Let There Be Light
Dave Hood
(UK)
June 25, 2009
This article comes in 2 parts. But the 2nd part emerged from the first. Recently after having abdominal surgery, my wound became infected and was given a course of antibiotics along with frequent “packing and dressing of the infected area”. The antibiotic course lasted 10 days during which time I had a consistent low grade temperature.
I sort of knew that after the 10 days of medication, my body would have to operate more by itself in combating the infection and dealing with the temperature. Sure enough, 24 hours after finishing the antibiotics, my temp began to rise above what it had been over the previous 10 days. So I prayed about this for help and support to get through.
I awoke at 3 am in the morning to find I was indeed very warm. As I did so I clearly heard the words, “you must be born again”, very familiar to many of us. But as if in a vision/trance I started to construct in my spirit a sermon. I would hear explanations of the passage and speak them out, just as if I was preaching, this went on for 40 minutes. During this time, I listened, spoke out, listened more and spoke out again, adding to the “sermon”.
There followed a period of silence, a short waiting. I was then given a vision, which has become the 2nd part of this article.
I saw a black backdrop, background. And adjacent to that I saw in front of me a black surface area, very much like a sea. I say a sea, because there were slight undulations, rippling on the surface. As I looked closely, I saw that the background and the sea in the foreground were made up of thousands of small rectangular black blocks, that were hinged to one another, but giving the “appearance of solidity, continuity”. Each block had 3 hinges on each long side and 2 hinges on each short side, and every block was connected together by these hinges.
I then saw a disturbance in the sea before me and out of this sea there arose a 3 dimensional shape of a head attached to a pair of shoulders in solid relief form. This came out of the sea and was formed as part of the sea covered by these blocks, like being dipped in a sea of black paint. The shape of the head had no details but one could see where the temple, crown, eyes, jaw, mouth etc would be, but there was no detail formed.
I then heard the words, not from the image but from elsewhere, a voice I knew to be the Lords … he said … fill my universe. An instinctive reply flowed from me, yes Lord, let Your universe fill me.
Instantly I knew the reason for my reply. I was reminded in a nano second that the scripture says, that the whole of the universe CANNOT contain God. Knowing this, it was not the universe itself I requested to be filled with but the one who CREATED it all, who was and is greater and bigger and surpasses it – It was HIMSELF I asked to be filled with. Let me be filled with YOU.
I then began to speak out into this scene, many words, directed by the Holy Spirit, there are many here who understand what that is like. Truth begetting truth, Life begetting life. Light begetting light.
In the name of Jesus let there, be … examples spoken are, light, life, health, healing, joy, unity, peace, victory, truth, love, order, freedom, praise, gladness etc. And in THIS WAY, I began to FILL HIS UNIVERSE.
As this image rose from the sea, I got the scripture …Rev 13:1 And the dragon [fn] stood on the shore of the sea. And I saw a beast coming out of the sea. He had ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on his horns, and on each head a blasphemous name.(though this image did not have horns but rather a smooth black skull) and also this scripture …Rev 13:5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise his authority for forty-two months.
So I knew this to be the beast, the Anti christ, coming from out of the sea and was drawn to the fact that from his mouth came proud words and blasphemies. Yet in the vision the mouth had not been formed or words come forth. But THEY WOULD COME.
I believe that AHEAD of time, God has arranged and is still organising HIS OWN words to be IN PLACE, for the time when the Anti Christ would speak. Its not that He stops him speaking, it is that Gods work and word, is ALREADY spoken to combat them for that hour.(Ps 2)
The head in the image spoke of the operation of the MIND, of RULERSHIP and AUTHORITY and of WISDOM – all these faculties are of and in Christ Jesus Himself, but this other one will exert his own, but only with partial success. As I anticipated the mouth forming and words coming forth I heard … out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks, but it was a dark heart and mind that would form them.
In the past the Lord had me as He has many others, had me pray for China – He did so by telling me to get an atlas and look at the outline of China and to re construct it on my living room floor. So I got some craft sticks from my wife’s stash, bit like lollipop, Popsicle sticks and outlined on the floor with the sticks the boundaries of China – I then walked around them and prayed as led.
But in my minds eye, my feet as I did so were like Gods own, like a giants beneath grasshoppers. He made the big (China) become small and made the believer BIG in relation to it.
Why mention this – because here in the sea vision, He made the small – my voice and words – reach and fill the ends of the huge universe – what a mind God has – hallelujah.
I was also reminded that the power of words “form, give form, words give life to form” – the whole of creation awaits the glorious manifestation of the sons of God – and God makes known the manifold wisdom of Christ to the powers and principalities. Here as well the difference between God and the dark creature is – that the whole of creation is held together by the word of His power, but the dark one could only attempt to hold things together in a counterfeit, disjointed way, as shown by the hinged blocks – whereas Gods word produces a united, joined up and SEAMLESS life and world.
To round this off – He gave me – the entrance of My word brings LIGHT and HEALTH to a mans whole body. As I lay there weak and ill, He focused me on HIS WORD, which as it was absorbed, brought HIS light and health TO ME and also used me in weakness through the same truth and principle that the body of Gods universe has been given HIS LIGHT and LIFE for such a time as this, for as such the time that is to come. I commend my testimony OF HIM, to you. In the name of Jesus, be blessed. Praise be to His Name forever.