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There were a few times when I saw a vibrant turquoise like colored light like a halo glowing all around her silhouette. I say it was "Turquoise" but it was more then that, it was a color I had never seen before but the color turquoise would be as close as I can describe the heavenly light that I saw.
You know how laser light has a glow unique to it, the light I saw even surpassed that of lasers.
During one service I saw the light around her again. She called out that someone with leukemia in a wheel chair was being healed.
When they started bringing the healed people to the stage to be interviewed by Kathryn, a young boy in a wheel chair was brought up to her.
I saw a light around him, he was silhouetted in a light brown unattractive light. Kathryn boldly proclaimed, as she pointed at the boy in the wheel chair, "I rebuke you leukemia, every cell and fiber of your being be healed in the name of Jesus!"
Then she stretched out her arm, which was surrounded by the beautiful heavenly light, and touched the young boy on the head.
I witnessed the dingy brown light subside from the boy as the heavenly light from Kathryn engulfed the boy. He then was silhouetted in the same light as Kathryn.
She then said to him, "You are healed, you can now walk, get up, get up and walk!"
The boy got up out of the wheel chair and walked across the stage. Kathryn then told him to run and he did.
In today's lesson you will learn about the light that I saw so long ago on Kathryn.
You will also be reviewing the lesson on signs and learning a little more about them.
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There has been much interest in the signs that are coming by the Holy Spirit.
After analyzing them, we find that there are eight different classifications of spiritual signs that can be felt by an individual.
1. Symptom signs.
These signs involve sharp physical pain, even though the person to whom the sign comes has nothing physically wrong with him.
There is another basis entirely for the pain. It is possible to stand before an individual and feel the same symptom of the infirmity that he is feeling.
For instance, if someone has a headache, you may suddenly develop one also because it is a symptom sign of what he has.
If he has an oppression, you will feel a symptom of an oppression, even though you yourself are not oppressed.
2. Assault signs.
These are signs of devil attack that is coming directly against you.
Usually the assaults come in certain recognizable patterns, and we are now able to evaluate the type of spirit and its rank by the type of assault it brings against the person.
To illustrate: I recently experienced three assaults upon myself. The way the assault signs come varies according to the type of spirit, but in this case there were three separate attacks.
The first one came upon my arrival at a minister's convocation.
The service that night continued until about 11:30 and the battle became so severe that it was very difficult for me to continue for the remainder of the service.
Although there was much oppression and pain, we entered into the flow of the service, and the level of anointing was very great.
God had intended to meet people in a unique way, and Satan was fighting against it. A day or two later, the second attack came; then at the beginning of the following week, I came through the worst of the three.
The Lord gave witness to my heart of a number of real victories that had been attained.
Some of them we watched at the time, and others came forth later.
3. Impartation signs.
An example of an impartation sign is the anointing that comes in the palms of the hands;sometimes anointing oil has even sprung forth in the palms.
These signs indicate that God is anointing you to impart a healing or ministry to someone.
Even if you do not lay your hands upon a person, you are to participate with faith for that individual.
4. Devil signs.
These are very closely related to the assault signs, and are from Satan himself. You have to be careful to understand what is of God and what is from the devil.
We will not delve deeply into this classification.
5. Ministry signs.
These come differently than the previous classifications.
It is always difficult to interpret a ministry sign because each individual may receive a different sign depending upon his own particular ministry.
For instance, a certain brother received a prophecy over him that he would be a prophet, that the anointing of the Lord would come upon his mouth.
I had a sign given me relating to the presence of devils and casting them out, but it worked in my hands.
When I get a sign in my mouth, it is for teaching, because God has set me aside to teach by the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge.
You cannot interpret the signs the same. The same sign upon the mouth can have a different meaning for different people.
All the ministry signs are included in one classification.
6. Angel signs.
Only recently have I begun to come into a deep understanding of the presence of angels, who they are, and what they do.
7. Divine-presence signs.
These signs of His presence sometimes come so visibly that many can see a cloud of glory resting over a congregation.
There may also be such an anointing upon you that as you stand in the presence of the Lord, you will feel His presence or sense His presence by a certain sign.
8. Restoration signs.
Many times, the only purpose in God giving you a sign is to indicate that He is moving upon you to restore something in your life.
For example, you may have an anointing upon your ears and that could mean one of many things.
