Reflections on shabat, November 21, 2025

 

Let us review those verses as an introduction:

"Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He that walkes in a perfect way, he shall serve me."  Ps. 101:6

"Seek you Yehowah while he may be found, call you upon him while he is near." Isaiah 55:6

"I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."  (Yeshua HaMashiach)  Luke 5:32

"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law."  Gal. 5:22-23

Which are the best options:

A) Does the sheep choose its shepherd, or does the shepherd choose the sheep?

B) Does man choose his Creator, or does the Creator choose man?

  It is quite clear that in both options the latter is the best option. However, after the fall of our ancestors, our Creator decided to let people choose for themselves whom they will believe, put their hope in, and whom they will serve. Our Creator does not want slaves to come to him, but willing children! We read the verses:

C) From the OT Joshua 24:15
>>"15 If you have no desire to worship the Yehowah, choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship the Yehowah!"<<

D) From the NT John 6:67-69
>>67 So Yeshua said to the twelve, "You don't want to go away too, do you?" 68 Simon Peter answered him, "Adonai, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of Elohim!"<<


Humanity wanders lost

A song says: "The nations go astray, the day is as dark as night. The best way to show the way is the cross and work of Yeshua!" We read the verses Isaiah 53:6-10

>>"6 All of us had wandered off like sheep; each of us had strayed off on his own path, but the Yehowah caused the sin of all of us to attack him. 7 He was treated harshly and afflicted, but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth.

8 He was led away after an unjust trial - but who even cared? Indeed, he was cut off from the land of the living; because of the rebellion of his own people he was wounded. 9 He was given a grave among the wicked, in his death he was with a rich man. Although he had committed no violence and had said nothing deceptive,

10 yet it pleased the Yehowah to crush him with illness, to see if he would present himself as a guilt offering. If he does, he will see his offspring; and he will prolong his day - and at his hand Yehowah's desire will be accomplished."<<


Wise advice for those who are lost

  Therefore, I urge you to read Isaiah 55:6 again and point it out to Yehowah in prayer, saying:

>>Please Yehowah: "I seek you now and call you upon to my help!"<<

Suitable songs

The original Hebrew name of our Adonai is Yeshua HaMashiach HaNotzri

It Is Shabbat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9plIH139rI

The Love of God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfIOLNn-AT0

Make Me A Servant!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJTjpHTMxEg

Reflections on shabat, November 14, 2025

 

  In the Greek Novum and most English translations, verse 9 is rendered somewhat like that in the picture above.
>>But what went ye out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet!<<

  Verse 10 refers to the prophecy of the prophet Malachi: Malachi 3:1
>>Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Adonai, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Yehowah Tzva'ot.<<

  Regarding verse 11: In the Bible, the greatness of a prophet always depends on the kind of mission he was given to carry out. Of all the prophets born of women, the mission given to John the Baptist was the greatest, because he prepared the way for the firstborn Son of the Most High, Adonai Yeshua, who was born in the flesh of a virgin, and John the Baptist baptized him by immersion in water.

  Adonai Yeshua was and is the greatest of the prophets in the Bible, but he is the only one of them who was born of a virgin. Regarding his greatness compared to Moses, Paul wrote the following: Hebrews 3:5-6

>>5 Now Moses was faithful in all Elohim's house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken. 6 But HaMashiach is faithful as a Son over Elohim's house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.<< 


Why did I take up this topic?

  I took up this topic because the fraudulent preacher David Owuor is coming to Finland in December, unless Adonai, based on my prayers and petitions to the government, bans him from entering the country: "Person non grata". He has been prevented from holding meetings here for the past two years, but now the deputy mayor of the city of Vantaa, Riikka Åstrand, has given permission to the Owuor supporters' association to hold its meetings at Havukoski School in Koivukylä, Vantaa, on the weekend on December 12-14, 2025

  I prayed and sent two petitions to the leadership of the city of Vantaa, the president, the prime minister, the minister of education and several others to have that man's arrival and his series of meetings blocked. I know I have done what I can in this matter and I will continue to pray about this matter and I urge all readers to pray with me!

