How -- Visions Beyond the Veil

[Jim Watt]

*"TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE" MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt – Beth Chesed, **Tacoma***

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*June 13, 2007** *

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*HOW "VISIONS BEYOND THE VEIL" WAS WRITTEN*

*(From "Under His Wings" pp.262-270 by H.A. Baker)*

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*The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit on ADULLAM*

It was when we had forty children in the Adullam Home that the mighty
outpouring of the Holy Spirit came upon us, as told about in my book,
"Visions Beyond the Veil." That outpouring was not only wonderful; it was
also unique. I have never in Christian literature read of any outpouring of
the Holy Spirit like it. In the past there have been as wonderful visions of
the unseen world to individuals, as recorded in my published books. This
outpouring on Adullam was unique in that the same visions were
simultaneously seen by whole groups of children. Another unusual thing was
that these children were not only given visions and revelation of the New
Testament order but also were caused to demonstrate New Testament
Spirit-inspired preaching and the exercise of some of the gifts of the
Spirit.

            I know of no such a clear revelation of the kingdom of the
"spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." Eph. 6:12. Many of
the Adullam people visited these habitations. Neither do I know of any such
clear and complete revelations of the demon world about us on earth as were
given these children. Some of our most ignorant children came to know more
about the devil's invisible kingdom in the heavenlies and his kingdom on
earth among men that is known among our church leaders today. Between what
all of our Adullam children came to know about these two realms of the
devil's kingdom and the ignorance of our leaders and laity, the gap is
astonishingly wide.

            For instance, an evangelist of world-wide reputation used of the
Lord to heal the sick, cast out devils, and hold tremendous mass meetings
speaks of demons as being fallen angels. The Bible does not give even a hint
of such a thing. Did this man know what demons look like, he would see that
his idea is ridiculous. A very small Adullam child could have taught this
big leader, and all of the other Adullam people would have sanctioned what
the child said.

            It is my opinion that the whole Christian world from the highest
in rank to the lowest in the pew could have done as I did, sit at the feet
of these Spirit-anointed, naturally ignorant and untalented children and
have learned much about the kingdom of Satan and the invisible worlds.

            That visions and revelations of the devil's kingdom as given
these children were basic and reliable I had plenty of chance to prove in my
subsequent missionary work in the mountains in my contacts with the devil's
kingdom. By investigating these things from many authentic sources I found
that these sources all corroborate the revelations given Adullam concerning
the invisible part of the kingdom of God.

            A highly educated, Spirit-baptized, lowly and humble man being
used of the Lord to lead students in some of our largest modernistic
universities into the baptism of the Holy Spirit in passing through Formosa
called to see me. He wanted a copy of "Visions Beyond the Veil." He had read
it and now wanted a copy of his own. He impressed me as being as child-like
as our Adullam children. Thus it was he wanted to sit down with them and
learn about the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the devil. The reader of
these lines would do well to get one of those books and also sit down among
the former children-vagabonds and learn some of the profoundest things.

            I can do no better than here quote the circular used in making
known the contents of this book-account of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit
on Adullam. It is as follows:

            You have never read its like. That's one thing sure. No such
message ever came from behind what is now the China "bamboo curtain." Here
were little Chinese beggar boys picked up from the dirty streets – ragged,
filthy, lousy and some of them as tough and rough as you could find.

            Here was a group of China's lowest and poorest, gathered in,
given a bath and clean clothes, and told about a loving Savior Who stoops
down low enough to embrace and save the lowest. This message from America to
those who were "nothing" was acceptable. Jesus knew it. He gathered up these
outcasts, off-scouring of China, and took them to where He is in heaven, to
make them messengers to God's people all around the world.

            The curtain that hides us from the invisible was drawn aside.
These one-time nobodies from the gutter, singly and in groups, time after
time, "in the body or out of the body", they know not which, were taken to
Paradise. Together they wandered about talking to one another (we heard
them), going with angelic guides through heaven's glorious parks and
visiting jeweled mansions. They talked with Bible saints of old. They played
by crystal streams with boy companions who had previously died and preceded
them to heaven. They saw and talked with Jesus. They worshipped at His
throne.

            Many times they were taken to hell and saw demons dragging
victims down. They talked with the lost in hell. They saw the demon world
and the demons about us and described this in more completeness than we have
ever read in Christian literature. Even the best of Christian leaders seem
to have but little idea of the demon world compared to what these children
saw face to face.

