The Rapture of the Church

January 9, 2007

Joel Akin

 I awoke from my sleep. I learned that I was in a world where there were spirits that were at war with God. By chance and circumstance I became a warrior and I fought on the side of God against powers and principalities and spirits in high places. I went out and fought across the land establishing a boundary. And that boundary wasn't meant to keep sin out but to keep Sin in. I became a member of the Divine Forces of God and I became a General in the Army of God. Not just an average General but a real General who was given intel and work and a job to do. Part of it was to warn man that there was a war. I found most did not care. Most did not understand. Most thought I was joking. Most thought the battle was the little skirmish they were in.

 Yet I could not speak for I had my voice taken away by sin. I fell into sickness and disease and became bed bound and came close to death. Yet in the midst of my suffering God Himself spoke and said "I am here." And we, He and I, spent our time learning of each other. I spoke with Him as a friend and I learned the most carefully hidden secret God had ever kept. It was that of all men on earth none had learned it in its fullness.

It isn't easy to explain but it went like this. I gave up asking and I stopped wanting. I said only one thing "God, I'm on my way home. I have nothing to offer. My life is coming to a close. Take me and teach me to love."

And that was enough. I had no money and no power and no ministry and no one that wanted to help. But at that moment God spoke to me and He said "I am here."

And if I could tell you the secret of power it was called anointing. If I could tell the secret of authority it was listen to God and quit asking for it. He doesn't give it to those who ask. He gives it to those who seek. But not power or authority. Those are given only to people who are not interested in those things. He isn't interested in giving you those things. That is why Jesus is Lord. He is the source of your power and authority.

But the secret to God is different. It comes by listening. I didn't know and I didn't want authority. I wanted to go home. I didn't want power or as God calls it anointing. I wanted to go home. But God got my attention and He gave me authority and just happened to mention "You just overcame Sickness and Disease. Spiritually. Which in Heaven is like gold in the bank. Turns out no man has ever done that and there were rewards for overcoming them. Then came Pain and Suffering. More rewards. Then came assassins and they were by the hundred and they all had reward for their capture. That went into my bank account. Then came a secret assassin. God hid who it was for several months and I didn't think a thing about it because I was coming to be in the presence of God and I was having the time of my life. Turned out the secret assassin was Satan in disguise. Guess what. There was a super huge reward for overcoming him. I gained nearly 1,000 estates. That is like having the entire realm of heaven to myself. Each estate was an home that was meant for each of you. All you had to do was learn to listen and quit trying to fight.

 And on and on and on it went. I didn't just overcome Satan. God had me fight Lucifer. I gained authority over him and guess what. There were 10,000 estates that were given to me as a reward for him. And so on I fought and I gave up counting because God started to think "If this guy doesn't stop being my friend I'm going to go broke. But He didn't because He was having so much fun. That is until the night Sin himself came to our family and destroyed me in one night. Sin. The one you think you fight. It came and took me and threw me out of my family who were born again, Spirit filled Christians. It tore them apart. It tore our carefully built life apart. It stole me and put me on the street. I became a vagabond living out of motel and hotel rooms. I went into Sin so deep I became a curse to everyone I touched.

And during this battle I learned a valuable lesson. God never forsook me. He was with me but in a special way. Through the Holy Spirit. I was a special case and so the Holy Spirit had to build me a home from scratch. And He brought me there through a door I peered into. It was called E for Eden. Eden wasn't just the home of Adam and Eve. It became the home for me and my family and all the people of earth.

And it was the home built for you because of one reason. Not me. I was just the instigator of this. It was Sin. Now Sin planned to destroy you here and it was here he planned to destroy what we had built. It was here he tried to convince people to stop praying especially about something called the Return of Jesus.

It was here that God showed me me were demolishing the heritage of our Faith. Not just in God but in the very belief of the Rapture of Jesus Christ. We were throwing out the things called the Horse of Champions. We were throwing out the dream of hope. We were throwing away everything we had learned from our fathers on overcoming. Many of the old timers called it Sanctification but we threw that away and we called it war with sin. We fell into sin and we fell into it so deep that I didn't care about what I had gained with God. I only cared that you were sleeping and I couldn't wake you up.

