word, Nephesh, (soul) is a feminine word. We are taught mighty things in
this type if we are willing to hear it. Also, it is interesting to remember
that until the Serpent asked Eve the question, "Hath God said?", there
had never been a question asked. She should have resorted to her husband,
the spirit, for the answer. Instead, she reached with her mind for an answer
and when she arrived at an answer she had partaken of the tree of knowledge
and in the process had awakened the carnal mind. To be carnally-minded
is death. God does not speak to us in our soul but in our spirit.]
But now the Virgin(45)[*45. This Virgin is the same Wisdom spoken of so highly in and throughout the book of Proverbs. "My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell"--Proverbs 5:1-3. She is referred to as Virgin Wisdom because, as God's Wisdom, she is utterly pure. She is sometimes referred to by Jane Leade as Sophia, because Sophia is the Greek word for Wisdom.] rises in her office to draw and feed upon that Tree of Life, and having tasted of the virtue thereof, gives to her chosen and elected mate, so known and assigned to stand in the office of him that brought in sorrow and the curse.
That sorrow and curse must die and be extinguished
as this Tree of Life, by this true eternal marriage of the Male and Female,
come to spring up in fruitful powers. Then comes forth the renewing of
that blessed Word that God spake in the beginning, "And God blessed them
and God said unto them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth
and subdue it. And have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the
fowl of the air and over every living thing
that moveth upon the earth'" --Genesis 1:28.
Now this has been obliterated and lost in
that lapsed generation that proceeded from the first Adam for these many
ages of time that have passed over. But the grace and purpose of God cannot
be nullified. It must be made good. The pure Eternal Virgin-nativity will
recover itself and stand above all this apostatized state.(46)
[*46. Jane Leade uses such beautiful metaphors
in her descriptions, yet it requires the spiritual mind to understand that
of which she speaks, and this is as it should be. What she is telling us
here is that the state from which Adam fell, the state where all is ordered
by Virgin Wisdom, shall be again attained to by those fully redeemed. We
see this state manifested clearly in the Pattern Son, Jesus, the last Adam.
It is to this that man is to be returned.], whereby an end may be put to
this sinful progeny of the Old World. But this great renovation and change
will rise and come about gradually.(47
)[*47. This we cannot seem to get into our
heads or hearts, that God does nearly everything that He does gradually!
We're in a hurry. We plant trees. God plants acorns. He is in no hurry.
He has waited 6,000 years getting us where we are now. The Husband has
long patience as He waits for the precious fruit of the earth--Christ.
It is in this gradual unfolding that is seen the manifold wisdom of our
God.] So from hence a new generation shall spread and multiply upon the
earth as a deified leaven that shall eat out the bitter and sour leaven
that had gotten into depraved nature.
Manner of Kingdom Entrance and the True Virgin's Fruitfulness
After this manner the Kingdom of God and
His Christ shall come to be made manifest. Blessed
are those that shall stand in the lot of
this age and time,(48)[*48. I am sure that we do not, indeed cannot, fully
appreciate the blessedness of being born into such a time as this. When
I think of the multitudes of holy men and women of old, more worthy than
us, who have walked this way before us, and that we, of all people have
been blessed to look into the mysteries of this hour I am simply astounded
and at a complete loss for words. He uses such contemptible earthen vessels
so that it may be quite obvious that the glory belongs to the Lord and
not to the vessel.] worthily taking notice how the fore-mentioned signs
do proceed as a sure prelude to indicate how near the Kingdom of God is.
Which will run parallel, according to the type of the first creation.
Now it may be considered what is required and may be incumbent on this latter age, chiefly those that are in a hopeful way of possessing and entering into the reign of this blessed day, looking forth as to when and where the Eternal Virgin will appear to clothe any with her bright clarity. From whence the kingly births and powers shall multiply into pluralities abundantly to replenish the New Paradise.
This will be a wonderful time. Who among mortals shall live to see it but such as have reached the faith of a Christ-like unity? To them this new Kingdom shall stand all open and free to possess it in a joyful triumphant victory.
I must not omit here to give the reader caution
to avoid a mistake concerning the two
representative figures made mention of.(49)[*49.
It is comforting to note that Jane gives such a warning. It is quite easy
for the carnal understanding to take a spiritual truth and handle it in
such a way as to completely pervert it. These marriages metaphorically
spoken of here, as well as the conceptions and generations are completely
and entirely spiritual. We have it upon good authority, the Lord Jesus
Christ, Himself, that those who come forth in the first resurrection neither
marry nor are they given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven
[having received the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit in consummation
of the eternal Union, they go forth to bear spiritual children begotten
of God].
