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Bill Steenland - 12/10/2014
I just listened to a brother talk about a visitation of God to His people. There is an awesome type and shadow for the coming Man-child as Joseph the Man-child held back who he was until a dramatic revealing. I dreamed I was in a white, slightly grayish room. In the dream, I thought it was an elevator. I knew it as the elevator room. (An elevator is like abiding in Christ and the Word. It is a place of being caught up into "heavenly places in Christ Jesus".) {Eph.1:3} Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ: {4} even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love: {5} having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. (Notice that only abiding in Christ, the Word, can we be in heavenly places in order to manifest His holiness and sonship. Whitish-gray is the color of the heavens many times, if you are under the first heaven with clouds and chemtrails. The higher you go, the clearer the heavens become, which is why they put telescopes in space.) I was sitting next to a man I work with named Ben. (Benjamin was Joseph's younger brother by Rachel but he had not yet met Joseph. Joseph, as a type of Jesus and the Man-child body, was sold by his brethren into prison but came out to rule over all. Benjamin's eyes were opened to see Joseph, who first appeared dressed as an Egyptian. At first, Joseph's brothers did not know that Joseph, as a type of Jesus, was in that Egyptian-looking body, and so it will be today. {Gen.45:1} Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. {2} And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. {3} And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. {4} And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. {5} And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.) Ben was so excited and talking about meeting Jesus! He said, "Yeah, man, one day soon, we will be talking to Jesus, just like you and me are talking right now". He was going on and on about talking to Jesus in person. He said, "Yeah, man, it's going to be so great! Oh, my God! Face to face, man, just like me and you are talking right now. Face to face with Jesus!" (Yeah, that makes me really excited, too. Many will talk face to face with Jesus in these days but He will look different in flesh because He is coming to be manifested in His second corporate body, like He was in the early disciples when they were called Christians. {Luk.10:16} He that heareth you heareth me; and he that rejecteth you rejecteth me; and he that rejecteth me rejecteth him that sent me. {Mat.10:40} He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. {Luk.9:48} and said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this little child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same is great. {Joh.13:20} Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. We see in the last verse a perfect example that those who saw Jesus saw the Father Who was manifested in Him. The Father had taken on a body, just as Jesus is doing. {14:9} Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how sayest thou, Show us the Father? The latter rain will empower many to manifest Jesus in their life.) Ben is not saved, as far as I know, and has even mocked me a little bit when a Christian brother and I were talking about the Lord. But Ben is a very funny guy and jokes about everything. So in the dream, I thought to myself, "Um ... Ben, maybe we should deal with some stuff first". I was thinking along the lines of basic repentance. End of dream. (Yes, the John the Baptist ministry of repentance is first to prepare the lost to see Jesus in the Man-child and then the body. The lost will see Jesus before many Christians will.) The Lord encouraged me and reminded me of the dream last night as I was reading the final chapters of the Gospel of Luke. He put these scriptures on my heart concerning the dream. He put the whole text on my heart about the dream. I underlined the scriptures that specifically talk about his appearance to the disciples. {Luk.24:15} And it came to pass, while they communed and questioned together, that Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. {16} But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. Why were their eyes not able to see He was Jesus? Could it be because He looked different, like He will in these days as He walks in His body, those in whom He is glorified through His Spirit and Word? {2Th.1:10} when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day. As you can see, if we do not believe and walk in the Word, Jesus will not be manifested in us. {11} To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and every work of faith, with power; {12} that the name (Greek meaning "nature, character and authority) of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.) {17} And he said unto them, What communications are these that ye have one with another, as ye walk? And they stood still, looking sad. {18} And one of them, named Cleopas, answering said unto him, Dost thou alone sojourn in Jerusalem and not know the things which are come to pass there in these days? {19} And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: {20} and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. Because they knew Him not; they thought Him to be a son of Joseph, instead of the Son of God. The same mistake will be made by the apostates today. {21} But we hoped that it was he who should redeem Israel. Yea and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things came to pass. {22} Moreover certain women of our company amazed us, having been early at the tomb; {23} and when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. {24} And certain of them that were with us went to the tomb, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not. {25} And he said unto them, O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! {26} Behooved it not the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory? ("Christ in you the hope of Glory") {27} And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. {28} And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they were going: and he made as though he would go further. {29} And they constrained him, saying, Abide with us; for it is toward evening, and the day is now far spent. And he went in to abide with them. {30} And it came to pass, when he had sat down with them to meat, he took the bread and blessed; and breaking it he gave to them. {31} And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. He became known to them in the breaking of the bread of life, the Word. The one in whom the Word dwells is His body. {32} And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures? {33} And they rose up that very hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, {34} saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. {35} And they rehearsed the things that happened in the way, and how he was known of them in the breaking of the bread. So it is today, we will know those in whom Jesus lives by becoming familiar with the Word that is an expression of Himself. He is the Word made flesh and so should we be. {36} And as they spake these things, he himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. {37} But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they beheld a spirit. {38} And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and wherefore do questionings arise in your heart? {39} See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye behold me having. {40} And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. His body will have the same signs of crucifixion in the hands, meaning works, and the feet, meaning walk. {41} And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here anything to eat? {42} And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish. {43} And he took it, and ate before them. {44} And he said unto them, These are my words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me. {45} Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures; {46} and he said unto them, Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day; We are once again at the third day when Jesus will first be manifested in the Man-child who is going through crucifixion at the hands of His own brethren, just like Joseph and Jesus did. Then this will happen to the whole body of true Christians. {47} and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. For this to happen, a much larger corporate body is needed -- Jesus in His Saints. It will begin at born-again Jerusalem because that is the Bride led by the Man-child. {48} Ye are witnesses of these things. {49} And behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city, until ye be clothed with power from on high. {50} And he led them out until they were over against Bethany: and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. {51} And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven. {52} And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: {53} and were continually in the temple, blessing God. This teaching of Jesus coming manifested in You can be found with much scripture in our book, Hidden Manna For the End Times. There also we can see that Jesus is coming for His saints after this. {2Co.5:16} Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more. Very interesting parable about not knowing Christ by His flesh and by sight. Jesus was ministering the Word of God or spiritual food to them, as in verse 32, where their heart was burning as He opened the scriptures to them. We know that the love of God was being shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Spirit before He vanished away. (The Holy Spirit's job is to manifest Jesus in us.) Making a point that the Spirit is the truth (John16:13) and reveals "all truth" (Who is Jesus). {3:17} Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. {18} But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit. (This is the real Gospel, that Jesus lives in you by faith and the Spirit will manifest this because of your faith.) {Joh.6:51} I am the living bread (the Word) which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh (the Word made flesh), for the life of the world. {52} The Jews therefore strove one with another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? {53} Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves. {54} He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day. {55} For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. {56} He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him. {Heb.5:13} For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe. {14} But solid food is for fullgrown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
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