A friend of mine had a vision recently that to me was very profound and sobering. I am going to try and describe this vision as accurately as possible. I will then expound upon it from the Bible. I hope you enjoy this very much and will be blessed by it.

The Vision

In the vision my friend was standing on the pulpit at a church service. He saw soldiers come into the building wearing all of their armor. Each soldier came in and took a seat on a pew and started removing their armor. They were all cut and bruised very badly all over their chests and body.

From behind my friend Jesus stepped out. He looked upon the whole congregation with love and compassion in His eyes. Jesus went to each soldier laying hands on them and each time the soldier was healed completely without even so much as a scar left on their body. After Jesus went to the last one He went back to the pulpit. Each soldier then put all of their armor back on and went out the door.

Isa 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Healing of our wounds can only come from Jesus Himself. He is the one who took the stripes upon His back for our healing. Many times in my walk with Christ, revelation has come concerning certain scriptures. I hope that to be true for all followers of Christ. we all need revelation of the scriptures from Christ Himself through the Holy Ghost.

The soldiers are the children of God. They fight the good fight of faith out in the world. We fight against principalities and powers. It is not a war of flesh and blood. When we are beaten down and bruised, we must come to Jesus for healing of our wounds. Before we ask for healing of our wounds. we must expose them to Jesus. (Luk 22:50 And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. Luk 22:51 And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.) Peter was the one who drew the sword to cut off this man's ear. Before Jesus could heal the ear of Malchus, the wound had to be exposed to Jesus first.

Luk 6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

We are persecuted constantly for the sake of Christ. It might not be a physical persecution, but a spiritual one. We must always remember that we do not war against flesh and blood, but against spiritual wickedness in high places. When we fight against spiritual wickedness, we get cuts and bruises just as if we would if we were in an actual physical confrontation. These things happen and we need to be healed from these wounds. Jesus is the only one who can heal our spiritual wounds.

Jesus was hated for what He preached. Everything He preached went against the grain of what the Pharisees believed. Though the Pharisees preached live according to the law, they missed the law of Grace. Jesus did not preach tolerance as many believe, but He preached salvation by grace through faith. Revelation of who He is must be made to each individual before they can come to God. it is for this reason that Jesus died on the cross for all. I wrote a poem titled Jesus Died For You Too that should be read by everyone, especially those who do not know Jesus Christ as their Savior.

As we grow closer to God through Jesus, we are hated more and more because of the reproof of the Word that we preach. The world does not like to be reproved of their acts and deeds. Many even claim to be without sin. When they do so they call Jesus a liar.

Jesus stated once, Mat 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? What is He saying here? He is calling them evil. The Bible states that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. I am one of those mentioned in the all.

There have been many statements made by different people saying that there is no need to go to church. They claim they can worship God anywhere at anytime. While this is true, how many would go out on a lake to fish and worship God while there. When a fish takes your bait, then what do you do? Do you let it alone and keep worshiping God or do you put your attention to your fishing pole? There are too many distractions out in the world to keep focused on worshiping God constantly. We must come to a place of refuge where we can remove our armor to expose our wounds to Jesus. This is the way of healing of our wounds so we can go back out into the world and fight the good fight once again. (Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. ) If you refuse to gather with believers, are you any better off than the lost? They likewise refuse to gather with believers.

We are to come out from among the world. We are in the world, but not of the world. This means we are created in the image and likeness of God. I know many believe that all men are likened to God, but those who are lost are likened to Satan. As Satan rebelled against God, the lost also are rebellious against God. They are blinded by Satan and do not know any better really, although God calls all to repentance.

Jesus made many statements concerning how the world will view His followers. There is nothing much to add to what he said.

Joh 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

1Jn 3:13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

Prayer

Father, touch each and every soul who reads this. Let them heed the call to repentance before you as the Holy Ghost reproves them of their sins. In Jesus name Amen.