[(1) "it continued to get larger and larger each time I saw it": This is because New Jerusalem is the Wife of Christ, and as members are added to Her, She increases in size: [Rev 19:7-8] "Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready. And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints." NKJV]

[(1) "it was moving ever closer to the top of the mountain and the city of God": Though we have previously seen the Tree and New Jerusalem united, God now shows us a flash back, so to speak, in this part of the Vision. Mankind’s time on earth is getting shorter and shorter as the Tree moves closer to the city, Christ’s Bride/Wife. The Tree’s movement towards the city is similar to a clock ticking away earthly time, even minutes.]

[(1) "clenched": 5/17/07 For years I/we have understood that we want our hands open in worship. Most of us have understood that this is a God given "spiritual warfare" tactic. Therefore, I was rather concerned when I saw these people on their knees with clenched fists, However on May 17, 2007, God told me the "clenched hands" held onto "the enemy". He reminded me of all the Old Testament verses saying that God delivered Israel’s enemies into their hands.

In this vision, the one body of worshipers, moving in one accord, already possess some, or all, of God’s enemy, satan. Because Jesus defeated satan in Hell over 2000 years ago, I believe they possess all of God’s enemy, and we see them here in the process of taking "the victory". God has already given our/His enemy into our hands, through His Son Jesus Christ.

I saw approximately four or five people in the front row uncovered, on their knees with their hands clenched. I did not get to count them. Isn’t it amazing how few are needed. (See the note below for a better understanding of the few in the front row.]

[(2) NOTE 3/30/07: "they moved as one body (each individual moved with all others), first to the left and then to the right, then right to left. This happened several times": Because the people are on their knees we know the prayer and worship is much more intense than those who merely had their hands raised. They move as one body now, left to right and vise versa. This group is more mature in the Spirit than the previous group. They are in "one accord" in (1a)Spiritual battle. Spiritual battle can only be won by a people in one accord.

In the February 11, 2007 "Repetitive Vision With Jesus & Chris Walking" (Vision), I wrote in the "NOTE" dated March 4, that "I noticed for the first time, that in the various visions, the "tree" was moving from right to left and vise versa." Obviously, the people and the tree are somehow related to each other, because they both moved back and forth from left to right and vise versa. As of 4/28/07 God has not explained why they move in this manner.]

[(3)"They were (3a)bathing in the blood of Christ that had been poured out upon them by our Father" [NOTE 3/30/07]: It is the Father who pours the sacrificial blood of Christ on them/us, indicating that He has accepted each of us as a member in Christ’s perfect, righteous Body, and thus each of us as a member in the sacrificial Lamb. Again, communion is to be taken in the Spiritual presence of God our Father as God’s High Priest, Jesus, presented/presents Himself as the living sacrifice. Christ did this so that all members within Him CAN enter through the veil into the Holy of Holies and minister to our Father as a priest. When taking Communion, visualize and concentrate on your presence before our Father as you celebrate what Jesus has done for you/us. If you are able to go into the spirit do so. [Suggested Reading: "February 4, 2007 "Christ, Our ‘Bread Of Presence’ In Our Father’s Temple" (Vision).]

[(1) "New Jerusalem": In this Vision New Jerusalem is still in Heaven because it is sitting level with our Father and His throne, though it is across a huge valley.]

[(2) "Our Father reached out and took the edges of this cover and pulled it toward Himself/us as we sat on the throne":

[NOTE: Under Tabernacle in New Unger's Bible Dictionary:  "Figurative. For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle" (Ps 27:5; cf. 15:1) indicates being on terms of peaceful communion with God, i.e., in the church.

The term Tabernacle is transferred to heaven, as the true dwelling place of God (Heb 9:11; Rev 13:6). To spread one's tabernacle over others (Rev 7:15, skenosei 'ep' autous,) is to afford shelter and protection. The "tabernacle" (hut) of David seems to be employed in contempt of his house, i.e., family, reduced to decay and obscurity (Acts 15:16)."  [from The New Unger's Bible Dictionary].

[Revelations 7:12-15] "Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!’ Then one of the elders asked me, ‘These in white robes — who are they, and where did they come from?’ I answered, "Sir, you know.’ And he said, ‘These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb <Rev 19:7-9>. (2a)Therefore, they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his (2b)temple {Christ Jesus is His/our temple}; (2a)AND HE WHO SITS ON THE THRONE WILL SPREAD HIS TENT OVER THEM." NIV

[(3) "it covered all the people" [NOTE: March 30, 2007:]: God covered all His chosen people at one time: Hebrews, Christians and new converts are included in the first tent covering. This congregation is all peoples who have received God’s Messiah and Christ as their own Savior, sacrifice for sin, and as the Son of God; and our Father has both accepted them and baptized them in Christ’s blood. This final "one" congregation is known as the great assembly or congregation <Ps 22:25; Ps 35:18; Ps 40:9, 10; Joel 2:15-16; PS 111:1; Ps 74:2>. It is all " peoples, nations and tongues" that He has converted, and gathered into Himself as of this one point in history. As you will see, I was not looking at His completed congregation. Other beings will still be added to this "great assembly or congregation".

