The Vision by Rick Joyner

Removing More Veils
EPISODE 48
With that, the Reformer's wife disappeared back into the ranks of the glorified saints. I looked again toward the throne and was taken aback because the glory appeared so much more beautiful than it had before. Another man standing close to me explained:
"With each encounter, a veil is being removed so that you can see Him more clearly. You are not changed just by seeing His glory, but by seeing it with an unveiled face. Those who come to the true judgments of God walk a corridor such as this to meet those who can help them remove whatever veils they are still wearing, veils that will distort their vision of Him."
I felt that I had already absorbed more understanding than my many years of ministry on earth had given me. All my study and seeking on earth had apparently only lead me forward at a snail's pace. Even many lifetimes would not have prepared me to face the judgement! My life had already disqualified me more than all those I had met, and it seemed
they had barely made it here!
"How could those who have not been given the grace of this experience have any hope at all?" I asked.
I heard a new voice say, "What you are experiencing here has been given you on earth. Every relationship, every encounter with another person, could teach you what you are learning here if you keep that cloak of humility on and learn to always keep your attention fixed on His glory. You are being given this experience now because you will write the vision, and those who read it will understand it. Many will then be able to carry the glory and the power that they will need in the last battle."
I was amazed to recognize this man as a contemporary of mine, for I did not even know he had died. I had never met him on earth, but he had a great ministry which I respected very much. Through men that he had trained, thousands had been led to salvation, and many large churches had been raised up that were almost totally devoted to evangelism.
He asked if he could just embrace me for a minute, and I agreed, feeling quite awkward. When we embraced, I felt such love coming from him that a great pain deep within me stopped hurting. I had become so used to the pain that I did not even notice it until it stopped. After he released me, I told him that his embrace had healed me of something. His joy at this was profound. Then he began to tell me why he was in the lowest rank in heaven.
"I became so proud near the end of my life that I could not imagine that the Lord would do anything of significance unless He did it through me. I began to touch the Lord's anointed, and to do His prophets harm. I was selfishly proud when the Lord used one of my own disciples, and I became jealous when the Lord moved through anyone who was outside of my own ministry. I would search for anything that was wrong with them in order to expose them. I did not know that every time I did this I only demoted myself further."
"I never knew that you had done anything like that," I said, surprised.
"I did not do it myself, but I incited men under me to investigate other ministers and do my dirty work. I had them scour the earth to find any error or sin in the life of others so they could be exposed. I became the worst thing that a man can become on the earth—a stumbling block who produced other stumbling blocks. We sowed fear and division throughout the church, all in the name of protecting the truth. In my self-righteousness, I was headed for perdition.
"But in His great mercy, the Lord allowed me to be struck by a disease that would bring about a slow and humiliating death. Just before I died, I came to my senses and repented. I am thankful to be here at all. I may be one of the least of His here, but it is much more than I deserve.
I just could not leave this room until I had a chance to apologize to those of you that I so wronged."
"But you never wronged me," I said.
"Oh, but I did indeed," he replied. "Many of the attacks that came against you were from those I had agitated and encouraged in their assaults on others. Even though I may not have personally carried out the attacks, the Lord holds me as responsible as those who did."
"I see. Of course I forgive you."