Reflections on shabat, June 26, 2026

  Images from the left: 1) Yeshua believing women are dancing of joy. 2) Yeshua believing Jewish men are dancing and rejoying. 3) Yeshua believing older men and women are dancing of joy. 4) Boys and girls who believe in Yeshua dance and rejoice.
- All creation is rejoicing, for it will soon be freed from the slavery of corruption.

  Even though we have to experience many of the same sufferings as those without faith, and in addition, trials of faith, great temptations and even persecution for our faith, despite all this, we have a genuine, real and greatest possible reason for joy and rejoicing: After our earthly life, the eternal and endless joy and rejoicing of salvation awaits us with Yeshua, who bought us on the cross of Calvary with his holy blood!

Let's reread the Bible verses in the picture

  The following verse is from the Shabat Day Song and refers to the great act of mercy of Yehowah Elohim through the work of redemption accomplished by His Son Adonai Yeshua on the cross of Calvary:

>>This is the day that Yehowah has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.<< Ps. 118:24

  The profound wisdom of King Solomon of Israel. It refers to the immense value of the inner being of man. The word the world can be translated with word eternity.

>>11 He has made every thing beautiful in his time: also he has set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that Elohim makes from the beginning to the end. 12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. 13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of Elohim.<< Eccl. 3:11-13

  We must understand that the Almighty has chosen us to be raised for heaven based on His great mercy and love. That is why tribulations and persecutions will also come upon us. Israel is today fighting for a small strip of land for its limited earthly life. We believers in Yeshua are fighting for the our eternal portion of heaven and the infinite treasures there!
>>22 Blessed are you, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. 23 Rejoice you in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.<< Luke 6:22-23



What will we receive / experience in heaven?

  We cannot even begin to comprehend with our present senses what happiness, what riches and how deep an atmosphere of peace and love there is in heaven! In the new birth we will receive a glorified body and the perfect senses to experience it all. I will pick a few passages from the Bible as a foretaste of the abundance of the riches of heaven:

1) We will receive the eternal Kingdom. Its capital is the Heavenly Jerusalem. The glory of Yehoveh illuminates it and its lamp is the Lamb. There they will be forever praised and honored with perfect musical instruments.

2) We will meet there face to face Yeshua HaMashiach, our heavenly Father Yehowah Elohim, the Holy Spirit, other spirit beings of glory, angels, and our saved relatives, as well as acquaintances, and all other saved people.

3) We may eat from the tree of life, which is in Jerusalem, in the midst of the Paradise of Elohim, and we may live forever after eating its fruit. We may also eat heavenly delicacies, and no one there will have to experience hunger or thirst.

4) We may draw with joy and gladness the water of life from the springs of salvation that Yeshua opened for us when he suffered on the cross of Golgotha! He will lead us to the springs of life and teach us everything about heaven and the heavens of heavens.

5) Everything old has passed away for ever! When we are the new creations, all the bad things and our failure have been completely wiped away. They will not come to our mind. We may start everything there from a clean slate and learn royal ways.

6) We are led to our eternal heavenly tasks, for which we have already been trained and raised theoretically and through our life experiences while living on earth. These tasks are not forced labors, but tasks that we want to do with joy!

7) There we will not experience weakness, fatigue, and we will not need to sleep. Fear, hate, loneliness and depression will also be gone. We will not have to be content with our own thoughts. Our Counselor Yeshua is always there to help us.

8) Finally, two mentions of the apostle Paul about what we possess and what we will experience in heaven. Paul was once allowed to visit the Paradise of Elohim, so he is a reliable teacher and expert in this regard for us.

A) We will possess there all this: 1 Cor. 3:22-23
>>22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 23 And ye are Messiah’s; and Messiah is Elohim’s.<<

B) This is what we will experience in heaven: 1 Cor. 2:9
>>But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which Elohim has prepared for them that love him.<<


Praise dance in honor of Adonai Yeshua

  I will tell you from my notes an incident that happened in the late summer of 1972. At that time there were large Christian tent meetings in Helsinki, on the field next to Laakso's Hospital. A friend whom I had met at the Jesus House, Petri Blomgren, then 14 years old, asked me to stay with him as a tent watchman between 10 p.m. and midnight after the evening meeting ended and said that the Lord would certainly reward me.

