VBtV - Chapter 10

Sat Sep 25 16:10:58 PDT 2010

“*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt*

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September 25, 2010

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

 *Chapter 10 - SOME LIGHT ON WRITING THE BIBLE*

 Through this outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon these Chinese children much
light was thrown upon the writing of the Word of God.

*Prophecy Fulfilled*

 Such an outpouring of the Spirit, attended with such supernatural
manifestations, is in itself a testimony that the Bible was written by God.
He alone knows the future. *Fulfilled prophecy* was, in the mind of Christ
and the apostles, sufficient proof of the hand of God in the writing of the
Scriptures.

 In what we have recorded about this outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon
these children, ten prophecies of the Scriptures were fulfilled: (1) such a
baptism was prophesied for believers of the present age; (2) it was to be
accompanied by speaking in unknown languages and by (3) prophesying as the
Spirit gave utterance. (4) In fulfillment of prophecy these children were
shown “the things of Christ.” (5) The reality of “things to come” was also
shown them. (6) True to prophecy, they were “born again” of the Holy Spirit,
receiving the witness in their hearts crying, “Abba Father.” (7) The visions
seen by these children fulfilled the written Word that in the last days
“young men shall see visions.” (8) Demons were cast out, and (9) the sick
were miraculously healed, just as the Bible said they might be, by the power
of the Holy Spirit. (10) A miraculous change took place so that things once
loved were hated and things once hated were loved.

*The Ignorant Confound the Wise*

 It is to be recalled that, according to the Bible, the revelations of God
and the writings of the Scriptures are independent of natural ability or of
acquired education. An un-educated Amos, or Peter, or John, inspired by God,
wrote more profoundly than the wisest of this world.

 In what the Lord has done and revealed to these despised and outcast beggar
boys and girls, can we not see a proof of the Word of God? While “not many
wise after the flesh, not many mighty” follow the old-fashioned, narrow way
of simple faith in God, He still can and does choose these “that are
despised,” even these simple Chinese children of the streets and gutters, to
“bring to naught the things that are” supposed to be so learned and wise, in
this age of godless reason and worldly knowledge.

 While the wise of this learned (?), proud and stiff-necked generation that
resists the simple Word go on groping around in the darkness of their own
self-sufficient delusions, it must be true in this day, as in the past, that
in the midst of so much confusing of man's wisdom, Jesus can still say, *“I
thank You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You did hide these
things from the wise and understanding, and did reveal them unto babes”
(Matthew 11:25).*

 As a whole, the educated and the rulers of the days of Christ did not
understand His miraculous works and life, or *“they would not have crucified
the Lord of Glory” (1 Corinthians 2:8). *The rulers and the educated of the
days of the apostles did not understand the miraculous working of Almighty
God through simple men endued with the the power of the Holy Spirit, or they
would not have killed the Spirit-filled saints of the early Church. The
profound revelations to these Chinese children “not having learned” in the
schools of worldly letters, is a corroboration of the written word of God
that it came, as it claims to have come, through open-hearted men
independent of natural ability or acquired education.

 *Eye Witnesses of Past Bible Events*

 Some clear light was thrown on the way Bible writers might have had an
eye-witness knowledge of events already past. One of our naturally most
ignorant and untalented boys was, on more than one occasion when “in the
Spirit,” an eye witness of the principal historical events of the Old and
New Testaments. He saw the plagues of Egypt: the frogs in the King's palace,
the flies in Pharaoh's food, the locusts, the eldest son dead with the whole
family in consternation. He also saw Elijah and Elisha cross the Jordan, the
chariots of fire, and Elijah's ascension. Daniel was seen in the lion's den
with his angel guard, and other Old Testament events were likewise seen.

 This boy was also given visions of the miracles of Christ. He saw the
temptations of the Lord. The devil in the form of a handsome young man led
the Lord to a high mountain and in vision showed Him the Kingdoms of the
world. Angels followed Jesus wherever He went. There were visions of Christ
walking on the water, healing the sick, and opening the eyes of the blind.
This boy and others saw the passion of the Lord Jesus, His resurrection, and
His ascension.

 At first I wondered at these visions of past events. I then remembered that
with God there is no “past,” “present,” and “future.” He is the Great *I AM.
* All things are alike present with Him. Since the Holy Spirit is His
Spirit, by visions and His revelations of the Spirit, “past,” “present,” and
“future” may, in God's economy, be made “present” to any individual to whom
the Lord chooses to make such revelations.

 These revelations of the past to Adullam corroborate the inspiration of the
Bible. It was easy for God to take Moses and others by visions through
events already past or through future events as an eye witness sees present
events and for them to be able to record the past, the present, and the
future in the one and only book that records the end from the beginning and
the beginning from the end.

