"The Heavenly Rest Of God Vision 06-28-12"
I was lying in bed half
asleep, and I saw a very clear vision. The Lord was standing upon the earth,
and He was massive. He was miles tall, and His head was in the stars. He was
standing on the earth, and as I watched a little white sheep came walking up to
his feet. Jesus bent down and with both hands He scooped up that little sheep
and He lifted it into the clouds and put that little white sheep into the
clouds. He then waited and watched the earth again. After awhile, another
little white sheep came walking up to the Lord's feet. Jesus again bent down
and with both hands He picked up that little white sheep. He then reached
upwards and placed that sheep into the clouds, just like He did the other one.
He did this a few times. He then turned to me and looked at me. He then said to
me, "These have learned to come to Me, and they have now entered into My Rest.
They are now in My Sheepfold, My Place of Rest. Here they will remain with Me."
- The vision ended and I
looked at the clock and it said 2:35 am. The thought then came to me to look up
Psalms 23:5:
Psalms 23:1 THE LORD is my
Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me], I shall not lack. 2 He makes me lie
down in [fresh, tender] green pastures; He leads me beside the still and
restful waters. 3 He refreshes and restores my life (my self); He leads me in
the paths of righteousness [uprightness and right standing with Him--not for my
earning it, but] for His name's sake. 4 Yes, though I walk through the [deep, sunless]
valley of the shadow of death, I will fear or dread no evil, for You are with
me; Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort me. 5 You
prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head
with oil; my [brimming] cup runs over. 6 Surely or only goodness, mercy,
and unfailing love shall follow me all the days of my life, and through the
length of my days the house of the Lord [and His presence] shall be my dwelling
place.
Footnotes:
Psalm 23:5 It is difficult for those living in
a temperate climate to appreciate, but it was customary in hot climates to
anoint the body with oil to protect it from excessive perspiration. When mixed
with perfume, the oil imparted a delightfully refreshing and invigorating
sensation. Athletes anointed their bodies as a matter of course before running
a race. As the body, therefore, anointed with oil was refreshed, invigorated,
and better fitted for action, so the Lord would anoint His "sheep"
with the Holy Spirit, Whom oil symbolizes, to fit them to engage more freely in
His service and run in the way He directs--in heavenly fellowship with Him.
The Heavenly Fellowship or
the Rest of God:
Matthew 11:28 Come to Me, all
you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to
rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.] 29 Take My yoke
upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and
you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed
quiet) for your souls.
Micah 2:12 I will surely
gather all of you, O Jacob; I will surely collect the remnant of Israel. I will
bring them [Israel]
together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in the midst of their pasture. They
[the fold and the pasture] shall swarm with men and hum with much noise.
Hebrews 4:3 For we who
have believed (adhered to and trusted in and relied on God) do enter that rest,
in accordance with His declaration that those [who did not believe] should not
enter when He said, As I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter My rest;
and this He said although [His] works had been completed and prepared [and
waiting for all who would believe] from the foundation of the world. 4 For
in a certain place He has said this about the seventh day: And God rested on
the seventh day from all His works. 5 And [they forfeited their part in it,
for] in this [passage] He said, They shall not enter My rest. 6 Seeing then that the promise remains
over [from past times] for some to enter that rest, and that those who formerly
were given the go od news about it and
the opportunity, failed to appropriate it and did not enter because of
disobedience, 7 Again He sets a definite day, [a new] Today, [and gives another
opportunity of securing that rest] saying through David after so long a
time in the words already quoted, Today, if you would hear His voice and when
you hear it, do not harden your hearts. 8 [This mention of a rest was not a
reference to their entering into Canaan.] For
if Joshua had given them rest, He [God] would not speak afterward about another
day. 9 So then, there is still awaiting a full and complete Sabbath-rest
reserved for the [true] people of God; 10 For he who has once entered [God's]
rest also has ceased from [the weariness and pain] of human labors, just as God
rested from those labors peculiarly His own. 11 Let us therefore be
zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter that rest [of God,
to know and experience it for ourselves], that no one may fall or perish by
the same kind of unbelief and disobedience [into which those in the wilderness
fell].
Isaiah 49:8 Thus says the
Lord, In an acceptable and favorable time I have heard and answered you, and in
a day of salvation I have helped you; and I will preserve you and give you for
a covenant to the people, to raise up and establish the land [from its present
state of ruin] and to apportion and cause them to inherit the desolate [moral
wastes of heathenism, their] heritages, 9 Saying to those who are bound, Come
forth, and to those who are in [spiritual] darkness, Show yourselves [come into
the light of the Sun of righteousness]. They shall feed in all the ways [in
which they go], and their pastures shall be [not in deserts, but] on all the
bare [grass-covered] hills. 10 They will not hunger or thirst, neither will
mirage [mislead] or scorching wind or sun smite them; for He Who has mercy on
them will lead them, and by springs of water will He guide them. 11 And I
will make all My mountains a way, and My highways will be raised up.
