Rapture 52

The Lord Shall Descend with a shout

February 22, 2007

Joel Akin

Lets say the rapture is taking place as we speak. Now that is clear and easy to see if we know things. Yet if we are a simple person who doesn't know they can have a deep relationship with God then how can we tell? To answer that requires time. Each day there are new things which develop. Each day there is a new project which is taking place.

Each new project is based on simple things. For example lets say God is on His way to earth. He would be arriving in a large convoy of ships. Each ship would be there as a rear guard. People don't need to walk in air, though they could if they wished, to follow the program which God is developing.

Lets say this convoy of ships is space craft and they are coming from all points of the compass. Lets also say there are some bad dudes which are coming. How then can we tell which is which?

Now we want God to appear in the air. But what of time? There have been other appearances in the air of angels, UFO's, unusual clouds and signs. Each time something happens someone wonders if it is the return of God.

So in a way I'm helping to prepare for the return of God to earth with prayer and with writing these articles. Each time there is a countdown to something there is a war or an event which seems to take precedence over the rapture.

Lets say this event is not different. Each time there is a warning, as in someone who thinks the rapture will take place, they warn of events which will happen before. And each time they are wrong. So why should this be right? I think of that myself because I am in an unusual form of war. I have been fighting against evil and it is not the usual form of warfare. As in each day is an unusual battle on my physical weaknesses. I have a problem called Myoclonic Cervical Dystonia among other things. It affects me in shaking. When a spiritual war is in the happening I am affected and I begin to shake.

Now shaking is something the enemy uses in spiritual war. They know that men are supceptible to war and to shakes. And so if a man goes into shakes the person who sees it thinks it is the devil who is causing it. In many cases that is the absolute truth. It is in my case and it is in most cases except when people are under conviction or fighting fear of the Lord. There is never a time when God deliberately sends shakes. Some have thought so but shakes are not how God needs to operate. His desire is that we are free of shakes.

Now I know of at least one pastor who suffered shakes and felt God had said it was of him. I will say that I cannot judge such a man because he shook. It may be God allows it because it is something that man is dealing with. I do know, at least in my own heart, that I shake because of disease and because of spiritual war and not because God sends it.

Remember that Gods gifts are those of the fruit of the spirit and not of the flesh. And though I struggle with it there are times men can be deceived. And a pastor who is listening to the enemy will hear that God desires him to suffer so he can learn. And so the enemy blesses him with a lie and then lets in blessings so the man is confused on one side and convinced on the other side that he is doing what is fully right.

Now here is the honest truth. If a man who is a prophet is sick and says "I have never been more sick and I have never been more spiritually on fire" then which is which? Does God need a person to get out of the way so He can move? Or do spirits avoid men who are plagued with sickness?

The answer isn't easy to state without stepping on a few toes. So we'll speak of the spiritual desire of the Lord. He desires that all men be saved and not just of sickness and disease. The problem is spiritual war. And that spiritual war is what confuses the church. And it is the nature of this article. For there are war fair and war fare. And war fare is the weapons of war while war fair is the carnival of war.

So lets say the carnival of war is the church. The church would signify any who claim that Jesus is Lord and that would mean most. So lets say there are half a billion people involved in spiritual war with a carnival atmosphere. The carn is of the flesh and the val is of sight or li. So lets say the original carnival was the sight of flesh and that was of the flesh of women. Women wanted to show off their flesh and lie with men who came to view them. Eventually it came to signify clowns and strange and bizarre things. It wasn't meant to be of sin or evil. It was meant to be of time and men wanted to see sin in action.

So when the carnival came to the church there were those who wanted to put on a show. Then there were those who wanted to put on a war. And sometimes the two merged and the show came to the church and a tribal war dance broke out with people crying for a falling of rain. Either real rain or the latter reign.

So if these things came to the church as war and fare there was a battle which broke out and the fare of the church went up or down depending on who prayed. And if people prayed a few weeks without ceasing they got a battle brewing over them most were afraid to touch. And they stopped and the fire went out. Because a real war isn't something to play around with.

Most didn't want real war because it divides and conquers. And it brings out war and it brings out pain.

Lets say there was a man who was put in solitary for a year and he decided to begin with repentance and with prayer. At the end of the year, if he prayed for one fully year without sinning, that man could help to transform not just the prison but also his own heart. But what if God saw him and spoke with him. In that case solitary wouldn't protect him from evil. He would have to bear it because someone would find him and tear apart his faith in some way. Even if he remained in solitary. It is because this isn't a little war. If it was there would be no need for this battle everyone is in including myself. Being at the center of the storm isn't like a hurricane. That is an eye cloud and it is based on grace. The fact that it spreads out and sometimes dies indicates that people get to the center and know the worst is yet to come. Some have prayed it down and it dissipates.

So in a way this is encouraging and tells me the war is still on but I don't give up even though I am tired. Not as weak as yesterday but tired.

And today I was hit while on the way to the store to get my medicine and gas for the vehicle. I just didn't want to keep going without God on my side.

Now I am into 3 plus years of continuous prayer. I have enjoyed my fight and I have won many things. But today Sin hit me hard and I didn't want it to continue so I cried to the Lord. And God heard me and saw the enemy was striving to hurt me while driving. So God took Sin and chastised him and he is breaking apart.

Now this is something I don't understand. What it means, according to God, is that there is a war and then there is a battle. A war is what I am in but the Battle is the Lords. When Sin carries it to me then he has to bear it up to God. And God saw I was in serious trouble. So he came down and took Sin and broke him apart.

Now that doesn't mean much to you but I can tell you it is the truth. I tend to forget but it was a hit unlike any I've had. And it was something that gets Gods attention.

Now God is with me spiritually which means the ship he rides on is spirit. And if Sin hits me, which he does, then he has to be torn loose. And that means he has to give up something of the fight. And in this case it is a promise never to hit me while I'm driving as I could have hurt someone. And so that is why I speak of it.

Now the war continues and will go on for a few more weeks or possibly months. I need to fight until Sin is not able to muster up anything. And that doesn't sound like fun but remember he takes men and uses their power to fight. So in the future he has to find something beyond men. And he hasn't really let go of things as yet.

God has indicated I am to be blessed. And that blessing is to be soon so that I might see God is in control. I will write it here and let you know when it is to happen. For God will set me up to be blessed and with great blessing. And it will happen in a moment and soon. So I can be free and go out and enjoy life without suffering and pain.

Now the Lord would descend with a shout and the song of the archangel. For the Lords shout will be filled with power and all the earth shall hear. And the men who sit and think that God doesn't answer shall hear and tremble. And the archangel shall hear and rejoice. For the Lord is the Lord and there is no voice but his. And the Lord will restore to those who have lost and to those who have much taken. For the enemy steals and takes and kills and destroys. And it will be soon. Don't worry about how but trust. The Lord will sit in that day and rest. Because He is wore out from the Battle. But don't worry. A thousand years to the Lord is but a day to us. And He can find a place to rest in His world which will still be there. It will be a time apart and it will be a home within the place of rest. And inside the home of the heart. So be at peace and rest and allow God to finish finding a home for all of you who wait.