Rapture 44

Man went to hell

February 14, 2007

Joel Akin

Once there was love. Love was the Tree of Life. It was borne into Eden on a stretcher and it was carried out on a slab. And so the story of life went on. We went into sin and life went to hell. And God saw how unequal it was for men on earth didn't live they were dead. And men in hell were of life but they were alive. And so God said "I'll switch and see if life is true to its nature."

And men went to hell and repented of their nature. But if they did not switch back God returned them. And so it went until men in hell thought "I'm repenting" and they were excited. For no one but Christ had ever offered life. And they realized if life had gone to hell then they were free to think. And so they tried and they tried until one succeeded. And he said "I think" and people around them rose up and said "Teach us" and they learned.

And so those in hell cast aside the nature and became the creature and the creature became something that was storn and something that was life. But the storn was of sin and sin was of evil. And evil cast them down until they tired of trying. And so they lay there day after day doing nothing.

That is until Hope came to herself and said "I think" and she did and she tried and she realized she could think. And so this was the story of life in Hell.

And yet you ask "What does Hell have to do with us? For we are men."

And so men went to hell because they did not know they were not men but evil. And men went to hell because they cried and wept and did not know they were evil. And so they went to hell because Sin had taken them there. And so Hell was filled with men and with women and even some who seemed as children. And they went there and they cried out to God "Heal us" and God heard them and said "It is not possible" but he was not saying that to their request but to their nature. For the nature of man was of wood and boys like Pinocchio could not be of wood and life.

For those who tried had died and so it became a story and a myth and a tale that even the Blue Fairy could not change. And so it was a myth that men were alive because we all carried Sin and Sin was of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And you and I know that in the tree was death. And death was not life but death.

And so we inherited death and we took on the nature of Sin and so we were all Pinocchio. And all of us cried to God "Heal us" and we all cried "I want to be real" for all of us felt that we were missing something. We searched for it but none of us understood that we were of wood and joints and blood. And no one knew the blood of the people was the wood of Sin. And we may look like flesh and blood but we had a nature of Pinocchio. And we all carried the nature of the lie and we all carried the desire to lie. And though our noses didn't get longer our heart broke. And it carried up to Heaven where God was. He had made us of flesh but not one part of that flesh was seen. It was hidden and it was stolen and it was broken. And it was taken into the nature of evil and we cried and we wept. And we said "God, hear us. We are sorry." But God could not hear us for we were not real. We were men and women and children and all of us were Pinochhio. All of us were crafted from Sin. And all of us came out of the tree and all of us had to be brought back to the tree.

Only Eden was gone. It had fallen into sin as well and it had to be carried into the sea and into forgetfulness. And there it slept for eons of time. And no one knew it. For it was there above the lake and above the fire. And it was there waiting to fall. And no one could find it though they searched and they tried. For they had a longing to return home and to find their true home and their true father.

It seemed that this story has been told so many times in so many ways by men. We carry the nature of it in us and we carry the desire to understand. And we have the nature of wood but the heart of wickedness. And it grows more wicked with each lie until our heart is broken open.

And so we fell into sin and into evil and into wood and into death and into things that should not be. And we fell so hard God had to restore us. But not with life for we were not truly ready yet for life. But with hope. So he created laws and he said "Follow these and follow them until they teach you." And so we followed the laws of God and we sought their understanding. But some of us never learned the law of God was to bring us to love. We never knew it and we followed after the law of death. And so the slide took us from love unto death. And God didn't wish us to be of death but of life. But he could not bring us to life for we had been cast out of Eden.

So God sent us to evil and to nature and turned us loose. And we went to the creature and to the vile nature of things and we became even more evil. We fell into snare of the enemy and they convinced us to turn our nature into vile. And so we became the vile of nature and the vile of sin. And we became less caring and more wicked. And our heart burst out and we carried ourselves down to the grave. And there we strove with God to let others know of their vile. And so God created a wall between us. A wall that would not break. It was a wall created between men and the creature. And it was built up on time upon time. And men fell into it and they died and they cried out "God help us" and God said "It is not possible."