  Petri had put his name on the list of volunteers alone and needed a friend. Neither he nor I belonged to the (Pentecostals) Missionary Church that was organizing that tent meeting. I was 23 years old at the time, and I was dressed in nothing but shorts and a short-sleeved shirt. The nights were already quite cool by then. I said to Petri: "I will stay with you on guard duty for 2 hours, because I don't want you to be alone. I don't expect any special reward from the Lord for that."

  We were on guard duty and when the evening got cold, Petri suggested that we start praising the Lord by dancing to get warm. So, each of us would dance solo on our own. We did so. When it was already 11:30 PM, Petri said that he saw a familiar angel in the middle of the tent and asked me to go with him to greet him.

  No matter how I squinted my eyes, I didn’t see any angel. However, I went to the angel with Petri. With every step we took as we approached the angel, I felt the power of the Holy Spirit intensify and pierce my whole body. Petri shook hands with the angel, but I still couldn’t see him. I prayed silently in my heart: “Oh Lord, I want to see an angel too.” (Petri's father was Methodist preacher)

  I heard a voice in my heart: “Leif, go to the tent door and look in the direction of the Laakso's sports field.” I went to the tent door and looked in that direction. I only saw a very dim field because it was almost midnigh, and the field was not lit. I said to the Lord, "Lord, I don't see anything special." The Lord replied, "Look closely!" Just then, I saw a light from heaven, as if from a searchlight, being lowered onto the left side of the field.

  Then I saw a truly amazing vision: Angels dressed in white robes (about 30 angels and 30 horses) were riding white horses with a majestic posture. They slowly roud along an invisible platform about 1.5 m high and curved around the tent of meeting. The heads of the angels shone like miniature suns!

  That's not all, but behind them, in a separate group (also about 30 angels and 30 horses), black angels rode on black horses. They also rode along the invisible platform a little further back and curved around the tent of meeting. The heads of these angels shone deep black in the dark darkness and with them followed enormous black dogs, whose heads reached the height of the horses' withers.

  I saw the vision for perhaps 15 minutes and I understood from it that we were not alone with Petri in the tent watchmen, but that the heavenly host was also on "night watch" around us, protecting us from thieves and angels of darkness. I told Petri how the Lord truly rewarded me for staying with him as a night watchman. HalleluYah!

Songs suitable for the topic

Obs. Our Savior's original name in Hebrew is Yeshua HaMashiach HaNotzri

Above All 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cROqawkWeFY

I will Celebrate; JEHOVAH JIREH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiMMyZzl5vA

I Love You Lord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYV0ce3ybEA

He is Jehovah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqlRe7xd2rE

Horses In Heaven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OizsqS4xQpc

P.S. 1 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!
https://seventh-river.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-seventh-river.html

P.S. 2 I have also prepared these studies in Finnish. They consist of selected Bible translations and include various hymns:
https://yakov-tutkielmia-sapattina.blogspot.com/2026/06/pohdintaa-sapattina-2662026.html

Reflections on shabat, June 19, 2026

  Images from the left: 1) The rich man suffers in the flames of Hades and the poor Lazarus rests there in the bosom of Abraham. 2) The martyrs who were murdered for the name of Adonai Yeshua are under the altar of Yehowah and demand revenge on their murderers. 3) At the Last Judgment, the Books will be opened and everyone will be judged according to what is written in them. 4) Those who died as believers in Yeshua will receive eternal life, but those who died without faith in Yeshua will be condemned to perdition, or Hell.

  According to the Old Law Covenant established through Moses, the Most Holy Place of the Temple, the high priest and other priests serving there, and even the entire people of Israel, had to sprinkle the blood of a sacrificial animal in order to be acceptable to Yehowah Elohim. 
  Now, in the era of the New Covenant of Grace established by Adonai Yeshua, animal sacrifices and other sacrificial ordinances of the Law Covenant are no longer needed to be acceptable to our Creator, for Yehowah Elohim’s sacrificial lamb, Yeshua HaMashiach, has been slaughtered for us!

