Tommy Hick's Vision Prophecy: 25/07/1961
VISION OF THE BODY OF CHRIST AND THE END-TIME MINISTRIES
My message begins
July 25, about 2:30 in the morning at Winnipeg,
Canada. I had
hardly fallen asleep when the vision and the revelation that God gave me came
before me. The vision came three times, exactly in detail, the morning of July
25, 1961. I was so stirred and so moved by the revelation that this has changed
my complete outlook upon the body of Christ, and upon the end-time ministries.
The greatest thing
that the church
of Jesus Christ has ever
been given lies straight ahead. It is so hard to help men and women to realize
and understand the thing that God is trying to give his people in the end
times.
I received a letter
several weeks ago from one of our native evangelists down in Africa, down in Nairobi. This man and his
wife were on their way to Tanganyika.
They could neither read nor could they write, but we had been supporting them
for over two years. As they entered into the territory of Tanganyika,
they came across a small village. The entire village was evacuating because of
a plague that had hit the village. He came across natives that were weeping,
and he asked them what was wrong.
They told him of
their mother and father who had suddenly died, and they had been dead for three
days. They had to leave. They were afraid to go in; they were leaving them in
the cottage. He turned and asked them where they were. They pointed to the hut
and he asked them to go with him, but they refused. They were afraid to go.
The native and his
wife went to this little cottage and entered in where the man and woman had
been dead for three days. He simply stretched forth his hand in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ, and spoke the man's name and the woman's name and said,
"In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I command life to come back to your
bodies."
Instantaneously these
two heathen people who had never known Jesus Christ as their Savior sat up and immediately
began to praise God. The spirit and the power of God came into the life of
those people.
To us that may seem
strange and a phenomenon, but that is the beginning of these end-time
ministries. God is going to take the do-nothings, the nobodies, the unheard-of,
the no-accounts. He is going to take every man and every woman and he is going
to give to them this outpouring of the Spirit of God.
In the book of Acts
we read that "In the last days," God said, "I will pour out my
Spirit upon all flesh." I wonder if we realized what he meant when God
said, "I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh." I do not think I
fully realized nor could I understand the fullness of it, and then I read from
the book of Joel:
"Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for
he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down
for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain -" (Joel 2:23). It is
not only going to be the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, but he is
going to give to his people in these last days a double portion of the power of
God!
As the vision
appeared to me after I was asleep, I suddenly found myself in a great high
distance. Where I was, I do not know. But I was looking down upon the earth.
Suddenly the whole earth came into my view. Every nation, every kindred, every
tongue came before my sight from the east and the west, the north and the
south. I recognized every country and many cities that I had been in, and I was
almost in fear and trembling as I beheld the great sight before me: and at that
moment when the world came into view, it began to lightning and thunder.
As the lightning
flashed over the face of the earth, my eyes went downward and I was facing the
north. Suddenly I beheld what looked like a great giant, and as I stared and
looked at it, I was almost bewildered by the sight. It was so gigantic and so
great. His feet seemed to reach to the north pole and his head to the south.
Its arms were stretched from sea to sea. I could not even begin to understand
whether this be a mountain or this be a giant, but as I watched, I suddenly
beheld a great giant. I could see his head was struggling for life. He wanted
to live, but his body was covered with debris from head to foot, and at times
this great giant would move his body and act as though it would even raise up
at times. And when it did, thousands of little creatures seemed to run away.
Hideous creatures would run away from this giant, and when he would become calm,
they would come back.
All of a sudden this
great giant lifted his hand towards heaven, and then it lifted its other hand,
and when it did these creatures by the thousands seemed to flee away from this
giant and go into the darkness of the night.
Slowly this great
giant began to rise and as he did, his head and hands went into the clouds. As
he rose to his feet he seemed to have cleansed himself from the debris and
filth that was upon him, and he began to raise his hands into the heavens as
though praising the Lord, and as he raised his hands, they went even unto the
clouds.
