Left to himself in the dungeon

July 29, 2007

Joel Akin

 Where in the world is the dungeon? It might be in a dream. I was fighting against rats in one dream when I finally broke through in the next. Ahead of me was a big dragon. It was chained but then again so was the dragon in Shrek. Now there were two princesses ready with suitcases only one of them kept saying "I have more to do." And so finally the bridge started closing and both rushed to escape but by then it was too late.

Now if this is a real story then God has a moral and it is that I am not budging from my location. I am, in a real sense, stuck in the dungeon of the castle. Upstairs are the King and Queen, aka my parents. Downstairs is the war with evil as I fight in prayer for those who are stuck like me in pain and suffering. Of course like them I am waiting for rescue. And like them I am asking God "When is rescue coming?"

So when I finally break through it turns out the door was there it just was built with a timer. And it opened once a day. Only the day was once because the dawn of the morning wasn't quite there. Yet the day was. And so I wait to escape.

Now if that doesn't ring any bells then one of the women was Belle and the other was Rose. She was the maintainer of Belle. And Belle represents the wise woman who was trapped behind enemy lines when she refused to listen.

Now if I am sent to rescue a princess or a pea I had better have a princess to rescue. So here is how it works; the princess is Belle and she is the one who carries the peal. Now the peal is a mind device used to help those who need rescue. It was used as an ancient device by an ancient people. If someone came to help they sprang a trap. It was like the Pied Piper and rats scattered but after awhile they used the door opening to set up a trap. And so the guy that went to the rescue was given the heave and the ho. And one was Bell as a twist and that was the dragon and the other was the ho and that was meant to represent ho as in ho the rose. Only in those days ho meant "Take the maiden and leave the real princess." After all if you were to take a princess and rescue them they, the princess, always had a device called ho. And that meant other things to some but in this story we'll say it meant to cultivate a friendship with the rose. And so I did by working in a rose garden where I was always cultivating the rose and hoeing the weed.

Now this story is meant to signify that the rose is a wild woman and the princess is the true cultivar. Only when the story was finished in my dream neither woman wanted to leave without everything they had collected.

Now I didn't have a way of wedging the door and so I said "God, give me time." So I went there and saw they had treasure but the problem was it was old. It wasn't new and much of it had fallen to dust. And that is because Rose and Belle had been held captive so long the dragon got tired of life and tried to kill themselves. And the people attacking the castle drove by and set it up for movies and pictures and said "That place is spooky". And so the woman put the dragon in chains, put their luggage near the door and said 'Lets wait."

Of course when you are sitting next to a chained dragon who wants to kill themselves after awhile you talk. And despite their talking the dragon got interested and then bored. So bored he begged them to kill him. And that was when the women tried. Of course by then they were like the dragon wondering if the door would ever open.

So. Here I was part of a story in this dream and suddenly the door opens and like a good knight I rush in. And the girls see me and the dragon sees me and everyone is thinking "Now what do I do?" I tell them "The door is on a timer" and so they say "We'll only take a few things." And somehow things have survived and they rush around grabbing everything even while I'm warning them "The door is about to close." And they like last minute party goers keep grabbing things and saying "Just a minute more."

And voila, the door begins to close. I don't wait for the women. I learned early on in life if the clock ticks away that person isn't paying your way. And princess or no princess I will not wait half a year or a thousand to stand there with a dragon and a woman knowing that hey, its going to open again some day. That is unless of course there is no choice in the matter.

Now it might seem strange that I would ignore a princess and the pea but lets be honest, "I don't like dragons." I never did and was never fond and maybe it shows up in my dreams. After all we have this flambaked idea that dragons are nice. This one seemed okay but it was chained to the gills and the girls seemed friendly enough with it. But I was on a schedule and it was called "Going home" and it was a real schedule I keep each night while I sleep. Dream or no dream I wake up and return to my real life.

So anyway I had tried to rescue the princess and the rose and somehow I had failed. I had gone out of my way to save them and it seemed the things were more important then rescue. Only what if the story were not what it seemed? What if the things they had, their clothing mostly, were important to them and it was so important they prayed "God, let someone come to help us? Now the problem is I was by the door. I knew it wouldn't allow me to rush to them but it would allow them to pick up and run. And that literally was all the time they had. Only they didn't make it.

