Chapter 16 - Year 1971 part 2/2

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I did meet Yehowah Elohim face to face

 The spring semester study and exam period was suitably interrupted by about a week of Easter leave. On Wednesday of Easter week, I had read Adonai Yeshua's teachings on the Sermon on the Mount, Matt. 5. I made a promise to act according to verse 42:

>> Give it to someone who asks for you, and don't turn your back on someone who wants to borrow from you <<

  I thought it was not for me to criticize, in which purpose each recipient of the alms uses for it. My job is only to show love to my neighbours, regardless of the human appearance. This is inevitably to be found in verses 45 and 48 of the remainder of the same chapter. 

  In verse 45, I was particularly intrigued by the remainder of the story: >> that you were the children of your Heavenly Father. He gives his sun to shine to the wicked and the good, and gives the rain to the righteous and the wicked.<<

  After all, he knows in advance that many of the wrongdoers make alcohol out of their grain, even though their families suffer from bread hunger! Still, it is raining on their fields without discrimination. He also expects this kind of treatment of our neighbor from us, according to verse 48:
>>So be ye perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect.<<

  Concerning those verses, I made a decision in my heart to give twice so much to every beggar who asks me for a coin if I only have enough money for it and to wish them a blessing from God! At the same time, I'll make them happy.

  This promise in my mind I left my study apartment on Wednesday, a little after noon. I walked to the center of Helsinki, near Lasipalatsi adjacent white house in the foreground. (See photo below). There was the output stop for departing buses to Siuntio, at that time. The day was bright and sunny. To my surprise, I was the only person waiting for the bus at the output stop.

  I remembered my promise and I was grateful to Adonai for giving that necessary break from the spring semester studies and exams during that last term. I also remembered, it was great that Yeshua HaMashiach had suffered and that is why I got this holiday!

  I wondered what else he could mean to me, and that it would be good to get to know him better.

Yehowah Elohim met me

  Then I saw small and white local dense cloud of fog on right side of me and the sidewalk about 20 m away. It was at the end of the long light-yellow building. Then the cloud faded away.

  Inside it revealed a man dressed in a cool blue suit and light blue collar shirt.

  He had white hair but no beard or mustache. The light in his blue eyes shone and it caught my attention. The man walked slowly and with dignity, looking all the time at me. 

  He came to me, about a meter away me, and said, "Please, could you give me 5 pennies because it's missing from my lodging fee?" When I looked at him, I noticed that he was neatly dressed and well-groomed. I was wondering, how does this kind of good gentleman beg me, a poor student, for money?

  I took out my wallet and remembered that I had FIM 5 and FIM 10 bank note and some pennies. I decided to give him a FIM 5 bank note, because FIM 10 was enough for the return ticket. I had not yet opened my wallet.

  When I lifted my eyes, he looked me in the eye, smiled and said, "Only 5 pence, no more." Then I noticed that his mouth was closed as he spoke! So I heard his thoughts and got scared. Then I saw him read my thoughts and all my bad deeds and sins came out like a movie tape.

  I knew he looked into my soul through my eyes and read me like an open book! I felt the immense presence of holiness and I wondered who he was? With a look in my eyes, he said, "Surely, you are a great sinner." I lowered my gaze, ashamed, down to the ground and wanted to escape, but I couldn't because I was like paralyzed.

  Then it happened very supernatural thing! I saw how of myself stepped out a spirit, a personal spirit, who defended me, saying: "Surely, I am a great sinner, but I trust in the grace of God in all things." I really heard someone defending me that way, and I was even more amazed at who that person was?

  The judgmental look of that man became gentle and loving. Then the spirit defender of mine continued his speech, saying, "Father, it is difficult for me to be in this evil world. Get me out of here soon to you." From that I understood that, he was a spirit and he spoke to the Father of Spirits, the Holy Majesty of Israel.

  So that gentleman was Yehowah Elohim, who had taken the human figure. He looked at me contemplatively, without answering a word. Then I remembered that I was giving him money. I opened the coin section of the wallet and dug out all the coins: 7 pence.

  I said to Yehowah, "Even if you don't want more than 5 pence, take these 7 pence anyway, at least that's enough." He looked at coins in wonder, took them, and turned away, starting to walk towards Mannerheimintie. I looked after him and thought, would he disappear just same way he had come(?)

  After walking about 20 meters, he turned and looked at me, lifting his right hand towards the sky and shouting, "Surely we will meet again!" I understood him to mean meeting in heaven. How wonderful a promise! I wish with all my heart to meet that Yehowah Elohim, who loves me too! HalleluYah! 

  The case reminded me of a passage in the Bible that reads: Jer. 14: 8


>>You hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?<<

That incident crowned my Easter celebration

  So I spent a memorable Easter with my relatives. However, I didn't tell them at that point what a wonderful thing I had experienced. They wouldn't have believed me. That's how I already knew them.

  The time of the testimony came later, after I first went to the baptism of believers by immersion in water and after that I became filled with the Holy Spirit. It was only then that I had the supernatural power to witness Yehowah's mercy in my life.

  I'll tell you about it later in this book.

Good work place at Oy Strömberg Ab

  Then I got a good job at Oy Strömberg Ab's Electronics, drawing department. My boss Eino Nieminen was a model example of a wise and good boss! I could to work there after HTOL for only 1.5 months before military service. By law, my employment was not terminated, but continued after the military service.

  I had read the booklet of the exclamation mark series published by the Finnish Peacekeepers. It was a pacifist organization that opposed military service. I agreed with them, for there is a similar teaching in the Bible, albeit seen from different points of view.

  Additionally I was particularly intrigued by the Bible passages: "Don't kill!" and "He who seizes the sword, he shall perish by the sword!" Likewise, the verse, "Do not resist the evil, but pray for those who persecute you!" Also, this "Everything you want people to do for you, do the same for them!" Finally this, "Love your neighbor as yourself!"

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