  This is a very strong deception, because David Owuor claims to be the greatest prophet in the Bible and urges those attending his meetings to bring all the sick with them and he claims to heal them all! The reader can already see from this that many young people who do not know the Bible are in danger of being misled and falling prey to this false prophet.

  I assume that he uses mass hypnosis and uses it to bring the listeners under the power of mass suggestion and to imagine that they have been healed. If he really makes wonders so he is very dangerous acc. to verse Matt. 24:24 (see below). Here in Finland, a large proportion of young people already have mental health problems and this is exactly what I appealed to all decision-makers in my appeals to prevent more of them.

  There is now (possibly?) a bill in the Kenyan parliament that, if implemented, would impose a large fine or up to 10 years in prison for those found guilty of fake healing or other scams. One of X's tweets suggests that David Owuor may seek asylum in a Western country (e.g. Finland?). According to some claims, he has two jets with pilots as gifts from South America, legal charges for a large-scale inheritance scam, fake healings miracles and a magnificent palace in Nairobi. It is claimed that he is the second richest preacher in Kenya. See Attachment A.

Miracles of healing happening today?

  I know they do. I have personally experienced a few miracles of healing through the grace of my Savior Adonai Yeshua over the decades. I have also seen many false prophets fraudulently promise healings to gain fame and money!

Adonai Yeshua's End-Time Warning

  When the disciples asked our Savior about the signs of the end times, He warned three times in the same chapter about false prophets and false messiahs! It's about the chapter Matt. 24:4-5, 11, 23-24

>>4 Yeshua answered them, "Watch out that no one misleads you. 5 For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the HaMashiach,' and they will mislead many.<<

>>11 And many false prophets will appear and deceive many,<<

>>23 Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the HaMashiach!' or 'There he is!' do not believe him. 24 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.<<

  This is a serious warning: Let us never participate in such "miracle healing" meetings!


Attachment A: (Picture below) Even though it is a 'parody account', there is some truth to it, as it hints at, for example to false miracles, and as the saying goes: there is no smoke without fire. 
  I justify this at the following my previous study below, and in the Appendix below it. 
https://yakov-2015.blogspot.com/2024/05/david-owuor-false-prophet-and-antichrist.html
  Appendix: https://irr.org/files/files/SUP-6%20False%20Prophet%20Owuor%20Brochure.pdf

Suitable songs

The original Hebrew name of our Adonai is Yeshua HaMashiach HaNotzri

God Will Make a Way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zo3fJYtS-o

False prophets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0WTU79ZHfI

Because He Lives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjJm86-pSpo

Reflections on shabat, November 7, 2025

 

Full text of the image Ezek. 28: 2-17

>>2 "Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, 'This is what the Sovereign Yehowah says:"'Your heart is proud and you said, "I am an Elohim; I sit in the seat of elohims, in the heart of the seas" - yet you are a man and not an elohim, though you think you are elohimlike. 3 Look, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you.

4 By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself; you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries. 5 By your great skill in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart is proud because of your wealth. 6 "'Therefore this is what the Sovereign Yehowah says: Because you think you are elohimlike, 7 I am about to bring foreigners against you, the most terrifying of nations. They will draw their swords against the grandeur made by your wisdom, and they will defile your splendor.

8 They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die violently in the heart of the seas. 9 Will you still say, "I am an Elohim," before the one who kills you - though you are a man and not an elohim - when you are in the power of those who wound you? 10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners; for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Yehowah.'"

11 The word of the Yehowah came to me: 12 "Son of man, sing a lament for the king of Tyre, and say to him, 'This is what the sovereign Yehowah says:"'You were the sealer of perfection, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 You were in Eden, the garden of Elohim. Every precious stone was your covering, the ruby, topaz, and emerald, the chrysolite, onyx, and jasper, the sapphire, turquoise, and beryl; your settings and mounts were made of gold. On the day you were created they were prepared.

14 You was the anointed guardian cherub; you were on the holy mountain of Elohim; you walked about amidst fiery stones; you walked about amidst fiery stones. 15 You were blameless in your behavior from the day you were created, until sin was discovered in you. 16 In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned; so I defiled you and banished you from the mountain of Elohim - the guardian cherub expelled you from the midst of the stones of fire.

