Vision of July 19, 1998 PM
Pastor Steven L. Shelley
Columbus, GA

Oh. Oh. Oh. Praise.

I’ll try.   I’ll try to stay here.   Could they praise the Lord?   Saints, let’s praise Him.   Quiet, reverently.

Scary this way.

I’m waiting for the Angel to come back.   He told me to stand right here.

He left me standing by this beautiful, beautiful River.  I was here before.   I see His shining, shining city, shining city on the other side.

I told Him, I’ve got to swim by myself.

He told me to wait.  This time I could go in.   There is a mist on the water.   It almost looks stormy.
It comes to try to hide the view.

I see walls and towers in this city.   I hope He, the Angel, comes back.   He told me not to try to cross alone.

He’s coming my way, walking on the River.

He says, “All things are ready for My coming.”

Oh! Hallelujah!   Cold, cold water!   He’s laughing at me.  The Angel is laughing at me, because it’s cold.   He doesn’t feel the cold.

I’m coming.   I’m coming.   It’s just cold.  I’m coming.  I wouldn’t miss this for anything.

He, He touched, He waved His hand toward me and touched the water.   It became warm.   He says, “Most people would turn back when they feel the cold.”   But I kept wading.   Now He has made the River warm, so warm.   Real relaxing.

Oh, wading.   Oh, we’re stopping in the middle.   He wants me to see something from this point.   Now I see the Gate.   It is, it is carved from pearl, shiny carved, beautiful designs.   Opens in the middle.  Two sides, two sides of the gate.   Two sides.   Left, right side.

I hear music, trumpets.   Loud, royal trumpets.   Sweet music.

Standing, I’m standing with Him, my Angel, in the middle of the River.   He said we were waiting here for our grand welcome.

The gate, the walls are wide, shiny.   Stones, beautiful jasper stones cut and laid upon each other.
Beautiful facets, cut stones, jasper like bricks.

The Gate opens in the middle.  First left side, now right side.   Big crowd coming out with trumpets, harps, some other instruments playing beautiful music - heaven’s music.   So beautiful.

Angels coming.   Some look like men.   Others have wings, tall wings.   Some with wings have beautiful blonde hair like men, but wings.   It’s a parade for me.   So many coming.   Standing along the walls, waiting for our crossing.

Four angels are carrying a beautiful, beautiful banner, beautiful banner.   It’s green, with gold letters, carrying it out the gate with praise.   It says, “Welcome. Welcome.”   (Smiles)   They even know my name.   (Laughs)   This Angel, He’s funny.   He asked me, “Did you think we were going to sneak you in the back door?”

He said, “Every son of God has a welcome parade.”

Big crowd, praising the Lamb.   They’re singing a song about The Lamb.   We’re moving, wading towards the crowd.   Some angels are clapping, clapping their hands.   Some are moving, fluttering their wings.   He said to me, “Even Cherubim and Seraphims are welcoming you.”  Hallelujah.

How will I ever come back to see this?   To see this City is my goal.   He said, I will come back to tell others how to stand before the Throne.

They’re dancing now in circles.   They’re moving.  (Laughs)   You know, that little dance that the sisters here move forward and back, turn around and go backward in little ranks like two by two.  The angels, some are doing the very same dance.   (Laughs)   Two by two.  Some are dancing hand in hand, shouting praise, all praise to The Lamb, “Forever and ever.”

He will soon call His Bride.   They’re singing.  “He will soon call His Bride.”   The angels are singing the song, “Worthy is The Lamb.   Worthy is The Lamb.   The Lamb will soon call His Bride.   She will stand at His side.   Worthy, worthy is The Lamb.”   You can hear it in their voices.   They want Him to call His Bride.   It seems like they want Him to be happy, so they are anxious for His Bride to come.

It’s a long way, but we’re almost out of the water.  There is a place under the wall, where the River flows into the city.  Under the wall.   But we will wade out.

“No.   Tell them not to do that.”   (Cries)   “Tell not to.”   They are bowing, the angels are bowing their head, standing at attention.

I told them not to.   They bow their heads for me.   He said, “They honor The Lamb and His Wife.”
(Cries)   “They honor and respect the Lamb’s Wife.

