Rapture 2

The Rapture is Happening

January 6, 2007

Joel Akin

Lets begin with a word. The word was from the beginning but lets say the WORD, which is Christ, was before that beginning. Now lets say that Jesus was God but a form which God created. Now I am not God but am man. Man wants to be God and wants to own the rights to God. God isn't buyable and never was. He was the One who wanted all things to submit to Him. He never forced anyone to submit and knows that most people He created would refuse if they had a choice. The problem He discovered is when you give some people a choice they refuse to bow. And that means some who call themselves Christian will not see God. That means they will live and die on earth. They will go to the grave and they will sleep.

Now if that were the end it would be regrettable. So God created sleep and that was part of the dream and we who died didn't die but we were sleeping. Jesus said it of the girl who slept. People laughed and mocked him but Jesus was knowledge and as such he knew exactly where she went. She went to the grave.

Now the grave is a place of rest and it is Paradise and it is spirit. Spirit is of God but spirit is of place. When a person dies they either give up their spirit or they give up their soul. Now a person who gives up their spirit is one who goes to the grave. Their body is the soul and their soul is the body. The separation is never an easy one and other teaching doesn't usually take the body into account. You can't throw away the body because even Jesus spoke of the one who had an offending hand. Better to cut it off and enter into Heaven then to have it and go to hell or Hell.

Now there are differences which I still struggle with so God helps me. One is this; heaven is the universe. It is part of Gods creation and it was designed, as we see it, in six days. Six days is part of Gods plan for us. We were made to last six days in a natural body but we sinned. Sinning is like giving up six days to Satan. So we gave our strength to the evil one and sold our soul to him so He could play with it while we slept. It is true there are men who know what is happening. Some of them are in mental institutions but not as patient but as doctor. Others are among us and we don't know that if they are part of Satan's brigade they can and do submit to him. And that means when someone says something nasty to you or hurts you that is Satan at work through that person.

Now the spirit has a choice at death as to where it will go. The Bible says it returns to God. Now God takes it and if the spirit is of Him He says "Chose" and we then decide as to the path we wish to follow. If we are alive then we are given a choice as to live. If we are dead then we are given little choice but we do have one. And that is we can decide to dream. Now you won't find this in scripture but you will find it in heart. Our heart is the beat and it is part of the soul and part of the spirit. When we die it ceases but there is a spiritual heart which is given to us. It is called the soul and it is part of the spirit but it is not divisible by men but only by God. When we find ourselves in sin we are caught in a tunnel and that tunnel is real. It is a tunnel that leads to hell. If you are caught in a tunnel then pray and God will catch you because you don't want to go down that tunnel. Not even if there is a being of light at the other end. That isn't the way God works and that tunnel is of sin.

Now the tunnel is like time but it isn't a time tunnel. It is there because we are caught in it and if we are wise we will cry out to God to save us. We are caught in an inside flush which means that sin has written a code into our flesh which keeps us from rising up to be with God. That rising up is a return to the grave, but only if we are dead. So if we are rising up then we are being caught up to be with the Lord. That is part of the scripture in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Lets take this scripture and determine its content. For it is the one which Christians tend to use and it is the one which sin strives to hinder us with. So think of this; if Christ were caught up to be with others in the air then in a way this scripture was fulfilled. Because he already went up to be with God in Heaven. To meet the Lord in the air is speaking of God and not of Christ Jesus.

Now that hurts some of you who have prayed and sought the Lord over it so let me explain this. God is in this and you need to be level headed about it. We want Paul to be writing of the rapture. He is. We want Paul to be speaking of a catching away. He is. We want Paul to speak to our generation. He is.

Now this scripture is an amazing scripture and I do not belittle it. It is a scripture which is ongoing. And that means that the dead in Christ shall rise first. They did.

Lets take the scriptures and take them apart so we can understand fully what God is doing.

1 Thessalonians 4: 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

In this scripture God creates a conundrum. If we believe speaks volumes to us as believers. Do we believe. Do we care. Do we understand that Jesus rose from the dead. Because if we do then it says those which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. Now this isn't saying Jesus is sleeping but it is saying God will bring them with Him. So this speaks to us of this age and this time and this period that something is going to happen and something is going to change and God is going to bring them with Him.

