The Two Witnesses

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Vision during worship on Sunday 25th
Christine Beadsworth
Feb 27 2007 04:18AM

Precious saints, this vision has remained with me very strongly since Sunday and so I feel i need to share it with you:
Vision During Worship 25/02/2007
As we were singing about the holy words that have been passed down to us, I became aware of the great price paid by those who have gone before us. Many saints of centuries gone by have laid down their lives so that the gospel could continue to be passed on from generation to generation. Then a verse in psalm 84 came to me:

Blessed is the man whose strength is in You; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

Then I saw before me a white road and walking along it were many people dressed in white. The road ascended and stopped at a certain point. Ahead of it was a city glowing with the glory of God, descending out of heaven, just as it describes in Revelations. I saw that each person had a piece of a road-map in their hearts. When each person came to the place where the road ended, he or she would lay themselves down and as they did so, they became part of the road. The map piece in their heart showed the way for the next step of the journey towards Zion. Those who came after them were able to further than they had gone because of the life that had been laid down.

We have heard much about alignment in recent days. In essence, alignment is spoken of by Paul. Alignment was the desire of his heart also. He said:

Phi 3:10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;

What Paul desired to be aligned to was the death of Christ because he understood that unless he laid down his life, resurrection power would never be manifested in him. We so much desire to see the glory of God manifested in and through the Church and yet somehow we fail to see that it requires a grain of wheat to fall to the ground and die before a harvest can be reaped.
We pray for the kingdom of God to come. This kingdom is a kingdom of Love and its King demonstrated that love by laying down His life. ‘Greater love has no man than this; that a man lay down his life for his friends’. For the highway to Zion to be complete, it requires us to walk in the footsteps of those who have gone before us; that great cloud of witnesses that even now are cheering us on towards the finish post. Just as they were willing to lose their lives in order to find them, so too, we must answer the call to lay down our lives, that the part of the journey we carry in our hearts may become the solid foundation upon which those who come after us can rest their full weight as they press on to take hold of that for which Christ took hold of them.

After the scene of this white road I saw the Bridegroom turn to the Bride, holding out to her an ancient silver goblet and He said, “are you willing to drink of the cup?”. I knew that a wedding ceremony was taking place and that this was the part where the couple shared the covenantal cup of wine together. Yet at the same time, the Spirit took me to Gethsemane and the struggle of Jesus in that place and I knew that this question the Bridegroom was asking His Beloved referred to the same cup He had drunk for her. Would she be willing to lay down her life for Him? As the answer came in the form of many separate voices from all over blending into one, I saw a crown descending onto the head of a king and the verse from Song of Solomon came to my ears:

Son 3:11 Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and behold King Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him on his wedding day, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

I understood that the Bride, the crown of her Husband, was being set in place because she had answered ‘yes’. She was joining all those members of the Bride who had formed the highway to Zion in previous generations by laying down their lives. This was the day of the Bridegroom’s gladness of heart. Then the white road was completed.

Psa 84:7 They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.

The message of the gospel of Jesus Christ is filled with power and carries a ring of authenticity only when it is communicated by a dead messenger!

As never before, the cry of the Spirit in the earth is for those who profess to be of Christ to lay aside their own plans, put to death their own ambitions in the Kingdom and to truly surrender and be willing for God to work His will in them. The life charter by which we steer our course must be ‘not my will, but Yours be done’. We are to be vessels in the Master's hand, releasing the revelation of our hearts at His command and not doing anything according to our own desire and ambition in the Kingdom. God calls us to die that we may bring forth a harvest. He does not call us to self-realisation. If that is what you are striving for, you are answering the trumpet-call from a different kingdom, the kingdom of self!

The part of the roadmap you carry in your heart is necessary to complete the road to Zion but will never become part of it unless you fully surrender - God requires you to WHOLLY set-apart for Him and HOLY set-apart for Him. We are entering a time when there will be many literal martyrs for Christ but we will never be fully prepared to lose our earthly lives for Him unless we have learnt to die daily right where we are. For those who are dead in Christ, resurrection life will be a hallmark of their life and ministry.
Just as a bride loses her own last name and takes that of her husband, so too, we must be willing to be hidden in Christ, seeking no glory or recognition for ourselves but dying daily, that the power of Christ may rest upon us and so that those who look to the Church for direction as they stand at the crossroads, may see a clear signpost showing them the narrow way to Life.
Selah

Christine
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