VBtV - Chapter 9

[Jim Watt]

“*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES*

  *Jim & Marie Watt*

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   *(From: “Visions Beyond the Veil” by H.A. Baker) - 2010-09-22*


 *“CHINESE BEGGAR BOY PROPHESIES”*


 In fulfillment of the scripture that *“In the last days … your sons and
daughters will prophesy …”* (Acts 2:17), a ten-year old boy was used by the
Lord to bring us a message we will never forget.


 A few months earlier this boy had been a beggar. He had arrived at our
doorstep in rags and filthy – in fact with more dirt than clothes – with two
other boys and asked if he might come in. When bathed and dressed the boy
looked like an innocent chap, and so he proved to be. He at once took every
Bible story and sermon to heart. He soon learned to pray, and we could hear
him praying very earnestly every night. When the Holy Spirit came in power
at Adullam this boy was among the first to receive the baptism in the Holy
Spirit and to speak in tongues.


 Just as surely as God spoke to men and women in the past, making it
possible for them to claim that the Scriptures were inspired by God and to
declare, ‘Thus says the Lord’ with such conviction that they were willing to
stake their lives on it, so God still speaks to the children today, when
circumstances demand it and faith and other conditions permit it.


 One night there was an unusually strong sense of the Lord’s presence and
heaven seemed very near. The boy I have just spoken about seemed to leave
the earth and be caught up in heaven. Ushered into the presence of the Lord
Jesus he fell flat on his face before Him in humble adoration and worship.
As a matter of fact the boy lay stretched out on the floor in the middle of
the room surrounded by the other boys, who listened intently to the message
that came through him from the Lord. The boy sobbed and wept with the
deepest grief as the message was given to him; he spoke in a clear strong
voice, speaking a sentence or two at a time. There was a strong rhythm in
the language; the words were simple and pure. The intonation of the voice,
the choice of language, the penetrating power of every word was such that no
one who heard it could have doubted that this Samuel was speaking by direct
supernatural inspiration from God.


 In his vision lying at the feet of the Lord the boy said, ‘Lord Jesus, I am
not worthy to be here or to be saved at all. I am only a little street
beggar.’ Then Jesus spoke to the boy. The boy did not know it at the time,
but the Lord actually used him as a mouthpiece, using the first person and
addressing us and the children sitting around him. Our longing is that this
message might grip your hearts as it still grips ours.


 *The Message from Christ*


 ‘I weep tonight. I am heartbroken. I am in deep sorrow because there are so
few people who believe in me. I planned and prepared heaven for everyone,
and made room for all the people in the world. I made the New Jerusalem in
three enormous cities, one above the other, with plenty of space for all.
But they will not believe me. Those who believe are so very few. I am sad,
so very sad. [This message was given between heart-rending sobs and floods
of tears from the boy.] Since men and women will not believe me, I must
destroy this wicked earth. I planned to destroy it with three great
disasters, but because there is so much evil I have added a fourth.


 ‘If you have any friends, tell them to repent quickly. Persuade everyone to
believe the gospel as soon as possible. But if people will not listen and
will not accept your message the responsibility will not be on you.


 ‘Receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit. If you will wait and believe, I
will baptize you. The devil deceives you by making you think you will not
receive the baptism, but wait and seek, and I will baptize you and give you
power to cast out demons and to heal the sick. Those who receive the
anointing of the Holy Spirit are to preach and bear witness, and I will be
with you to help and protect you in times of danger.


 ‘If you think perhaps you won’t get to heaven, that thought is from the
devil. I will not destroy my own children; I will protect and save every one
of you: not one who belongs to me will be lost. I will overcome. Pray for
Mr. and Mrs. Baker, and I will give them power to cast out demons and to
heal the sick. The children in the Home should be obedient. Do not fight. Do
not lie. Live at peace. When you pray, pray from your heart. Do not let you
love grow cold.


 ‘Tell other churches they too should seek the Holy Spirit. All churches
must press forward.


 ‘The devil is coming to the earth in a few years, and there will be great
trouble. Do not worry; I will protect you.


 ‘People everywhere will gather together and fight in one place, after which
I will come to punish the earth. Do not be afraid, for those who believe in
me will be caught up in heaven to blow trumpets and to play harps.