Let's reread the Bible verses in the picture:

  From Yeshua's parable concerning the poor Lazarus and the rich man in Hades:

>>22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in Sheol he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.<< Luke 16:22-23

  The cry of those who died as martyrs for their faith to the Almighty:

>>9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of Yehowah, and for the testimony which they held:

10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Yehowah, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.<< Rev. 6:9-11

  At the Last Judgment, the Books will be opened and every person who has lived since the beginning of mankind will be judged according to what is written about them:
>>45 Then (at the Last Judgment) shall he (Yeshua) answer them (bad people), saying, "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me".
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. << Matt. 25:45-46

  Those who died as believers in Yeshua will receive eternal life, but those who died without faith in Yeshua will be condemned to perdition, or Hell:
>>14 And Death and Hades (Sheol) were cast into the lake of fire (Hell). This is the second death.
15 If anyone's name was not found written in the Book of Life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire (Gehenna).<< Rev. 20:14-15

People have to choose their group

  From those Bible passages it becomes clear that there are many different groups available to all people in this world. There are actually only two main groups. Namely, firstly, a group that promotes the proclamation of the Message of Salvation to all nations and the second group that ignores it at all or strongly opposes it!

  Of this Adonai Yeshua wrote as follows: Matt. 12:27-30
>>27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of Elohim, then the kingdom of Elohim is come unto you.

29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.<<

  Each of us must choose our side, for no one can be passive in their relationship with Adonai Yeshua and his Message of Salvation! Following Adonai Yeshua is not easy and for many it has cost them their lives on earth. Others have been tortured, some have had their property taken away and many have had their families broken up.

  These difficulties are due to the fact that the Devil has mobilized his entire army of fallen angels to wage war against all those people who hold forth this one Message of Salvation, by believing in which man will receive forgiveness of his sins and ultimately inherit the glory of heaven and there receive a wonderful portion among the saved.


Victory is only through the blood of the Lamb

  Since the entire human race was completely corrupted as a result of the fall of our ancestors in Paradise, Yehowah Elohim decided to save only those people who believe in his firstborn son HaMashiach Yeshua, as the apostle Paul wrote in Rom. 3:23-26 and the apostle John wrote: John 1:11-13 and Rev. 12:10-12

Rom. 3:23-26
>>23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of Elohim;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in HaMashiach Yeshua:
25 Whom Elohim has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of Elohim;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in Yeshua.<<

John 1:11-13
>>11 He (Yeshua) came unto his own (Israelites), and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power / dominion / right / authority to become the children of Elohim, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of Elohim.<< 

Rev. 12:10-12
>>10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our Elohim, and the power of his HaMashiach: for the Accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our Elohim day and night.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.<<


Why is the blood of Yeshua priceless for us?

  Our souls were defiled by the fall into sin, and in addition, we have each committed more or less sin. No unclean person can enter the Holy City, the New Jerusalem in heaven! When we cleanse ourselves through faith in the blood of Yeshua, our souls become completely clean and make us worthy of heaven. Rev. 1:3-6

>>3 ABlessed is he who reads, and blessed are those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it: for the time is near.

4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him which is, and which was, and which is to come, and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne,

5 and from Yeshua the Messiah, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth! To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins in his blood

6 and has made us a royal priesthood to his Elohim and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.<<

  Adonai Yeshua said the following about the condition of salvation and in verse 14 he means that our souls must be cleansed through his holy blood. It happens through prayer and through consciously thanking him, the sacrificial lamb, for his blood in faith: Rev. 22:13-14

>>13 I am the 'A' and the 'Z', the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End!
14 How blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they have the right to eat from the Tree of Life and go through the gates into the city.<< (CJB)


Songs suitable for the topic

Obs. Our Savior's original name in Hebrew is Yeshua HaMashiach HaNotzri

Song The Father’s Love | Messianic Praise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1z4YxwxAyg

