The Vision by Rick Joyner
Episode 39
Through the Door
I knew it was time for me to go. I resolved to a remember the glory of this chamber that contained treasures of salvation, but I also knew that I had to move beyond them. I had to go on. I turned, and with all the courage I could muster, opened the door to the judgment seat of Christ and stepped through it into terrifying darkness. The company of angels that had been assigned to me took positions all around the door, but did not enter.
"What's the matter? Aren't you coming?" I demanded.
"Where you are going now, you must go alone. We will be waiting for you on the other side."
Without responding, I turned and started walking before I could change my mind. Somehow I knew that I should not put my security in the company of angels. As I walked into the darkness, I heard the eagle's parting words, "After this you will not have your trust in anyone else even yourself-but only in the Lord."
I immediately was in the most frightening darkness I had ever experienced. Each step became a terrible battle with fear. Soon I began to think I had stepped into hell itself.
Finally I decided to retreat, but when I turned to go back, could not see anything. The door was closed, and I could not even see where it was located. It was beginning to look as if everything that had happened to me, and everything the eagles and the angels had told me, had been a ruse to entrap me in this hell. I had been deceived!
I cried to the Lord to forgive me and help me. Immediately I began to see Him on the cross, just as when I had laid my hand on the red stone in the chamber I had just left.
Again I beheld the darkness of His soul as He stood alone, bearing the sin of the world. Although in the chamber this had been a terrible darkness to behold, now it was a light. I resolved that I had to go on, fixing my mind on Him. As I did, peace began to grow in my heart with each step, and it became easier than it had been just a few minutes earlier.
Soon I was not even aware of the chilly darkness, and I started to see a dim light. Gradually it became a glorious light. Then it became so wonderful that I felt I was entering into heaven itself. The glory kept increasing as I walked along, and I wondered how anything this magnificent could have an entrance so dark and foreboding. Now I was enjoying every step.