            These teachable and leadable children also visited the first
heaven, the realm of "the principalities and powers of the air," the realm
of the fallen angels against which "we wrestle." They saw the thrones and
heard the wranglings of these agents of the devil who wield such controlling
power over rulers and kingdoms of the world. They saw the Devil himself,
"that old dragon," and they saw the anti-Christ and much of his end and
work.

            Angels were about them and in their midst, sometimes dancing
with the children. At times angels turned the whole place into such heaven
that those who could not see them could feel their presence.

            These children, some of whom had never heard of future
mysteries, had revelations of the end of all things. They saw the last war
of the ages. They saw the Lord return with angelic hosts, destroy the wicked
and cast the devil into the pit and shut him in. Graves of the righteous
dead burst open and the glorious resurrection was seen.

            After all this the children were told to preach to all men that
the end of all things is at hand. Under the anointing of the Holy Spirit,
children less than ten years of age could preach to the lost. Little did
they or anyone else know that these things given them from heaven were to go
clear around the world to men and women of many tribes, races and tongues.

            Strange, but some of the youngest and least informed and most
ignorant received as deep and wonderful revelations as the older and better
informed ones. China's lowest of the low were taken to high heaven's highest
and sent back to tell the story, the story of redeeming grace – Jesus love
for all the lowest of men.

            This unusual, mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit was not
primarily for the benefit of the Adullam children. By grace in God's plan
these revelations were given to the children for them to give me to give to
God's children everywhere. Although at the time of this outpouring the Holy
Spirit came upon me in mighty power and at that time I entered into a better
and deeper experience of the Lord, yet during nearly all of the time of this
outpouring I was so hindered by hoarseness that I could scarcely speak above
a whisper. Consequently, I could not speak enough to lead any meetings or
lead in prayer and song. The Lord and the children had full charge of all
meetings, day and night. I was mostly a spectator, a listener, and a
reporter. I was to sit and receive in order to arise and give.



I wondered why this outpouring with such remarkable revelations came to
these Adullam children rather than to others. My conclusion was that there
were three apparent reasons for the revelations coming to Adullam. ONE
REASON, I thought, was because these children were responsive. They were
yielded to any movements of the Holy Spirit without any preconceived ideas
as to His method of working. Adults could not be so pliable mentally and
physically as were the children. Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is
revealed to babes, babes such as these.

            In THE SECOND PLACE, it was to Adullam this visitation from
heaven came, partly, I think, because by coming to us I would not hinder
attendant physical manifestations such as are a part of mighty outpourings
of the Spirit. The children acted out their visions by many remarkable and
unusual physical manifestations. The Lord long ago taught me to keep my
hands off the Lord's hands. I was to interfere with only what was clearly
from the devil.

            These manifestations attending the contacts between God and man
are naturally more than man's methods. I am convinced that at times of
outpourings of the Holy Spirit many ignorant yet well-meaning saints are so
afraid of manifestations being "in the flesh," as they say, that they
themselves act in fleshly nonsense. There is much in this effort to bring
the Lord's affairs in line with man's idea of decorum that amounts to man's
trying to direct God rather than to follow Him.

            I know so little about what may take place when the mighty power
of God comes down that I am thankful that He taught me to keep my fleshly
hands off when He lays His divine hands on flesh. I suppose that almost all
missionaries and preachers, had they been in my place, would have interfered
with the extraordinary manifestations among the Adullam children to such an
extent that there would have been no "Visions Beyond the Veil" book to
write, for there would have been nothing unusual to write about.

            Thus it was that in coming to Adullam Jesus came to a group that
was pliable and moldable; it was at the same time a place where His
activities would be unmolested.

            In THE THIRD PLACE, I am quite certain that these revelations
came to and through Adullam partly because I would gladly accept such and
publish them abroad as Jesus desired. Although at the time of this gracious
visitation from heaven I had no idea how it was to be done, I sincerely
wished that others might know about this visitation that had meant so much
to me. To write a book was far from my thought. I did expect, however, to
report this outpouring to our own constituency through our bulletin, *The
Adullam News, *which we sent out from time to time.