The Old Rugged Cross

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seVi9TKoylc

Psalm 23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha3Kc7hqJzM

Come, Holy Spirit, I Need You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Zp9AF1MMs

My Peace - Maranatha Singers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls01XGV7oA0

P.S. 1 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!
https://seventh-river.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-seventh-river.html

P.S. 2 I have also prepared these studies in Finnish. They consist of selected Bible translations and include various hymns:
https://yakov-tutkielmia-sapattina.blogspot.com/2026/06/pohdintaa-sapattina-1962026.html

Reflections on shabat, June 12, 2026

   Images from the left, 1) A young man testifies of his faith to a fellow student. 2) Adonai Yeshua gives his apostles the mission command. 3) A young woman testifies of her faith to a neighbor's girl. 4) A mother teaches her children about her faith in the Good Shepherd, Adonai Yeshua.


Let's reread the Bible verses in the picture:

Yehowah's commandment to Israel:

>>Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;<<  Deut. 4:9 

Yeshua's commandment to the apostles:

>>45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, 46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Messiah to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.<< Luke 24:45-47

  From those Bible passages it is clear that Yehowah’s goal was to make the people of Israel obedient to his teaching and that now, in the era of the New Covenant, all nations would be obedient to his will. Not only that we humans believe in his existence, but that we also begin to obey him!

  Unfortunately, ancient Israel deviated far from that goal. Likewise, they and all pagan nations have deviated far from that will of our Creator today. If we had been obedient, we would have learned to know what a good and loving Savior we have and we would have achieved deep peace throughout the world.

  The Bible already told us in advance how deep and destructive the fall of our ancestors in paradise was. At that time, Cain, the firstborn of Adam, murdered his younger brother Abel in jealousy. Cain felt in his heart that Yehowah did not love him because He rejected his burnt offering, but loved Abel and his burnt offering.

  Since our Creator knew in advance the depth of our apostasy, His love for us required Him to make such an easy plan of salvation that it is not based at all on our merit or works, but only on faith and trust in what He did for us through His Son on the cross of Calvary!


What did Yehowah do at Golgotha?

  He was with His Son HaMashiach Yeshua at that moment, too, because Yeshua had shown perfect obedience to His Father's will in the midst of infinite and indescribably terrible suffering. Only then, when Yeshua had fulfilled all that the Holy Scriptures had long before foretold about Him, did He die for us.

  At that very moment, when Yeshua hung on the cross and said, "It is finished!" the Father departed from Him and cast the sins of all mankind onto His Son. Then Yeshua became the atoning sacrifice for our sins, the sacrificial lamb, and we receive all our sins forgiven by believing in His name, His act of redemption and mercy on our behalf.

  Yeshua bore our sins and our sicknesses. When we believe in Him, we do not have to die for our sins, nor do we bear our sicknesses, if we believe that He also suffered them on the cross of Calvary, as Isaiah foresaw in the Holy Spirit about 700 years before the events of Calvary and prophesied: Isaiah 53:3-7

>>3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of Elohim, and afflicted.

5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have each one turned to his own way; and Yehowah made meet in Him the iniquity of all of us.

7 He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, but He did not open His mouth. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a ewe before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.<<


What happened to death then?

  Our ancestors only faced death as a result of the Fall. Before that, they were without fear of death. Since death is the result of sin, it lost its power over us who believe in Adonai Yeshua as our sin offering. Therefore, we do not have to die. We go straight from here to Paradise, which is in Hades. Let's read: Luke 23:40-43

>>40 But answering, the other rebuked him, saying, Do you not fear Elohim, for you are in the same judgment?

41 And we indeed justly, for we receive things worthy of what we did. But this One did nothing wrong.

42 And he said to Yeshua, Adonai, remember me when You come in Your kingdom.

43 And Yeshua said to him, Truly I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.<< 

  After his death Yeshua went straight to Hades (Sheol), where he was for three days and three nights, as he himself had prophesied before his death. Only then did he rise from the dead. Death was defeated on Mount Moriah, or Zion, at Golgotha. This had been prophesied about 700 years earlier. We read in Isa. 25:6-8 and Hos. 13:14

Isaiah 25:6-8
>>6 And Yehowah Tzva'ot shall make a feast of fat things for all the peoples in this mountain; a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, refined wine on the lees.