It could be an assault sign meaning that a lying spirit is coming against you, or it could come in another area of the ear and mean something else entirely.
If your ears burn, then you know that the Word of the Lord is coming; but if there is only a general anointing upon them, this is a restoration sign that your ears are being restored to their original capacity to hear the voice of the Lord.
I am persuaded that before this restoration has taken place, we will not only know God in our spirits, but we will know Him also with all of our physical faculties.
I base this upon Romans 8:11:
But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, He that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that dwelleth in you.
This verse is not speaking about the resurrection or about immortality.
What it actually means is that the Spirit will give life to your mortal bodies. Why?
Because these mortal bodies are dead.
Although you may be very much alive, in reality you are only existing. Your mortal body, with all of its five senses ( or perhaps six or seven senses ), is dead to God.
That is what makes faith such a difficult problem. Because of the depravity of the fallen nature, the flesh is more akin to Satan than it is to God.
It will be easy for the world to accept the miracles of the false prophets and false christs perform because in the flesh they are already very close to that level themselves.
With this mortal body a person cannot see angels, or God, or spirits, unless he is extremely clairvoyant.
Clairvoyance is a rather freak development which exists in the spirit realm, both with Satan and with God.
Satan is a great student of what has taken place through the ages, and sometimes through devil power, he is able to find a way to supplement the senses so that mediums are able to see spirits and to talk with them.
However, most people find that their eyes, ears, nose, and other senses are quite dead to the realm of spirit.
In this day God is bringing a restoration to us, and the Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead is beginning to give life to the mortal body so that it comes alive to the world to which it has been dead since the day that Adam fell in the garden of Eden.
God said, "In the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die" (Genesis 2:17 ).
Adam's spirit died to the things of God and therefore men had to begin to call upon the Lord ( Genesis 4:26 ).
Prayer was instituted because people could no longer walk and talk with God; they could no longer commune with Him, and they no longer knew Him.
So far were the human faculties estranged from the knowledge of god that men had to build altars and make sacrifices to call upon the name of the Lord.
Today, however, God is restoring all things. He is again bringing signs to our mortal bodies to indicate His will.
Many times during a personal-ministry service, we find that many in the congregation are participating in the flow of the revelation signs that are coming forth.
We can all enter into this amazing manifestation that seems to be unique to this age.
Scriptures can be found for each of the signs. this is done in the same way that the New Testament believers found references in the Old Testament in regard to what was taking place for them.
The early Church existed for many years by preaching mostly the Old Testament, and believers of that day were able to build New Testament churches completely out of Old Testament teaching.
They did it by letting the Spirit of God show them the symbolical and mystical meanings for certain passages of the Scripture.
Today, at a conjunction of dispensations, we are entering a new phase; and it is very possible that we are reaching forward into the powers of the age to come ( Hebrews 6:5 ).
Therefore, the things that are taking place in our midst, may very well be very difficult to interpret in the light of what has happened during the course of the history of the Church.
There is nothing in the book of Acts to indicate that those in the early Church received signs like we are receiving at this present time.
They may have, and it just is not mentioned in the Scriptures; but it is very difficult to establish something when it is not named exactly.
So with nothing more than that to go on regarding scriptural confirmation of the signs, we prayed and sought God until He began to reveal to us meaning of these things and gave us a tremendous anointing upon them.
This ministry of vision, prophecy, and utterance that has been prophesied by many is very definitely taking place.
In II Kings 6:15-17 is a beautiful story which tells us about this vision that we will possess.
2 Kings 6:15-17King James Version (KJV)
15 And
when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth,
behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And
his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
17 And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Bands of Syrians were making raids upon Israel and doing everything they could to ambush them, but each time Elisha warned them about the Syrians coming.
Finally. the king of Syria began to wonder who it was that was always informing the Israelites concerning the whereabouts of his army.
Even that which the king spoke in his bedchamber was being revealed.
His servants told him there were no spies among the Syrians, but that Elisha the prophet was tuned into him and knew all of his thoughts.
the king decided to go after Elisha. He gathered his armies together, and camped round the city where Elisha was.
If Elisha knew that much about the Syrians, he also must have known that they were coming for him.
One morning, the servant of the man of God went out and saw the armies round about the city, ready to take it.
He cried out to Elisha, "What shall we do now?"
Elisha said," Fear not, for they who are with us are more than those who are with them."