 ‘I will destroy two out of every three people. When I come everything must
obey my voice [Chinese: *Yang yang du yao ting o dy hwa*]. Houses will
collapse; mountains will fall down; trees will be destroyed. There will be
utter destruction and not even a blade of grass will be left. [Chinese: *Ih
gen tsao dub buh liu*]. Those who worship idols will die. All sorcerers and
spiritist mediums will be thrown into hell. Only those who believe the
gospel will be saved.’


 This is what the Lord said to us at Adullam, and we believe this message is
for all to whom we may be able to pass it on. It was given in Chinese, as
recorded above. The sentences were spoken slowly and distinctly, with pauses
in between. I wrote them down as they were given. They were often repeated
so that there could be no mistake on the part of the hearers; there was
ample time to record every word the Lord spoke through his chosen prophet.


 When the message was complete the boy got up and told us he had been at
Jesus’ feet. He did not know that the Lord had spoken through him in the
first person as well as to him. He repeated the prophecy, saying, ‘Jesus
said this … Jesus said that.’


 Having heard the prophecy, written it down and then heard it repeated from
the prophet’s memory point by point, it was easy to see how, in the Old
Testament days, a scribe could record every word as it came from the
prophet’s lips or how the prophet himself could record his own messages,
saying truly, ‘Thus says the Lord’.


 Just as in the past God used a boy, Samuel, to speak in an audible voice a
message that was directly from God and was fulfilled to the very letter, so
we believe that He is still the same living God and has spoken to us
directly. We believe this prophecy will be fulfilled. We must either listen
and obey, or suffer the eternal consequences.



 *NOTE:* This book by H.A. Baker has recently been updated through his
grandson Rolland Baker, now ministering in Mozambique with his wife Heidi.
"Iris Ministries" is the medium through which they move.


 The original edition by H.A. Baker was placed in my hands as a new convert
in 1944. It is perhaps having even more of an impact on me today than it did
63 years ago when I was a sailor in the Canadian Navy.


 Because of “Visions Beyond the Veil” and many other books by H.A. Baker, I
have been praying for China regularly ever since, as well as for India and
Israel. These 3 nations plus Japan and Korea have held a special interest
for me to this day. Whatever will enable us to have a deep relationship with
the Lord Jesus, and allow Him to use us today as He used these former
Chinese orphans and beggars of the Adullam Orphanage in Kunming, Yunnan
province – *that* will be pleasing to the heart of our Father.


 I mentioned Israel as a prayer target for me. In 1944 I was mentored by
Mrs. Mary Bertha Allquist of Port Alberni, BC. I had been her paper-boy from
1938 to 1941, and when God according to His promise revealed His Son to me
on Passover of that year, I immediately remembered that Mrs. Allquist would
be glad to help answer my question on the Urim and Thummim. She did so, and
also shared Leviticus 23 with me and the 7 Feasts of the Lord, especially
Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. God gave them to Israel to observe, but
He called them in the Bible - *His Feasts*. Mrs. Allquist was a Jewish
missionary to her people.


 The Feast of Tabernacles - the *last* great Feast of the Lord, starts
tonight at sun-down. When the Lord returns, He will at this time restore the
earth during His Millennial reign over all nations of the earth from
Jerusalem. What a change *that* will be. The first two Great Feasts have
been fulfilled at Passover and Pentecost 2000 years ago. But the *end* of a
matter is *better* than the beginning. The Glory of the Latter House, shall
be greater than the Former! The best wine was held to the last when Jesus
performed his first miracle at Cana of Galilee. It is *better* for us to be
alive today than if it had been for us the times of the early church! Pray
for Israel. Her *best* days are just ahead. *Then* she shall be as a nation
born from above in a day! She has returned to her land in unbelief - but
Zechariah 12 and 13 picture what God has in mind for her at the end.
“Father, in the Name of our Lord Jesus, we pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
And one day we trust to see the New Jerusalem from above, the Bride of
Christ, come down to earth, then renewed as a Paradise of God like Eden of
old, but even better. Even so, Come quickly, Lord Jesus!”



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