TOMMY HICKS'
AN END-TIMES
VISION.
The following is a
stunning vision given to American preacher Tommy Hicks
(who was a major figure in the powerful 1954
VISION OF
THE BODY OF CHRIST AND THE END-TIME MINISTRIES
My message begins July 25, about
lation that God gave
me came before me. The vision came three
times, exactly in detail, the morning of
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
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
wife were on their way to
could they write, but we had been supporting them for over two
years. As they entered into the
came across a small village. The entire village was
evacuating
because of a plague that had hit the village. He came across na-
tives 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 sim-
ply 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 imme-
diately 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 be-
ginning 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 real-
ized 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
under-
stand the fullness of it, and then I read from the book
of Joel:
"Be glad then, ye children of
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
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 trembing 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 crea-
tures 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
un-
to 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
be-
came 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
an-
ointing 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. Peo-
ple 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,
"Ac-
cording 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
he was transported by the Spirit of God, and
perhaps he was in
All over the world these people went, and they came
through fire,
and through pestilence, and through famine. Neither fire
nor per-
secution, nothing seemed to stop them.
Angry mobs came to them with swords and with guns. And like Je-
sus, 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 realised 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 an-
gry 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 stum-
ble 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 con-
gregations, 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
morn-
ing, at
ers. 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 marvellous. 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 gor-
geous white. Its garments were without spot or wrinkle as its
body began to form, and the people of all ages seemed to
be
ered 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
cry-
ing. 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 were wanting 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
tion, the same vision came again exactly as it did before.
My life has been changed as I realised 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."
