During 1982-1986, through an answer to prayer... I was led to various groups of people, as well as individuals… who called themselves Apostles… Prophets and Messianic Jews, because they has accepted Jesus as their Messiah. On one particular occasion in 1986, we had gathered together and we were all singings songs of adoration to God... during a worship service.  

A few years before this… God’s Spirit had opened up the Old Testament to me, causing me to understand… how Jesus was foreshadowed throughout the entire Old Testament… as the Hebrew Messiah.  I was given the understanding… God in His wisdom had blinded the eyes of the Hebrew religious leaders during Jesus’ day… so they might not recognize their Messiah. This was done, so those outside of Judaism…. Gentiles… could come to know of God’s new covenant with man… through the events, which would follow…. the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ Jesus. I was made aware… a time would arrive when the time of the Gentiles would draw to a close… and God’s Spirit would open the eyes of the Hebrew people once again… that they might receive Jesus … Yesuah … as their promised Messiah.  Historical events…  were indicating this season of transition had begun. Messianic Churches were beginning to spring up all over the world… and many converts were being brought across my path. From what I was beginning to see… since around 1948, Jews were starting to return to their homeland from around the world as well. I felt honored to gather with these converts and religious leaders during this worship service…. as they taught me how to celebrate their feasts…. a foreshadow which the life of Jesus fulfilled… first hand. I considered it to be a privilege… to be invited to join with them in their established traditions and I was keeping them the best I knew how as I submitted to their spiritual authority…. believing it was God’s will that I do so. As I sang with them... eyes closed, I shut myself off from all distractions... and as is my habit... began meditating on the words I was singing having taken them to heart…. expressing them with love… to God.

Without warning, I found myself standing before a magnificent wall... whether I was in the body or out of the body, I do not know. This wall was taller than any ancient ruin in height… the wall in the movie King Kong comes to mind and it does not even begin to describe that height.  Compared to the stature of a man, it was enormous.  I heard a voice speak, 'Enter into the City of Truth'... and I agreed to do so, fully 'expecting' to see a door, which I could not find, open up mysteriously.

Instead, I was astonished, to find myself looking at the stones of a foundation.  I knew I was looking at the foundations of the temple of God… which man had build. The founding stones were built upon the teachings of and about Jesus Christ.... and early prophets, apostles and later disciples, which had been passed down since days of old... to the present day. As He showed it to me... I was given much understanding. I understood I had been worshipping there. Details stood out to me ... there were stones missing... some were cockeyed... some were out of place... some should not have been there at all... yet many were firmly rooted and established by His Spirit alone, Jesus Christ being represented by the chief corner stone. I understood the time had come for God alone to build the temple I was to worship in and He would not need my help… but before He could do so… He would have to destroy this one.

Again I heard, "Enter into the City of Truth".  Instantly I understood.... if I did so, I would be going through a dark night of my soul. I knew if I chose to accept this invitation, I would go through a time of great trials and tribulations, that I might come to the end of lies which ruled my thinking and tainted the truths HE desired to speak with me about, through His Spirit of Truth. I understood, much of what I had learned in the past… needed to be unlearned… because it was contaminated, through vain inherited traditions and historical tampering with the words of the Lord, which had been passed along with His truth.  I knew the time would come when I would not know what to believe and then, He would restore all... that I might walk in a 'double portion anointing'. This double portion anointing was a power He had spoken to me on numerous occasions, which would be necessary for that which was to come… during a supernatural spiritual outpouring worldwide at a future date.  I could only imagine how this would manifest itself... even so, I agreed to enter in… supposing it would not take that long. I was wrong *smile

Once again I found myself standing before this majestic wall... immediately I heard for the third time, "Enter into the City of Truth".

Again... I agreed to do so... fully expecting a door to open.  Instead... I watched in amazement... as a hand larger than what our natural mind could comprehend, reached down and picked me up. I saw myself in the palm of this hand… a perfect fit.  I marveled as I realized I was a naked baby and God Himself was bringing me in.

Unexpectedly I found myself back where I had begun worshipping God... having been tapped on the shoulder... that I might take communion, and was offered bread and wine... as part of the worship service I was attending. With a greater awareness, I understood this offering of communion was only an acting out of a much higher spiritual truth... a true communion in the spirit… which could be done anytime, and any place… one chose to be alone with Him for a time of intimacy. I was grieved that I could not have stayed longer and seen the City. Then I understood, He had brought me in... and He alone will keep me there, through His ways, in His timing. I only needed to be willing to come… leaving all else behind!

As He brought me into the city of truth... through circumstances of my daily life after this, He has revealed to me how powerless the arm of the flesh is to save... and attain audience with Him for fleshly or religious purposes. He has shown me why indeed, Jesus needed to die for man... why we must join with Him in that awareness and in the death process... as living sacrifices...  in our union with Him in life and death. I have been shown a need for a remnant of people... those HE has called… and ordained to be set apart for a work of sanctification and reconciliation, as living intercessors alone with His Spirit. He has given me a taste and a deeper understanding of a depth of His love I never knew existed and would have been unable to contain when I first began this spiritual journey of faith. Experientially, He has caused me to know… truly, when one is forgiven much... they indeed love much. He has caused me to experience... His unconditional love and mighty power to save through ways it never entered my mind, He would take me… as He has taught me to trust Him completely. As I have continued to grow and mature spiritually, to become the person I was created to be in Him, through His power to keep me... He has given me the privilege of seeing my perverted heart... my ego… with no condemnation.  He has also caused me to begin to see who He has created me to Be instead... without pride… as I gradually find myself becoming hid in Christ, through Father God…. a mystery revealed.

After this experience I came across a scripture which spoke of the city of truth:   Zechariah 8:3-6; ³ This is what the LORD says: "I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD Almighty will be called the Holy Mountain."
⁴ This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Once again men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with cane in hand because of his age. ⁵ The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there."
⁶ This is what the LORD Almighty says: "It may seem marvelous to the remnant of this people at that time, but will it seem marvelous to me?" declares the LORD Almighty.

If I may keep you just a bit longer... may I offer one more word… for encouragement purposes?  During one of my times alone with him, in later years, I heard a voice deep within say.... "Close your eyes..."  I did. Then I heard, "I am describing to you, a house, a tree, and a horse.  Now, if you were born blind... do you think you would have seen the true image or only a concept of what you imagine them to be?"  I said, a concept....

The voice continued.... "Due to the flesh nature, man is born blind to spiritual truths... until I open their eyes through My Spirit. The Kingdom of God is not like anything man has yet imagined for they have not yet conceived that which I alone can reveal. Let go of ALL of your concepts, your perspectives... ALL vain imaginations... and traditional thinking, as you identify with my son at Calvary... that I might reveal to you My simple truth... and My Kingdom, it is not how you first perceived it to Be.  Continually let go… and be transformed."

This reminded me once again of something He had told me in earlier days… ‘In order for me to come to a place of deeper understanding… I needed to lay down that which filled my hands already, so I could be given something new, or I would be in danger of creating a false God and momentarily loosing sight of Him.”

Having experienced all of this… He has caused me to understand… if I truly desire to continue to grow through His Spirit, I must put away childish ideas... and youthful treasures…. because His Spirit within is calling me to grow with a greater awareness than when I first began.