Elisha had almost a clairvoyant vision. In New Testament terms we would call it the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, or perhaps the discerning of spirits- all of them were probably involved in this instance.
He said, "Lord, open the young man's eyes that he may see," and the Lord opened his eyes and then he saw the other side of the picture.
The spirit realm was opened to him and he saw the horses and the chariots and all the host of God round about, ready to defend the prophet of God.
You may get the idea sometimes that there are many things coming against you; but if your eyes were opened, you could see how many angels are hovering over you to protect you.
You would see also how many of the children have angels watching over them. This is a fantastic protection that God has given us.
Authority does not rest upon the Angels, and we know Satan is nothing more than a fallen Angel. He has been stripped of his authority, because all the authority in heaven and on earth is in Christ.
Satan has only a residue of power remaining, plus a lot of malice with which he tries to destroy and hurt and usurp.
You may tend to give the devil too much credit, and by doing so, you do great injury to yourself. You can build up an unbelief that will open the door to him.
But if you have faith in what God is doing,, then you will be aware that the hosts of God are round about.
This is what God has said is going to happen in the end time.
Prophets like Elisha and his servant are to possess eyes that have been opened. They are going to see the visions and dream the dreams and speak the words of the Lord.
There will be a return of the very close communication of God with us as instruments in His hand.
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions; and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out My Spirit.
Joel 2:28-29.
In the end time there will be a great deal of judgment, but there will also be deliverance in the remnant that the Lord God calls.
Apparently they are the ones who are embraced in this prophecy of Joel which speaks of your sons and your daughters prophesying, your old men dreaming dreams, and your young men seeing visions.
The Hebrew word for "vision" is also translated "prophecy."
The King James Version of Proverbs 29:18 says, Where there is no vision, the people perish. The Revised Standard Version reads, Where there is no prophecy people cast off restraint.
Both translations are correct. Before they were ever called prophets, prophets were known as seers. I Samuel 9:9 says that there was a time when prophets were called seers in Israel.
Samuel and Elisha were called seers because they saw things. ( Some of you reading this now see things in the Spirit, you are a "seer." ) The Lord opened a vision of Himself to them.
When an anointing of the Lord comes to people's eyes, they are able to see what has been named "auras."
Much research has been done concerning the aura. In 1920, a scientific study by Dr. Kilner revealed that there are three auras about the human body. ( There were other researchers who discovered auras) .
He invented a coal tar dye product, which he put over glass, and by looking through that extremely perishable substance, he was able to see human aura and tell a good deal of what was wrong physically with an individual.
"Walter Kilner, M.D., a doctor at St. Thomas Hospital in London was one of the first recorded individuals to scientifically study the aura. Through a series of objective and subjective experiments, Kilner was able to invent a crude detection device, which he stated, could observe auric activity.
( By separating two pieces of glass, cementing them around the edges except for one small opening, pouring a bluish dye called dicyanin (coal-tar dye from Germany) into the hollow glass and sealing the glass, Kilner invented an apparatus that was sensitive to the ultraviolet energy spectrum.
Dr. Kilner could then observe, by peering through the lens, vaporous energy (auras) extending from living bodies.
It seems, according to Kilner, that the longer one looks through the blue colored lens, the more sensitive the eyes become to ultraviolet and higher light spectrums. It is in this range that Kilner believed auras occur.
In his book, entitled The Human Atmosphere (1911), Dr. Kilner presents 'scientific evidence' for the existence of the aura.
According to Kilner's research, he and his associates were able, on many occasions, to perceive auric formations extending several inches from patients' naked bodies. Within the pages of Kilner's work, he also describes a series of experiments that the reader may try.)
He was able to diagnose epilepsy and many other kinds of disease just by the way the aura was affected by that disease.
This fascinating study on auras has been reprinted and now is available in book stores.
Various types of spirit viewers and screens have also been invented through which you can see auras. The realm of spirit is not as complicated as people think.
Eventually the scientific world will catch up with the things God has shown us. God is releasing revelation concerning the secrets within the realm of the human spirit, and it will be received throughout the world, but it will be particularly related to His end-time remnant.
They are going to see visions and dream dreams.
Never have we heard so much about extrasensory perception and psychic sciences as we do now.
Eventually all the basic tenets of every science will have to be rewritten.
