TOMMY HICKS' END-TIMES VISION
10:18pm 3rd
August 2010
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 AND THE END-TIME MINISTRIES
My message begins July 25th about 2:30 in
the morning at Winnipeg, Canada. I had hardly fallen asleep when the vision and
the revelation that God gave me came before me. The vision came three times,
exactly in detail, the morning of July 25, 1961. I was so stirred and so moved
by the revelation that this has changed my complete outlook upon the body of
Christ, and upon the end-time ministries.
The greatest thing that the Church of Jesus Christ
has ever been given lies straight ahead. It is so hard to help men and women to
realize and understand the thing that God is trying to give his people in the
end times.
I received a letter several weeks ago from one of
our native evangelists down in Africa, down in Nairobi. This man and his wife
were on their way to Tanganyika. They could neither read nor could they write,
but we had been supporting them for over two years. As they entered into the
territory of Tanganyika, they came across a small village. The entire village
was evacuating because of a plague that had hit the village. He came across
natives that were weeping, and he asked them what was wrong.
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 trembling 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 Africa and in a moment he was
transported by the Spirit of God, and perhaps he was in Russia, or China or
America or some other place, and vice versa.
All over the world these people went, and they came through
fire, and through pestilence, and through famine. Neither fire nor persecution,
nothing seemed to stop them.
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 realized 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
4 o'clock this morning the letter from our native workers.
This is only the evidence of the beginning for one
man, a "do-nothing, an unheard-of," who would go and stretch forth
his hand and say, "In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I command life to
flow into your body." I dropped to my knees and began to pray again, and I
said, "Lord, I know that this time is coming soon!"
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 marvelous. 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 wanted 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 2:30 in the morning, the same
revelation, the same vision came again exactly as it did before.
My life has been changed as I realized 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."