Manifestions of the Holy Spirit

[Jim Watt]

“*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt*

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*July 31, 2010
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   *SUPERNATURAL MANIFESTATIONS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT*

*(From Chapter II - “Visions Beyond the Veil” - H.A. Baker)*


 Many of the most marvelous manifestations of the Holy Spirit were given to
those who knew little of the Bible teaching on the subject, thus confirming
the supernatural nature of these visions and confirm the reality of the
outpourings of the Holy Spirit recorded in the New Testament.


 Some children who had never heard us speak of the present day outpouring of
the Holy Spirit as “the latter rain”, in this outpouring upon Adullam
actually experienced it as

 *The Latter Rain*


 As we all prayed and praised the Lord together with closed eyes, some of
the children seemed to feel water dropping upon their heads. They were so
busy seeking the Lord they did not want to hinder the blessing by opening
their eyes to look around. At the same time, in their hearts they wondered
how it could be sprinkling rain on them when there was a roof and a floor
between them and the sky. But with the sprinkling their hearts were
refreshed. As the dropping of water seemed to increase and the sprinkling
became a shower, it all seemed so glorious that the wonder of how it could
rain in a downstairs room was forgotten. The sprinkling became a shower the
shower became a great downpour, the downpour became a deluge filling the
room and rising higher and higher until the fortunate seeker was submerged
in this wonderful life-giving flood from heaven.


 At different times several children experienced this sense of the
downpouring of rain. Six months after the great outpouring, and after a “dry
spell,” the flood gates of heaven were opened again, and there was another
downpouring of the Holy Spirit. Again two of the small children experienced
rain, “the latter rain,” that seemed to fall upon their heads, penetrating
and flooding their whole beings.


 Through Bible study and through direct revelation by the Holy Spirit,
Adullam is now coming to understand the meaning of this “rain.” They
understand that “this is that” spoken of by Joel the prophet: “He has given
you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the
rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month” (Joel 2:23).


 The “former rain” was upon the first church, the seed church, sown on the
earth on the day of Pentecost and the succeeding two or three hundred years.
The “former rain” was the rain in the autumn upon the grain that was sown in
the ground. Then came “the great falling away,” (2 Thessalonians 2:1, 2 - *Now
we beseech you brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
our gathering together unto him ... **3** **it will not be except the
falling away come first.) *the long winter of the dark ages, the grain sown
in the earth - the Church in the world - apparently dead. Then came
sprinklings of the “latter rain” in the first month in the spring through
Luther, Wesley, Fox, Finney, Moody, and other servants of God. Salvation by
faith, the born again experience, holy living, first the blade and then the
ear, began to come forth. Now the sprinkling is becoming a shower. Healing
through faith in Jesus has come again. The Lord is again casting out devils,
healing the sick, raising the dead, proving Himself the Almighty God in the
midst of those who believe Him. The hope of the Coming King has revived. The
Lord is again baptizing believers with the Holy spirit as in the beginning,
the former rain, so that they speak with other languages and prophesy as the
Holy Spirit gives utterance (Acts 2:4).


 The harvest is near. “The former rain,” “the seed rain” (Rotherham), came
moderately; “the latter rain,” “the harvest rain” (Rotherham) will come
abundantly to ripen the grain, to perfect the Church. There will be deluges
of rain, the latter rain of the Holy Spirit. The greatest revival the world
has ever seen is just ahead. The greatest miracles, the most wonderful
wonder-working Church the world has ever seen is near. The downpouring of
latter rain is at hand; the clouds are now filling the sky. According to
promise the Lord will soon pour out his “Spirit upon all flesh.” The church
that was sown in the time of the “former rain” and fell into the earth and
died has come forth. It will soon be the full corn in the ear. Beyond
anything Pentecostal days ever saw, “Your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, your young men shall see visions,” “and also upon the servants and
upon the handmaidens in these days will I pour out of my spirit” (Joel 2:28,
29; Acts 2:17-21).


 Because of this final and greatest outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the
church in the full ear will have restored to it the years eaten by the
locust, the canker-worm, the caterpillar, and the palmer worm (Joel 2:25).
The fruits and gifts of the Holy Spirit will all be restored to the true
church of blood-washed believers. In its supernatural life and supernatural
ministry, multitudes will be converted: “The floors shall be full of wheat
and the vats shall overflow” (Joel 2:24); multitudes which no man can number
will come into the garner “from all nations and kindreds and peoples and
tongues” (Revelation 7:9).