If it is possible to see the future and perceive what is going to happen through a vision, that nullifies almost all of the scientific principles of cause and effect.
The entire world of chemistry is going to be changed drastically from the way it is being studied at the present time.
Psychiatry and psychology are already outdated sciences. Even though they deal with certain aspects of our nature such as the conscious and the unconscious, they still do not believe in the human spirit.
Because of that, they miss the one element that makes an individual. All of these will be fields of exploration and development within the very near future in this great move of Gods Spirit.
Many years ago I preached a sermon that God gave me by revelation, called "The Conjunction of Two World's."
In it God showed us that this world, which we know, and a spirit world, which we do not know, are going to be joined together.
That day is upon us.
Even they that sleep in God will Christ bring with Him in the days of Parousia,
before that great coming of the Lord ( I Thessalonians 4:14 ).
Do not get the idea that you will get ahead of any of them, for these dead in Christ shall rise first. Their spirits are hovering about us now. There is a great gathering of the spirit world , and the whole host that is in Christ is here, ready for that first resurrection to take place.
Spiritualism broke forth less than half a century ago, and within the past generation it has really gained ground because Satan is trying to create a false image that will keep people away from the fact that there is a great cloud of witnesses who are watching the last lap of this race.
God is gathering together His elect in the Church of Jesus Christ, visible, and invisible, ready for that great first resurrection. We have much to learn from the Scriptures.
There are many questions and we must dig in and find the answers.
A sympathetic relationship must exist in the realm of the spirit between Christians and the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are a many-membered Body. The Head is to be sensitive to the feelings of the Body, and the Body is to be sensitive to the Head and its commands and also sensitive to its other members.
Two passages of Scripture will explain this further.
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find race to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:15-16.
Our high priest is touched by the feelings of our infirmities. The Head responds to every feeling of every member of the Body.
If you hit your thumb with a hammer, you will feel it even up in your head.
If somebody steps on your toes you say, "Ouch!" Up in your head is where you will react most to it.
In the same way, Jesus Christ, the Lord in heaven, our great Head, is touched by the feeling of our infirmities.
And whether one member suffer, all members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
And God hath set ( notice GOD hath set ) some in the Church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
I Corinthians 12:26-28
This is speaking of the inter flow of a Body that is so one that if one member suffers, they all feel it and they all suffer.
If one member rejoices over a blessing, they are all blessed with it. We would compare it to a sister who buys a beautiful, but somewhat ridiculous, new hat.
When she puts it on, she feels good all over. How is it possible for her to feel good all over just by putting a hat on her head, we do not know, but that is the way it works.
When one member rejoices, all rejoice with him. If God blesses one member, all are blessed.
In the sight of God, the closer we become to one another spiritually, the more the restoration takes place, and the more we will become like a great mystical nervous system, reacting to one another and feeling one another.
That is the basis of what God is bringing forth by the Spirit in the great Body of Christ in the end time.
A sensitivity to the Lord Jesus Christ, a plane of worship we have never known before, a flow of prophecy that is growing deeper as we come under His control.
A flow of the vision in the way of symptom signs, impartation signs and all of the other signs that allow us to tune in to one another in the spirit and to begin to sense one another's needs and burdens.
When we speak of Jesus Christ dying for our sins, we cannot say that He suffered once and that is the end of it.
It is true that there was one sacrifice for sin, but there is still a remainder of suffering to be accomplished.
Although we do not suffer for one another's sins, we do suffer with one another. Paul describes how he did this in Colossians 1:23-29:
23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Paul could have had a good time serving the Lord if he had not become an apostle, but he became burdened for all those churches and all their cares.
He said that in his body he was completing what was lacking in the sufferings of Christ for His Body. Yes. Christ suffered for us once, but there is still a suffering that takes place.
It can be likened unto travail. Any ministry what that travail is.
Concerning this generation, the Lord said that in that day a sudden destruction would come upon them as travail upon a woman with child ( I Thessalonians 5:3 ).
That pain is inevitable. The mother knows it is going to come, and when it comes, the convulsions and the strain of that pain, the muscular spasms of the body as it is changing and preparing for the birth of a child, is a creative force.
God is bringing judgment upon the earth, but now we experience the travail pains of a new age that is coming.
He is bringing one age to an end, and He is getting ready for the Kingdom of God to come forth, when the lord will rule and reign on the earth.