17 Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor. I threw you down to the ground; I placed you before kings, that they might see you.<<

  Another passage in the OT also gives the idea that the same fallen cherub, who is called "the morning star, the son of the morning," was proud in his heart and was cast down from heaven to earth. He will eventually be cast into hell. Isaiah 14:12-20
*) According to the Book of Revelation, he has great wrath against the nations because he knows that he has only a short time left (Rev. 12:9-12). Finally, he will be cast into hell. Isaiah 14:12-20

>>12 Look how you have fallen from the sky, O shining one, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O conqueror of the nations! 13 You said to yourself, "I will climb up to the sky. Above the stars of El I will set up my throne. I will rule on the Mount of Assembly far away in the north. 14 I will climb up to the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High!"

15 But you were brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost depths of the pit. 16 Those who see you stare at you, they look at you carefully, thinking: "Is this the man who shook the earth, the one who made kingdoms tremble? 17 Is this the one who made the world like a desert, who ruined its cities, and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?"'

18 As for all the kings of the nations, all of them lie down in splendor, each in his own tomb. 19 But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the pit, as if you were a mangled corpse.

20 You will not be buried with them, because you destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again.<<

*) We also read the verses for our time, Rev. 12:9-12. The verses explain why, for example, in Nigeria, about 3,000...7,000 Christians have been brutally tortured, raped and murdered every year in recent decades, even though, for example, the Finnish mainstream media denies it! Link only in Finnish: https://yle.fi/a/74-20191709

  In addition, the trial in Finland has been ongoing for seven years and is already in the third instance against Christian woman doctor Päivi Räsänen and Bishop Juhana Pohjola for having borrowed and/or published the Bible chapter Romans 1 only in the Christian media years 2004 and 2019! Here we read Rev. 12:9-12

>>9 So that huge Dragon - the ancient Serpent, the one called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world - was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him. 10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying,"The salvation and the power and the kingdom of our Elohim, and the ruling authority of his HaMashiach, have now come, because the Accuser of our brothers and sisters, the one who accuses them day and night before our Elohim, has been thrown down.

11 But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.  

12 Therefore you heavens rejoice, and all who reside in them! But woe to the earth and the sea because the Devil has come down to you! He is filled with terrible anger, for he knows that he only has a little time!"<<


Who guides the leaders of the nations?

  These passages raise the question of whether some powerful spirit of darkness lives in many leaders of nations, carrying out the will of the fallen Lucifer? The correct answer is: Yes! In the history of mankind, we see several truly horribly cruel rulers who really enjoyed and have enjoyed ruling, torturing and murdering large groups of people! Anyone who knows even a little about history understands this.

  Today, we also see the same situation in many nations. The only difference is that the methods and instruments of torture, as well as the weapons of mass destruction, are of a completely different order of magnitude than before!

  We come to the same conclusion when we carefully consider what the apostle Paul’s teaching tells us on the subject in Eph. 6:11-12

>>11 Clothe yourselves with the full armor of Elohim so that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the Devil. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.<<

Warning! Spiritual forces of evil includes aliens, humanoids, etc., who travel on UFOs.


Conclusion about our state of existence on earth

  Against this background, we must always remember that we are completely dependent on the help of Adonai Yeshua, because neither our own wisdom nor our own strength is sufficient in the slightest to fight the rulers of this world or the spirits of evil in the heavenly realms! Let us therefore always be grateful for the following comforting words of our Savior: Mat. 7:7-8

>>7 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.<<

Suitable songs

The original Hebrew name of our Adonai is Yeshua HaMashiach HaNotzri

Bless the Lord O my soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7utzmfkQmJA

The Battle Belongs To The Lord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir-XbtrgcRk

You Are My Hiding Place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc4b-wKj11c

Reflections on shabat, October 31, 2025

The Bible verses in picture above are: 

4 The YHWH said to him, "Go through the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it." 5 While I listened, he said to the others, "Go through the city after him and strike people down; do no let your eye pity nor spare anyone! 6 Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women - wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!" So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple. Ezek. 9:4-6

15 The second beast was empowered to give life to the image of the first beast so that it could speak, and could cause all those who did not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He also caused everyone (small and great, rich and poor, free and slave ) to obtain a mark on their right hand or on their forehead. 17 Thus no one was allowed to buy or sell things unless he bore the mark of the beast - that is, his name or his number. 18 This calls for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the beast's number, for it is man's number, and his number is 666. Rev. 13:15-18

  We notice from the verses how the Devil imitates our Creator in this matter as well, in order to deceive people into obeying and worshiping only him instead of our Creator. Please, look at the following video: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1566629544777538

Now I'll move on to the real topics

A. A Cautionary Example of Breaking the Moral Law

  Yehowah reminded me of this incident very clearly last night in a dream and that is why I am writing this here now.