 If you read Acts 2 you will see that this outpouring upon “all flesh” is
for today. Our Adullam people, at any rate, are sure of this. Many times has
the Lord stood in their midst, made to them the same promises He made to
first believers, and commissioned them with the same commission to carry the
same gospel in the same power with which He sent forth the first disciples
in the days of the “former rain.” We know that “the latter rain” that fell
on Adullam is *like* the former rain, but it is the last rain that will
bring forth the wheat and tares to full harvest and separation will usher in
the return of the Lord of the harvest to gather the wheat into his barns and
burn the tares in the furnace of fire.


 The Holy Spirit has on different occasions and by different Adullam people
been seen as a


 *Tongue of Fire*

*(There came from heaven a sound as of the rushing of a mighty wind ...*

*and there appeared unto them tongues parting asunder, like as of fire;*

*and it sat upon each of them.*

*And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:3, 4)*


 upon the head of each one in the room. In some instances more than one
person has seen this vision at the same time. Of course, all who are
familiar with the bible know that the things of God are not equally revealed
to all.


 When the Spirit has fallen in our meetings many have felt


 *The Holy spirit as a Wind (Acts 4:21, 31)*

blowing upon them, flooding their souls with peace and power. These breezes
from heaven have sometimes been in such power that we have no difficulty in
believing the record that when the first disciples met together and “lifted
up their voices to God with one accord, when they had prayed, the place was
shaken where they were assembled together, and they were all filled with the
Holy Spirit.”


 Many times have older and younger children seen


 *The Holy Spirit as Seven Lamps*


 At times of special outpouring of the Holy Spirit these seven lamps of fire
were seen let down from heaven into the room in our very midst. At other
times in the visions of the throne of Christ in heaven, children saw the
“seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits
of God” (Revelation 4:5). We all knew that the seven lamps meant the Holy
Spirit in our midst.


 In the first days of the outpouring of the Spirit one small boy spoke in
pure prophecy when in the Spirit he seemed to be in heaven at the feet of
Jesus. The Lord spoke through him in the first person clearing up many
things the children did not understand and telling them how to tarry and how
to seek the Spirit. At that time the Lord said, “When the Spirit is in your
midst do not open your eyes, for that will hinder; the Holy Spirit will
descend to give you power to preach the gospel, to cast out demons, and to
heal the sick; the Holy Spirit is in seven colors, red, blue, and other
colors.” One of the older boys then said that when the Spirit has been upon
him he had seen a great, red light and other colors. The word from the Lord
explained this to him and others who had seen different colors. Of course I
know light is made up of seven colors but I had never thought of the seven
lamps before the throne of God, the Holy Spirit, as seven colors. All light
comes from God, and God is light.


 These Adullam people have also seen


 *The Holy Spirit Brighter Than the Noon-Day Sun*


 This manifestation of the Holy Spirit as a great light has been very
common. Some children, having opened their eyes to see if it was something
about the electric light, could scarcely discern the lights in the room
because of the exceeding glory of the light of heaven which seemed to fill
the place. These children know what Paul meant when he said that on the
Damascus road the light that shone about him was “a light from heaven” that
was “brighter than the noon-day sun” (Acts 26:13). After their visions of
heaven and this great light brighter and clearer than any they had seen on
earth, Adullam people know why in heaven “there shall be no night; and they
need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them
light.” Through these manifestations and revelations these one-time-beggar
children in this dark land on this dark earth know beyond a doubt that in
the New Jerusalem in heaven “the city has no need of the sun, neither of the
moon to shine in it; for the glory of God lightens it and the lamb is the
light of it” (Revelation 21:23).



 *NOTE**: *Once again, H.A. Baker discerned that his difficulty in writing
this chapter with an anointing of the Holy Spirit - was because of Satanic
opposition. Satan did not want this information to be made known to the
Church, the Body of Christ. So once again the author took on the posture of
a warrior. He *resisted* the devil, his angels and demons; and within a few
weeks Satan *fled*, and the chapter above was written. Can you discern by
reading it why Satan did not want us to read this revelation? J.A.W.



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