Reflections on Shabat, 26th April 2024

  Very few people understand that they as sinners are making a constant war against their Creator.  That is, against the person who really loves them with the eternal love! Since our Creator is a Majesty and an Almighty ruler, we therefore have no chance whatsoever to defeat him. The faster we wave the peace flag at him, the less scratches we get.


Our Heavenly Father really loves you!

  He himself says through his prophet: Jer. 31:3

>>In a far-off land the Yehowah will manifest himself to them. He will say to them, 'I have loved you with an everlasting love. That is why I have continued to be faithful to you.'<<

  That consolation and appeal was addressed to the Israelites so that they would submit to the will of their Creator in order to experience love, joy and peace, without which our lives have no meaning. Hardly anyone would want to live in a world like this one forever.

  If you were born into a heathen nation, then the Creator of people loves you too with his eternal love, because he is like that in his inner essence, and he does not look at a person's ethnic background, but at the heart. Let's read the verses: Deut. 33:3 and 1 John 4:16

>>Surely he (Elohim) loves the people; all your holy ones are in your power. And they sit at your feet, each receiving your words.<<

>>And we have come to know and to believe the love that Elohim has in us. Elohim is love, and the one who resides in love resides in Elohim, and Elohim resides in him.<<

Why just you are especially beloved?

  Because he created human being in his own image and wants you to come to him from here in the midst of pains and anxieties. He is like an artist who painted a uniquely beautiful picture, but his hater completely marred it. Even though the painting was ruined, the artist decided to fix everything that was damaged in it.

  Even before Adam and Eve fell into sin, he drew up a plan for the salvation for his 'paintings', i.e. human race, and has implemented it step by step over the millennia. Let's read the verses from Eph. 1:4-5

>>4 For he chose us in HaMashiach before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love. 5 He did this by predestining us to adoption as his childrens through Yeshua HaMashiach, according to the pleasure of his will - <<
- You are one of us if you acknowledge him as your Savior and allow him change you.

  Just this week we celebrated the original Passover (Pesach), prescribed for the people of Israel. It started on the 14th of the month of Nisan at dusk and was between April 21-22. It prophetically includes the transition to the New Covenant, through the work of redemption performed by our Savior HaMashiach Yeshua, that is, into the New Covenant established by him.

  Therefore, its celebration - in a spiritual level - belongs to all believers of the New Covenant, who are the Royal priesthood - the King's cohanim. And it is celebrated in memory of Adonai Yeshua. In accordance with the Law of Moses, immediately following Passover (Pesah) day, the Israelites celebrate the 7-day Feast of Unleavened Bread to commemorate the liberation from slavery in Egypt. Anyone who wants to celebrate it at the prompting of their heart also externally is doing the very right thing! It is extremely good and suitable for them!

  I personally make nowadays a clear distinction between Pesach of the Old Covenant and Pesach of the New Covenant. That's why - outwardly looking at it - I don't celebrate the Christian Easter nor the Jewish Pesach. You see, I celebrate the Holy Communion every week of the year. I act this way because I trust 100% in the work of redemption that was also done on Calvary for me, to which no human being can add anything. Through it I have already been made perfect forever with one single blood sacrifice of Adonai Yeshua! Hebr. 10:14

>>For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.<< 

- The one who did all that was YHWH Elohim himself, who lived in his Son through the Holy Spirit, until the world's sin debt was placed on the Son's shoulders and then the Son died for us, redeeming us from the power of sin, death and hell. 2 Cor. 5:18-19

>>18 And all these things are from Elohim who reconciled us to himself through HaMashiach, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation. 19 In other words, in HaMashiach Elohim was reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and he has given us the message of reconciliation.<<

What makes just you especially lovable?

  The fact that before you and after you there will be no one in the universe completely like you. You are an incomparably valuable treasure in the eyes of your Creator, whom he seeks as his eternal friend in the glory of heaven! Adonai Yeshua told the following parable about this: Matt. 13:45-46

>>45 "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. 46 When he found a pearl of great value, he went out and sold everything he had and bought it."<< The merchant is your Creator and the pearl is you, if you honor him.

  In addition, the fact that you are especially lovable is that your greatest need is to have all your sins forgiven, to be created as a new spiritual creation, so that the magnificent picture that has been corrupted in you will be repainted into a masterpiece and you will be taken into an eternal love relationship, into the communion of your Creator. No one will ever regret it!

