It was the year 1999.
I had received a glorious encounter with Him Who Was the
Same from the Beginning-the Eternal One, the Aleph and the
Tav, the Alpha and the Omega, the unchanging I AM. What I
witnessed in that encounter defies the capacity of human language,
yet I must bear witness, for the gladness that burns in these pages
was kindled in that moment and has never been extinguished.
A Mighty Covenant Angel appeared-all dressed in a myriad
of all-ready, all-living, all-powerful, all-faithful creative beings of
life and joy. He was not a single being but a living tapestry of the
creative order-every fibre of His garment pulsating with the
life-force of beings who had never known death, never tasted
sorrow, never experienced the absence of gladness. They were
beings of pure ■■■■■ (simchah)-fire-flow gladness as their
native atmosphere-and their joy was so concentrated, so tangible,
so overwhelming that it rewrote the molecular structure of my
understanding. I was undone. I was remade. I was glad with a
gladness I had never known existed.
And He spoke. His voice carried the authority of every
covenant God had ever made with humanity-from Adam to Noah,
from Abraham to Moses, from David to the New Covenant sealedTHE SECRET VALUE OF GLADNESS
in blood at Calvary. He said:
'I am now returning to My people-
both Israel Natural (the Jews) and Israel Spiritual (the
Gentiles).
To make a New Creation:
the Supernatural, Supervisible Creation.'
I am still basking in that Presence till now. Twenty-seven years
later, the fire has not dimmed. The gladness has not diminished.
The encounter was not a moment-it was an installation.
Something was permanently deposited in me that day: the
knowledge that the Great Pillar of Fire must dwell in the adopted
people of God today-the people called after two days, as the
prophet Hosea declared.
The Two-Day Prophecy: Hosea 6:1-3
"Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath
torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will
bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third
day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD:
his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall
come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain
unto the earth."
- Hosea 6:1-3, KJV
The Hebrew is devastating in its precision. ■■■■■■■■■