He said, “When all of God’s Bride comes home, some of these angels will serve her, serve the Bride, as they have so faithfully served The Lamb.”

It’s too much to contain.   It’s too much, it’s too much to contain, to be the Lamb’s Wife.

“They know, they know..."   He said, “They know by my coming, that it is very soon.”   I’m not sure why I’ve been summoned.  I’m the least.   But He said, “I would tell it, so I’ve been called to come home, because I would tell it far and wide.”   But the way is being made.

Spiritually, the Bride will soon be given access to the heavenly realm.   Not naturally to visit, but spiritually, she will visit.  In spiritual realms, she will visit.   She will be then given strength, wisdom, and learn of His character for the final, for the final work that she is called to do.   She cannot be trained in this, in the dimension we have lived in.   She must be trained in heavenly realms for the final work.

So He is calling her to come, stand even before His Throne.   Realms of Glory that we have never known.   We will then receive power to cast out even the strongest demons, to break even the strongest chains, to set even the most captive lives free.   Trained by the Spirit before the Throne.

This is not the curtain of time.   That is future.  This is present.   He said, “I have not seen today what happened in heaven, but I am seeing what is happening in heaven now, not beyond the curtain of time when we are all gathered there.”   But He is letting me see what is happening right now.

They’re still dancing.   They were very quiet while the Angel was talking to me.   Now they are circling us.   Some are joining hands.   I don’t see any people, only created beings and angels of a different sort.   They look, some look like men, some are much more beautiful than men.   Some have faces that shine like rods of brass, some have faces almost flesh-looking.   But no people or saints.

He said to me now, “This is not where the saints live now, but where they will live when the rest of the Lamb’s Wife comes home.”   He said, “The saints are near, but in another realm that I cannot see.”   I cannot believe that I am seeing a realm above, where the saints are dwelling, but I cannot deny what He has said.

Some angels are joining hands and dancing in a circle around us, as we move closer through, to the Gate.   To the Gate closer.  I can still hear the rushing water from the River, as we enter through the Gate.   He leans over to speak in my ear.   The Angel says, “Remember, this time you will see, but next time you will receive Revelation to teach others how to stand in these realms.   This time it’s for me to see and tell only what I see.   Next time, more.”

The angels are lining up to follow us through the Gate.  On either side of the avenue are more, more, more angels lined up.   Three deep, for as far as I can see.   The streets, the street is gold in color, but almost transparent.   I can see depth.

“Where are my shoes?”   Huh.   No one walks on these streets with shoes.

I must not tell everything He said now, but they want to know.   “Not now, next time more.”

There is a Presence in the air, the most beautiful fragrance like roses.   He calls it “heavenly Perfume.”   He said, “It is for The Lamb’s Wife.   She will even smell it in her times of prayer.  She will smell it when she comes many times into His Presence.   Heavenly perfume, made special for The Lamb’s Wife.”

I cannot take it in.   It is too much.   I want to run to see as much as I can, quickly, before I must go.   Flowers so big, so beautiful.   No gardeners necessary.   The excitement is more than I have ever seen.   They love to see my reaction to all I see.   The angels are watching me close, to see.   Some are laughing.   I didn’t really know that angels laughed.   Some are laughing hard.

He said, “Laughing in the Spirit is part of heaven’s atmosphere.   When we laugh in the Spirit, we’re tasting heavenly atmosphere.”

Where are my clothes?   It’s beautiful, white linen.  Crisp.   No shoes.   Just my size.   “Hang it somewhere for me when I’m through.   I’ll be back to get it later.”

I keep falling on my knees, and they keep picking me up.   I don’t know why.   It must be the Presence.   It’s so strong, I can hardly stand.   But they pick me up.   It seems to be louder now, praise, singing.   Behind us, in the streets they dance.   Oh my, what dancing, jumping, running!   Angels.   But it’s wonderful.   Singing songs I’ve never heard.   Never heard.

He said to me, that in just a few moments we would turn down the street.   Between two beautiful buildings, I will see the view.  Not too close this time, but from a short distance.   It must be the Throne.   They say it will hold me back to protect me.

