2 CORINTHIANS ~ Chapter 5

I like this passage of Scripture – it soothed us greatly when we were told Bob was dying; as my husband contemplated his impending physical death, he concentrated on exchanging this present life for his eternal life.

My husband had an awesome miraculous salvation testimony … and for 37 years, when he regained speech, he recounted it to everyone that crossed his path. From the time I rushed him to ER and we got the devastating news – to the last day of his life on Earth: before he could no longer speak those last few hours the family was gathered around his bed at OHSU … he told people time and again about how he had died for 25 minutes in 1981, and was resurrected on the ambulance gurney, tagged for the morgue: he told them that he was “headed for hell, but Elohim was merciful, and I was saved forever in that moment I was returned back to life”. Bob lived his life as a solid Christian for the next 37 years: he never looked back.

From August 30^th, 2018 to December 14^th, 2018, Bob kept his eyes on Yeshua and looked forward to our Home in Heaven.

From August 30^th to mid-October 2018, Bob was in the local ER every other day: he’d be kept overnight “for observation”, and sent home for a day or 2. Death was always stressed to us, and Bob wanted to die at home - it would have been more merciful; but his mother & sisters raised hell about his DNR decision, so he stayed in the hospital to keep them off my back. We understood they were not ready to let him go, but it was wrong for them to try to override me - he eventually forgave them.

 

By the November 2018 ER visit, Bob was no longer coming home. He was in Peace Health 24/7, and I was camped in his room - refusing to leave. He was transported to OHSU in Oregon, November 24th, 2018: we were at OHSU for 20 days before he went Home. Healing comes in unexpected ways; always for the glory of Elohim.

Bob's passing from this life to the next was peaceful and dignified. Elohim heard our prayers and honored Bob. I miss my husband terribly - but I also smile, knowing he is in a much better place, having a much better life. We were favored - Bob is honored.

From the moment he knew he was going Home, we prayed together - and he asked prayer for me from the visiting Chaplains; we talked of Heaven and tried to imagine what he would be walking into. I played soothing music for him - he liked Southern Gospel. He never allowed the Grim Reaper to torment him: Bob KNEW he would be going Home - he never lost sight of that ... and he talked about that to everyone, not just me. Bob was totally trusting in Yeshua and because of that, he was totally at peace - putting everyone else at ease.

Elohim favored us during this time we walked hand in hand through the shadow of the Valley of Death. I was strong for my husband. Bob was strong for me: together we were strong in Yeshua.

Reading, and preparing this Scripture passage for today’s study and posting, I am comforted; knowing the Bob is now clothed in his glorified heavenly body that will never again get sick, or decay: cheerful and happy in his new home beyond the clouds, with the lover of our souls, Yeshua Ha’Mashiach.

I am even a little jealous – not sinfully so, but looking forward myself to that day when I will join them.

And considering the way things are going here, on Earth, that may be sooner than later ;-)

2 CORINTHIANS ~ Chapter 5

“We know that this earthly house of our soul will be destroyed, and that we then shall receive from Elohim another house, not made with hands, everlasting in Heaven. In our present body we groan inwardly, and we long to be clothed with the glorified body from heaven. Then, indeed, on that day we shall be found so clothed, not naked. While in this body, we groan because of our heavy burdens. It is not that we want to die and be stripped of our bodies, but rather that we should be clothes with our new bodies, so that this mortal may be absorbed by immortal life. It is Elohim Who has prepared us to this end, and He has also given us The Ruach Ha’Kodesh as a guarantee.

Of this we are always sure. We know that while we are at home here in the body we are away from Adonai Yeshua. So we walk by faith, not by sight. We are cheerful, though we would be more happy to be away from our earthly body and to be at Home with Adonai Yeshua. And also for that reason we are eager  to be found well-pleasing to Him, whether we are away from Home, or at Home with Him. For we must all be tried before the judgment-seat of Mashiach, so that each one will be rewarded for what he has done in this earthly life, whether good or bad.

With men’s fear of Elohei in our minds, we try to win men for Him. What we really are is known to Elohei, and so, I hope, we are also known in your consciences. No, we are not again trying to recommend ourselves to you. Rather, we are giving you an occasion to recommend us, and this you can do to those who pride themselves on outward appearances instead of the heart. And if we have been in the spirit, it was for Elohim; and if we are now in the present, it is for you. It is the love of Mashiach that controls us. We are convinced that as One died for all, so all have died. Yes, He died for all, that those who live might no longer live only for themselves, but for Him, who died for them and was raised again.

From now on, therefore, we do no elevate a person from a worldly point of view. There was a time when we regarded Mashiach by such a standard, but we no longer do that. If anyone is in Mashiach, he is a new creation altogether. The old has passed away and has become altogether new. Elohei has done it. Through Yeshua Ha’Mashiach He has reconciled Himself, and He has given us the ministry of reconciliation. When Elohim, through Yeshua, reconciled the whole world to Himself, He no longer reckoned man’s sins against them, and He entrusted to us men the message of reconciliation. Now, we are Mashiach’s Ambassadors. Elohim makes His appeal through us. So we plead, on behalf of Yeshua Ha’Mashiach, be reconciled to Elohim! For Elohim caused Yeshua, Who had never sinned, to be sin for us; so that in Him we might receive justification from Elohim.”

**2 CORINTHIANS 4: https://jeastofeden.blogspot.com/2020/01/2-corinthians-chapter-4.html