All thus begotten of the Spirit shall be
without the leaven of sin, thus bringing to an end the self-perpetuating
curse passed on to mankind through the first Adam. All this is effected
by way of the last Adam--Christ Jesus. As to the manner of generation,
it is all purely spiritual,as the Holy Ghost shall go forth from them to
overshadow and give a conception in such as are predestinated to bring
forth Christ numerously through corporeal (bodily) forms in His various
spiritual statures, as from an infant of days to the full grown age.
When this blessed day from on high shall
spring for the bringing down of this Kingdom of Heaven, there will be marriages
of another kind than that which has been. It shall be all spiritual, angelical
and divine; from whence a pure and holy progeny shall stand in this latter
day upon the earth, born as Princely Heirs to reign with Christ in these
lower regions.
Angelical and Spiritual Generation
Further it is also to be taken notice of,
that the first figurative representatives of this new
modeled kingdom in which the Paradisical
Male and Female do express Christ and the Virgin,
taking elementary form, stand united most
intimately and yet distinct. The Male has His Virgin in himself and so
from thence may multiply a spiritual offspring as was proposed in the first
Adam. And on the other hand, the Female Virgin shall have her male
power and spirit in herself to bring forth in the like manner, according
to the excellent might of the God-Man so incorporating with the Virgin-mind.
So there will be no dependency upon what is without themselves, each one having the Deified Seed to procreate these angelical births from themselves. And though it may be the Wisdom and counsel of God to take up two figures in order to portray the matrimonial tie, yet no bonds will be upon them as to their outward persons being confined either to place or time. For when the happy day for their rising and appearing shall come to be, it will stand in that glorious liberty that they may be either resident together in one family, or otherwise in two different nations.
For there shall be no hindrance hereby to their united spirit and power that shall co-work together for the bringing forth and spreading the miraculous powers of Christ's Kingdom. For by pure act of Omnipotent power, this New Creation state must be maintained and upheld. Its government and authority will be so surely fixed and inclusive that nothing like it has ever yet been known in the world since the creation. For the tide must turn and the Satanical powers and kingdom must give way to the Virgin with her Male-Birth that shall crush and bring all opposing nations under with the rod of iron.
But others shall see and submit to this
day of Christ's glorious Sovereignty, offering themselves
willingly to be admitted as subjects
of this Kingdom and Dominion that is given to the saints of the Most High.
The motives hereunto will be so great and marvelous as shall invite all
from the highest degrees and ranks of persons, to the lowest of conditions.
There is a Gate of Paradise that shall be opened to such as can derive
their descent and birth-degree from the Virgin and the Father of Eternity.
The Gate of Paradise Opened
Now it must be further declared what was
figuratively represented of a fiery horn filled with oil,
that was held in the hand of an angelical
person who was sent forth to sound. A voice was heard
saying, "Cry aloud." And it was answered,
"What shall I cry?" And it was said again, "O earth,
earth cast forth thy dead that have
lain buried with Christ their Head." The power of this sound
did make the earth to tremble. And by the
dropping oil out of the fiery horn it gave a resurrection, mystically,
to all that were dead to the delight, love and resting in this outward
principle.
These were those that were signed and marked
to be made partakers of the first resurrection-life, over whom the second
death had no power. These have received the royal stamp and dignifying
power to reign as Kings and Priests and Prophets, having the spiritual
seal upon them of the Father and of the Son. And these, being as the firstfruits
of God and the Lamb, shall go forth to awaken those that are dead in a
sensual and earthly life by sounding forth the Love-call of God to those
that are yet strangers to the knowledge of this blessed Resurrection-State.
Ministration of Fire Prior to Sounding of the Seventh Trumpet
But here it is to be understood that these
do first rise but in a child-like state and so grow up as
Christ Himself did, in Wisdom and Stature.
This being as the time of their minority, they cannot
suddenly reach to the full possession of
their inheritance and kingdom. But as Princely spirits they will be brought
up and served according to their high spiritual birth-degree. As Moses
was brought up in all the learning of the Egyptians as the son of Pharoah's
daughter, so shall these
Heaven-born children be taught, disciplined
and instructed in all the divine arts in the Royal
Court of God their Father, and the New Jerusalem,
their true native Mother.(50)
[*50. It should be once again noted that
in Tabernacles it shall not be as in Pentecost where they were all together
in one place and suddenly the Holy Ghost fell upon them and great spiritual
transactions were made. No, everything about Tabernacles has to do with
a gradual process[ALONE!].]