I've thought about it and I've prayed about it and I've come to realize it is the story of the rapture. We have things which drag us down. Things which we are willing to part with but in the moment of deliverance we can't figure out what exactly it is we can and cannot live without.

The will is part of it. We will and we need and we want. Yet if the will of God is to free us and we can't be freed then it is the will. Now if the will is part of the desire of our heart then the will must be united. And if the will is divided then the will is either broke or it is forgetting. And if we forget then it is the will of God to heal the will. If the will of God is to heal us then we have to bear the will which is broken.

So in this sense the will is destroyed for lack of knowledge. In this case the women were not forgetting to escape they just didn't know if they would. And so God will help the church and Israel, as the two princesses represent. They are Belle and Rose and in a way they are Sleeping and Beauty. Israel is more awake and thus represents the rise of life and rose the beauty above the thorn. And that is the crown. So God then gives us life to speak to either or. If the either doesn't listen perhaps the or will. So if Rose is of Christ then that could be Israel or it could be the church. And the church then becomes the source of the rose. If the church is Israel and we are bonded into the church by graft then we are those who must put aside corruption.

So in the sense of Israel we become the heart and the heart is the bear or the dragon. The dragon is kept in bondage and like the wicked life of the heart the dragon had to be bound. So when we get to Heaven the day of God will be to give us a heart meant for a man. And that is a heart grafted into the life of the flower. And so in this would be the sweetness of life.

The day of God is meant to free and so if we are to be free of pain then the heart must be bound up with glory to glory and death must be swallowed up in victory. And the day of Belle would be the day when Jesus marries the flower of the rose. He bore the crown and the thorn and so he would need a friend to bear the crown for a time. And so if I bear a crown it is a crown for love. If he bears it then he repeats and that is the Ibid or ib of things that repeat. And if we can find it we'll show it is found in life. The ib of life would be part of the rib and the rib came to signify that which repeats. God saw man had many ribs so figured one would be the day of Christ. He had to bear the repeat and that was why He became the second Adam. If he became a second Adam there had to be an Eve for him. And so the Eve he bore wouldn't be of Even which would be the Eve with the end of Eden or the Ede N. It would be of Dawn and Dawn would be the start of a new day for the Son or Sun depending on how you wish to repeat it.

So God knows the Dawn of a new day would be an appropriate wife for Christ. And the Dawn would be a representative of the church and that would be Israel. For in the word Israel we find the clue to the Dawn. Is Ra El? Ra was meant to stand in place and it was meant to be the sun. So when Ra stood still the people of Isra would stand. And if the people of Israel would stand with the sun why wouldn't they stand for the Son of  God?

So when God speaks to them of To Ra or Tora they would shout glory to God in the highest. And if they shouted it Torah they would shout it with glory to men. So if the Tora is of God and Immanuel is of God then so is Emmanuel. And Em is the beginning of men in the way of life. And God sits down with men and puts things into perspective. And so men give man the glory because if God comes down and sits with Moses and Elijah they had better explain why they chose Christ over man. For Christ gave them life and men of his time said "I will give men the glory."

Man received his share of the glory. They did it with Paul and they did it in life with others such as Peter. For Peter fought with the law of his father more then once. He fought again and again until finally he said "Enough" and just spoke it. Of course by then it was like water on wine. And wine really was the gift of men like Sin who said "I will carry it to evil." And that is because wine and beer were two of the few drinks men had which had evil bacteria in them. And so if leaven is evil we must have something called unleavened bread once in a while to remind us that God is still God of all things.

So here is the truth of this; give glory to God. God will bring out the men. He will take them and shout "Here is truth" and he will tell them to help. They will take it up to God in prayer and God will answer them not with fire or aish of fire but with life. For the men who listen are watching each day with wonder for they see a man grow. And they hear it with wonder for they are men of this world. And they see a day approaching when a man might become scriptural. And if that happens they wonder if men of this age will ever know. For we who were of the age of reason, and that is our age, never saw the age of men pass us by. We became vile in our nature and we strewed our path with vile natured life. And so the world we live in is still danger sign upon danger sign. It will take us while and wile to overcome with words. Until then give time to prayer. God will deliver in His way.