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The Naked and Unashamed

By Michael Travesser | October 3, 2003 | Travesser Family Blog

In a vision of the night, I was in a house lifted up a little above the main street below.  A large group of believers came and surrounded the house where I was resting.  A woman then came up to the door of the house and put a wire covering over the door as if to keep me inside.  It was as if she were trying to keep me from getting away and leaving her. It seemed to me that she was trying to keep me close by her through her human efforts.  She then began to read from Joshua chapter 14.  She read the entire chapter.  This is the inheritance chapter of Joshua when the tribes received their inheritance.

In the dream, the reality of my present experience was portrayed. The Spirit of Michael was IN the house, in His dwelling place, Wayne. The true believers surrounded and encompassed the house. The Woman, the collective believers, would not let the Son of God go until she had received her inheritance. “I will not let you go except you bless me.” As with Jacob, she seemed to be laying hold of Michael through her human efforts of holding onto Him by force until her blessing was received.  She was reading the Scriptures and closing off my way out, to ensure that her inheritance would be achieved.

After this, I walked out of my house another way and the same woman who had closed off my door, came along side.  I was explaining to her the way of her deliverance.  I was helping her to understand how it was achieved.  In the next scene of the vision, that way was vividly portrayed.

I saw myself in a church.  I was sitting on a church pew reading the Scriptures.  My son and a woman approached me.  The other people within this church were curiously looking over in my direction. The woman said, “I am greatly moved upon to embrace you”.  She removed her clothing and was naked and unashamed.  My son then lifted her up and put her upon me, and I embraced her.  He said to me, “Her name is ‘Courage’.” I embraced her for about a minute, and then I lifted her off of me and she dressed herself.  When she dressed herself, she now dressed herself in white garments, unlike the ones she had when she first came to me.  This revealed the true nature of how one lays hold of Michael and keeps Him.  The Spirit of Michael can be embraced but not controlled. 

I saw in this, that in the dream I was the Word of God.  I had the Scriptures in my hands, and my Spirit was God’s Word, in person. My son represented my physical person.  The woman represented the true believers in the Word, the true church.  The woman was moved to embrace the Word of God and she became naked and unashamed in order to do this.  After the soul is moved to embrace the Word of God, I lift the soul up and onto the Word of God and His Spirit, and the soul is dressed in white by this action.  “Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.” Eph. 5:25,26. The Word of the Scriptures is the water that cleanses the soul from all defilement.  The Word of God is not merely the letters on the pages of a book, but a divine Being Whom believers embrace, the Person of the Son of God. The Spirit, being put upon me, is the Spirit one must receive by becoming one with me by embracing me without their previous human reason and self-protections. That is the baptism.  Jesus said, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”

I saw the opposite of this occur, when someone wrote to me yesterday telling of someone close to him who had chosen the earth for her friend.  She used human reasoning now instead of the Word of God.  She retained her own clothing and could no longer be drawn to embrace me. 

In my dream, I then saw myself in a large church listening to a missionary speak for an hour about the evils of Islam.  At the end of the sermon there was a time to speak, and the Holy Spirit came upon me with great force, and I rebuked the man for his own hypocrisy and the hypocrisy of his church.  I asked him why he criticized the dirty plate of someone else, when his own plate was filthy.  I then pointed out that Christians, even most of the early Christians, did not believe Jesus as he walked among them.  His own disciples did not believe him while he was still with them.

After this, I walked from the church and stood far off.  A young boy who was in the church as I spoke came up to me with a soft and radiant face.  He looked me in the eye and said, “God spoke in the church today.” I touched him and he was as hot as fire.  The fire of God had burned within him as he had listened to my words.  This boy represents the young people who hear me and are moved by the Word of God in their soul. 

In this vision of the night, there was a very great division between those who believed and those who did not.  The unbelievers were in far greater number, but there was also a host of believers who were awakened to the Word of God, and had placed themselves on Him, naked and unashamed.  These events are now occurring in the world, and every eye sees them.