  If you have ever loved a person who may not have been worthy of your love, then I assure you that you are loved by your Creator and only he knows you inside and out! He wants you and accept you as you are now and begin to mold you into something nobler than you are now. Finally he make you worthy of heaven. You will be made fit and sanctified as a chosen race, and as a member of the Royal priesthood (the King's cohanim). Agree to it, because through it you too will learn to love him as he is, and you will get the necessary spiritual senses for that. Have mercy on your soul!

Songs suitable for the topic

Lead Me to Calvary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmSKOR5y764

Sing to the Lord All the Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFjIcf3utnM

The Steadfast Love of the Lord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECWzv7DS7Es

Reflections on Shabat, 19th April 2024

 

  Our current world is still very beautiful in many places, even though our Creator cursed it as a result of the fall of our ancestors. Humans have destroyed and polluted the Earth's soil, seas, waterways and atmosphere at an accelerating rate.

  It is true that YHWH Elohim said in ancient times to the people of Israel: >>But if you make me an altar of stone, do not build it of hewn stone; for if you touch the stone with your chisel, you will defile it.<< Exodus 20:25

  People pollute and damage nature more than they preserve and protect it, even though it is their task to cultivate and protect it.

The paradise of Eden is a very beautiful place!

  We get a faint glimpse of it when we look at today's few, still unspoiled, naturally beautiful places in the world. It was an abode of love, joy, and peace, where there was no fear, disease, famine, thirst, violence, poverty, loneliness, or any other of the miseries that today's world is full of.


New Jerusalem is even better than paradise!

  It was already created for humans before the foundation of the world, but it can only be inherited by those of us who our Creator finds worthy of it after many trials and tests. I refer to this in the verses in the attached picture in 2 Peter 3:10-12. It is unfortunate that nowadays one hears such a message of salvation being preached that as long as one only believes in Adonai, even if one does not obey Him, one will surely be saved!

  However, our Savior Yeshua HaMashiach taught otherwise: Matt. 7:21 >>Not everyone who says to me then, 'Adonai, Adonai!', will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my heavenly Father.<<

What is the will of our Heavenly Father?

  That mention of Adonai Yeshua begs the question, "What is the will of his heavenly Father?" We find a condensed and rich answer in Adonai Yeshua's answer to the Israelite who asked, "Teacher, what is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Matt. 22:36

   Adonai Yeshua answered him: Matt. 22:37-40. >>37 So Yeshua said to him: "'Love Yehowah your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind'. 38 This is the greatest and first commandment. 39 The second, similar to this, is: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.<<

  Many Christians today argue against it, saying that they are not called to keep the Law of Moses. They are not called to follow the entire Law of Moses, except in those parts that Adonai Yeshua referred to above in the verses: Matt. 22:37-40.

  Since we are members of the New Covenant, the following teaching of Adonai Yeshua especially applies to us: John 17:3 >>But this is eternal life, that they know you, who alone are the true Elohim, and him whom you have sent, Yeshua HaMashiach. <<

Do we really know YHWH Elohim and Yeshua?

The apostle John gave the following signs of knowing them:

>> 1 John 2:24-29 

24 As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. 25 Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life. 26 These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

27 Now as for you, the anointing that you received from him resides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as it has taught you, you reside in him.

28 And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

1 John 3:9 

Everyone who has been fathered by Elohim does not practice sin, because Elohim's seed resides in him, and thus he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by Elohim.

1 John 4:7 

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from Elohim, and everyone who loves has been fathered by Elohim and knows Elohim.

1 John 5:1 

Everyone who believes that Yeshua is HaMashiach has been fathered by Elohim, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

1 John 5:3-4 

3 For this is the love of Elohim: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down, 4 because everyone who has been fathered by Elohim conquers the world. This is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.

1 John 5:18 

We know that everyone fathered by Elohim does not sin, but Elohim protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him or her.

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  As the reader will notice, the emphasis is on sanctification, and through that on knowing our heavenly Father and his Son, and on loving all our neighbors!

Songs suitable for the topic

Psalm 118, Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcEr9OkFP-s

Bride of the New City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlRUGyp9iks

Sing Hallelujah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKB8ZuN07z8

Reflections on Shabat, 12th April 2024

 

  I tend to pray during the week about a current topic for Sabbath study. This morning (Thursday 11.4.) I woke up with the verse clearly in my ears and I said: >>Lock the Law with a seal to my disciples!<< This topic obviously requires a proper introduction and therefore I will return to it only at the end of the treatise.


What does Daniel 9:24 mean for the Jews?