  In the early 1990s, I participated in the Suomi24 discussion board group Juutalaisuus. From there, a young lady contacted me by email and had a very sad story to tell. She was born in Cairo and because her father was a Finnish-Swedish civil engineer and her mother an Egyptian doctor and at that time in the 1980s there was obviously unrest in Egypt, they moved from there to Finland, to Helsinki.

  The young lady was now (1990) only 16 years old and had become seriously ill in Finland. As a result, she was paralyzed in her lower limbs and had to move around in a wheelchair. I will use the pseudonym Laila for her. She said that she contacted me to get comfort because of the great sadness that had befallen her parents that autumn.

  Her parents had been on a month-long summer vacation in Thailand. At that time, Laila had been under the care of a truly Christian nurse and she had witnessed to her about Jesus. Laila had made a decision of faith and experienced wonderful joy and peace for the first time in her life. When her parents returned to Finland, they had shocking news!

  Laila's mother told her that they had sex reassignment surgery while on vacation in Thailand. So she told Laila: "Now I am your father and your ex-father is now your mother!" Laila was completely shocked and said: "What the hell have you done!" Laila said that she had become a Christian and that Jesus Christ was now her Lord. The news did not appeal to her parents at all.

  Her mother's facial surgery to make her look softer had failed and her mouth had become crooked. Her parents argued constantly and according to Laila, life at home had become a battleground for the spirits. One Saturday morning in late autumn, Laila wondered why her parents had not gotten up as usual to prepare breakfast?

  She got into a wheelchair and used it to go to her parents' bedroom door and knocked on the door. There was no answer. Laila opened the door and a terrible sight awaited her! Her parents' faces were blue and they were holding each other's hands. An empty poison bottle was found on the nightstand, which they had eaten completely.

  She contacted the emergency center, but nothing could be done, and they had been dead for many hours. Therefore, Laila contacted me about a week later, because she believed that I was a true Christian. She asked me if her becoming a Christian had influenced her parents' suicide?

  I told her that she was not at all to blame for it, but that the woke ideology had. My answer satisfied Laila, I blessed her with all my heart and prayed for her strength to continue on the path that leads to eternal life!
_ _ _ 

  Please note: A city mission campaign has begun in Cairo, Egypt this month, with a target of approximately 25 million Muslims in Cairo and its metropolitan area! Pray for it and you can also pray for success and donate funds to this evangelistic campaign, which is still ongoing. Thank you very much! I am sorry, but the link below in only into Finnish page.

https://www.missiomaailma.fi/kairon-kampanja-lokakuussa/


B. An inspiring example of the power of the prayer of faith!

  This supernatural miracle happened to me in the early 1980s. I was living in Helsinki at the time and working in Espoo. I worked at Orion Analytica, a subsidiary of the large pharmaceutical company Orion. We developed new hospital equipment there. The commute was quite difficult, as I first had to walk to the tram stop. From there I continued to the local bus station. Due to the poor schedule, I had to wait almost 30 minutes. From there, the trip to work took about 30 minutes. The total time spent one way was about 1.5 hours.

  That is why I decided to pray for a car for myself. I was inspired to do this after reading a book by the South Korean evangelist Dr. David Yonggi Sho called "Creative Faith" and I implemented the instructions given in it. I don't remember what it was exactly called in English. I proceeded in my prayer as follows:

a) I just told Adonai Yeshua in my mind: "My commute to work is quite difficult and time-consuming, so I need a car."

b) I continued my prayer, telling him, "Sure, I could buy a used car, but even those are expensive, and I don't want to reduce my monthly donations to orphans in developing countries."

c) Then I described exactly what kind of car I wanted: "A small one that is easy to park even in a tight spot. A car that uses little gas and is white, so that it reminds me of how important it is to remember to keep my soul cleansed with the blood of Yeshua. If it is used, then one that does not need to be repaired."

d) I added that I intend to help believers by driving them to meetings and that I will pray only this once, and I will not insist on it any more, I will not tell anyone about my prayer and every time the matter comes to my mind, I will take the position of believing that my prayer will be fulfilled, only thanking Yeshua that the car is coming.

e) Finally I said to him: "After thanking you for this for a month, when the matter comes to my mind, I will stop thanking and believe that your will will be done in this."