I fell into rage and I prayed without ceasing even when Sin had me by the throat. I didn't give up even when he cast me down physically. I didn't give up even when Sin hit me so hard God said He felt it in His home. It was there where God was fighting with me in prayer.

Fighting on the side of God is cool in one sense and hell in the other. Well, it does make sense. Most people assume they know what war is. I have an appreciation for real war such as what soldiers in World War II went through. Even the soldiers in Iraq grinding away day by day know what it is yet this wasn't just hours of fighting and then a week or two before the next big battle. This was constant hitting and the kind of war which someone like the CIA might use on their enemy. But multiply it so it affects your body, your mind, your soul and everything you own. It affects your thoughts and your desires and your hopes and your dreams and it hits you physically. Whether that makes sense to you or not. And I don't speak of pain I was going through because Sin wasn't caring. He just hit and hit and stole my dreams physically so that I could not remember them.

 And then he went out and made my family sick and my friends walk away or not hear me and people just looked at me with blank eyes when I said I was fighting Sin. The real Sin.

It was a battle and it didn't end after more than 3 years. It continues as I speak because as God put it "You are the only man who understands it." Now that might make you angry and that might make you want to fight. Well, I don't want to fight you. And I never went out to get this power or anointing or authority. I had but one goal and that was to find out why I could not hear God speak. And to survive or to die. I knew I was a Christian I just didn't know what was going to happen. I didn't know if an angel would come through my door or God Himself. I just clung to life while LIFE spoke words of HOPE and God Himself said "Now, you have Faith." And I didn't know what Faith was until God explained how simple it really was. If I tell you you'll bring up scripture or argue with me but here is a freebie. Its yours if you can learn the secret I did.

Hope. A dream. A desire. A longing. That is how faith starts. That is how faith begins. But your faith doesn't matter a hill of beans. It won't work for you because if you claim you have faith then you have nothing. If you claim you have faith to move a mountain you could not move a pebble. If you claim you have the faith of Christ you have a lie. You don't have the faith of Christ because Christ was God. He saw faith of the centurion but it wasn't faith like he had. It was faith of men. And it was based on the faith of God. But the centurion didn't have God and he needed God in order to have faith. For the true secret of faith? It is simple. It is this...

 Well, you really think I would tell you twice? If you missed it the first time then you were not listening.

Now to be honest I could be mean like that but you can't learn faith from me. You can't learn it from the preacher or teacher of faith. It doesn't matter if they spin a yarn of gold a mile long. It won't give you faith. Faith isn't yours it belongs to God. It is His to begin with and His to end with. I really do have faith but listen; it is God who holds it and I who use it. It is not my faith and that is part of the history of God. Men said "It is faith and it is mine. It is not. It is mine to use but like heaven or earth it really belongs to God. And He is the one who owns it. Like the Estates which I have. I haven't seen them and they are a gift but like all gifts they belong to God. Why? Because He knows we cannot hold onto things without bending or breaking. That is one reason Sin came and tried to make a wish saying "I want it to be real" and he was speaking of faith. Faith isn't meant to be for us to own. It is meant for us to see and to use as a gift. But this case of faith is so special that men have manhandled it into a lie. They have taken it and called it their property. It isn't theirs and it never will be theirs. And if you are out there provoking people to anguish with your tale of riches and your tale of faith and you claim it is your faith you had better be in the Ark of Safety through the blood of Jesus Christ because you are submitting to a lie. And that lie will hang a millstone around your neck. That is Sin you are heeding because THAT Brothers and Sisters is the major reason why people think they fight sin. Little sin. Not Sin which I fight. And I say that by permission. Because I really do fight it because I was given Faith, given authority and given anointing and given one thing you don't have. Life. Now that might sound mean but let me explain.