  Since the book of Daniel is originally in Aramaic, there have been great difficulties in translating it. However, it is important to understand it correctly because it is clearly one of the end time prophecies regarding Israel and Jerusalem! It also has consequences for all Gentile nations.

  A Finnish Christian man respected by many, Kaarlo Syväntö was sent to Israel by the angel of Adonai already in 1947, i.e. a year before the independence of the state of Israel and was given the task of distributing to the Israelis, according to Ezekiel's prophecy, 'pure water', i.e. the genuine Word of Elohim. 

  Indeed, he, his family and co-workers have distributed many hundreds of thousands of complete Bibles as gifts to Israelis and other nationalities in Israel over a period of about 77 years. The angel referred to the following verses concerning the Israelites Ezek. 36:24-25

>>24 I will take you out of the heathen nations and gather you from all countries and bring you into your own land. 25 And I will sprinkle clean water on you, so that you will be cleansed; from all your filthiness and from all your stone gods I will cleanse you.<<

  Kaarlo Syväntö translated the verse Dan. 9:24 as follows (in parentheses additions and references to Hebrew words)

>>Seventy weeks are decreed for your (Daniel's) people and your holy city (Jerusalem), that rebellion (pesha) will end, sins (hataim) will be sealed and transgressions (avon) will be covered and eternal righteousness will be brought forth and divine revelation and prophecy will be confirmed and the Holy of Holies (Messiah) is anointed.<< 

  Even though Kaarlo was deficient, his explanation, which I have quoted from a booklet printed in 1977, correctly prophesied that the Soviet Union at that time must disintegrate so that the countries occupied by it, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, could join the European Community, i.e. the current EU. That is exactly what has already happened in the 21st century!

  My own addition: It had to happen so that the most terrible Beast of Revelation 13, the ancient Roman Empire, could once again take shape and take over the nations. Kaarlo Syväntö also justified his view in roughly the same way.

Why verse Dan. 9:24 is important to everyone?

  Because it is one of the Old Testament references to what will happen in Israel and Jerusalem during the End Times. For the Israelis, it is a huge good news after a long exile and about 1900 years of being in great distress!

  The prophet Ezekiel has written no less than 13 consecutive chapters 36-48 about this! In my opinion, we are living in the preparation phase of Gog's war, which is prophesied in chapter 38. I agree with Kaarlo Syväntö and many other Word Teachers that Russia is the Gog mentioned by Ezekiel. An unequivocal reference has been made to the location of the nation in question: (Ezek. 39:1-3)

  It is located "the farthest north" from Israel's point of view. If we draw the meridian north from Jerusalem, it goes between the cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg through the Arctic Ocean to the North Pole. Verse Ezekiel 39:2 according to Kaarlo Syväntö, reads like this:

>>I will transport you, I will carry you, I will lift you from the farthest North and let you attack the mountains of Israel. And I leave only a sixth part of you alive.<<

  There are currently about 90 million native Russians. The others, out of its total of approximately 146 million inhabitants, are from several different ethnic groups. That's why only 15 million Russians would survive if the war started now! As a result of the war, Russia would break up into many parts. I will sincerely be happy about it!

  The tyrant currently ruling Russia, Vladimir Vladimirovitš Putin, is particularly cruel, completely disregarding international law and the fate of civilians in his current war of conquest against Ukraine. He acts against Ukrainians like Hamas terrorists from Gaza acts against Israeli civilians, seeking to destroy Ukraine and usurp its entire territory for themselves!

  According to Ezekiel, Elohim will put hooks in the jaws of Putin's army and its allies and drag them to fight in the mountains of Israel, where they will face the judgment of Elohim. The next mention of it is Joel 2:20 (according to the interpretation of Kaarlo Syväntö and many other Bible scholars) 

>>I will cast the army from the north far from you, and bring it into a desolate and barren land bordering on the uttermost sea on the east and the last sea on the north. And from that, a rash arises, a plague arises. Because it has tried big things.<<

  That Area Description is only suitable for Siberia. The two seas are the Bering Sea in the east and the Arctic Ocean in the north. The world's coldest place in Siberia is Oimjakon, where about 400 Russians live and where the temperature often drops to -58 °C (-72.4 °F) in winter.

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  Verse Dan. 9:24 is also important for the Gentiles chosen for salvation as follows. In connection with that, the apostle Paul wrote the following in Romans 11:13-15

>>13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14 if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them. 15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?<<

  Perhaps Paul in that final verse is referring to the rapture of the bride congregation! That bride congregation includes those chosen for salvation from Israel and all nations.


What does verse Isaiah 8:16 teach us today?