22 Thus says the Lord God:
Behold, I will lift up My hand to the Gentile nations and set up My standard
and raise high My signal banner to the peoples; and they will bring your sons
in the bosom of their garments, and your daughters will be carried upon their
shoulders. 23 And kings shall be your foster fathers and guardians, and their
queens your nursing mothers. They shall bow down to you with their faces to the
earth and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know [with an
acquaintance and understanding based on and grounded in personal experience]
that I am the Lord; for they shall not be put to shame who wait for, look for,
hope for, and expect Me. 24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the
lawful captives of the just be delivered? 25 For thus says the Lord: Even the
captives of the mighty will be taken away, and the prey of the terrible will be
delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will give
safety to your children and ease them. 26 And I will make those who oppress you
consume themselves [in mutually destructive wars], thus eating their own flesh;
and they will be drunk with their own blood, as with sweet wine; and all
flesh will know [with a knowledge grounded in personal experience] that I, the
Lord, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Hosea 4:1 HEAR THE word of
the Lord, you children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy (a pleading
contention) with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no
faithfulness, love, pity and mercy, or knowledge
of God [from personal experience
with Him] in the land.
Isaiah 55:3 Incline your
ear [submit and consent to the divine will] and come to Me; hear, and your soul
will revive; and I will make an everlasting covenant or league with you,
even the sure mercy (kindness, goodwill, and compassion) promised to David.
Psalms 116:7 Return to
your rest, O my soul, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
Jeremiah 6:16 Thus says the
Lord: Stand by the roads and look; and ask for the eternal paths, where the
good, old way is; then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.
But they said, We will not walk in it!
1 Thessalonians 5:23 And may
the God of peace Himself
sanctify you through and through [separate you from profane things, make you
pure and wholly consecrated to God]; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved sound and
complete [and found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the
Messiah). 24 Faithful is He Who is calling you [to Himself] and
utterly trustworthy, and He will also do it [fulfill His call by hallowing and
keeping you].
Romans 8:6 Now the mind of
the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death
that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But
the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both
now and forever].
Colossians 3:15 And let
the peace (soul harmony which comes) from Christ
rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts [deciding and settling with
finality all questions that arise in your minds, in that peaceful state] to
which as [members of Christ's] one body you were also called [to live]. 16
Let the word [spoken by] Christ (the Messiah) have its home [in your
hearts and minds] and dwell in you in [all its] richness, as you teach and
admonish and train one another in all insight and intelligence and wisdom [in
spiritual things, and as you sing] psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, making
melody to God with [His] grace in your hearts.
Philippians 4:17 And God's
peace [shall be yours, that
tranquil state of a soul assured
of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being
content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all
understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in
Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 8:10 For this is
the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the
Lord: I will imprint My laws upon their minds, even upon their innermost
thoughts and understanding, and engrave them upon their hearts; and I will be
their God, and they shall be My people. 11 And it will nevermore be necessary
for each one to teach his neighbor and his fellow citizen or each one his
brother, saying, Know (perceive, have knowledge of, and get acquainted by
experience with) the Lord, for all will know Me, from the smallest to the
greatest of them.
1 John 4:6 We are [children]
of God. Whoever is learning to know God [progressively to perceive,
recognize, and understand God by observation and experience, and to get an
ever-clearer knowledge of Him] listens to us; and he who is not of God does
not listen or pay attention to us. By this we know (recognize) the Spirit of
Truth and the spirit of error. 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love
is (springs) from God; and he who loves [his fellowmen] is begotten (born) of
God and is coming [progressively] to know and understand God [to perceive and
recognize and get a better and clearer knowledge of Him].
Ephesians 3:18 That you
may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints
[God's devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and
length and height and depth [of it]; 19 [That you may really come] to know
[practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far
surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through
all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of
the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God
Himself]!
Those not coming to Him, or
unwilling to know Him experientially:
Psalms 95:7 For He is our God
and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today, if you
will hear His voice, 8 Harden not your hearts as at Meribah and as at
Massah in the day of temptation in the wilderness, 9 When your fathers tried My
patience and tested Me, proved Me, and saw My work [of judgment]. 10 Forty
years long was I grieved and disgusted with that generation, and I said, It
is a people that do err in their hearts, and they do not approve, acknowledge,
or regard My ways. 11 Wherefore I swore in My wrath that they would not
enter My rest [the land of promise].
Hebrews 3:10 And so I was
provoked (displeased and sorely grieved) with that generation, and said, They
always err and are led astray in their hearts, and they have not perceived or
recognized My ways and become progressively better and more experimentally and
intimately acquainted with them. 11 Accordingly, I swore in My wrath and
indignation, They shall not enter into My rest. 12 [Therefore beware] brethren,
take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which
refuses to cleave to, trust in, and rely on Him], leading you to turn away and
desert or stand aloof from the living God. 18 And to whom did He swear that
they should not enter His rest, but to those who disobeyed [who had not listened
to His word and who refused to be compliant or be persuaded]? 19 So we see that
they were not able to enter [into His rest], because of their unwillingness to
adhere to and trust in and rely on God [unbelief had shut them out].
Hebrews 11:10 And so I was
provoked (displeased and sorely grieved) with that generation, and said, They
always err and are led astray in their hearts, and they have not perceived or
recognized My ways and become progressively better and more experimentally and
intimately acquainted with them. 11 Accordingly, I swore in My wrath and
indignation, They shall not enter into My rest. 12 [Therefore beware] brethren,
take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which
refuses to cleave to, trust in, and rely on Him], leading you to turn away and
desert or stand aloof from the living God.
John 10:26 But you do not
believe and trust and rely on Me because you do not belong to My fold [you are
no sheep of Mine]. 27 The sheep that are My own hear and are listening to
My voice; and I know them, and they follow Me.
-Susan O'Marra
-06-28-12
