Rapture 32

Spirit War is like Physical War

February 4, 2007

Joel Akin

2Timothy 2:11 [It is] a faithful saying: For if we be dead with [him], we shall also live with [him]:

When we suffer with Christ we know that we are in the right place. There are many who have suffered for the sake of the gospel. I am one of them. I don't suffer in the sense of persecution of men but in spirit war.

Spirit war is like physical war. It comes with its own battles. And it is a warfare that is hard to take. Perhaps as hard as physical. Some say that war is of men but those spirits who fight with God do so knowing they are on a limited time. They know God is coming and they know He is waiting until He has enough prayer to blow them away. And it is hard to understand but prayer is the key to success. It is the key to overcoming. It is the key to winning and it is the key to life.

When we pray for rapture and it comes but no one is spiritually ready then God has to prepare the way. It is as if we were the Bride but we did very little to prepare the way. We got it wrong. We were not meant to prepare just a physical battle but a spiritual one. And the Spiritual warfare was to take precedence over the natural. We became soured by the pain we carried and so when it got rough we stopped. It wasn't that we gave up but that we simply walked away and left the wilderness. Sometimes God took us out but we didn't listen and some of us went right back into battle. How? Because evil pulls us into warfare day after day after day.

Its not the call of Goliath that does it but the warfare language of power. It is the voice of evil that does it to our mind. And those who truly fight evil will hear evil all around them. It will be as natural as kitchen sinks. And those sinks are the ones you wash dishes and sometimes diapers in. No one stops you from doing either but there should be a sink for one and a sink for the other.

Why do I speak this way? Because our mind is one which is meant to be of God. It is not meant to be used as a sewer by the enemy. He takes our thoughts and he burns a trail to us and we are in constant pain and suffering. And along that trail is forced to follow others because it is the only path and the only trail to your thoughts.

Now it doesn't meant God is going to leave it that way. It is burned and parried and hurting with pain that is like a dull throb of a tooth or a head pain that won't stop. It also is on the edge in all areas of life. This is the battle edge and it takes you there so you fight for one reason. To get back to God. Not because you have anything important to say. But because you are in bad shape and don't know anyone else to turn to.

Lets say this is my situation and I am begging God for help for two years plus. And I haven't got anything but this story. It is all I have. I pray and seek and batter down heavens doors and I can't seem to hear. I hear promises but nothing changes. I hear of battle strategy and try it but nothing changes. I hear of health strategies and that doesn't change things. I fight with prayer and with supplication until I am burned out. Then I get a reprieve and something in me says "Lets go at it again" and I don't have even the simplest will to resist as if it were a test of the enemy to surround me even tighter.

And so the warfare continues until God gives me a brief lesson in humility. And tells me I have found the truth of earth. Only its his voice telling me to hang on and tough it out. But I haven't said it lately because I know there isn't death as I know it. Only an end to this battle. And that is the only thing that seems to help. Give me liberty or give me liberty. Or maybe I should just say "God help me a thousand more times a day. I do anyway but what is it that will give me freedom?

Its been going on two weeks since the rapture is to have started. I have tried to please God and search for him. I have cried out in Jesus name. I have searched my heart for any wayward way. Yet I cannot hear. I am tormented beyond measure.

In a way this sounds like a man who has done something wrong. I don't claim to be free of evil but free of time. I have time and I use it to pray. And those who put God first must expect persecution. Only is the persecution I face one that is beyond measure or just standard. In a way that is a question that could be answered justly. It means 'Do I suffer more then I can bear?" As of today the answer is yes. As of yesterday the answer was mostly. And so the answer was mostly yes. A good half of my day is filled with action of spirit war. I am in the midst of the battle and it is real. Not a fake war.

So as a man who has been in the mix God wants me to understand I am not being fooled with by Him. He is with me in this and is suffering also. Only he can't complain because its been worse then this before. Much worse. And this is mild complaint from a man who knows suffering but doesn't know it as Christ did. Jesus suffered so bad that no one on earth can conceive of it. We did some of it on the cross and some before but most of his suffering came afterward. Not because of Paradise but after when we started crying out to him to bear our sins. We didn't understand that we were not meant to call out the name of all the sins. That was like a plink into the hand. A small one but day after day it bore into pain. And then into suffering. And then into agony only he could understand. No one on earth cared because they all failed to fill their day with prayer.

And so prayer became the end of the matter. And we put ministry ahead of prayer. And that was for the good ones. The bad Christian put sin ahead of God. And they prayed rosary which was sin fill. Sin fill is the opposite of sin full. Sin full is sinful. What they did was put Jesus on the cross again and again and then turn his body into the real blood. This was a church that prayed rosary and it was like a tiny petal at first but it built up until man had turned it into a free for all sin-sarium.

The sin-sarium was men who had burned a bridge to Truth and tried to force it to bend to them. It was based on time and it went on and on and on until the foundation of time was broken open.

Breaking time means they spent every waking moment crying to God for forgiveness. It wasn't painful it was torture. That was the work of sin and it couldn't stop. The very fact that it went on was sickening. The very fact it wouldn't end was disgusting. Jesus wanted grace to cover sins but man could not stop bending an ear towards hell. Jesus had bent hell to his ear and knew those there but we Christians spent full time preaching people into hell not getting them out.

It was Biblical and it was time and it was good but it went from good to evil because sin took that preacher until he forgot how to preach true grace. Every sentence had hell in it and we became jumpy unless someone was being screamed out of hell. And it got worse and worse until those in Heaven wondered if we even knew what Hell was?

Men fell into Hell right and left and we could hear their screams as they were taken into a dark tunnel. We heard them laugh, and that was the demons who came to rip apart their flesh on the way to the burning fire.

The fact is Hell was under authority. Not of men but of Jesus and it wasn't our job to send men there. Angels maybe but not men. Not only had we entered into judge and jury but also into justice of heart. And that wasn't the administration of man but of God.

It went into time and we sunk so low we didn't know we were into trouble. We had bared our soul to God and that is all we did. It wasn't enough to bare our soul but our life. Our soul was connected to our spirit and it was the spirit God wanted. Why else would it be returned to God at death?

Its true you'll find mention of the soul in all the Bible. It is there to remind us that we are soul and that as a soul we are free to serve God. Not whim or desire but God. That is the choice of the soul. Not all men wish to serve God and those are the ones who wish to see Hell. They will but it will be their soul and not their spirit.