Now who are the them? If we think of them we find ourselves wondering if we are them. Are we the them or are there others of which we know nothing? To answer this requires us to ransack scripture and to trust that God will teach us. Because the them which God brings speaks more than just to us of men and women and children. It speaks of those who are in Christ. But we often think that when Jesus comes that we will be caught up in the air. But if that is true why would God bring them with Him? Where are they? Is Paradise still in the earth or did Paradise rise up? For if Jesus rose up then it might be okay to think that He, who was part of God, or Jesus in a ressurected body, carried the soul of every person out of Paradise. Or He carried them up to Heaven where they were protected by the Lord.

Now if Jesus were meant to be of God and he was then why do we still insist on thinking that he left people there in the grave or Paradise? We just keep sending them down to the grave which is the earth again and again and again and again. In reality they die and if they are of Christ as their personal Lord and savior they don't go to the grave as we know it, they go up to Eden which is where God dwells. Now they have one fact which is true. And it is important to remind us of this. If they have a separation of soul and of spirit then their spirit is taken up to be with the Lord and they are forever with Him. That means they are carried up to be with the Lord in the air. And that means the only part that remains isn't their heart or their soul but their body. Jesus owns the rest because they have submitted to him as Lord and Savior.

Now if they are of Christ and if they are of God those who sin and do wrong and do not seek Christ or God for forgiveness then they will be ostrasized in Heaven. They will be kept apart until they have learned how to treat others with respect. They will not be cast into hell or Hell but be allowed to see but not interact with people. It might sound hard but there are some who did ask Christ in once and submit once. They are those who will live on earth but not be part of things yet to come. Now I spoke of two types of Christian. Those who submit once and those who live the Christian lifestyle.

To put it into perspective this is critical for those who wonder about loved ones. If they live a Christian lifestyle but are part of a church that denies the heritage of Christ then those people will have to submit in Heaven to Christ and to God and to the Holy Spirit. There will be three thrones and three people who sit on them. That to which it wasn't up to Christ as to who would sit there is because they belong to the Holy Spirit and to God. It means that three are one and those three are the Trinity. They are real and they really do exist as three and those three exist as One.

Now if there is a Trinity and there is then those who come up to God will submit to Christ as One. They will submit to God as One. They will submit to the Holy Spirit as One. They will all come one by one and bow their knee and and give tongue to a confession that Jesus is Lord, God is Lord and the Holy Spirit is Lord. It will be done three times for each one. And it will mean that some will choke on one or two or three. If they choke on three they will have to be reexamined and resown which means they will have to live their life over. How? By going through it step by step by step with one of the three. It will take time but God intends that all men will have a chance to find out why they hate and why they are angry and why they refuse to bow.

If after they refuse to bow and refuse to confess and refuse to submit and refuse to allow themselves to be looked at that God will call them scourge. And that scourge is what sin is. Sin is the spirit of darkness which is the Spirit of Death. And death will be thrown into the Lake of Fire. And there will be those who will not submit and will curse God in their heart. No one wants any Christian in that number but there might be those who need scouring. That means they will do menial jobs for all time and then when they are old and gray will they submit. Now Sin isn't ready to do menial jobs so he would scour the hard way by trying to climb out of hell. So maybe God will create a wheel for the hampster. Not the thing you throw clothes into or the cage you put the hamster in but the hampster. The one creature of its kind that hampers the people of God as the monster we call Sin.

So how does God bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus? Does He also have to go to Paradise to redeem souls or is there another answer? Now if I were someone who didn't pay attention to detail and I do fall into that bracket on occassion I would answer that God doesn't bring anyone with Him. Why? Because we meet Christ Jesus in the air and not God.

Well, lets say that everyone in the Christian church believes that Jesus Christ is the one who is coming as the King of Glory. And Jesus hasn't said anything because He, as God, is coming. The problem we have is that no one seems to catch the little phrase that God will bring with Him those who were asleep. Now who in the world is that? Are there two raptures? One with Christ and one with God? Or is there a major rapture where God comes down to earth and we who are alive are caught up with Him to be with the Lord always? For here is the conundrum I spoke of; there is one major rapture and it is taking place as we speak.: