Ralph's fore word
Even though this word is now 37 years old, its significance has not diminished.
I attach special significance to the fact that the vision was received in
TOMMY HICKS' END-TIMES VISION.
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The following is a stunning vision given to American preacher Tommy Hicks (who
was a major figure in the powerful 1954 Argentina Revival).
VISION OF THE BODY OF CHRIST
My message begins July 25, about
The greatest thing that the
I received a letter several weeks ago from one of our native evangelists down
in
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 trembing 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 caterpiller - 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
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 realised 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
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 marvellous. 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
My life has been changed as I realised 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."
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from "To Heal the Sick", pg 8-16, by C. & F. Hunter. (Hunter Books, City of
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