Very soon, the anointing in my ministry will change, He said.   When it does, next time I will stand very close to the Throne to receive words and Revelations for the Lamb’s Wife.   This time, I should be content for a quick glimpse of the celebration that goes on constantly before the Throne, even now.   I cannot yet see it, but I hear it.   To think that one day we will stand together close to His Throne, in this heavenly celebration!

He said, “There will come services here, when no man or woman will be standing.   We will all rest in His Glory, for the work will be hard and long and we will cherish the opportunity to rest in His Glory.”   He said, “It’s better than twelve hours of sleep, two seconds resting in the Glory of the Lord.”

My feet want to dance now.   He is holding me.   Almost as though they have a mind of their own.   I’m telling them to be still.  My feet want to dance before the Lord.

They are speaking to each other in a strange language.  Not English.   He said to me, “We learn by the Spirit of The Lamb, languages of men.   But we have languages of angels, for we speak here with tongues of men and tongues of angels.   So it is when men are filled with God’s Spirit, they too speak with tongues of men and tongues of angels.”   So we will speak in languages unknown to us, even in that realm.

I’m so glad I didn’t let them talk me out of speaking in tongues.   Now I find out, they speak in all kinds of tongues here.  Hallelujah.

Thank You, Jesus.   Thank You, Jesus.

Oh.   We are climbing stairs to a little, a little balcony on the side of a beautiful building for a better view.   The music is loud.   They’re shouting, “Worthy!  Holy!  Worthy!  Holy!”

The sky is filled with the Rainbow from sky to sky.  Brilliant color.   Oh, the sweet smell!   Underneath the Rainbow is an Ivory Throne, inlaid with gold.   Beautiful jewels.   So tall, so big.

There is a mist, a vapor of fog that surrounds the Throne.   It’s rose color, amber.   Even some blue.   Very thick.   The Rainbow is just over the Throne, from sky to sky.   There’s much dancing, bowing, singing, worshiping before the Throne.

I’m so afraid.   With all of my heart I want to see, but I’m so afraid to see.   There is such a holy fear that causes me to fall on my face.   Two angels are picking me up.   I’m falling again.   “Do not be afraid.”   They say, “Do not be afraid, for you have been summoned.   This time to see, next time you will stand at the very front of the Throne.”

The Angel calls another angel.   He says to him, “We’re ready.   Go and take the message.   We’re in place.”   We’re a long way, much activity between us and the Throne.   But I can see golden rain, the same mercy rain that I’ve seen before falls over my head.   Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.   Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.  What a fearful place.

On either side of the River flowing straight from the Throne, angels are worshiping, “Holy, holy, holy.”   Oh!   Oh!   Ohhhhhh.   To the right side of the Throne He stands.   His feet, even from where I’m standing, I see, as we’ve heard, like brass.   Like gold, tried in a furnace.  I see His robe, soft and white.   Even from a distance, I see His waist is girded about with a golden rope.

To His right there is a large, beautiful porch with golden stairs.   He raises His eyes toward the balcony, where I’m standing so far away.   With His right hand, He stretches toward the porch.   “For My Bride.   It is all for My Bride.   It is all for My Bride.”   Angels are falling on their faces.   I, I must join them.   I wished that I could be closer to see.   But even from a distance, the Glory, the Power and the Anointing is so real.

I ask the Angel, “Does He know that I’ve come?”

The Angel said, “Yes.   He’s the One Who has called you.”

He motions with His hand, and the angels stand.   I am standing too.

Prophecy - July 19, 1998 PM
Pastor Shelley - while still in vision

For the Lord would say unto thee in this hour:
Prepare Thyself.   Prepare thyself, My children.   Prepare thyself, saith the Lord.
For yea, the Lord would say unto thee, even this night the way has been made.
And yea, even I, the Lord thy God, have opened the heavenly realm, saith the Lord.

And yea, the Lord would say unto thee, even that which has been seen by spiritual eyes,
yea, the Lord would say unto thee,
it is only a foretaste of that which I desire for My children to see.

Yea, the Lord would say unto thee, I will train My children.
I will teach them My ways before My Throne, saith the Lord.

I will catch her away into heavenly realms in My Spirit,
into deeper anointing, saith the Lord, and she will flow.
Yea, she will taste the water from the River of the Living God.
She will feel it as it flows across her, saith the Lord.

