"The Testimony of Jesus"
John Robert Stevens
via Richard Riss

School of Prophets Convocation
Shiloh, Iowa August 20, 1975

Worship is the key of the next step. As we worship, there is going to be a miracle of transformation. There is a new level coming in which appropriation will come forth even as you stand in His presence. And as you stand before His altar of worship, you are going to be changed into another person. Again, you shall hear the words spoken to thy heart, "Be every whit whole." For the provision for every need is there. Thou shalt not limp into the kingdom, but thou shalt arise and enter in, in the name of the Lord. Thou shalt be made whole in the sight of the Lord. His presence shall be with thee to heal thee and deliver thee. Thou shalt offer up a pure sacrifice of worship unto the Lord. Thou shalt look to thyself and behold thy person has been changed and transformed by His very presence. Is it not true that the Lord has loosed unto thy heart a new day, a day like thou has not seen before? He lifted up thine heart with an expectation. Surely thy hope shall not be dashed to the ground, nor shall thine heart be bowed low is disappointment, but the Lord shall come upon His people, and great shall be the joy in Shiloh. Great shall be the anointing of the Lord. Great shall be that which flows down upon the people. Rivers of living water. Ye have sought and asked of the Lord rain in the time of latter rain. Hath He not even made for this day rains and lightnings that thou mayest know that what He does in the natural, is He not able to do it unto thee in the spiritual? That He shall rain upon thee. There shall be floods upon the dry ground, and the High place shall blossom and the desert shall come forth. It shall be the miracle of the Lord. The testimony of His presence where men shall look upon thee, they shall not see barrenness, nor shall they see thee cast down, but they shall see that thou art the heritage of the Lord. Thou shalt be as a watered garden. Thy fragrance shall go forth. Thy fruit shall be born unto God. Great shall be the blessing of the Lord that cometh upon His people. Hallelujah! . . .

If you people say, "I believe in the living word. I believe that Christ is going to manifest Himself through His people. He's going to speak through His people," I'm going to show you how this whole thing winds up. . . .

Believe me, the cleansing of the Body will not come because we become personally disciplined to meet these problems, it will be because He will send His word and it will cleanse us. Now you are clean through the word. It will be speaking a word of deliverance. It will be a mighty, anointed word that comes. And this is the way this bride comes up here in these verses. To be clothed with fine linen. It's that righteousness of the saints that comes about because the word of God created it in them. . . .

It says, "blessed and holy is he who is invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb." The call is going out, but nobody is hearing it, because they don't hear His voice. They don't hear His word. You say, "How can I know whether I hear it or not?" Are you hearing these words tonight? Are you open to hear the word of the Lord? Are you listening to what God is saying? Do you have ears to hear what the Spirit's saying to the churches? Have you heard the knocking at your door? Have you heard His voice? Have you opened the door? Is He supping with you? YOU ARE *AT* THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB! You're there! Amen. Don't look for a big long table with peacocks pulling gravy trains down the road. Or some table that's spread from here to the moon. Amen. With a liberal path of moon dust, and that's the way we're going to eat. No sir, in the first place . . . Ah, we don't' need that. We don't need to labor for the meat that perisheth. But labor for the meat that endureth to everlasting life. My words are Spirit, and they are life. Eat of me, eat of my flesh, drink of my blood. We're coming now to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And His bride is making herself ready by the cleansing of the word, and she's feasting and becoming all that she is to be through the word, and there's an anointing upon her to sit and fellowship with the Lord. And the worship will be dearer as the days go by. The time of His presence, the time of His parousia. You sit in this day, and you find that there's a very, very real, more real than any other way could be, mystical revelation of these things that we have read, and never understood. Marriage supper--what is it? What is it--just like the feast that God prepares--goes on and talks about the feast--Oh, all of the birds of the air that come to fly--are going to eat the flesh, the carcass of kings and captains, mighty army men and so forth. What it's talking about, I think, is that if you're going to spiritualize one thing, you'd better spiritualize it all. Don't you think you should? What do you think's happening right now? Oh, there are spiritual forces that are preying upon the people of the world. I tell you, that's why they don't have any guts left. 'Cause the birds of prey have been destroying them. That's why they don't seem to have any character; that's why they seem to be shadows of what they once were. Because there are evil forces that have been preying upon them, though, instead, we're feasting with the Lord. What a different thing it is! What a fantastic thing it is! And we go on a little farther: "These are the true words of God. These are the true words of God." He hears these words: "Write blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb." He said to me, these are the true words of God. Now John the beloved knew the voice of the Lord. He heard His voice many times. He leaned on His bosom and he had heard His teachings. You couldn't fool him. He was the one that knew from the very beginning not to make Jesus my close buddy, though he leaned upon His bosom when they reclined at meat. But still he's the one who starts his gospel out, "In the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the Word was God." He knew the word. He knew the word of God. That living one that had spoken to him, and called him, that he loved so dearly. He was the disciple whom Jesus loved. He knew all about it. And he knew that voice. "And I fell at His feet to worship Him." He knew what it was. But he said to me, "Do not do that, I'm a fellow servant of yours, and your brethren who hold the testimony of Jesus." . . . That's what's taking place right now. Well, say we have the Spirit of prophecy. Say also we're coming into the testimony of Jesus, it's the same thing. We're coming forth to be the oracle of Christ. Christ speaking it through us. We're coming forth to a living word. We're coming forth to a level of prophecy that is superior to what we have known, to just have the Holy Spirit bringing forth utterances to exhort, to comfort, to edify. But when the testimony of Jesus comes forth, and that high Spirit of prophecy, it's the creative Spirit. It was of this word that it was said, "All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made." . . .

Will He bring forth a new heavens and a new earth? Without again, Christ speaks to create it? You say, "Yes, that will be true." But through whose lips will those words come? Again, John fell at his feet. He said, "Don't worship me. I have the testimony of Jesus. I have the Spirit of Prophecy. I'm speaking the living word that creates, that changes, that brings all things to pass. And he went on. And the next picture is beautiful: "I saw the heavens opened, and behold, a white horse. And he who sat upon it is called faithful and true, and in righteousness he judges and wages war. And his eyes are a flame of fire. And upon his head are many diadems. And he has the name written upon Him, which no one knows except himself. And he is clothed with the robe dipped in blood, and his name is called, the word of God. And the armies which came are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, clean and white. Here we have a picture of the bride--fine linen, clean and white. Now the armies which are in heaven-fine linen, clean and white. Is there any difference? Following him upon white horses and from His mouth comes the sharp sword. Aren't swords in a man's hand? This sword is in his mouth. So that he may smite the nations. And he will rule them with a rod of iron. And he treads the winepress of the fierce wrath of God the almighty. And on his robe and on his thigh he has the name written, King of Kings, Lord of Lords. And that army on white horses. Who are they? They are the kings over which he is King. They are the Lords over which He is Lord. They are the ones who come forth again cleansed by the word. Now they become ministers of that word. . . .

Watch what happens when we begin to touch into that high level of the spirit of prophecy. And you go out. How many times? How many times have I heard it said, people say, "Brother Stevens, you preached a wonderful sermon." I haven't heard that, I don't think, for months or years. But how many times do the people say, "The Lord met me. That was a real word from the Lord." There is a distinction. We have ceased to be preachers. We have ceased to be teachers. And you almost say, "We need not that any man teach you," but it's the anointing that teaches you. Because you're not taught by men any more. You're taught by mouthpieces that speak the word of the Lord. You're taught by Christ coming forth. It's an anointing that teaches you all things. And as it hath taught you, you abide in Him. . . .

And everywhere the preaching of these truths will go sour. And the churches that want to hold to the doctrines of "the walk" will be left with the letter that kills. And they'll disappear from the earth faster than any denomination ever did in past days. Let it be so. . . .

But the thing that will abide will be those that have been so taught of the Lord, and so prepared in their heart, that they have been brought up to this hour, and they seek the face of the Lord, and they reach into it, and they become the living oracles of the Lord. They are following Him that hath the sword that goeth out of His mouth, who hath the name written, the word of God. They follow Him as the armies of heaven. The spiritual armies that will see the earth sacked for the kingdom of God.

But the thing that will abide will be those that have been so taught of the Lord and so prepared in their heart that they have been brought up to this hour and they seek the face of the Lord. And they reach into it, and they become the oracles of the Lord. They're following Him who hath the sword that goes out from His mouth. That have the name written, The Word of God. They follow him as the armies of heaven. The spiritual armies that will see the earth set for the kingdom of God and the nations become all of his footstool. They'll see the glory of the Lord come. We talk about the kingdom coming in a few years. And yet we claim that the Body of Christ will be the instruments to bring it to pass.

The only instrument that you have is that you have abandoned, forsaken, all human instruments, and weaknesses, and you prophesy the word of the Lord. Amen. That you have that treasure in an earthen vessel. That you begin to speak and pour forth God's word upon the earth until it's going to be a blood upon the dry ground. It's going to be something that will break and bind. It will loose and it will build up. It will tear down. It will bring life and it will bring death. A word from God.

What are we doing? Building a little place so we'll have a convention hall? God forbid. We're after 1,000 prophets that can change the complexion of this country. Change its landscape, change its weather. Change its finances. Change its politics. Change its people. Bind the kings that rule, the unseen dynasty of America, bind them with fetters of wrath, proclaim upon them the judgment written. This heritage have all of His saints. Something has to do it. It's not going to be done by what we are or what we have from God at this point. But what we are, and what we have from God at this point, is the potential, it's the seedbed of the kingdom. It's in this soil--your heart, that this word can spring up. And it's this word I'm speaking to you that can change you tonight. This word can create in you and if you will just receive it, you say, "I take it. I'm going to become the oracle of God. I don't know how it will happen, but somewhere I'm going to learn to speak the word from the Lord. I'm going to speak His word in the earth. His word is going to be made flesh in me, in me! This will be the thing that they will see Christ come in my flesh. Christ speaking in my flesh. Christ manifested in my flesh." Oh, in the name of the Lord, let it be so. Let it be real to you. Let it be the anointing of the Lord that springs forth upon you in the name of the Lord. . . .

You stand in His presence and worship Him. You worship Him and share His glory until you're transformed. If we come into the same image it's going to be because we go from glory to glory by the revelation of the Lord. Just reach up, get the revelation of he Lord. Just reach up, get the revelation of the Lord, be changed into the same image. That's the only way it's going to happen. He is transferred and takes over you as you stand and you worship Him. And the revelation increases of Him to your heart. There's no other way. That was the way it was from the very beginning, and it has to be. . . .

This is all in symbolic language. Hallelujah. That sharp two-edged sword is not in your hand, it's in your mouth. Amen. The words of judgment are there. Amen. We're moving into it. The judgment is going to be from worshippers at His throne that are able to speak His word.

[End of prophetic message by John Robert Stevens.]

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