  A month and a little over a week passed. I had already forgotten the entire prayer, but then it started to happen! I was given a wonderful passenger car for free, as shown in the attached picture, which exactly matched my prayer! You can read more about how I got the car at the link:
https://seventh-river.blogspot.com/2020/02/chapter-43-since-1979-part-13.html

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  Finally, let me mention that a trusted brother in faith made a study trip with other older brothers of the Salem Church to E-Korea, to that mega-church of Dr. David Jonggi Sho. He was amazed that in the rooms of the church that they got to see, there was a picture on the wall or on the table of a triangular diagram on its side, with the name David Jonggi Sho at the top. The name Jesus Christ was not visible at all! In his opinion, it seemed like a personality cult. I think the same.


Suitable songs

Songs Of Wisdom - His grace will carry you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaqd4-5mhcc

Sanctuary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxB9VH3cCN4

Waiting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5ZZNvnMICE

Reflections on shabat, October 24, 2025

  Let us consider what the Bible says about the omnipotence of our Creator and His ability to help everyone who turns to Him for help and mercy. The verses in the picture, Isaiah 45:5-7, tell us that He is Almighty, and John 3:16, tells us about His love for us and His ability to save all of us who believe in His Son, HaMashiach Yeshua.

The most common question from someone waiting to die

  I listened Thursday to a morning devotional in which the hospital chaplain told us about the question that most often arises from a dying and suffering patient: "Why is there so much evil and suffering in the world and why do I have to suffer terrible pain?"

  The hospital chaplain replied: "I don't know." This is one of the most difficult questions. It cannot be explained by human understanding, but only the Bible provides a reliable answer. If the hospital chaplain had known the Bible well enough, her answer would have been: "I know the answer, because the Bible tells the reasons for that."

  The difficulty is usually that understanding the arguments given by the Bible requires faith in its authority, truthfulness, and reliability. Only a person who truly believes can understand it, because only the Holy Spirit is able to make a person understand the message of the Bible. The Holy Spirit is given only to those who follow Adonai Yeshua. The Bible must be read a lot, often, and one must remain before its message in humble prayer. 

This is why there is evil and suffering in the world

  Evil and the suffering and death that it causes came into the world because of the disobedience of our ancestors, when they, contrary to the clear prohibition and command of our Creator, ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Because they rebelled against their Creator by their actions, their souls and those of their descendants became polluted. Therefore, suffering and death came to all of us. Gen. 2:16-17

>>16 Then the Yehowah Elohim commanded the man, "You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard, 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die."<<

  Before I explain further reasons for this, let me mention that just yesterday I read the book of the prophet Jeremiah. Its chapters 41...44 were in order, because I now read the Bible daily. This is exactly the 50th time since the beginning. I also read the NT Scriptures daily from the beginning. Yesterday, the Letter to the Hebrews chapter 11 verses 30-40 was in order. In them we can find answers to our sufferings also in this time.

Jeremiah pronounced harsh judgments against Israel

  The Jews and the Israelites who had escaped the Babylonian exile wanted to flee to Egypt, despite Jeremiah’s warning from Yehowah. They went there, even though they promised to obey the instructions that Yehowah would give Jeremiah. The instructions did not please them. Therefore, Jeremiah had very harsh words of judgment against them. Jer. 44:13-14

>>13 I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt with war, starvation, and disease just as I punished Jerusalem. 14 None of the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah. Though they long to return and live there, none of them shall return except a few fugitives.'"<<


Current people will be punished too if there is reason

  Every nation and its inhabitants who fulfill the measure of their sins will face severe punishment from the hand of our Creator, as it did to Israel in ancient times. The punishment will gradually become harsher. First, mass unemployment will strike. Then the economy will begin to stagnate, debt will swell, and the nation and its inhabitants will become 'prisoners of debt' to their creditors. Natural disasters are also whips in the hand of our Creator.