Suddenly, every cloud
became silver, the most beautiful silver I have ever known. As I watched this
phenomenon it was so great I could not even begin to understand what it all
meant. I was so stirred as I watched it, and I cried unto the Lord and I said,
"Oh Lord, what is the meaning of this." and I felt as if I was
actually in the Spirit and I could feel the presence of the Lord even as I was
asleep. And from those clouds suddenly there came great drops of liquid light
raining down upon this mighty giant, and slowly, slowly, this giant began to
melt, began to sink itself in the very earth itself, and as he melted, his
whole form seemed to have melted upon the face of the earth, and this great
rain began to come down. Liquid drops of light began to flood the very earth
itself and as I watched this giant that seemed to melt, suddenly it became
millions of people over the face of the earth. As I beheld the sight before me,
people stood up all over the world! They were lifting their hands and they were
praising the Lord.
At that very moment
there came a great thunder that seemed to roar from the heavens. I turned my
eyes toward the heavens and suddenly I saw a figure in white, in glistening
white - the most glorious thing that I have ever seen in my entire life. I did
not see the face, but somehow I knew it was the Lord Jesus Christ, and he
stretched forth his hand, and as he did, he would stretch it forth to one, and
to another, and to another. And as he stretched forth his hand upon the nations
and the people of the world - men and women - as he pointed toward them, this
liquid light seemed to flow from his hands into them, and a mighty anointing of
God came upon them, and those people began to go forth in the name of the Lord.
I do not know how
long I watched it. It seemed it went into days and weeks and months. And I
beheld this Christ as he continued to stretch forth his hand; but there was a
tragedy. There were many people as he stretched forth his hand that refused the
anointing of God and the call of God. I saw men and women that I knew. People
that I felt would certainly receive the call of God. But as he stretched forth
his hand toward this one and toward that one, they simply bowed their head and
began to back away. And each of those that seemed to bow down and back away,
seemed to go into darkness. Blackness seemed to swallow them everywhere.
I was bewildered as I
watched it, but these people that he had anointed, hundreds of thousands of
people all over the world, in Africa, England, Russia, China, America, all over
the world, the anointing of God was upon these people as they went forward in
the name of the Lord. I saw these men and women as they went forth. They were
ditch diggers, they were washerwomen, they were rich men, they were poor men. I
saw people who were bound with paralysis and sickness and blindness and
deafness. As the Lord stretched forth to give them this anointing, they became
well, they became healed, and they went forth!
And this is the
miracle of it - this is the glorious miracle of it - those people would stretch
forth their hands exactly as the Lord did, and it seemed as if there was this
same liquid fire in their hands. As they stretched forth their hands they said,
"According to my word, be thou made whole."
As these people
continued in this mighty end-time ministry, I did not fully realize what it
was, and I looked to the Lord and said, "What is the meaning of
this?" And he said, "This is that which I will do in the last days. I
will restore all that the cankerworm, the palmerworm, the caterpillar - I will
restore all that they have destroyed. This, my people, in the end times will go
forth. As a mighty army shall they sweep over the face of the earth."
As I was at this
great height, I could behold the whole world. I watched these people as they
were going to and fro over the face of the earth. Suddenly there was a man in
Africa and in a moment he was transported by the Spirit of God, and perhaps he was
in Russia, or China or America or some other place, and
vice versa.
All over the world these people went, and they came through fire, and through
pestilence, and through famine. Neither fire nor persecution, nothing seemed to
stop them.
Angry mobs came to
them with swords and with guns. And like Jesus, they passed through the
multitudes and they could not find them, but they went forth in the name of the
Lord, and everywhere they stretched forth their hands, the sick were healed,
the blind eyes were opened. There was not a long prayer, and after I had reviewed
the vision many times in my mind, and I thought about it many times, I realized
that I never saw a church, and I never saw or heard a denomination, but these
people were going in the name of the Lord of Hosts. Hallelujah!
As they marched forth
in everything they did as the ministry of Christ in the end times, these people
were ministering to the multitudes over the face of the earth. Tens of
thousands, even millions seemed to come to the Lord Jesus Christ as these
people stood forth and gave the message of the kingdom, of the coming kingdom,
in this last hour. It was so glorious, but it seems as though there were those
that rebelled, and they would become angry and they tried to attack those workers
that were giving the message.