The earth is already in the midst of travail pains, as though the coming events were casting the shadows before them.
As for the Church of Jesus Christ, it is as it was with Paul. There are some that will be suffering for His Body's sake, to see His Body brought into the place of perfection.
He suffered for our sins and became the perfect redemption and the one Mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus.
We suffer for one another, minister to one another, and travail for one another.
In this end time, a great many signs are coming, and through these days you will find that a burden of prayer will rest upon you and you will begin to travail.
One time I went into travail for a brother who had intense agony in his groin and in his side. It became so bad that he did not know what to do.
Exactly at the moment that I began to pray for him, he was healed. I have a living contact in the spirit with everyone that I have ever laid my hands on.
It is important that you never let unconsecrated hands be laid upon you. Guard your head just as you would your very life, unless you are around someone who can decontaminate the area, because mystical contacts in the spirit are tremendously strong.
We need to understand the full nature of these things and learn to battle them adequately.
However, we do not fight alone, and the ways in which Christians can help each other are tremendous.
They can lay hands on one another, they can bless one another, they can pray for one another, they can be sympathetic with one another in feeling one another's pains and assaults, and they can even sense the things that are coming against each others spirits so that they can solicit help and cry out to God to see them overcome.
There are many scriptural illustrations of these signs and the way they work.
Judges 1:4-7King James Version (KJV)
16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
17 And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Bands of Syrians were making raids upon Israel and doing everything they could to ambush them, but each time Elisha warned them about the Syrians coming.
Finally. the king of Syria began to wonder who it was that was always informing the Israelites concerning the whereabouts of his army.
Even that which the king spoke in his bedchamber was being revealed.
His servants told him there were no spies among the Syrians, but that Elisha the prophet was tuned into him and knew all of his thoughts.
the king decided to go after Elisha. He gathered his armies together, and camped round the city where Elisha was.
If Elisha knew that much about the Syrians, he also must have known that they were coming for him.
One morning, the servant of the man of God went out and saw the armies round about the city, ready to take it.
He cried out to Elisha, "What shall we do now?"
Elisha said," Fear not, for they who are with us are more than those who are with them."
Elisha had almost a clairvoyant vision. In New Testament terms we would call it the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, or perhaps the discerning of spirits- all of them were probably involved in this instance.
He said, "Lord, open the young man's eyes that he may see," and the Lord opened his eyes and then he saw the other side of the picture.
The spirit realm was opened to him and he saw the horses and the chariots and all the host of God round about, ready to defend the prophet of God.
You may get the idea sometimes that there are many things coming against you; but if your eyes were opened, you could see how many angels are hovering over you to protect you.
You would see also how many of the children have angels watching over them. This is a fantastic protection that God has given us.
Authority does not rest upon the Angels, and we know Satan is nothing more than a fallen Angel. He has been stripped of his authority, because all the authority in heaven and on earth is in Christ.
Satan has only a residue of power remaining, plus a lot of malice with which he tries to destroy and hurt and usurp.
You may tend to give the devil too much credit, and by doing so, you do great injury to yourself. You can build up an unbelief that will open the door to him.
But if you have faith in what God is doing,, then you will be aware that the hosts of God are round about.
This is what God has said is going to happen in the end time.
Prophets like Elisha and his servant are to possess eyes that have been opened. They are going to see the visions and dream the dreams and speak the words of the Lord.
There will be a return of the very close communication of God with us as instruments in His hand.
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions; and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out My Spirit.
Joel 2:28-29.
In the end time there will be a great deal of judgment, but there will also be deliverance in the remnant that the Lord God calls.
Apparently they are the ones who are embraced in this prophecy of Joel which speaks of your sons and your daughters prophesying, your old men dreaming dreams, and your young men seeing visions.
The Hebrew word for "vision" is also translated "prophecy."
The King James Version of Proverbs 29:18 says, Where there is no vision, the people perish. The Revised Standard Version reads, Where there is no prophecy people cast off restraint.
Both translations are correct. Before they were ever called prophets, prophets were known as seers. I Samuel 9:9 says that there was a time when prophets were called seers in Israel.
Samuel and Elisha were called seers because they saw things. ( Some of you reading this now see things in the Spirit, you are a "seer." ) The Lord opened a vision of Himself to them.
When an anointing of the Lord comes to people's eyes, they are able to see what has been named "auras."
