#165 | The Perseverance of The Saints (1)

PART 1

While Pastor was preaching, I saw an angel called The Perseverance Of The Saints and I saw myself in a desert. The angel stood beside me, holding my hand and pointing out the lay of the land.

He was dressed like royalty in gold and purple, but with time he put on a cloak of grey and brown, giving him a lowly and unattractive look. His physique also changed from a strong majestic being to a stooped old man, like Gandalf the White from Lord of the Rings.

I saw him as he was and what he became, but the world saw him only as the old man. Some people saw him as he truly was, and fewer recognised the drab garments as representing humility and submission.

It was as though he knew the questions going through my mind, and he said:

”The perseverance of the saints looks unattractive to the average Christian because suffering and sorrow are attached to it, and no one wants to carry their cross on their backs to follow Jesus. They would rather hang a ’representative’ of the cross on their necks in order to feel spiritual.”

“Because of a lack of perseverance, the church has not grown as much as it should, and this will be a major trap because the perseverance of the saints will help keep your hope and faith alive.”

“It is called the perseverance of the saints because it is not the perseverance of one man but the saints. It is held in the unity of the Spirit, in the bond of peace.”

“The unity is held in the spirit, and your perseverance is to be held in that realm. In the spirit, you are to be one.”

“When one servant’s perseverance fails, the perseverance of the others in the bond holds him up till he can stand on his feet again.”

After saying this, we moved to a place with two gates, one on my right and the other on my left. The gate on the right was labelled Upper Egypt, and the other gate was Lower Egypt.

LOWER EGYPT

As we walked through the gate into Lower Egypt, it looked like a marketplace, except that everyone lived there.

There were various sections of the market, like the pottery section and the jewelry section, but we stopped first at the pottery section.

From afar, the pottery looked like authentic bone China or delicate Ming dynasty vessels, but up close, we realized they were all fake — some made of sprayed plastic, and mud was used instead of clay.

I asked a merchant why they weren’t using clay and why plastic was in a pottery shop.

The merchant replied:

“It’s not important what material we use to make the vessels. As long as it looks right for Upper Egypt, then it’s good enough. Every vessel we make has to be just right for Upper Egypt, the main centre of trade.”

He moved on. I turned to the angel with confusion on my face, and he said:

“Lower Egypt is a servant of Upper Egypt, and Upper Egypt masquerades like Zion. It may pretend and spray its vessels to look like gold, but those vessels cannot pass through the fire.

Those vessels are the people of the world who have come into Egypt thinking to somehow become warriors of Zion.

When the merchants are done with the vessels, they pass them to the goldsmith to spray them with gold and intricate designs. Then the jewelry merchants fill them with idols and load them on wagons bound for Upper Egypt.

It’s easy to save them while still at Lower Egypt — to encourage them to wash the mud off and scrape the rubber off, even though it might be painful.”

12th May 2023
Sister N. J.
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