Rapture 53

Rapture is about growth

February 23, 2007

Joel Akin

The Lord knows that there are those who suffer. He sees their heart and knows their heart. He knows what they want and knows what they desire. He knows the evil one twists the nature of things and changes the sort of words which are pure and holy.

The Lord knows the heart of men and knows that some are confused by the lay of the land. They are confused by the return of the Lord. They find themselves crying out for answers without fullness. And when they cry they weep because no one knows. So if I speak study these words and cling to what is good. And give it time to sink for in sink is in sync and there are those things which are the progress of time.

The Lord is right to test and to see a man who is ready to be of life. He knows that a man has to chose life. And in choosing he has to decide when to write or not to write. And in some cases to write more instead of less.

I wait for the coming of the Lord. I have been told that it may happen this year. I am thinking that it will be towards the end of November. How? Based on a time God gave me of the beginning of the rapture a few weeks ago. The rapture is meant to begin and then to progress like the birth of a child. When the child is conceived then it is carried by the mom for about 9 months. So if the Lord conceived the birth of the rapture then its end would come with celebration and not destruction.

So what happens when a man is tested beyond endurance? He is kept safe in the arms of the Lord. He is carried until the evil one is delivered up but not as in delivered out. That is the Rapture and what happens in Heaven is a threat to those who are still to come. For Heaven has a name for those who obey. It is trust and obey. For there is no other way to be happy in Jesus then to trust and obey.

That is the name of an old song I sang when growing up. To trust is to obey and I have tried to find things in me that would prevent me from trusting.

The thing that God desires of me is to trust without fear. I have fell into sleep and into sorrow and I have tried to trust. Trusting is the key to being reminded to obey. It is part of the nature of faith.

The rapture is about growth and it is about celebration. It isn't about the wedding but about a child being delivered. And that child being delivered is about help from God. For the Lord will descend with a shout and the voice of the archangel and we who are alive and remain shall be caught up and forever be with the Lord.

Now I may have left part of it out but the caught up doesn't sound like what I'm speaking of. It is but it is a catching up into the air. So lets say that God restores earth to Eden and we who are alive and remain are caught up into Eden. Wouldn't that be quick? And wouldn't that mean we would see the change?

It would and it will and it will be quick. But lets put it into perspective.

In 9 months of gestation the mother goes through stages. She prepares herself for milk. Her breasts enlarge. Her body puts on weight. Her hips widen. She finds her self unable to sleep as much. She carries a unique fold in her hip we'll call the baby carriage. And she finds it not only easier to sit still but essential as the baby develops. Some women go out and exercise and maybe that is good but most do not and they put on weight. So lets say the child needs time to adjust from fast pace to slow. For when the mom gives birth she is meant to adjust her pace to the child.

In this world it doesn't do any good to adjust to the slow pace of the child. It would be without an ability to crawl and that would mean no one could move. So lets say that God desires us to pray and seek him for the birth. And lets say we didn't listen. So God had a man give birth. How? By prayer and by supplication with thanksgiving.

Now some will say it sounds like one man will get glory. Lets say that man isn't asking for it. He asks only for life and love. Who then is responsible for it? God would be but God wants more so that would mean people of earth must bear the rapture. And so God raises up men who pray. And they pray without ceasing also. And they are given the nature of the mother because their heart is inward and thus they care for it as it grows.

Now these would not be men of Heaven for they are spirit and want their body. This would refer to men of earth for they have a body. Job said he would see the Lord in the Flesh and some said the flesh shall not inherit Heaven. So if they are right men who go to Heaven have to give up the flesh and go there without a body. Or it is meant to be healed and brought to earth.

So this does add to the confusion and maybe hurt. Mainly because we want God to be whole and complete. So lets say the Spirit is whole and complete but the flesh is broken by sin. And it was meant to be of God but Sin took it and crushed it and there was no one to repair. So it fell into disrepair and was crushed by the means of time and no one came to help. So God is raising up a new way of help and that is through prayer so that men can be healed and delivered.