  Furthermore, He still uses the armies of nations ruled by tyrants as instruments of His punishment. Wars will break out, famines and epidemics will spread, reaping death. Only genuine repentance and turning to the Creator for mercy can turn a curse into a blessing. Unfortunately, in this era of Pride (pride and sexual debauchery), wicked laws have undermined moral and righteous living, especially in the West!

The shocking message of the Letter to the Hebrews

  Our Creator, through the Apostle Paul, tells us in the Letter to the Hebrews what has really happened in the history of human suffering and what our generation will face if we do not soon turn from our path leading to destruction to Him! Hebr. 11:35-40

>>35 and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life. 36 And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

37 They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated 38 (the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.

39 And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised. 40 For Elohim had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.<<

  That description also applies to today's real refugees who are persecuted because they have turned from paganism and heresies to follow Adonai Yeshua! Western countries - and even more so other countries as muslim- and atheist countries - will eventually be held accountable for how they have treated the persecuted Christian people!


The greatest sins of today's people

  The greatest and most deadly sin of all is still today that people do not believe in Adonai Yeshua and his teachings as written in the correctly translated Bible. All other sins are only a consequence of that! John 16:8-9

>>8 And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong concerning sin and righteousness and judgment - 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;<<

  Other major sins, which can clearly see today, are the same sins as the ancient inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah: 2 Peter 2:4-6

>>4 For Elohim did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to the abyss, to the pits of darkness, and delivered them to be reserved for judgment. 5 And spared not the ancient world, but saved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, but brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly. 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who henceforth live ungodly.<<

Ezekiel prophesies about the Sodomites 16:49-50
>>49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 They were haughty and practiced abominable deeds before me. Therefore when I saw it I removed them.<<

  For example, in Finland's 6th largest city, Turku, there were about 470 homeless poor people in 2024, about 2.3/1000 inhabitants and a total of 204,618 inhabitants. Think about how they will survive the nights if the coming winter brings some nights of frost to -20 C (-4 F), which is not uncommon! As a result of the Finnish right-wing government's social policy that favors the rich, more and more low-income people are being evicted from their homes, even though they work.

The same social policy that oppresses the poor is common in many countries!

  Finally, some verses that tell of the love of our Creator's heart for all of us, His creatures: Ezekiel 18:23 and 1 Tim. 2:1-4

Ezekiel 18:23 >>Do I actually delight in the death of the wicked, declares the Sovereign Yehowah? Do I not prefer that he turn from his wicked conduct and live?<<

1 Tim. 2:1-4 >>1 First of all, then, I urge that requests, prayers, intercessions, and thanks be offered on behalf of all people, 2 even for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

3 Such prayer for all is good and welcomed before Elohim our Savior, 4 since he wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.<< 

Suitable songs

Bo Ruach Elohim (Come Spirit of God)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk2xYOV4rnU

By Faith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXB8ihepUpE

Holy, Holy, Holy | Worthy is the Lamb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHrh8VK2Zxk

Reflections on shabat, October 10, 2025

 

  In the picture, the young man resting in the intensive care unit is as an example of the people of Israel, a large part of whom have been brought from the melting pot of the Gentile nations back to the land of their ancestors, Eretz Israel. There Yehowah Elohim sprinkles upon them the water of cleansing from sins: the Holy Word of the New Covenant, as prophesied by Ezekiel in verses: Ezek. 36:24-27

>>24 "'I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries; then I will bring you to your land. 25 I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations..."<<

Can a Jew be a Christian?

  We read Acts 11:25-26
>>25 Then Barnabas departed for Tarsus to look for Saul, 26 and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the congregation and taught a significant number of people. Now it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.<<

- It is obvious that the majority of members in that congregation were of Jewish origin in addition to Gentile Christians! They were all called Christians.

- This is not a derogatory term, but a reference to the title of our Savior Yeshua HaMashiach, which is translated into Greek Χριστός (Khristós).