 *Recording Revelations from God*

 The Holy Spirit showed us by *illustration* how some parts of the Bible
became divine records of supernatural revelations. When the children were
“in the Spirit,” describing scenes they were seeing in vision, the Spirit
caused one boy, who was also in a trance lost “in the Spirit,” to sit down
and go through the motions of writing item by item what the others were
seeing and describing. Thus anyone should be able to see how easy it was for
God to write a Bible. One could record what another saw and described.

 If God can now take an ignorant, illiterate beggar boy from a dirty Chinese
street, or a half wild little tribes boy from a remote mountain solitude,
can fill him with the Holy Spirit, and have him “in the Spirit” escorted by
angels see as an eye witness the things beyond the veil - things of the
present, things of the past, things to come - has it not always been just as
easy for God by visions to reveal everything that is written in the Bible to
any vessel of His choosing and have a Barak sit by his side to write just
what was seen and revealed, recording word for word any and every prophecy
just as it came from the Lord God?

 If our boys can be caught into the presence of the Lord and come back
saying, “The Lord said,” could not prophets of old even record their own
prophecy or visions and say with absolute truth, “Thus says the Lord?”

 How God, with whom past, present, and future is all the same, can reveal
past, present,and future events as *present* events, I do not know. The
Bible says he can. The Bible says He did. Adullam knows He still does.

 If men ever spoke in prophecy as they were moved by the Holy Spirit, if men
were ever “in the Spirit on the Lord's Day” and caught up to heaven; if men
were ever given visions “in the year King Uzziah died;” they can still be
moved upon by the Holy Spirit and prophesy. They can still be caught away
“in the Spirit” and see the unseen worlds beyond the veil. They can still
see visions any number of years after King Uzziah died.

 The same God is still on the same throne, reigning over the same world,
dealing with the same kind of evil hearts, through the same sort of men,
with the same kind of dispositions and passions Elijah had.

 Since God does now in this day reveal Himself through prophecy, vision, and
revelations - as He is revealing Himself all around the world - he has,
therefore, revealed Himself just as the Bible says He did in days of old to
the prophets and saints.

 In this wicked age, in the midst of this present unbelieving, perverse
generation, the Lord can and will prove that what He has written in the
Bible is the word of the living God. He can and does move in the midst of a
believing people in supernatural ways through gifts of the Holy Spirit,
confirming the word with signs following (Mark 16:15-20).

 *NOTE**: *For me, this chapter, Chapter 10 from “Visions Beyond the Veil” -
“Some Light on Writing the Bible” - is perhaps the most confirming chapter
of this whole book.

 The Lord, according to His promise in 1942, revealed Himself to me on
Passover, 1944. My background was in a denomination in Canada that had long
since left simple faith in God and His Word. They did *not* believe in the
inspiration of Scriptures; they did not believe in heaven, or hell, or
angels, or the sinless perfect Son of God, or of His Atoning death on
Calvary - nor of His Resurrection, Ascension and Coming Again. Like the
Sadducees, they did *not believe*. Instead they believed in the unbelievable
theory of evolution, the basic goodness of man, the selection of a verse
from the Bible for a sermon - and then going *everywhere* preaching a
man-contrived exposition.

 So when God said to me in the Fall of 1942, one who did not yet know Him -
“Join the Navy, and I'll reveal Myself to you,” I did in June of 1943. Nine
months later He fulfilled His promise. Almost immediately someone gave me a
copy of “Visions Beyond the Veil”. An unbelieving student at St. Andrews
College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan looked over my books - many in the spirit
of H.A. Baker - and remarked that it was the strangest library he had ever
seen!

 True for a United Church of Canada library for a theologue. I was President
of the Student Body at the time, had won some 6 of my fellow Theologues to
the Lord, and one to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

 I add these notes so that you as a reader can sense the contrast between my
early days as a Christian - and the graduation from the University of
Saskatchewan with one and a half years of Seminary at St. Andrews. I
completed my Seminary work at NBTS (Northern Baptist Theological Seminary of
Chicago) - an evangelical institution - but still not *that* open to the
insights of H.A. Baker from the Adullam family of orphans and beggars, or
the tribal mountain people of S.E. China in Ka Do land.

 Like H.A. Baker, I haven't had visitations to heaven, nor visits from
angels that I have seen, though I have been aware of their presence. But I
have had visions and words from the Lord through the years, and a high
respect for the insights H.A. Baker has written down from the Adullam Family
of Children.

J.A.W.

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