God is going to give
the world a demonstration in this last hour as the world has never known. These
men and women are of all walks of life, degrees will mean nothing. I saw these
workers as they were going over the face of the earth. When one would stumble
and fall, another would come and pick him up. There were no "big I"
and "little you," but every mountain was brought low and every valley
was exalted, and they seemed to have one thing in common - there was a divine love,
a divine love that seemed to flow forth from these people as they worked
together, and as they lived together. It was the most glorious sight that I
have ever known. Jesus Christ was the theme of their life. They continued and
it seemed the days went by as I stood and beheld this sight. I could only cry,
and sometimes I laughed. It was so wonderful as these people went throughout
the face of the whole earth, bringing forth in this last end time.
As I watched from the
very heaven itself, there were times when great deluges of this liquid light
seemed to fall upon great congregations, and that congregation would lift up
their hands and seemingly praise God for hours and even days as the Spirit of
God came upon them. God said, "I will pour my Spirit upon all flesh,"
and that is exactly this thing. And to every man and every woman that received
this power, and the anointing of God, the miracles of God, there was no ending
to it.
We have talked about
miracles. We have talked about signs and wonders, but I could not help but weep
as I read again this morning, at 4 o'clock this morning the letter from our
native workers. This is only the evidence of the beginning for one man, a
"do-nothing, an unheard-of," who would go and stretch forth his hand and
say, "In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I command life to flow into
your body." I dropped to my knees and began to pray again, and I said,
"Lord, I know that this time is coming soon!"
And then again, as
these people were going about the face of the earth, a great persecution seemed
to come from every angle.
Suddenly there was
another great clap of thunder, that seemed to resound around the world, and I
heard again the voice, the voice that seemed to speak, "Now this is my
people. This is my beloved bride." And when the voice spoke, I looked upon
the earth and I could see the lakes and the mountains. The graves were opened
and people from all over the world, the saints of all ages, seemed to be
rising. And as they rose from the grave, suddenly all these people came from
every direction. From the east and the west, from the north and the south, and
they seemed to be forming again this gigantic body. As the dead in Christ
seemed to be rising first, I could hardly comprehend it. It was so marvelous.
It was so far beyond anything I could ever dream or think of.
But as this body
suddenly began to form, and take shape again, it took shape again in the form
of this mighty giant, but this time it was different. It was arrayed in the
most beautiful gorgeous white. Its garments were without spot or wrinkle as its
body began to form, and the people of all ages seemed to be gathered into this
body, and slowly, slowly, as it began to form up into the very heavens,
suddenly from the heavens above, the Lord Jesus came, and became the head, and
I heard another clap of thunder that said, "This is my beloved bride for
whom I have waited. She will come forth even tried by fire. This is she that I
have loved from the beginning of time."
As I watched, my eyes
suddenly turned to the far north, and I saw seemingly destruction: men and
women in anguish and crying out, and buildings in destruction. Then I heard
again, the fourth voice that said, "Now is My wrath being poured out upon
the face of the earth." From the ends of the whole world, the wrath of God
seemed to be poured out and it seemed that there were great vials of God's
wrath being poured out upon the face of the earth.
I can remember it as
though it happened a moment ago. I shook and trembled as I beheld the awful
sight of seeing the cities, and whole nations going down into destruction.
I could hear the
weeping and wailing. I could hear people crying. They seemed to cry as they
went into caves, but the caves in the mountains opened up.
They leaped into
water, but the water would not drown them. There was nothing that could destroy
them. They were wanting to take their lives, but they could not. Then again I
turned my eyes to this glorious sight, this body arrayed in beautiful white,
shining garments. Slowly, slowly, it began to lift from the earth, and as it
did, I awoke.
What a sight I had
beheld! I had seen the end-time ministries - the last hour. Again on July 27,
at 2:30 in the morning, the same revelation, the same vision came again exactly
as it did before.
My life has been
changed as I realized that we are living in that end time, for all over the
world God is anointing men and women with this ministry. It will not be
doctrine. It will not be a churchianity. It is going to be Jesus Christ.
They will give forth
the word of the Lord, and are going to say, "I heard it so many times in
the vision and according to my word it shall be done."