  We also read 1 Pet. 4:14
>>If you are insulted for the name of Yeshua, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory, who is the Spirit of Elohim, rests on you.<<

- Adonai Yeshua chose the Apostle Peter to be the Apostle to the Jews and the Gentiles, although Paul later became the most diligent Apostle to the Gentiles.


Many Jews prefer to consider themselves Messianic

  They do not want to use the name Christian because it sounds pagan, even church-like to them. It reminds them of the very hostile attitude and persecution of the churches towards the Jews throughout almost the entire history of Christianity. 

  Many years ago I was reading the Bible alone at home. I read the verses Isaiah 43:21-28. Then suddenly a tremendous power of the Holy Spirit surrounded me and a strong love touched my innermost being. I started to cry, because the Holy Spirit revealed to me that those verses also apply to me and my father's ancestry! So I am of Jewish descent through my ancestors. My ancestors abandoned serving Yehowah Elohim and therefore they and their descendants were expelled as punishment among the pagan nations. I was given the grace to humble myself before Him as a child and receive salvation through faith in HaMashiach Yeshua. I am very grateful for the title of being a Christian and my identity is to be a Christian!

  For Adonai Yeshua called me a Christian on the street, coming out of the Post Office in the 1980s while I was studying in Stockholm, when I complained that I could not withdraw money from my account. I heard with my ears when He said: "But Leif, you are a Christian! A Christian cannot give up so easily, but a Christian must fight! Go back to the Post Office right away and get that money!" I went there right away and sure enough, after two supernatural events, I got the money! HalleluYah!

The feeling of inferiority of pagan Christians

  Many Christians of pagan background feel a deep sense of inferiority before the Jews and wish with all their heart that they had been born into that nation. A believing brother I know even went so far as to order a DNA sample from a 'scientific community' to study his haplogroup for a fee and was 'able to know' that it was obviously the Jewish haplogroup.

  He was not entirely convinced, but he gave his genealogy to a 'research group' studying the genealogies of Judaism and was able to 'know' for money that he is a descendant of King David of Israel in exactly the 100th generation. He is not circumcised in the flesh, and he - like his immediate family - has not in any way observed the regulations of the Mosaic Law.

  Judaism is not defined by haplogroups or questionable genealogies, but by whether a person is a Mosaic believer and committed to following the Jewish faith, customs, festivals, and teachings of the OT prophets, and whether their men are circumcised in the flesh. On the other hand, Adonai Yeshua questioned such a definition of Judaism, saying to the Jews of his time: John 5:45-47

>>45 "Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. 46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me. 47 But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?"<<

Pagan Christians have no reason to feel inferior!

  Christians with pagan backgrounds have no reason to feel inferior to Jews! They have been redeemed at the same high price on the cross of Calvary and by the precious blood of Adonai Yeshua, by the innocent suffering, death and resurrection. Furthermore, both groups of people have become partakers of the same Spirit and have received the same Holy Spirit as their guide and have been created as new spiritual creatures. The old creation that was in us - whether it was Jewish or pagan flesh and blood - has disappeared and a new spiritual creation has come in its place! We believer are children of the same Father! He loves each of us with His infinite love!

  The following verses testify to the high position to which the Gentiles chosen for salvation have been raised together with the Jews chosen for salvation: Eph. 2:14-22

>>13 But now in HaMashiach Yeshua you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of HaMashiach. 14 For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility, 15 when he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. 

  He did this to create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace, 16 and to reconcile them both in one body to Elohim through the cross, by which the hostility has been killed. 17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near, 18 so that through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

  19 So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of Elohim's household, 20 because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with HaMashiach Yeshua himself as the cornerstone.

  21 In him the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Adonai, 22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of Elohim in the Spirit.<<

Suitable songs

We Thank Thee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pXzge4uhVs

Welcome Holy Spirit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=224Y329Iels

From the rising of the sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFBzOZATYTg

Reflections on shabat, October 3, 2025

  

The correct way to graft

When grafting branches onto a noble olive tree, whether they are noble or wild branches, they must be grafted one by one, carefully and at the right time. It must also be ensured that they receive vital fluid from the trunk of the noble olive tree. Otherwise, they will wither and die.