And so men became vile and they became evil and they became like children and they became like vile. But one evil natured person fell into vile and cried out day and night "I want to be real" and God saw him and said "It is possible" for he knew this man was a friend. And he said "I will see" for he had taken the man and his house up to Heaven and to the Grave and to the foot of the Cross. And there they had been waiting for someone to help them.

And so they came into the story and they came to the Cross and they came to the wood and they came to the blood. And they came to Heaven and they went to the Grave. And they went to the foot of the grave. And there they saw evil and they fought it together and they wept and they cried and they searched until they had found that God did not forsake those He loved.

For they had fountained out and prayed out and sought out until they had broken and then they came to the sort and to the pain and to the heart and to the care and they broke, and then they came to time and to sin and to evil and there they were br and that was it.

For the oke was there. The oke was the oak and the oak was the tree that would not break. It was of the Acorn and it was of the nut and it was of the squirrel that climbed its branch and it broke down the wall and it broke down the tree and it broke down Sin and it broke down Evil and it broke down the Scourge and it broke down the Wall and it broke everything it could find. For it was a nutty oak and it built up wall after wall after wall after wall after wall after wall after wall after wall after wall after wall until the whole entire assemblange of forest of oke had become oak. And it took the nature of the oke and said "If it is to be oke then it it be oke but as for me I will be oak."

And so it became an oak and it said "I will not be oke" and it would not be. And it took the br and it took the o and it took the k and it took the e and it b r o k e them into pieces. And into the piece of the oke it took the name and said let it be an a instead of an o. But God said "No, that is not possible."

So the man who was an oke said I will take the o and leave it. And God said nothing. And the man said I will add my a to it. And so he said "I am oa" but then he added his last name and he said I will be oak" and so he got his wish.

And the man became me and I fought this fight that men might have life. I was not Christ but I took what Jesus did for me at the Cross and I took it to the Grave and I fought Evil and I fought Sin and I fought Vile. And I went and took those in Hell and I said "Wake up" for they were bothering me and telling me to shut up because my prayers were bordering them into sanity.

And so I prayed and I sought God and I said "When do I get Freedom." For I didn't want just Free but I wanted Freedom. I wanted FREEDOM."

For though my heart had been of wood I would not cast out the evil. I said "It is in my heart" and i could not cast aside what was me. I had a heart of evil because evil had turned me back into wood. And God could not change what wasn't a boy. I wasn't alive anymore. I was of death and of the grave and of hell and of the tree. And I was of the old and not of the new. I was something evil had planned. For they wanted me cast off the life line of the Cross.

But I refused to let go and I tore down time and I tore open a wall and I refused to let go.

And that had to give somewhere. For I couldn't let go of God. And I would let go of evil. But they came and tore me loose, or so they said. Because I clung by the faith of the Lord I served. And I clung by the hope of the Lord whom I loved. And I clung by hope of the Lord of whom was my inheritance. And I clung by Spirit and by spirit. And I refused to let go.

And it came to pass that God saw me and said "They are in for trouble" and they were. For I was getting just a little bit angry by now. Not much; because I told them "Don't ever get me angry." They laughed and mocked me and turned me aside with laughter. And I laughed back because I didn't like being angry. And so I went to be angry and went to sleep on my wrath. And I tried to let it go but it wasn't me but God. And God came and fought them and he tore down the walls and tore down their hill and tore down their dale.

And he tore apart their words and tore apart their heart and tore down their stile. And he said "It is possible" and it was. And so I turned to the Lord and I said "Am I oak or am I flesh?" And the Lord thought a moment and He replied "You are both. But you are of life as well." And I turned to the Lord and I said "If I am of life when do I grow roots?"

And the Lord answered and said "When freedom rises upon the wings of the eagle."

And I saw Freedom as an egg but I did not know if I carried it. And the Lord said "Freedom is of righteousness. And time is of evil. Take the time and give it time. For God will restore freedom and bring it to you when time is right. And as for the rest I did not say anything because I knew it was time for me to leave. And I returned to the Lord and said "Thank you father for life"

And the father said "Thank you Son for hope and life."

And I looked up at the squirrel and thought "Thank you also."