From which may be expected the great deeds
and wonders to be acted forth after the manner of Moses and of the prophets
and apostles and that in a degree more eminent and glorious than all that
has been heretofore. This is because it will be the manifestation of the
great day of Christ's setting up His Kingdom and Reign here upon earth,
over all nations and kingdoms(51)
[*51. It must be admitted that, thus far
Christ's kingdom has held sway only in the hearts of men. Now it shall,
as Daniel's "little stone cut out of the mountain without hands" begin
to manifest itself and increase (and of the increase of His government
and power, there shall be no end) until it covers and holds sway over the
entire earth, including all nations and kingdoms whatsoever.] --this has
never yet been, but the prophecies concerning it are now at hand to be
fulfilled.
Therefore it is foreseen and shown that this fiery horn does forerun the Seventh Angel's sounding, to awaken and raise the dead. The extent and power of this sounding will be such, and the motives so strongly prevailing, as to take hold of the great potentates that are in possession of temporal honors and riches, rule and governments. All of which they will be convinced are much inferior and beneath what the children of this new Kingdom shall come to inherit.
For here in this Kingdom there shall be no
cross in their crowns, no fear of loss or suffering, nor dread of death.
So many are the prerogatives that do attend this state that they cannot
be numbered. For they have here their pass out of the land of curse and
all evils and maladies, into the Land of All Blessing and Plenty, Peace
and Joy.
First Sound To Invite Kings and Nobles of the Earth
O, ye great and mighty ones of the earth!
Know that this Love-Horn has its commission to blow
to you. So that a resurrection-life you
may advance unto, to put on such Princely Glory as you
need never fear to be disrobed of. Surely
nothing can parallel with such a Love-call as this, for the giving of such
a full exit from the delights and pleasures of the earth. Which will be
the most
admirable, because hitherto God has chosen
the poor of this world and the weaker and foolish
things, to confound the wise and the things
that are mighty.
Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble have been called, but now it is understood and perceived that there is a peculiar purpose and goodwill of God to these, to as many as will incline to obey. They may count it their more abundant dignity, pleasure and honor to serve in the Courts of the Mighty God and King, improving all their interests and powers from Him, and counting it their great happiness that they have any powers and opportunity in their hands to promote the Reign of Christ in Spirit--according to all that has been made manifest.
Thus ye would be as mighty Presidents to
turn the stream and tide that hath run so vehemently
downwards for the propping up the Satanical
and earthly kingdoms, and cause it to run as a mighty torrent for the Spiritual
and Heavenly Kingdom. Which may hereby come to spread as Lightening through
all parts.
Second Sound to Invite Priests and Pastors of the Church
The second cry that sounds out of this fiery
spiritual horn is to awaken such pastors and
watchmen(52[*52. Is it not strange, indeed,
that the first call is to presidents, kings and potentates of the natural,
earthy realm and the second call is to pastors and watchmen of what we
have considered a higher realm? It seems to indicate that these heads of
state are in many cases as much ministers and servants of God as some so-called
pastors and watchmen.]) as may go forth in the power and spirit of Elijah
to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient to
the wisdom of the just. For this the age of time is now ripening, that
such shepherds God will raise up as shall feed His flocks from a lively
ministration of His Own Spirit and no longer from a low traditional form
to take up a rest therein. Instead, they are to move and press themselves,
and excite others, to reach this Resurrection-mark.
When God shall revive this Ancient Prophetic
and Apostolic spirit in a public ministry, this will be a great sign that
the harvest of Christ's Kingdom is to be gathered in.(53)[*53. It seems
to me that we can, without a doubt, look about us and see this ancient
prophetic and apostolic spirit in public ministry in operation even now
among some. Also, as never before in my own life and observations, there
is an incitement and incentive to press in and strive toward the mark of
the first resurrection. She says that this is a sure sign that there is
soon to be a gathering in of the ripe harvest.]
Therefore, a Healing Embassage (a message
delivered by an ambassador) from Heaven is now sent down that calls and
urges for a universal harmony and unity. From this harmony and great unity
may be expected a marvelous and wonderful change in coming out of all strife,
contention and division. For the Prince of Love and Peace is near to pitch
His Throne-Dominion and Kingdom--first invisibly and spiritually, in the
hearts and minds. And from thence will go forth such mighty influencing
powers as shall cause all that is destructive to this Love-Kingdom to cease.
Highly favored and blessed will those Holy
Watchmen be, that in a reconciling spirit, shall be sent forth to prepare
a people as subjects to the Mighty King. He, in judgment, truth and righteousness
must rule and reign over the whole earth.
Conclusion
So according to these forementioned signs
and prophetic sounds, a lively hope may spring in the
faithful, who do continually intercede,
wait, and pray for the Resurrection-flock to be gathered in, to feed under
the overshadowing power of the Mighty God and Saviour. To Whom alone renown,
praise and glory will herefrom spread throughout the earth. FINIS.
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