7 And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering which covers all people, and the veil that is woven over all nations.

8 He will swallow up death in victory! And the Adonai Yehowah will wipe away tears from all faces. And He shall reprove the reproach of His people from all the earth; for Yehowah has spoken.<<

Hosea 13:14
>>I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.<<

  We can also read about this unique event in human history elsewhere in the Old Testament, as well as in the New Covenant: 1 Cor. 15:51-54

>>51 Behold, I speak a mystery to you: we shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed.

52 In a moment, in a glance of an eye, at the last trumpet; for a trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

54 But when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then will take place the word that has been written, "Death was swallowed up in victory."<<


This is how I began to believe in Yeshua

   My mother was an Orthodox Laestadian, and so was my father, before divorce. My father still did believe in God. My mother taught me the evening prayer and what the Savior means to us in terms of salvation. My parents divorced and I was taken into my father's care when I was 5 years old. That was my first really big answer to prayer.

  My father had remarried at the time and did not attend any spiritual events, but he considered Orthodox Laestadianism to be the only true Christian revival movement. I found it foreign and the Holy Spirit first led me to believing Lutherans. There were believing teachers in elementary school. Their lives testified to genuine faith.

  We moved from Lohja to Siuntio in 1961. When I was 12 years old, alone at home, I wondered about the meaning of my life and the future. They seemed really dark, because my parents could not afford to send me to a fee-paying school. I thought that I would be left without any professional training and would only get a bad job.

  It was autumn and the wind was strong outside and the leaves of the deciduous trees in the yard were rustling in the wind. I sat on the floor and wondered what help I could get from Jesus while I was living on earth and then beyond the line of time(?) I spoke to God in my thoughts: "If you really exist or not, then at this moment I decide to follow the teachings of Jesus in my life."

  I continued: "Even if you didn't exist, I think Jesus' teachings to love You above all else and to love my neighbors as myself are the best possible. If it happens that after struggling my whole life in misery and deprivation, I finally reach the glory of heaven, then what on earth will I do there forever?"

  I pondered further: "If you really exist, then I won't be happy in heaven if I have to sing gloomy hymns there for all eternity. I think it's asking too much to believe in you without personal certainty that you even exist. I ask you: Tell me, what will I do in heaven forever if I get there?"

  Then something supernatural happened! The wind outside died down completely and the sound of cars passing by ended. I felt the presence of an invisible being and felt that he loved me. Then the auditory connection from eternity to time opened and I heard a someone speaking to me in a gentle male voice from the place of my heart. He said:

"You will gain strength. You will soar on wings like eagles. You will run and not grow weary. You will walk and not be weary."

What a huge promise! I was completely amazed for a moment and then I replied:

  "Now I know that you really exist, because you answered the question I was just asking in my mind. I am very grateful to you for that! As I promised earlier, I will compete in the race of faith, helping my fellow man. Please, remind me of this promise when I graduate from a profession and move into my own apartment and if I have then forgotten this our conversation."

  He also answered that request of mine about 10 years later! I had first studied at the 4-year Strömberg Mechanical Engineering School and immediately after that at HTOL (Helsinki Technical University) and in the spring before I graduated as a mechanical construction technician, some Christian dropped a flyer through the mailbox of my rented apartment. I read through it.

  I had a feeling that the message I was about to read was from heaven for me! The flyer read the entire chapter 1 Cor. 13. It is a chapter of love. I read it through four times, through tears. I signed up for the free Bible course advertised in the flyer as a correspondence course from the Christian Literature Society. It involved studying the Gospel of John and it was good!

  The following point in this context is very important: The author of that leaflet was the Finnish Pentecostal Movement and the teacher advised me to learn by heart at least the 10 verses from the Gospel of John that spoke to me the most. I did so and it has been very useful in the events of my life since then.