[(4) "It sat there for a while": As the cover sits on top of the people "for a while", there is a lapse in time between the two tents. In fact, the reason God leaves the cover on top of the people "for a while" is to emphasis the actual lapse in time in this vision.

All the people under this cover are saved, and all people are within Christ’s "ONE" eternal congregation. The time lapse mentioned in the words, "it sat there awhile" indicates a difference in time that brings the birth of the new peoples into the old congregation. On April 9, 2007 God explained that when He said "It {the cover} sat there for a while", He was referring to the one half hour in Revelations 8:1: "When He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets. Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense, that he should offer it with the (4a)prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, with the (4a)prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel's hand." NKJV. Please remember this cover, or canopy covered/covers two groups, and there is one half hour in between the two groups.

[NOTE March 30: (1) & (2) "Then I saw our Father raise the sheet. It now had attached sides" and "I realized that the sheet/cover with "no sides" had covered a larger group of people than the "sided" tent now did": All the people in the second tent came from the first tent, and the second tent contained less people. Again, I believe these people and tents are on earth. The second tent of people was taken from the first. This is because there is only ONE ETERNAL Congregation, and it belongs to Christ who is it’s Head.

The second group, within the same congregation, is smaller. This may be because some of those in the first tent have risen into Heaven? God is showing us Christ’s congregation/church during two different times. The second "time" follows the first, with one half hour between the two. This may, or may not, be literally one half hour per earth time. For example, Jesus said in Revelations 3:10, "Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial". Is this a literal earthly "hour"?

Above, God divided the people into three groups. The first group, which is all inclusive, is in an "open" tent, and has many more people than the second tent with sides. The second, "sided" tent was created from the first "no sided" covering, and was originally pulled by our Father towards Himself from the "Temple" in New Jerusalem, Christ’s Wife. We do not see the first group/tent rise before the second. Instead we see the first become the second after the one half hour lapse in time. Obviously, because the first congregation becomes the second, only in part, different beings have been, or will be, on earth for longer periods of time, and/or at different time periods.

God enclosed the second group in the tent with sides, and He told us that this was/is His Holy of Holies. He didn’t say this about the first tent. Not everyone in the first tent is present in the second tent, but all in the second tent were present in the first.

The third group is the small number of beings on their knees in the front row, in front of the second tent, which came from the first tent combined. Those on their knees are, or represent, the final remnant coming from the first and second tent. Actually, the second tent is a remnant from the first, and these few on their knees are the last (?) remnant from both.

[(1) "The tent disappeared": The third group is an extremely small group left on earth (?) after the first and second tents, and people, disappear as one entity. I believe the people probably went into Heaven. The fact that the tent(s) disappeared may indicate that our Father has finished discussing this particular time, or the two tents and people. Notice that He has taken my "concentration", through His question, away from the tent(s), to the Eternal Tree of Life.]

[(2) "My concentration was taken...": At this point in the vision, the few people on their knees in the front row and the Tree Of Life are all that remains.

[(3) "The robes or clothing were spattered, or dirty, on many of these people and I could not see the details. I especially saw the one man that I had seen every time I looked at the crowd in the prior visions. He was always in a tattered white shirt, modern day pants AND had blood running from his own body. His shirt was becoming red from the blood that had run from his abused head and body": God told me this "one man" is Jesus Christ, and He is the giver of the Salvation. In this Vision, we see Him on earth representing Himself as the final sacrifice in our place. The masses of people around Him are accepting Him as their Savior and salvation . This explains why the "masses" are in both spattered, or dirty" clothing and in white robes. I was unable to accurately see the "spattered or dirty" clothing verses the "white robes" because "Salvation" is an ongoing process. The number in "spattered, or dirty" "robes or clothing" were receiving white robes so quickly, through Christ’s righteous blood, that the clothing changed continuously. As each individual changed their heart and received Christ’s salvation, they were given a white robe, and this process was extremely fast!

The fact that this transformation is so fast indicates to me that the whole salvation process may speed up during the (3a)final "harvest" of three and one half years. Revelations 7:9-12 echoes this vision saying, "After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!’ All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God.." NKJV

[(1) "As they rose they were all in clean white robes and standing with their hands raised in worship": Only those who wore white robes and worshiped God our Father, rose into the eternal "Tree of Life", Christ Jesus. The robes were washed in Christ’s blood and Christ is a MUST for eternal Life!