Life is what the return of Jesus Christ was all about. He came that you might have life and have it more abundantly. It is the power of God unto Salvation. It is the power which you need. Why? Because it is a battle that with God I am winning. The problem is there are few people on earth who care any more because they don't know what true life is. They have heard every preacher and every liar give similar messages and people are just tired. They don't want sympathy they want results. They want to see action and I don't blame you. I am tired of waiting but I have learned one valuable lesson. It is that God is tired as well.

Now I am going to tell you a vast secret but it is tenderness which you need. There is a chance that this might turn out all right after all even if you ignore this article I write. I am writing it as a hope that you might see and pass it to someone you know. To someone you care about. To someone who maybe wants to know there is a God who cares. Because not everyone was lucky enough to have the terrible but wondrous opportunity I did.

 Many of us were raised on teaching that was a lie but that isn't Gods plan. It wasn't His desire that we focus so much on faith. He wanted us to focus on love. For that is the greatest of commands. The problem is sin was the most evil spirit that ever, and I mean ever existed. And it will not submit to anyone and that means you.

You could pray until you are blue and without God you could not fight sin let alone Sin. For me God had to do it on the way to success. I didn't achieve it in one night. I had to pray without ceasing and that meant one thing. Praying at least one hour every day. I do more but that is beside the point. I told God I'd rather fight now and then rest. So I have fought up to 100 plus hours without sleep but in continuous contact with God. I don't recommend it but its true. It was that final hours which gave Sin a freedom to fight me because the Spirit was willing but the flesh was weak. If I had been able to sleep I might have been able to overcome and not one of you would be the wiser. God would have come and beat the tar out of Sin. But God thinks Sin is built up of something he stole at the very beginning. That is the creation you and I are part of. Call it part of the first estate. Because God made the universe and it was the very first thing He ever made. And He wanted you who are men and women to help share in it. That is the desire of my heart. I don't blame people for what they teach. I believed a lot of things that were wrong and it was only God who helped set me straight.

Its just that some of us are so arrogant about our belief we have made laws and condemned others and even cursed them with our belief. It is a wrong and God has to set it straight. It can't go on that we have people of one faith with so many thousands and thousands of teachings that are off base. Everyone of you is believing they are 100% right but you are not. I don't know everything and God has been teaching me faster then I can think. He is giving me knowledge that is of history. Yet I speak that with care because that too might become a teaching and I don't want it to. My knowledge comes because of a scripture similar to the one that gave Solomon Wisdom.

Proverbs 2:6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.

The above scripture was one that God put in me. He put it in me deep for many reasons. One was because I was granted so many estates that I needed to know who lived there. I have knowledge of people who lived and who live. I have knowledge of things that I cannot even conceive. Yet God wrote them and I can write things that are so cool I just gasp in awe. Sometimes I weep. And it is things I did not ask for or even seek. It was given to me as a gift from the one you and I call God. He gave me a gift called understanding and the only catch is this; I fight Sin over it. He steals it from me but I strive in Faith to overcome. And that is the God I serve.

Now I write this article for many, many reasons. I am writing a very short book on the Rapture. It is meant to encourage but it is not going to be long for one reason. God is coming.

 Now I can't give you the day or the hours but I can give you hints. I can tell you I am part of the Rapture. I am one that is meant to help scout the land for the return of Gods people. God gave us hints of this when He took His people into the desert. They went into the desert and they refused to go into the Promised Land. That is those of you who say "Please Lord, don't come back yet. We have loved ones not yet in the fold." That is a dangerous statement because it is exactly like the Israelites of old. They refused to go into the Promised Land when they had the chance and if you pray that or say that repent of it.

Now it isn't that you are totally off base. You are trying to find people who are lost. But let me put this into perspective. God isn't going away. He is coming back. Now here is the confusion of the church. If God spent 2,000 years trying to return then why come for one minute and leave? You would answer because He is taking us to Heaven. I would answer "No, he is coming back to the Promised Land."

Then you would say "But he is coming to take us to Heaven. And that is  that."

So let me put this into a way I can without negating that. "If Jesus goes out to find the lost sheep where are the 99 left?" Lets suppose that God is coming back, and scripture in 1 Thessalonians 4

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

Lets study the above and you will see it is King James. Most of us prefer it. It is the best version made and it is the only version I prefer when I am writing.