  This is also important from the time of that course: I was advised to ask at least one question during the course. Therefore, I asked the leader of that correspondence Bible course a question. She was a woman. I asked her only one question: "How should I understand the existence and person of Satan, or the Devil?"

  She answered: "Satan as a separate being does not exist, but when a person allows his mind to rise against God, that event is called Satan. That is, man's wrong choice of how to relate to the teachings of his Creator." However, that teaching was in clear contradiction with the overall revelation of the Bible!

  After reading the answer, I immediately understood that the woman did not know the Bible properly, nor the enemy of the soul, Satan or the Devil, as it reveals! He is indeed a separate person, whose goal has been the destruction of people starting from Paradise! About him as a person, Adonai Yeshua taught this: John 8:42-44

>>42 Yeshua said unto them (to the Jews who opposed his teaching), If Yehowah were your Father, you would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from Yehowah; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

43 Why do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot hear my word.

44 You are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.<<
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  Then and therefore, in addition to the course, I started reading the Bible from the beginning every evening, after my homework just before going to bed. One evening, when I reached the end of Isaiah chapter 40, it brought back to my mind vividly and in detail what I had already forgotten and what I had experienced about 10 years earlier in Siuntio one autumn evening. The verses are as follows: Isaiah 40:30-31

>>30 Even youths are faint and fatigued, and young men surely shall stumble;

31 but the ones waiting for Yehowah shall renew power; they shall go up with wings as the eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not be faint!<<

  If you wish, you can read more about the stages of my religious life from the link at the end of this writing to my free online book called "The Seventh River". (P.S. 1)

Songs suitable for the topic

Obs. Our Savior's original name in Hebrew is Yeshua HaMashiach HaNotzri

Give Thanks (Hebrew)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7FlT1ehUwo

Worthy is the Lamb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAplJ0_jDFc

I Am Not Alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow4OfW4DP9s

Journey to Eternity (Adagio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAWQxIq-9-Q

We Will Be Forever Together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_SBc4dg804

P.S. 1 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!
https://seventh-river.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-seventh-river.html

P.S. 2 I have also prepared these studies in Finnish. They consist of selected Bible translations and include various hymns:
https://yakov-tutkielmia-sapattina.blogspot.com/2026/06/pohdintaa-sapattina-1262026.html

Reflections on shabat, June 5, 2026

 

  Images: From the left, 1) Archangel Michael and his angels fight against Satan and his angels in heaven. 2) Satan and his angels are defeated and cast down to earth. 3) During the end times, Satan, through his chosen charismatic leader, deceives all those people who do not accept faith in Adonai Yeshua, so that they can be saved. 4) Satan's false prophet and his anointed Beast are defeated and, after their rampage, are cast into hell. Rev. 19:19-20. Satan is cast there after his 1,000-year imprisonment after inciting the nations to war against Israel in Jerusalem. Rev. 20:7-10. Death and Hades are also cast there, as well as all those human souls whose names are not found in the Book of Life. Rev. 20:13-15


Let's reread the Bible verses in the picture:

>>20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Yehowah shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.<<  Isaiah 24:20-21

>>7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the Dragon; and the Dragon fought and his angels, 8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9 And the great Dragon was cast out, that old Serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.<< Rev. 12:7-9

>>3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called Elohim, or that is worshipped; so that he as Elohim sits in the temple of Elohim, shewing himself that he is Yehowah.<< 2 Thess. 2:3-4

  From those Bible passages it becomes clear that Yehowah sees when the scale of humanity's sins is so great and that those predestined for salvation have already been sealed for heaven. Then he will fulfill his revelation proclamed through the OT prophets, Yeshua, the Book of Revelation and the apostle Paul. Events will inevitably move towards their end.

  As can be seen from the picture and its text, a war will first break out in heaven. As a result, Satan and his angels will be cast down to earth. He will have great hatred for the believers here, avenging him when Yeshua HaMashiach, the Son of the Jewish Mary, defeated him when he died on the cross. That is why he especially hates Israel.