Much research has been done concerning the aura. In 1920, a scientific study by Dr. Kilner revealed that there are three auras about the human body. ( There were other researchers who discovered auras) .
He invented a coal tar dye product, which he put over glass, and by looking through that extremely perishable substance, he was able to see human aura and tell a good deal of what was wrong physically with an individual.
"Walter Kilner, M.D., a doctor at St. Thomas Hospital in London was one of the first recorded individuals to scientifically study the aura. Through a series of objective and subjective experiments, Kilner was able to invent a crude detection device, which he stated, could observe auric activity.
( By separating two pieces of glass, cementing them around the edges except for one small opening, pouring a bluish dye called dicyanin (coal-tar dye from Germany) into the hollow glass and sealing the glass, Kilner invented an apparatus that was sensitive to the ultraviolet energy spectrum.
Dr. Kilner could then observe, by peering through the lens, vaporous energy (auras) extending from living bodies.
It seems, according to Kilner, that the longer one looks through the blue colored lens, the more sensitive the eyes become to ultraviolet and higher light spectrums. It is in this range that Kilner believed auras occur.
In his book, entitled The Human Atmosphere (1911), Dr. Kilner presents 'scientific evidence' for the existence of the aura.
According to Kilner's research, he and his associates were able, on many occasions, to perceive auric formations extending several inches from patients' naked bodies. Within the pages of Kilner's work, he also describes a series of experiments that the reader may try.)
He was able to diagnose epilepsy and many other kinds of disease just by the way the aura was affected by that disease.
This fascinating study on auras has been reprinted and now is available in book stores.
Various types of spirit viewers and screens have also been invented through which you can see auras. The realm of spirit is not as complicated as people think.
Eventually the scientific world will catch up with the things God has shown us. God is releasing revelation concerning the secrets within the realm of the human spirit, and it will be received throughout the world, but it will be particularly related to His end-time remnant.
They are going to see visions and dream dreams.
Never have we heard so much about extrasensory perception and psychic sciences as we do now.
Eventually all the basic tenets of every science will have to be rewritten.
If it is possible to see the future and perceive what is going to happen through a vision, that nullifies almost all of the scientific principles of cause and effect.
The entire world of chemistry is going to be changed drastically from the way it is being studied at the present time.
Psychiatry and psychology are already outdated sciences. Even though they deal with certain aspects of our nature such as the conscious and the unconscious, they still do not believe in the human spirit.
Because of that, they miss the one element that makes an individual. All of these will be fields of exploration and development within the very near future in this great move of Gods Spirit.
Many years ago I preached a sermon that God gave me by revelation, called "The Conjunction of Two World's."
In it God showed us that this world, which we know, and a spirit world, which we do not know, are going to be joined together.
That day is upon us.
Even they that sleep in God will Christ bring with Him in the days of Parousia,
before that great coming of the Lord ( I Thessalonians 4:14 ).
Do not get the idea that you will get ahead of any of them, for these dead in Christ shall rise first. Their spirits are hovering about us now. There is a great gathering of the spirit world , and the whole host that is in Christ is here, ready for that first resurrection to take place.
Spiritualism broke forth less than half a century ago, and within the past generation it has really gained ground because Satan is trying to create a false image that will keep people away from the fact that there is a great cloud of witnesses who are watching the last lap of this race.
God is gathering together His elect in the Church of Jesus Christ, visible, and invisible, ready for that great first resurrection. We have much to learn from the Scriptures.
There are many questions and we must dig in and find the answers.
A sympathetic relationship must exist in the realm of the spirit between Christians and the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are a many-membered Body. The Head is to be sensitive to the feelings of the Body, and the Body is to be sensitive to the Head and its commands and also sensitive to its other members.
Two passages of Scripture will explain this further.
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find race to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:15-16.
Our high priest is touched by the feelings of our infirmities. The Head responds to every feeling of every member of the Body.
If you hit your thumb with a hammer, you will feel it even up in your head.
If somebody steps on your toes you say, "Ouch!" Up in your head is where you will react most to it.
In the same way, Jesus Christ, the Lord in heaven, our great Head, is touched by the feeling of our infirmities.
And whether one member suffer, all members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
And God hath set ( notice GOD hath set ) some in the Church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
I Corinthians 12:26-28
This is speaking of the inter flow of a Body that is so one that if one member suffers, they all feel it and they all suffer.