  It reads like this, referring to Adonai Yeshua and his disciples already in the Law Covenant era:

A) CJB  >>Wrap up this document, and confine its teaching to those I have instructed.<<
B) Peshitta (G. Lamsa) >>Bind up the testimony, seal the law,<<
C) NET >>Tie up the scroll as legal evidence, seal the official record of Elohim's instructions and give it to my followers.<< I suppose that this translation is correct.

  Let's first read what Adonai Yeshua taught about the Law of Moses and the teaching he brought us from heaven regarding it and how they are related to each other:

1) >>For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Yeshua HaMashiach.<< John 1:17

2) >>So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do so will be called least in the Kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the Kingdom of heaven.<< Matt. 5:19. 

- Here Adonai Yeshua refers to the commandments of the Law of Moses. Anyone who teaches to break any of the commandments of the Law of Moses is a teacher of lies! Those who believe in him will become 'people of lawlessness, children of perdition'!

3) >>35 And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him: 36 "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" 37 Yeshua said to him, "'Love the YHWH your Elohim with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.

39 The second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."<< Matt. 22:35-40

  In summary of points 1), 2) and 3) it can be stated that all Israelites and all Gentiles who believe in Yeshua are obligated to walk according to the statutes of the Law of Moses, for it is not permissible for us to willfully break its original four first commandments, which call us to respect and love our Creator. After all, it is clear that we must not keep any idols beside Him!

  It is also not permissible to break the last six commandments of the original Mosaic Law, which tell us to respect and love our neighbors. After all, it is clear that we must not murder our neighbors!
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- The fact that "The Law of Moses is sealed with a seal to the disciples of Adonai Yeshua" suggests that we should keep the Law holy and only with good intentions and as if it were a shepherd's rod that leads the sheep to a safe pasture, setting up for us the boundary fences of the pasture, within which the wolves ravage are gone.

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- This clearly only applies to Adonai Yeshua's disciples, and they are all those to whom he refers in the verses of the attached image, Joh. 8:31-36 and additionally in the verses of Matt. 7:24-25.

- The sealing in question indicates that these are the chosen ones of the Most High and honor Him by considering the Law of Moses as a holy and important guide to life just as Adonai Yeshua teaches us in verses Matt. 5:17-20

- For those brought up in the Jewish faith, it means following the Law of Moses to the extent that it is possible today, when Solomon's temple is still in ruins. But not because even they, by following the Law, could earn salvation for their souls. But only because, through it, the Israeli declares itself as a disciple of Adonai Yeshua also during the New Covenant. This is how the apostle Peter instructed the Jews of his time, regarding the instructions to be given to converts from paganism: Acts 15:10-11

>>10 So now why are you putting Elohim to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear? 11 On the contrary, we believe that we are saved through the grace of Adonai Yeshua, in the same way as they are.<<

- It is important to note that the descendants of Adam and Eve chosen for the heavenly New Jerusalem are also spiritually built on the foundation of prophets (such as Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc.) and apostles, with Yeshua HaMashiach himself as the cornerstone!

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- For all believers in Yeshua of pagan background, it only means the four prohibitions referred to in the verses Acts 15:28-29 and which was decided by the Council of the Early Congregation of Jerusalem with the guidance of the Holy Spirit:

>>28 For it seemed best to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place any greater burden on you than these necessary rules: 29 that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.<<

- In my opinion, that decision of the Parish Council is fair and very well justified, because it takes into account the poorer starting points of those with a gentile background compared to those raised in the Jewish faith all their lives, who have been taught the Tanakh and its regulations already in their mother's milk.

- However, it is only the beginning of sanctification and in the NT there are hundreds of different exhortations through which all followers of Adonai Yeshua are guided to righteousness and complete sanctification with help of the Holy Spirit, at the end of which eternal life awaits us, as verse Rom. 6:22 says:

>>But now, freed from sin and enslaved to Elohim, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.<<

  Although we are slaves to Father Elohim, we are also Adonai Yeshua's friends and co-workers in his vineyard if we obey him!

The Most High rules over all nations!

  So He rules also over Russia, N-Korea, China, Iran, USA, EU, etc.! That's why we believers in Adonai Yeshua have no reason to be afraid of the difficult times that are already facing part of the world and in the future all nations. Let's not fear WW3 either. It will come in time, but even through it, our Creator will protect and carry his chosen ones from all nations alive! As we look forward to all that lies ahead, let us spread the message of grace, love and salvation from our Savior HaMashiach Yeshua to all nations!


