Finnish autumn landscape.
My intention was to focus today on the meaning of the seasons from the point of view of a believer in Adonai Yeshua, and I will focus on that at first, but I got another topic related to the end times to my heart after listening to a Bible lesson on Patmos radio today.
What do the different seasons remind us of?
With the arrival of autumn and after the harvest, the days start to cool down and it starts to get cold at night. When a suitable north wind blows, tens of thousands of cranes, geese and other migratory birds take a long flight to warm southern countries. Some of them spend the winter as far as South Africa, several thousand kilometers away from Finland.
Especially then I also get homesick, because my real and eternal homeland is not here, but in the glory of heaven with my beloved Savior and my heavenly Father. The earth is from the point of view of science and according to the revelation of the Bible, only a temporary place of residence for us living beings, trees and plants.
The seasons speak their own quiet and clear language and remind us that we should not attach our hearts to this corrupt and perishable world, which will be destroyed by fire because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
We must always direct our thoughts and attention upward, toward our eternal Kingdom and its King, Yeshua HaMashiach. Let it be our living hope, which inspire us daily to be diligent in spreading the Good News of Salvation to whole humanity!
The biblical end time has already begun!
The gathering of Israel to the land of their fathers ushered in the biblical end times. According to Bible prophecies, Israel will be exposed to the wrath of all the Gentile nations. Signs of that are already visible. The Muslim nations will join forces with all the other pagan nations and attack Israel and Jerusalem!
Numerous signs of the times tell us that the moment of departure for those of us who put our hope in Adonai Yeshua is also approaching! It is not for nothing that the Bible has told several times at what time our Savior will arrive in the clouds of heaven to collect his chosen ones and then only the faithful and pure in heart will be taken up into the clouds to meet him.
The rest of the people will be left here for a terrible age of judgments, plagues, wars and persecutions! Then the number of martyrs will be fulfilled. But even in that time, YHWH Elohim will protect his chosen people Israel. He will defend his people like the apple of his eye and destroy all the armies that attack Israel and Jerusalem!
Three supernatural events
A) I heard one of them today, October 19, 2023, at Patmos radio's Bible lesson. I'll tell it from memory:
- The preacher, named Korhonen, told (around the 1980s) that he had heard that a pastor in Sweden had been driving car home with his wife. Along the way, some hippy-looking young man with long hair hitchhiked to get a ride. The pastor took the man into car.
- After driving for a while, he heard a man from the backseat say: "Get ready, because the return of Jesus is very close!" The pastor was startled and looked in the mirror while driving to see the man, but the man was gone like ashes in the wind!
- The pastor and his wife drove to the gas station shocked and told the operator what had happened. The man at the gas station said: "It's a really strange case! You are already the seventh motorist who has reported a similar miracle in the last few days!"
B) I heard another similar miracle from my father in 1975:
- At that time, my father worked as a branch manager for Osuuspankki (a bank in Finland) in a small church village, Siuntio, located in southern Finland. He had several rich Finnos-Swedes as clients. One summer afternoon, a couple my father knew and respected well were clearly lingering, waiting for other customers to leave the bank.
- After finally staying only with my father, after the bank's opening hours ended, the man's wife politely asked my father if she could tell my father about the remarkable event? Of course, my father agreed and heard the following:
- Last week, my husband and I were driving to Kirkkonummi (a large church village next to Siuntio) to our villa late at night. At one of the forest trails, a woman dressed in all black hitched a ride to get on. We took her in the car. She was a petite and graceful woman dressed in an ankle-length skirt with a black scarf on her head.
- After we had driven some distance, the woman asked: "Do you believe in God?" We replied that we don't think so. Then the woman asked, "Do you believe in the Son of God, Jesus?" We replied that we don't think so. The woman said next: "Get ready, for the return of Jesus is near!" Finally, the woman asked, "Let me out of the car at the next stop, please." When they got to the stop, they discovered that the woman had disappeared from the car without a trace!
- The man and his wife panicked! They drove to the nearest gas station and asked the attendant to check if anyone was in their car. The attendant was surprised and checked the car and found no one. They told him what had happened.
- My father was no longer a believer at that time. He had been a Christian even when my mother had given birth to us three boys, but after my mother divorced him because of my father's drunkenness, my father had gradually abandoned the faith. That strange incident was a reminder to him too that departure for eternity may be near!
- That's why he asked me when the Christians belonging to his denomination would have meetings in the neighboring municipality of Lohja (a town near Siuntio). I found out and told him the meeting place and meeting times. As far as I remember, he forgot about it over time. He said then that he had read about the following, similar miracle in the local newspaper:
C) A local paper called Länsi-Uusimaa, which was and still is a local and completely secular news paper, published the following article at the same time, in the summer of 1975:
An inexplicable incident happened in the middle of a bright summer day!
- A bus of Lohja Liikenne Oy was on its way from Siuntio to Kirkkonummi. Along the way, a graceful and petite woman dressed in black step in the bus from the stop. She was dressed in an ankle-length black skirt and had a black scarf on her head. She paid for a ticket. Then she sat down next to a passenger and asked the same questions (as in point B above) The passenger said he didn't believe it. She said to him, "Get ready, for Jesus' return is near!"
- The woman sat also down next to several other passengers and asked the same questions (as in point B above), getting the same answers from everyone that they don't believe. Finally, she said to each of them in a clear voice that the others could hear: "Get ready, for Jesus' return is near!"
- Then the woman pressed the stop button. The bus stopped and the driver waited a moment for someone to get out of the bus. Finally, he asked the passengers, "Isn't anyone getting out of the bus?" The passengers shouted, "That woman dressed in black suddenly disappeared from the bus corridor like a fog without a trace!"
What can we learn from those cases?
At least the fact that our Savior's return to pick up his chosen ones in the upper air is now much closer than in 1975 and that is why we should be vigilant at all times!
The mentioned people were almost all completely devoid of faith and many of them have already passed on to eternity, like my father and his two bank customers. They are now fully aware that they were not guided to know their Creator in vain!
We learn also that our Heavenly Father loves us all very much and calls many of us through his angels in human form to seek communion with him, turn from all sinful ways and follow his Son, HaMashiach Yeshua, in teaching and righteous deeds!
We learned that all of us people are being watched from above and are trying to guide us on the narrow path of life, through faith in HaMashiach Yeshua.
Let us rejoice in Adonai Yeshua and be thankful!
Songs suitable for the topic
Gadol Adonai
I Will Wait
Because He Lives
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