Who are the ones lifted into the Tree of Life? Though I am not positive, it appears to me, that they are "from the Great Tribulation". I say this because we were told in this Vision that our Father pulled the cover over the first group, He left the "unsided" cover on top of them, and lifted the "sided" cover up over a smaller group. Revelations told us that those He pulled the cover over were from the Great Tribulation. I find it difficult to believe that all in the first and second tent came from the Great Tribulation however. We need more insight from God concerning these Visions. Praise God He has already begun to give us this. If you have any insight please write and share it with me.]

[(2) "Some rose directly into the trunk area. Others rose into the trunk area, and continued up into the leaves, and then were totally consumed there. Some rose directly into the leaf area and became leaves immediately": There are several important things we are shown in these few sentences.

First, the people rose upward. In Prophecy, and in Visions, this normally means "Heaven", or upward into the "Heavenlies". In this Vision, God only showed us His "tree" on earth one time, in the Vision "February 11, 2007 "Christ, Our ‘Bread Of Presence’ In Our Father’s Temple (cont )", I said, "Jesus caused me to see that a huge tree stood next to the glass, on the glass’ right side. I had seen the same identical tree in all the visions where Jesus and I were walking towards heaven... As I saw the tree, I said to Jesus that the vision was not full of bright yellow light, which was the color of the sky etc in all the other repetitive visions in which the tree had appeared. In this vision everything around the tree, including the sky, dirt etc was gray. Though the tree had been obviously healthy in all the other visions, I wasn’t sure it looked healthy now... Jesus said, "This is because the earth is gray... and dying".

Numerous times, I/we also saw the "Tree" as Jesus and I ascended towards the city, New Jerusalem on top of the hill, and in this part of the Vision we see people rising into the "Tree of Life".

Secondly, we see that God divides people into different groups within the tree. This is most obvious when we see some become "leaves" as opposed to the "tree" itself. Two different processes are used in lifting and creating the "tree" leaves. God shows us: "Others rose into the trunk area, and continued up into the leaves, and then were totally consumed there", and "Some rose directly into the leaf area to become leaves immediately". This means, all beings see eternal life and serve God, but there are different ministries or jobs, in eternal life.

[(3) "Some of the leaves took on a shimmer of light, and began to blow in the soft breeze. It appeared as if they were about, or were, separating from the Tree in order to float in the air. However, I believed that they would never be separated from the Tree, or fall to the ground as normal tree leaves do. These leaves possessed the same "Life" as the Tree of Life": These (3a)leaves come towards earth, but we never see them on earth during this Vision. As they received the "Life" in the "Tree of Life" they became "light". The breeze is the Holy Spirit. The leaves are part of the "Tree", just as you are one member in Christ’s Body.

I personally believe "these leaves" are our departed earthly brothers and sisters who have entered the Tree of Life", thus "eternal life", in Heaven. I also believe they are shown coming towards earth again because they join , or work with, "spirit filled" people on earth in the last days. We see a Biblical example of such a being in Revelations 22:9, as the angel {massager} of God tells John to get up, "I am your fellow servant {co-slave}, and of your brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book."

[(4) "These leaves possessed the same "Life" as the Tree of Life":

[Rev 22:1-3] "And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."

AND

[Ezek 47:1-12 7] "Then he brought me back to the door of the temple; and there was water, flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east , for the front of the temple faced east... When I returned, there, along the bank of the river, were very many trees on one side and the other. Then he said to me: ... Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their (1b)fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine." NKJV

Below, in Psalms 1, we are taught that all with the Word, or Testimony, of Christ in their heart will be like a tree planted by these "rivers of water". In Ezekiel, these trees, which are one in the same, bring forth {spiritual} fruit and "leaves for medicine", or healing of the nations <Rev 22:1-3>.

[(1) "small number of people in the front row on their knees": In this Vision, God has shown us the progress of one congregation or Christ’s church. He obviously began with all who waited for, and received, their Messiah’s and/or Christ’s sacrifice in their behalf. There is no second group of people, or congregation. There is only one congregation shown in progression. There may have been a first group of people, called "men, women and children" who became part of Christ when we saw Jesus absorb those in our Father’s goblet, see February 11, 2007 "Christ, Our ‘Bread Of Presence’ In Our Father’s Temple" (cont).

The few on their knees, left uncovered, are a "remnant" from the second tent; and the second "sided tent", and all within it, are a remnant from the first tent or time period. These might also be a remnant going back as far as the "goblet"? God has not yet told me/us who these on their knees are. They remain in front of where the second tent originally was.

[Note July 5, 2007: I have heard God say several times, after this vision was originally written down, "First line of defense", with regards to those few on their knees at the end of this vision. Though this may mean the individuals shown are God's first line of defense, it is much more likely that He means "praise", intense praise, is His/our first line of defense. He may mean both the beings and the action of praise. Everyone in Heaven praises God also.  Read the New Testament for proof.]

FOR UPDATES (2011) Be Sure and READ: September 28, 2011; "God Covers Us With Spiritual Beings"