Yea, the Lord would say unto thee, prepare thy heart,
for you are about to step in, even as a Body, saith the Lord,
to the greatest hour of deliverance that thou hast ever known.

For the Lord would say unto thee,
even soon you will see blinded eyes opened again,
saith the Lord.
And the lame shall be raised to walk.
Yea, the Lord would say unto thee, even cancer will be healed, saith the Lord.
Tumors shall fall.

For I, the Living God, will open up to thee realms of Glory and Anointings
to prepare thee for the final harvest, saith the Lord.

The emphasis of that which I’m about to do will not be upon healing,
but I will manifest healing.
Yea, even the miracles that thou hast heard about,
the things that you have heard that I have done,
I will surely do even in your midst.
Ye will know that I am the Living God that changes not.

But yea, the emphasis, saith the Lord, will be upon deliverance and salvation.
For I will deliver even the ones, saith the Lord, who seem the most bound.

But yea, the Lord would say unto thee, in this hour,
count these things not lightly, saith the Lord.
And do not let them pass over.
For I say unto thee,
it is a big world and there are multitudes of people upon this earth,
and yet I have called thee even this night to hear,
yea, even a foretaste of that which stands across the Divide, saith the Lord.

Yea, My children, My children,
walk softly before Me
and seek My face as never before,
even as I am seeking after thee.

Pray and call upon My Name, for the Lord would say unto thee,
I will meet you.   I will meet you in your place of prayer.
I will meet you at your fasting.   I will meet you at the place of your dedication,
and I will call thee even as I have called My servant,
I will call thee, saith the Lord.

And yea, even I will begin to reveal through him the things that you must know,
that you might also come and stand in realms of Glory.

Yea, I say unto thee, doubt not in your heart as some already doubt.
Doubt not in your heart even as some have already tried to reason these things.
But I, the Lord thy God would say unto thee,
to whosoever would not reason, but would trust Me and believe
that I am God, and that I am able to show.
Did I not show John?   Did I not show Moses?
Did I not show even Apostles and holy men the things that I have prepared?
Knowest thou not that I love you, My children,
and I am able to show you that which I have prepared for thee,
that I might help thee to be ready, saith the Lord,
for that which is about to take place.
Even the final and the greatest harvest.

Yea, the Lord would say unto thee, the greater days are before thee.
Yea, the Glory of the latter shall be greater than the Glory of the former.
For I will pour out rain, saith the Lord, the former and the latter rain together.

And I will cause, saith the Lord, the people that have walked in Truth,
and those who have walked in Spirit,
to come together, saith the Lord.
Yea, like a River they shall flow together in My anointing,
and I will establish My Truth in the hearts of many.

And I will touch her with My anointing and with My Glory.
Yea, the Lord would say unto thee, men will tremble before Me,
falling upon their faces, saith the Lord.
For My Glory shall fill the House, even as it filled Solomon’s temple.

And yea, the Lord would say unto thee, I am getting ready to make thee builders.
Prepare thyself, saith the Lord.
Take up thy hammer.   Yea, for the Lord would say unto thee,
I am getting ready to make thee builders.
Yea, for there is work yet to be done to prepare.

Prepare Me a place, saith the Lord,
Prepare Me a place where I can bring My Glory.
Prepare Me a place where I can call men and women in, saith the Lord,
and deliver them by My Spirit and equip them for the final work.

Yea, you look among yourselves and see but a few.
But I will add, saith the Lord, and I will multiply.
Yea, and it will not just be those who have known the ways of religion.
But it will be those who have known the gutter-way.
It’ll be those who have known the ways of sin and the ways of death.
But I will change them in a moment, even in an instant, saith the Lord.

For I say unto thee, the struggling deliverances that you know now,
you will not always know.
For even soon I will begin to bring instant deliverances among thee, saith the Lord,
by the power of My spoken Word I will manifest instant miracles,
and instant deliverances,
saith the Lord.
It will not always be a struggle.
But I will manifest Myself in ways that you have not yet thought about.

Prepare thyself and wait upon Me, saith the Lord.
For the Glory of the latter will surely outshine the former,
thus saith the Living God.