If one member rejoices over a blessing, they are all blessed with it. We would compare it to a sister who buys a beautiful, but somewhat ridiculous, new hat.
When she puts it on, she feels good all over. How is it possible for her to feel good all over just by putting a hat on her head, we do not know, but that is the way it works.
When one member rejoices, all rejoice with him. If God blesses one member, all are blessed.
In the sight of God, the closer we become to one another spiritually, the more the restoration takes place, and the more we will become like a great mystical nervous system, reacting to one another and feeling one another.
That is the basis of what God is bringing forth by the Spirit in the great Body of Christ in the end time.
A sensitivity to the Lord Jesus Christ, a plane of worship we have never known before, a flow of prophecy that is growing deeper as we come under His control.
A flow of the vision in the way of symptom signs, impartation signs and all of the other signs that allow us to tune in to one another in the spirit and to begin to sense one another's needs and burdens.
When we speak of Jesus Christ dying for our sins, we cannot say that He suffered once and that is the end of it.
It is true that there was one sacrifice for sin, but there is still a remainder of suffering to be accomplished.
Although we do not suffer for one another's sins, we do suffer with one another. Paul describes how he did this in Colossians 1:23-29:
23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Paul could have had a good time serving the Lord if he had not become an apostle, but he became burdened for all those churches and all their cares.
He said that in his body he was completing what was lacking in the sufferings of Christ for His Body. Yes. Christ suffered for us once, but there is still a suffering that takes place.
It can be likened unto travail. Any ministry what that travail is.
Concerning this generation, the Lord said that in that day a sudden destruction would come upon them as travail upon a woman with child ( I Thessalonians 5:3 ).
That pain is inevitable. The mother knows it is going to come, and when it comes, the convulsions and the strain of that pain, the muscular spasms of the body as it is changing and preparing for the birth of a child, is a creative force.
God is bringing judgment upon the earth, but now we experience the travail pains of a new age that is coming.
He is bringing one age to an end, and He is getting ready for the Kingdom of God to come forth, when the lord will rule and reign on the earth.
The earth is already in the midst of travail pains, as though the coming events were casting the shadows before them.
As for the Church of Jesus Christ, it is as it was with Paul. There are some that will be suffering for His Body's sake, to see His Body brought into the place of perfection.
He suffered for our sins and became the perfect redemption and the one Mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus.
We suffer for one another, minister to one another, and travail for one another.
In this end time, a great many signs are coming, and through these days you will find that a burden of prayer will rest upon you and you will begin to travail.
One time I went into travail for a brother who had intense agony in his groin and in his side. It became so bad that he did not know what to do.
Exactly at the moment that I began to pray for him, he was healed. I have a living contact in the spirit with everyone that I have ever laid my hands on.
It is important that you never let unconsecrated hands be laid upon you. Guard your head just as you would your very life, unless you are around someone who can decontaminate the area, because mystical contacts in the spirit are tremendously strong.
We need to understand the full nature of these things and learn to battle them adequately.
However, we do not fight alone, and the ways in which Christians can help each other are tremendous.
They can lay hands on one another, they can bless one another, they can pray for one another, they can be sympathetic with one another in feeling one another's pains and assaults, and they can even sense the things that are coming against each others spirits so that they can solicit help and cry out to God to see them overcome.
There are many scriptural illustrations of these signs and the way they work.
Judges 1:4-7King James Version (KJV)
4 And Judah went up; and the Lord delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
5 And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
6 But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
7 And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
Adonibezek was the king who had been taken by the Israelites. The first thing they did was to cut off his thumbs and his great toes, which was very humiliating.
The signs that come today in a person's thumb and great toe have significance.
When they anointed the Old Testament priest, they put oil on his ear, on his thumb, and on his great toe.
Then he would stand ministering as the high priest of God. So great was his authority that he was the one who spoke to God for the people.
In the days of Abraham it was a serious offense to make a false thumbprint.
It was an offense similar to forgery today, except that then they cut off a man's head for committing it.
Archaeologists have even discovered cuniform tablets showing that Abraham of Ur of Chaldeas entered into a negotiation to buy some cattle.
His thumbprint was found on the clay tablet. The thumb, then , is the sign of integrity.
It is also the sign of authority. When the thumb of a defeated king was cut off, it meant that his authority had been taken away.
The same thing held true if they cut off his great toe. Now in this day we find God bringing the sign.
