The Redness of Backs

      Behold in a dream ...I was taken in the spirit and found myself in as it was a dark place ...and the only light was of the Lord ...and He allowed that I might see my back ...as it was like unto looking in a mirror ...that I could see my back plainly ...behold my back was covered with a red rash ...yee even a welting of red ...and grievous to look upon was the welting ...red and deeply furrowed from my shoulders down over all my hinderparts...Now I was sore grieved by such an affliction ...Yet it was not pained neither was there any discomfort ...only the disquietness of knowing it was there ...and I prayed that the Lord would show me the matters of this ...and Yet within the dream no answer was given ...even was I awoken from the midst at the end of the dream... to enter into earnest prayer ...the first thing ...when I awoke ...and so I brought these matters before the Lord in the early morning hours ...and did begin by accusing myself ...of wantonness ...worldliness ...and forsaking the will of God ...as I knew of the "redness" of Esau ...whereof he traded the promise of God for him ...for a bowl of food ...and of this I pleaded for forgiveness that I might not be found of the same spirit ...of error as to be so wanton for the things of the world ...as to put the world first ...and the matters of the spirit second ...
      Now the Lord began to minister to me ...and whoa what a blessing it was ...for I was wrong to accuse myself ...and he knew my heart of these matters ...(for he had given me this new heart) and I was comforted not to fear ...as though I was being brought to chastisement ...(for I do fear the chastisement of the Lord).
       YET the blessings came as the Lord opened to me and was showing me ...my burden ...and I was comforted in the spirit knowing that my Lord was with me in these matters ...though of myself I could not see them clearly (as it is most often of my own thinking)...my own thinking being a curse to me ...(as witnessed to above) ...Now the Lord showed me this ...that my burden was this that I bear the redness of Esau on my back ...and it comes from trying to minister the Truth to the religious and churchly ... for they do love their hill altars (churches) and parlor altars (television)...ceremonies ..robes ...fine clothes ...scholarly thinking ...and all such worldly things ...selling their birth right for to have glory in the world ...loving these things more ...much more ...than the plain simple Truth of God ...
      And of this is the red rash of Esau ...I see (though I weep in my soul) the welts of Christ's back ...where in the Truth being brought to them ...do they hate so much ...the plainness of it ...that they beat Him unto death ...and why? because it shows all men to be spiritual liars and thieves ...vain and self glorifying in their own scholarship and imagined righteousness ...and the Lord sweeps away the power of all ungodliness ...with the simple Truth of God ...Himself
      Looking to Him in the spirit ...living and hoping for Him in the flesh ...that any might raise up in this prayer ...He which testifieth these things saith: be it, I come quickly, Amen. Even so: come Lord Jesu. The grace of our Lord Jesu Christ be with you all: Amen.

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