Angry Wealth

January 8, 2007

Joel Akin

 Trials are not meant to be the sole life of those Christians who are left. We are struggling just as a survivor would from a great war. Most Christians suffer and suffer more than any people in all the world. It is hard for some to believe but suffering is one of the stones which we carry. Stones can be good if they are of gem or metal that is precious but sometimes we are caught in a battle with sin. And in that battle we face overwhelming odds that prevent us from enjoying life.

 God never wanted us to suffer so much. He never said “This is my will.” Yet despite one thing there would be a war yet to come. And that is there are those who are fighting against impossible odds so that men might be free.

 Sometimes its hard to see and sometimes its hard to understand why struggles happen. On one hand we face disdain and on the other ordain. So we struggle with dis or der in our life what do we do? How do we face things we cannot see and things we cannot understand? How can we beat the odds and the evens when sin adds the s to the beginning of ever even? The answer to that is seven. I saw that on Enterprise today that Seven was a little like the Swedish name Sven. Seven is meant to be the perfect number and yet it is odd with an even name. It is a s with an even number and it is hard for us to see.

 I say that because we live in a time called the last day. Most of us would agree that if God were to come back it should be in the last day. After all two thousand years after Christ and four thousand years passed before Christ and there isn’t one of us who doesn’t want it to be the Last Day.

 Yet at the same time I hear from many Christians “Please Lord, don’t send the Rapture. I have loved ones who remain unsaved.” So which is it? What do we do when our loved ones remain unsaved? Which is better? To be here and serve Christ year by year or to be with Christ year by year? I think of it as a desire which cannot both be true. And I see it as a desire that requires us to cling to this world in order to help free people from this world. Yet I will ask “Is it up to us to save people?” Some of you would say yes. Others would shake your head and say “I dunno.”

 Yet if Jesus were to come back soon who of us would be ready? If we are praying “Don’t come back” then maybe he will leave you here because you are praying contrary to Gods plan? For example if Jesus has been here already then who was there to meet him? Who was there to say hello? Who was there to tell him they love him?

 The ironic part is we want it both ways. Either we pray for him to return or we pray for him to stay home. Yet if we pray for him to stay away, as we have been doing, then who is really the unsaved one? Not one of us dares stand before God when He speaks because He is one who wants to come back to earth. Earth is His footstool and He is making it a point that He wants to come home.

 If there is one thing the entire Christian world is confused about it is the return of Jesus. He is coming but he is coming with His Father. His Father is God. His father wants to come home to earth to live. And if you pray “Don’t come back until my friend is saved then you are praying “God, don’t come home until I get things fixed up.” Think about it for a minute because it is making everyone in Heaven upset. Who is saying “Don’t return until their loved ones are saved?” If you are praying that you are out of Gods plan.

 Now I know why you do it and I’m being upset perhaps for nothing but what is the purpose of saying it when Jesus wants to come back? Why tell others “We are praying God will delay the rapture” as if 2,000 years is not enough. Who said it in the first place and who preaches it from the pulpit? It has to be common for I know preachers who believe it and relatives and if they believe it then it must be common. So why pray it when the Rapture is taking place? Why say it when we are in the battle for the first part of the rapture? Not one of you seems to know it. Not one of you seems to care. I have talked about it with people and they just look at me as if I were crazy. Yet I have been part of it and I am in it and I am fighting for it to happen.

 Listen carefully. All people and all time and all places. I am God and I created you. I made you. I set you up so you would find peace. I made you so you would have joy. I set my heart towards you so you would be in my presence. I write this with the heart of my servant and friend. I write this because he is hurt by those who say that the rapture has to wait. He has seen the trumpet tossed out and those who wait by the limosines wait in vain. No one is ready for the rapture. No one is listening for the trumpet. No one is caring whether or not it blows. They toss out the trumpet and they ignore the waiting chauffer and they turn up their television to hear the preacher rather then the voice of the Lord.

 This is not funny to me and I am not happy with you. I am waiting and I am waiting for men to pray and ask “Is the rapture taking place? Are there chauffers waiting for us? Are we part of the rapture? If so then what do we do? For no one told us. We did not hear any trumpet. Yet the scripture was wise for it said the “Last Trump” which really is the final one. It is the trump of the Lord.

 Lets speak to those who want me to hold off. Do you think you can save them? If you can hold out your hand to them and say “You are saved.” If you cannot save them then do not pray for Jesus to stay away for he is gathering up the saints which are your loved ones. They are coming from all parts of the stars where they were living and they are asking ‘God, how long must we wait until we are allowed to return to Earth? For we are hungry and we are lonely and we long to be with our family.”

 For you would say “That does not make any sense. They are with the Lord. Yet you have not read scripture for the spirit is restless and cries out beneath the throne, as do the men who long for the return of God, ‘How long Oh Lord, how long?”

 Yet you still cry “Hold off” while they cry “How long?” Do you think they are less important to you then those you wish saved? I never said to you to save men or to save people. It is my job and I do it better then anyone. I am God and I created you so that you would serve me. I put you here that I might honor you. Yet you pray for me to delay and if you pray loud enough I will cast you back when I come. For I do not desire someone to pray to me to hold back when I cannot move because of sin. For the men of earth are filled with it and no one on earth knows how to fight and there are those who are arrogant beyond belief. They think “I fight sin day and night” but they do not have a clue what they fight. For they are under the influence of the evil one and they fight with evil and they do not see it and they do not care. They are under authority and they are under bondage and they are pastors and preachers and caretakers and teachers. They are filled with spirit after spirit because they never broke through so they could hear God speak. And yet as God I created them and I love them and I seek them. For they are men who strive with the Gospel to make it work and with me to make me work and with Christ to make him fit for their service.

 Yet today I would say “Do not look to men for your answer. Do not seek for them to answer your prayer. They will fail to honor and they will fail to lift you up. For they will turn away from the things of God and will strive with the Lord. For the Lord would say in that day that I made you I did so with joy. For I did not turn away from you and did not make you for the purposes of men. I made you that I might honor and lift you up. For if I would have thrown out the men of Israel to bless Moses yet he argued with me over them. Yet I will raise you up because you have honored me more then men. I will raise you up so that I might make your name a precious name. For I will give you what you desire and I will give men as friend. Yet I will do it in my way. And that is the one thing I desire of you