Jesus died and rose again. We know that. No one of faith disputes it. But the next part of the verse is a mystery which the Church doesn't seem to speak of. At least in no sermon I heard. Even so them all which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

Now it doesn't speak of Christ or the Holy Spirit. It speaks of God and it says God will bring with him. Now if God brings those who sleep in Jesus. This can only mean the follow up verses

16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

 For who is the Lord that it speaks of? Most of us believe it is Jesus. But what if it is God? What if God is bringing those who sleep in Jesus? Now what if those who sleep in Jesus are the ones who cry out day and night from beneath the throne to avenge their blood? After all it is part of scripture. And it would indicate that we have failed to see that not only would Jesus come but God would be the one leading the charge. After all Jesus was told it wasn't up to him as to the day or the hour but up to God.

 So let us say that we are part of the whole story of what is coming. That God has been wanting to return to Earth and we have assumed it was Jesus. The fact is God is coming back to earth and we have prayed "Hold off the Rapture" while God fights day and night to return to Earth.

 So do you see why I am writing this? Why I want you to awake? Why I'm trying to get people to see? Why I'm writing every single day whether I feel up to it or not? Why I am asking God for wisdom, knowledge and understanding so that I could get through to someone. Anyone who will heed these thoughts.

 So let me say that I hinted there would be a rapture and it would come quickly. Its coming. I know it. I don't know the day or the hour but I know it will probably be in such a way that everything in and on Earth will change. We will change and our dream will change. For we will be free and we will be healed and we will be part of the catching up to be with the Lord.

So I'll say this. If you are of faith then listen. I do not belittle preachers or those who are men of faith. They are sincere. And they love God. I only say these things because we will mourn. We will cry. We will say "Why didn't we listen? Why didn't we pay attention?" And if I could say "I knew it" then let it be in these words. That as a man who has been in communion with God He has said that of my family there is no one like them. Of my brother He said He has never seen such a depth of love. And of my father He has said "There is a man I will honor. Not just in public but before the entire earth."

 And of those who are of this story and have fought with all your heart don't despair. God isn't giving up. Sin really is about to. And Sin really is all of you. For God had me fight it until I was going insane. And I fought you who were part of sin. I kept asking God to forgive me because I felt so filthy. I said I am the least man to say anything against anyone. And God knows my heart. So I have said "let those who have estates have them. Let those who fought be honored. Let some of my reward be given to those who have little or even nothing if they are poor." And so God will bless you even if you are of the worst of people. He will bless you but be warned. There is a God who is righteous and I have said "Not my will but thine be done." And if the son returns to Earth and if Earth rejects him then God has said this "I will turn them over to Satan. And I will turn them back to Sin. And I will give them that which they want. Nothing of me." So please pay attention. I am granted knowledge and I say I have God as a friend. But I will not stand in His way as Moses did for Israel nor Abraham did for the people of Sodom. I will say that for one reason. That is why Sin rose up again and again and again. God was willing to destroy all things and all people and start totally from scratch. He has that ability and He will if you who are people of earth refuse the coming of God.

 For if you think He is God and you know it and you say "God, hold off because we don't want you. We don't want to know we were wrong. Then beware. For out of the mouth of lambs shall precede a wolf. And out of the wolf shall come a flock. And from the flock shall drive for a limo and that limo will carry you to the very gate of heaven. And there you will see all that God had in store for you who call yourself Christian. And then God will cry out "Thief, Thief. And you who call yourself wise and you who say you have knowledge and you who cry out day and night for God to return will find yourself in the hole where the angels fear to tread. For you would be sin and you would be of sin and you would be of the work of sin. For if you who are of God cry out that God is not in this message then I will hear from heaven and from Heaven. Because a bird will whisper it in my ear and I will answer you "That I am God."

 So think people before you condemn me. I am part of the message for the final day. I am part of the warning for the people of earth. I am one of those granted authority and anointing for the end time. Think before you condemn. Think because God Himself shall descend with the shout and the Trump of God and those of us who alive and remain shall soon be caught up to be with Him.