Songs related to the topic

Jehovah Jireh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA1CrLhvz2o

This world is not my home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fIly2AtV4U

Here I Am Lord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnO5B_G505w

Reflections on Shabat, 5th April 2024

We notice throughout the Bible that children are just in the

special keeping of our Creator and they all have their own and
 a special guardian angel who always sees the face of YHWH.

  However, this week in Finland, there was a very serious shooting incident in the 6th grade at the primary school in the town of Vantaa. In it, a 12-year-old boy who was bullied at school shot dead his classmate, a 12-year-old boy, with a handgun and very seriously wounded two girls of the same age who are in intensive care!

What led to that tragedy?

  The investigation of the case is still ongoing, but the case is truly exceptional in this country that has been voted the happiest in the world for the seventh time. The shooter's family is responsible for their son's access to a handgun. Also, the fact that the school's teachers and principal did not take into account the fact that the boy who moved to the school about 11 weeks ago was being bullied and did not take the necessary measures was a really serious negligence on their part.

   In addition, teachers in Finland have been losing the authority given by law to maintain discipline in their classes year by year. Instead, in cases of serious disturbances, they have to call the police. This should not be the case, teachers should have absolute authority over all students in their classes!

   In elementary schools, the confessional teaching of Christianity is prohibited by law, and it has been replaced by an outlook on life, in which all major religions are considered similar and equal. So, according to Finnish law, Islam is also equal to traditional Christianity. Now our people get to eat the bitter fruits of our stupid legislation and the tragedies are unlikely to end here, unfortunately!

  It should be mentioned that school bullying is not a new phenomenon in Finland, but I was also bullied at school at the age of 12 already in 1961, when our family moved from Lohja to the small church village of Siunti and I started attending a Finnish-language public school there. For the first 2 weeks I was punched every day and barked at because of my Swedish name. The abuse only stopped when my older sister demanded the strongest student in the upper class to defend me. Before that I used to be afraid to go to school and had nightmares many times.

  Of course, there have been shootings in Finnish schools before, but the perpetrators were clearly teenagers or young adults older than this child. In the online archive, I found three cases in which a total of 22 people had died and several had been injured.

  The school shooting that claimed the most victims happened on September 23, 2008 in town Kauhajoki, where a 22-year-old man shot 10 people and himself. So a total of 11 were killed.

  In all cases, the motive had been that the perpetrator had been bullied and most of them had sought help for their mental health problems before the tragedy. All the perpetrators of the crimes were male.

How could the tragedy have been prevented?

   Legislation should not have been skewed as it is today regarding the authority of teachers to maintain discipline in their classes, and the confessional teaching of Christianity should not have been changed, bringing it to the level of the heresies of the whole world.

   In recent years, there has been a clear deterioration in the mental health of children in Finland, and a record number of psychiatric drugs are being prescribed to the very young. The reason for this is the climate hysteria and the horrors of war, which are being fomented day and night, of which the most horrible pictures and videos are shown every day, which children watch with curiosity and are horrified. Under no circumstances should children be told about them!

   The children's parents should have brought up their children in the discipline and discipline of Adonai and asked their children if everything is going well at school. If the boy and his parents had a loving relationship, they would have been aware of their son's difficulties at school. Because in Finland, children are currently required by law to attend school for 9 years (in practice 10 years) and after that postgraduate studies are voluntary. Without postgraduate studies, it is still difficult to get any job in Finland.

What can we who believe in Yeshua do?

  The most important thing is to pray for wisdom and courage for our decision-makers and that the best people are elected to the board! The children's parents should also be prayed for wisdom and spiritual backbone so that they would truly bear their own responsibility to correct the distorted state of our nation today.

  The greatest need of all children is to experience love, safety, social care, such as access to food and healthcare. They should also be told that their Creator, Yeshua HaMashiach, loves them like a Good Shepherd!

  In addition, we must influence through writings, speeches and all means of social media so that our 'ship Finland, which is on a collision course with an iceberg like Titanic', is steered to the right course, away from a dangerous route. The same measures are also generally needed in other western countries, where the so-called democracy has eroded public security.

  We believers know from the teachings of the NT that in the last days there will be difficult times, because lawlessness will gain power, meaning that the holy decrees of the Bible, also for maintaining discipline, will be abandoned as ancient relics. We are currently living in exactly that time! That's why we should stand up each in the 'hole in the wall' that is our responsibility!

Songs related to the topic

The Good Shepherd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lpMma_eHHQ

Lord Feed Your Children

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

You Are My Dwelling Place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou5u7hyyqyI