  Satan will choose a Superstate suitable for his task, formed from nations, which will probably be an anti-Christian and anti-Zionist federation. I believe it will be the EU, which is now preparing itself for a military alliance and a Federal State in addition to the former economic union. The so-called 'Second Beast', i.e. the USA, has demanded that the EU's NATO members prepare for a great war. We notice this development in Revelation 13, where the 'First Beast' is the EU.

  We also notice in Revelation that the 'First Beast' and the 'Second Beast' also have a human ruler. They are Satan's chosen leaders for the great war against Yehowah and the Lamb and, in connection with it, against all the saints of the New Covenant. This war precedes the 1000-year Kingdom of the Messiah and the saints.


What time are we living in now?

  Everyone who believes in Adonai Yeshua and knows their Bible well clearly sees that the number of sins of the nations has already been fulfilled for all nations. We should use Sodom and Gomorrah as a point of comparison here, because according to the NT they are set as a warning to those who still live ungodly. 2 Peter 2:6

  The reasons why punishments like Sodom and Gomorrah have not yet been poured out upon the nations, even though it has been appropriate for years, are (at least) the following:

A) The message of salvation has not yet been proclaimed to all nations, as Yeshua requires.

B) Because of the above, it has not yet been possible to seal all those chosen for salvation.

C) The aforementioned EU-Federal State has not yet been formed and properly strengthened.

D) The manifestation of the Son of Perdition is being withheld by the Holy Spirit and the saints of Adonai Yeshua.

  However, the signs of the times indicate that the fulfillment of all four points is already near. It is interesting to note the prophecy of Adonai Yeshua concerning his manifestation and return to earth. In addition to the previous points, he also says that the people of Israel must first be gathered to Eretz Israel *). We read Matt. 24:26-34
*) Matt. 24:15-25, which I will not quote here.

>>26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. 27 For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. <<

What generation was Yeshua referring to?

  He was referring to the generation during which all the signs he prophesied would be fulfilled. It is worth emphasizing in this context that the rapture of the so-called 'wise virgins' will occur before Adonai Yeshua returns to earth! Adonai Yeshua called Paul to be a teacher and authorized him to tell us the following: 1 Thess. 4:15-17

>>15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Adonai, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Adonai shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Adonai himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of Elohim: and the dead in HaMashiach shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Adonai in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Adonai.<<

  We can conclude from the teachings of Adonai Yeshua that this rapture of the 'Wise Virgins' will take place even before Adonai Yeshua appears to all nations. When he returns to earth, he will step onto the Mount of Olives, but during the rapture, which will take place before that, the 'Wise Virgins' will be caught up in the clouds to meet Adonai in the clouds of heaven. We read: Matt. 24:38-42

>>38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 42 Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your Adonai does come.<<

  It is good to ask, to what time will all those who are not raptured be left? They will be left in the next terrible time of great tribulation and persecution, the like of which has never been on earth before and which, according to the promise of Adonai Yeshua, will never come again! We read Rev. 12:10-13

>>10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our Elohim, and the power of his HaMashiach: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our Elohim day and night. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.

13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.<<

  Since such a terrible time is perhaps coming to the earth soon, it is very wise for the reader of this to give his life to Adonai Yeshua today at the latest!

Now is the acceptable time, now is the day of salvation!


Songs suitable for the topic

Obs. Our Savior's original name in Hebrew is Yeshua HaMashiach HaNotzri

Abba, My Father | I Belong to You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVTDOtKTxqQ

PRAY THIS for the Peace of Jerusalem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTodQorXA8E

Here I am, Lord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_v9JKi4Ajo

The Old Rugged Cross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdSPzCe18Qw

The Lord Be With You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCnbFGroiA8

P.S. 1 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!
https://seventh-river.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-seventh-river.html

P.S. 2 I have also prepared these studies in Finnish. They consist of selected Bible translations and include various hymns:
https://yakov-tutkielmia-sapattina.blogspot.com/2026/06/pohdintaa-sapattina-562026.html