As for the spiritual grafting of the human soul onto the noble olive tree, Yehowah Elohim performs it by the power of the Holy Spirit and His Living Word for those people whom He has already chosen for salvation and eternal life from the foundation of the world.

We, the born-again believers in Adonai Yeshua, may participate as co-workers with Adonai Yeshua and the Holy Spirit in this planting work and, under the guidance of the Spirit, we may also feed those who have come to faith with the pure seed, which is only the Word of Elohim. Only Elohim Himself gives healthy growth to each new graft here in time and Adonai Yeshua will lead us to the springs of the water of life in eternity. Rev. 7:17

>>For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and Elohim shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.<<

What is the spiritual noble olive tree of the NT made up of?

The structure of the noble olive tree:

- Its root is Yehowah Elohim, the giver and sustainer of all life.

- Its trunk is Yeshua HaMashiach, through whom all the branches of the tree live in connection with Yehowah.

- As branches it has the chosen Prophets of the OT together with the chosen Apostles of Adonai Yeshua mentioned in the NT. They were given the task of proclaiming the Good News to all people on Earth.

Where is the noble olive tree located?

It is in the third heaven, in the paradise of Elohim. The Kingdom of Heaven came near to us in Adonai Yeshua HaMashiach. Therefore, that noble tree is now also located everywhere in the world, where the servants of the New Covenant are gathered in His name. The stronger that noble tree is, the more members it has.

However, quantity does not replace quality, because the noble tree can only live where there is obedience to the teachings of the New Covenant and the teachings of the Old Covenant in the parts mentioned in the NT. Therefore, even two or three genuine believers in Yeshua, gathered together, are a stronger and more vibrant congregation than a large, but apostate world-wide church community! Matt. 18:18-20

>>18 "I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven. 19 Again, I tell you the truth, if two of you on earth agree about whatever you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you. 20 For where two or three are assembled in my name, I am there among them."<< ( Acc. to NET ) / That is, in the name of Yeshua HaMashiach!

We must be very careful of the following!

We must not add as branches other - before the birth of our Savior, nor after his death and resurrection - often respected teachers of the Word - whether they were Jews or Gentiles theologians - who have not been accepted into the canonical books of the Bible!

In this case, the genuine lifeblood of the noble olive tree: the Word of Truth, which the Holy Spirit conveys to us, can flow into all its chosen branches grafted into new branches without the poisonous fluids that numerous teachers of heresy spread and who diligently run around the world spreading their heresies and who have exalted themselves as teachers do today. They are often motivated by the lust for power, honor and money.

Among them are also those who have received dreams and or revelations from Satan, who has 'disguised as an angel of light', to proclaim a supposedly renewed the Good News suitable for each era, in which at least some of the original very important teachings are deliberately deviated from. The message is often veiled using Bible verses, but they lack the most essential content, which is Salvation.

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It is very important to remember the following reference by Adonai Yeshua to the permanence of the OT teachings in his Sermon on the Mount. Matt. 5:17-20

>>17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to complete.

18 Yes indeed! I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not so much as a yud or a stroke will pass from the Torah - not until everything that must happen has happened. 

19 So whoever disobeys the least of the least of these mitzvot and teaches others to do so will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But whoever obey them and so teaches will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness is far greater than that of the Torah-teachers and P'rushim, you will certainly not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.<<
( Acc. to CJB, David H. Stern )

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The following teaching of Adonai Yeshua is also very important to remember in this context: Luke 24:44-49

>>44 Yeshua said to them, "This is what I meant when I was still with you and told you that everything written about me in the Torah of Moshe, the Prophets, and in the Psalms had to be fulfilled.". 45 Then he opened their minds, so that they could understand the Tanakh,

46 telling them, "Here is what it says: the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day: 47 and in his name repentance leading to forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to people from all nations, starting with Yerushalayim. 48 You are witnesses of these things. 49 Now I am sending forth upon you what my Father promised*), so stay here in the city until you have been equipped with Power from above." ( Acc. to CJB, David H. Stern )
 *) The Holy Spirit was (and even today is) that promised: the Power from above.

Related songs

I am a New Creation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul04yBONzhs

Across the bridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bcBxT-OYzY

Beautiful home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXiKwi4XJsw