perjantai 13. joulukuuta 2024

Reflections on Shabat, December 13, 2024



We learn from Proverbs that to everyone, who finds heavenly wisdom,
is also promised long life, in addition to riches and honor. The promise
can also be applied to believers in the New Covenant, for they will not
waste their wealth on alcohol, drugs, riches, or vanity. Happy are all
people, who have come to know their beloved Creator as their living
helper already in their childhood, for they will be protected from the
dangers that most other people have to experience without any help!


According to the Bible, our ancestors lived a long life

  Adam and many of our first ancestors lived to be nearly a thousand years old. Methuselah lived to be the oldest: 969 years old. At that time, those patriarchs saw many generations of their descendants, and family gatherings could be so crowded that they did not even know all of their descendants, because as they grew older, their memories also weakened and their eyesight became blurred.

  Our Creator shortened the average lifespan of our ancestors several times and finally decided that a maximum of 120 years would be enough for humans. This year, 2024, the highest average life expectancy (average for men and women) is in Hong Kong: 85.63 years, but that now belongs to China. Israel is in 19th place: 82.73 years. Finland is in 31st place: 82.08 years. Although the life expectancy target for women in Finland is higher than in Israel, but clearly lower for men.

  The shortest life expectancy is in Nigeria, which is in 200th place: 54.84 years. There, extremist Muslims kill several thousand Christians every year, some as children. Let us remember our Christian sisters and brothers in Nigeria daily with our prayers!
Acc. to another table, the state Monaco is in first place: life expectancy is 87 years.


For whom is longevity worth striving for?

  For us believers in Adonai Yeshua, long life is a unique gift from Yehowah Elohim. Therefore, we should be grateful for every day of our life here, even if we do not always like them. How could they please us, because we are always in the middle of a spiritual battleground! Let us believe the apostle John, who wrote: 1 John 5:19

>>We know that we are from Elohim, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.<<

  I think all believers in Adonai Yeshua should have a clear goal for their life here. It is to reach people on their way to perdition with the eternal message of Salvation. We will also make eternal friends from them when we arrive, into the glory of heaven. If we are allowed to live without excessive pain and illness, then we can effectively carry out that noble mission entrusted to us.

  Unfortunately, some of us believers are also disabled and have to experience many kinds of pain and illness regardless of how holy and pure a life of faith they practice. Therefore, I understand very well their longing for heaven and their longing to be away from their earthly house of dust. Yet, I urge them to practice works of love and preach the Gospel despite everything!

  We live in this house of dust only once and for a while. Let us consider it our honor to live here for the glory of our Creator and Redeemer, Adonai Yeshua. Many first-generation New Covenant believers also experienced various kinds of tribulation, and many of them came victorious as martyrs. Let us be ready to suffer all that lies ahead! The Apostle Paul, who also died as martyr, comforted us when he did write: 2 Cor. 4:16-18

>>16 Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day. 17 For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison 18 because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.<<


For whom is longevity not worth striving for?

  For cruel and wicked people who, during their long lives, cause much suffering and pain, especially if they are leaders of state and rule over people like tyrants. There has been no shortage of such people in human history and there is no lack of them today. I do not need to mention any of them by name, because people who follow the news know them!

  If they had any understanding, they would immediately repent and give up their positions of power, because each of us will face judgment once and the more serious the crimes each has committed, the more severe the punishment they will receive! Since this is the final judgment without the right to pardon, it is also eternal separation from Elohim! Preacher 12:14 

>>For Elohim will evaluate every deed, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.<<

  We who believe in Adonai Yeshua should first pray for such people to have mercy on them to repent in their lives. But if they do not do so soon, then I think it would be wise to pray that they be removed as soon as possible and that a government of peace and justice will rise in their place. I believe that such a prayer is acceptable to Elohim and to people.

  We see in the current situation in the world the formation of large blocs, i.e. similar nations unite with each other and try to form state alliances with each other to pursue important things for them. Evil allies try to take over their neighboring nations by force and some nations try to defend those weaker nations as much as they can.


The time of the 1000-year Kingdom

  Then there will be a wonderful and long-awaited peace on earth, as Adonai Yeshua rules the nations of the earth from Jerusalem for those 1000 years. People will again be able to live to be hundreds of years old, because wars have ceased and the murders of believers in Adonai Yeshua will no longer be committed. That must be a very wonderful time! It has been prophesied as follows: Rev. 20:4

>>Then I saw thrones and seated on them were those who had been given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Yeshua and because of the word of Elohim. These had not worshiped the beast or his image and had refused to receive his mark on their forehead or hand. They came to life and reigned with HaMashiach for a thousand years.<<

  This is also what was prophesied about that time in Isaiah 65:20

>>No more will babies die in infancy, no more will an old man die short of his days - he who dies at a hundred will be thought young, and at less than a hundred thought cursed.<<


Songs suitable for the topic

Please, note: Our Savior's original name in Hebrew is Yeshua HaMashiach HaNotzri


P.S. You can check out the interesting stages of my life from the link below. My life has been a great adventure. There have been successes and setbacks. Adonai Yeshua has always helped me!

 
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