What if We Don’t Finish the Task (Part 2) – Restoring the First-Century Church

It was what you did with the book of Psalms. Then that was one-third of the church. We waited two weeks, and I met with another one-third, and then I met with another one-third. And suddenly we touched realms and things we never knew and never dreamed of. Which one of those groups were you in, or were you out, getting married? I don’t know. Were you married then? Do you remember the week? Do you remember the season? Do you remember anything? Can you bring up any memories from that little period of time, for about a month? When did we discover how to go into the veil? Yes.

Alicia: Gene showed us that there was a door we could go through.

Gene: No, you showed me there was a door he took. I tricked that first group in. Alright, go ahead.

Alicia: When we found out we could go through a door, that’s where we lived. We went there, and it was so exciting, all the things we were discovering when we went through the door. And, oh, we met in the mornings; we met all the time, and we were exploring that, and then Gene would tell us to…assign Thessalonians or assign something different, and we’d all get together in pairs and go through the door and find out wonderful things that were happening in Thessalonica and in the heavenlies. It was really incredible. We didn’t know anything… I don’t think anybody on earth knew what the Lord had brought to us at that time. It was beautiful.

Gene: It was a discovery that’s never been made by anybody anywhere ever. Some of you have been to Roanoke, and you have stood on the experience of Santa Barbara. We had meetings for weeks when there wasn’t anybody in that room. None of us were there. It was beyond unbelievable. It was transportation. We were transported. It shook us to our foundations. We didn’t talk the way we had talked before. We didn’t think the way we thought we did. I remember so many times… On their own, others would say, you know, now I know why they didn’t mind dying. Paul, you were there. Yeah, I was there. Have you got anything to say about it?

Paul: It was awesome. Life-changing. Really feeling the fellowship between the Father and the Son. Getting lost. Not being present. I do remember this one time. It was like a revolving door, and I’d never experienced it before and never since then. But I… I was praying with a brother at that time, and neither one of us was emotional or anything. I mean, we’re… This was never an emotional experience. Ever. Well, anyway, we went through the door, and it just seemed like a revolving door. We just caught glimpses of the joy of God. Neither of us was an emotional brother, or we weren’t at that time. We were on the ground, full of joy. I mean, it was like one wave of joy after another. It’s hard to explain, but it went on for you… It’s not to explain.

Alicia: One morning, I rode my bike over to a sister’s place, and the two of us entered into this love affair between the Father and the Son. It was so glorious that, to this day, it’s changed our… I mean, we always… I rode my bike home that day, and I thought if people could see the glory on me from what I had touched, they would all faint, you know. It was just so awesome that the Lord would take us into the intimate relationship between the Father and the Son. And then we discovered His bride.

Gene: That’s when we began to discover that, whether we liked it or not, somebody else was going to appear, and I heard that so many times from different sisters and brothers that this was nothing that anybody had suggested. There was a gal kicking the door down and saying, “I belong here too.” It was spontaneous. After that first meeting, it was spontaneous. And it was glorious.  You know something else? I stopped it. We went back to it, but I stopped it. We weren’t going to be able to hold that, and I didn’t want the glory to vanish. I wasn’t going to put it in a can. We came back seasonally, but I actually am the one who stopped it. Now, we could have built a movement on what happened to us, and we could have been the overcomers. We could have been those unique people who… but I think it would have eventually killed us if we didn’t stop for a while. Yes, brother?

One morning—I think it was Linda at that time. I was meeting with… we were meeting at like four in the morning. You know the picture of The Divine Romance? Yeah. I entered into that. I couldn’t get out of it.

So many people said, ” You know, it’s the first time in my life that I have ever stopped thinking. Put a check mark by that one; I guarantee you that’s a contribution we’ve made in the world in the days before or since. We covered it, and I’m just living in terror of the day when the Pentecostals find it and start bottling it and selling it on television. I can guarantee you it will be less than a month before they pervert it too.

We will claim this one unequivocally because it was part of the foundation of everything I believed or ever saw of the church when I was 29 years old, and I built that model. There was one thing that rose up and cried out: workers came, and then workers left. Now, there may be somebody who came and left, but we have been, deliberately, a people with a worker who comes and leaves. If you don’t think we do that anywhere except here in Jacksonville… and here in Jacksonville, we have a very unique situation…Gene comes and gets sick…Gene comes and gets sick. How long has it been since Holland had a worker come visit them? How long? March. And this is November. Thank you. For Colorado Springs, it was one year ago. Oh, it was winter.

Alright, I need another church. I’m drawing blanks here. New Zealand. What? New Zealand. New Zealand? June. Yes. It was June for us. How long ago was it? June. June. Thank you. And before that? About a year. Alright, and has Bournemouth ever had a visitor from the church just to be a visitor at the church? A worker, you mean? A worker, not a conference. I hear a British accent. What did you say? When was the last time someone came to Bournemouth, the church in Bournemouth, as a worker and sat down and helped you folks practically and spiritually? No conference around. When Mike came, he helped a little bit there too. He helped a little. Yeah, but that doesn’t count because he’s not even a worker.