A sign in the heels also has a scriptural basis. The first prophecy concerning the Messiah was that the seed of the woman would bruise the head of the serpent and he would bruise His heel ( Genesis 3:15).
Paul said, "It shall please God to bruise Satan under your feet shortly" ( Romans 16:20 ).
The sign in the heel comes when you are about to come into a great victory over Satan.
The sign of the thumb comes for God's kings and priests who are coming forth in the earth.
That is why it is so closely related to the sign of worship and the sign of authority. The thumb will burn when God is bringing forth an apostolic ministry or when you are hearing an apostolic word.
Your thumb will also begin to vibrate under the pressure of the Spirit because that is the authority by which He s represented in the Church.
These signs are manifold and they are unique. In fact, my thumb works as a lie detector, since the sign in the thumb is a sign of integrity, or conversely, the sign of a lying spirit.
By the specific area of my thumb where I feel an anointing, I can tell whether someone is telling the truth or lying to me.
Integrity can be discerned and authority can be manifested, all through the sign in the thumb.
When I am dealing with a demon oppression, I place my thumbs on it. It never fails.
It is the sign of authority that God has given. I may lay my entire hand on it, but I specifically lay my thumbs on the area where I sense oppression.
This represents authority, the authority of kings and the authority of the priests of God that come before the Lord.
And because it represents the priesthood of God that is coming forth in the earth, the thumb many times will react in the midst of worship, when I am offering to the Lord the spiritual sacrifices of the holy priesthood of God.
Worship and authority are both represented in the thumb.
Throughout the Scriptures are woven many other examples of fascinating revelation concerning these signs.
It might be worthwhile for you to seek out a deeper understanding of these things.
5 And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
6 But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
7 And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
Adonibezek was the king who had been taken by the Israelites. The first thing they did was to cut off his thumbs and his great toes, which was very humiliating.
The signs that come today in a person's thumb and great toe have significance.
When they anointed the Old Testament priest, they put oil on his ear, on his thumb, and on his great toe.
Then he would stand ministering as the high priest of God. So great was his authority that he was the one who spoke to God for the people.
In the days of Abraham it was a serious offense to make a false thumbprint.
It was an offense similar to forgery today, except that then they cut off a man's head for committing it.
Archaeologists have even discovered cuniform tablets showing that Abraham of Ur of Chaldeas entered into a negotiation to buy some cattle.
His thumbprint was found on the clay tablet. The thumb, then , is the sign of integrity.
It is also the sign of authority. When the thumb of a defeated king was cut off, it meant that his authority had been taken away.
The same thing held true if they cut off his great toe. Now in this day we find God bringing the sign.
A sign in the heels also has a scriptural basis. The first prophecy concerning the Messiah was that the seed of the woman would bruise the head of the serpent and he would bruise His heel ( Genesis 3:15).
Paul said, "It shall please God to bruise Satan under your feet shortly" ( Romans 16:20 ).
The sign in the heel comes when you are about to come into a great victory over Satan.
The sign of the thumb comes for God's kings and priests who are coming forth in the earth.
That is why it is so closely related to the sign of worship and the sign of authority. The thumb will burn when God is bringing forth an apostolic ministry or when you are hearing an apostolic word.
Your thumb will also begin to vibrate under the pressure of the Spirit because that is the authority by which He s represented in the Church.
These signs are manifold and they are unique. In fact, my thumb works as a lie detector, since the sign in the thumb is a sign of integrity, or conversely, the sign of a lying spirit.
By the specific area of my thumb where I feel an anointing, I can tell whether someone is telling the truth or lying to me.
Integrity can be discerned and authority can be manifested, all through the sign in the thumb.
When I am dealing with a demon oppression, I place my thumbs on it. It never fails.
It is the sign of authority that God has given. I may lay my entire hand on it, but I specifically lay my thumbs on the area where I sense oppression.
This represents authority, the authority of kings and the authority of the priests of God that come before the Lord.
And because it represents the priesthood of God that is coming forth in the earth, the thumb many times will react in the midst of worship, when I am offering to the Lord the spiritual sacrifices of the holy priesthood of God.
Worship and authority are both represented in the thumb.
Throughout the Scriptures are woven many other examples of fascinating revelation concerning these signs.
It might be worthwhile for you to seek out a deeper understanding of these things.
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