Friendly Fire "The Troops are hit"

December 7, 2004

Personal Narrations

Joel Akin

Calgary, Alberta

The Dream: I was director of this military base when suddenly we were bombed. There were several men killed and we were ready to return fire when we discovered that the bomber was one of ours. We found that he had been dumping his bombs based on a GPS system which had gotten fouled up due to a magnetic anomaly. So instead of bombing the enemy territory he had bombed ours and at least one or two others. We did not have the authority to stop his bombing because to his eyes his instruments didn't lie. He was over enemy territory. I pulled out the map and knew there was only one way to stop this 'friendly fire'. I had to travel to the Red Zone where the commander was and report this incident asap. Then he could contact and set things right and stop this friendly fire that will killing and hurting good men.

Over the past year I have come into an intimacy with God in a way that is hard to explain. I have heard people say that God was silent, God was not speaking, God doesn't hear us and so on. I've learned those things are based on misconceptions. It is not God who is at fault but us. It is we who always have the hindrances in our life. For God is always there and has proved that to me time and time again. So when I start to get confused and then very confused I know the problem is not with God but with me.

Part of this started a few days ago when I was listening to a prophet from the US speaking to an online radio host about the future. He was adamant that God had revealed to him that the USA was going to go through at least four more years of blessings and things were going to turn around. He also seemed to claim that he had a 100% success rate and thus he could state with assuredness the rest of the prophets were wrong that disaster and economic turmoil were coming.

Now first lets get one thing straight. I have never claimed to be a prophet and God has never called me a prophet. He has worked with me in prophetic measure and in understanding but a prophet has a much harder calling then I do.

Yet in what must be nearly 100 dreams now God has revealed to me there is coming a time of economic turmoil and disaster upon North America. I haven't seen when but I can say the dreams are escalating in frequency and they show all aspects of this disaster from my viewpoint, the worlds, the churches and so on. Yet God has not been clear in when these things will happen but He has indicated that my healing and my families healing would come during this time. So you can see why such a prophecy, if true, would be a real struggle for me. For this prophecy indicated, in a way, that I could expect my healing to still be years and years away.

A pet peeve here for a moment. I've had very well meaning people write me and tell me that I should accept my suffering and learn to live with it. To one who has never experienced chronic pain and suffering I can only say, "Be careful what you state..." There is no earthly measure for the hurt that I feel. To want to live like this or to be able to bear living like this is a daily fight. There are few well people or those who have suffered temporary pain who can imagine what its like to bear. Even God has never, ever asked me to learn to live with it. Instead He encourages me and tells me that this suffering will end.

Back to this prophet. How can one tell if a man truly speaks the words of the Lord especially when that word is in total conflict with what God has showed you? I didn't understand it and for two nights I prayed about it until I was exhausted. It did not seem there could be any possible answer. All I saw was the following.

1. God has showed me a time of turmoil is coming upon the world but especially the USA. This turmoil would end for a time before greater turmoil came about.

2. This prophet says the turmoil is going to cease and things will get better especially for the USA. He did not see any true disaster coming for a long time.

Can both be true? Can both be ordained of God? Well this is what I prayed for and sought God on for it did not seem both could be true and there did not seem to be any possible way around it.

Then the dream came and in just a few moments God helped clarify how both can be right and yet one can still be wrong. Now if this answer had come from man it would have judged this prophet or judged me. But God revealed some secret truths to me that have helped me immensely.

A few months ago God began to teach me about Spheres of influence. A brief description is this. Each of us overcomers in Christ are granted territories. Each territory is what can only be described as being within our influence. Anything within our influence is our responsibility to a degree. Yet when you think of Prophets especially those who are called to the nations, their sphere of influence is much broader yet as I have learned also has its territories. They are guided and directed in where they broadcast their prophecies or drop their bombs. Bombs are meant to be destructive to the enemy but never intended to drop on friendly troops except perhaps as a last ditch effort when the enemy has infiltrated their ranks.

 In this case the prophet dropped his bombs directly onto friendly troops and friendly territory. But the dream was clear that I could not communicate directly with this prophet. He would most likely ignore me because he was getting his instructions straight from his commander. What he didn't understand is that through no fault of his own those instructions had gotten garbled so instead of bombing enemy territory he was going after the good guys and people were being hurt.

God showed me that there was only one way to stop this bomber from bombing friendly territory. I had to travel to the Red Zone where I would meet with the commander and he would then relay those improved instructions to this godly man. Telling him that the orders he had received had gotten garbled by the powers of the air and the powers of the earth.

But what was the Red Zone? I believe God showed me this represented the blood of Christ and the blood of Christ was unaffected by the powers of this world. The blood of Christ represented safety and an area that was off limits to the evil of this world. The safe zones and territories were those who had overcome.

We are in a war with forces that are beyond our understanding. Yet one thing I believe displeases the Lord is when we fight, argue and war with one another. It is a scary thing to think that one can be right in so many things yet be off just a little bit. This is why we must get our orders directly from the throne room of God and not rely on just signs and wonders and angelic visitations. Nor can we allow ourselves to rely on just emotions. So often these too have tripped us up in our walk with the Lord. They sound wonderful to the church and oh so spiritual but how often have we failed because we gave heed to things that were not truly from God. The Red Zone, the blood soaked cross of Christ, cannot be infiltrated or ever taken away by the enemy. Those truths are pure and righteous and will be there for us if we but run to Christ and put our trust in Him.