            When it came time to send out the next edition of *The Adullam
News* and I was going to write a chapter about that visitation from God, I
had no unction to write. Every bit of write-spirit left me. Later when I
tried again to write that chapter my mind was "murky." It was easier to
sleep than to write. All of my writing-fire had been watered out. This sort
of thing went on for several days. Do you know why? I can answer in one word
– the devil. Every time I had tried to write about these marvelous
revelations from God a company of devils about me put me under a cloud.

            What could I do? Persist and resist and trust Jesus and the
powers of God to triumphantly make the powers of the devil fly away. That's
the secret. Never let up. Hang on to the plow handle.

            The angels must have come down. Victorious in their battle with
those hindering devils, they now kindled the fire and fanned it. Light from
heaven must have shone about me. My pen could not move fast enough as it
seemed almost to write automatically that first chapter about the outpouring
of the Spirit on Adullam.

            Two months later when I attempted to write another chapter about
that wonderful visitation the devil must have found out about it and sent
another gang of his devils to hinder me. I had no difficulty in writing the
other articles for our booklet. Not so this chapter about the revelations.
My first try to write was no good. Try number two. No good. After many vain
efforts, as before, the angels prevailed and I wrote chapter two under the
anointing of the Holy Spirit. It was a year or more by the time I had
written the last chapter of the story. Every chapter was written only after
a fight with the devil for about two weeks. Had eyes been open to see what
was going on in the world of spirits, they would no doubt have seen angels
and devils in conflict about me. Readers of "Visions Beyond the Veil" will
understand this. As it was, the devil fought every effort to write the
account of those revelations and yielded ground only inch by inch when
forced to do so. Why? Because these revelations were to be written and sent
out far and wide to God's people. How? I had no idea.

            After all copies of our booklet were gone readers kept writing
for more copies that gave an account of that heavenly visitation. So it was
that I assembled the chapters on that subject and sent the book that I
called "Visions Beyond the Veil" to our regular constituency – our friends.

            Although in my opinion I knew nothing about writing, printing,
and distributing books for the public, almost before I knew it other
editions of this first book were going into circulation.

            It has now been over thirty years since that first edition was
published. More copies have gone into circulation the last two years than in
any such previous period. An eleventh edition in English has just been
printed. These revelations, like those in the Bible, will never grow old.
This book has been published in periodicals as a series, in English and in
other languages. Without any initiative on my part, and in some cases
without my knowledge, "Visions Beyond the Veil" has been translated and
published in six or seven foreign languages. A fourth edition has recently
been published in the Finnish language.

            I have now done the best I can to give some idea of the
out-pouring of the Holy

Spirit on Adullam. I feel that this account comes farther from making clear
these realities than anything I have tried to describe. There were two main
outpourings, the second of which was after we had moved to the Agricultural
Experiment Station. At the times of these mighty visitations everything else
stopped for two weeks or more while we were living in the realms of the
other world.

            In two weeks in this school of the Holy Spirit, through the
Adullam children I learned more about the kingdom of God and the kingdom of
Satan that I could have learned in six years in a theological seminary.

            Two of our smallest boys were used by the Lord to teach me much.
For months, when all of the other children had left the prayer room and gone
to bed, these two small boys would still remain in the room lost in the
Spirit. I sat by these boys for hours listening to them when they lay in a
trance talking to each other about what they were in vision seeing in the
invisible worlds. All of my books fail to make known all that I learned from
our Adullam children as used by the Lord when under the anointing of the
Holy Spirit.



*NOTE:*  H.A. Baker felt that by putting in his Autobiography "Under His
Wings," – this account and explanation how God led him to write up this 1926
Visitation in S.W. China – "Visions Beyond the Veil" – that it would help
readers to understand better how it came to pass, and how better to
understand how to make utmost use of this extraordinary revelation!

            He wrote his Autobiography when he was in his 80's in Taiwan.

            Someone placed in my hands "Visions Beyond the Veil" in 1944
when I was a newly born-again sailor in the Canadian Navy. It has had a
strong formative influence in my life for the past 63 years.

            I can gladly announce to you that out of the 21 or so books
authored by H.A. Baker, "Visions Beyond the Veil" has just been republished
by his grandson Rolland Baker and his wife Heidi through Iris Ministries of
Mozambique. You can obtain a copy of this unusual and inspiring revival
account through *www.IrisMin.com <http://www.irismin.com/> *

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Jim Watt





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