
Dead herring on the beach (screen capture: YouTube)
20 TONS OF HERRING WASH ASHORE, THEN DISAPPEAR!
This event made headline news just after New Year’s Day 2012.
This is considered old news, but something very extraordinary happened that many news media outlets did not publish in 2012.
We have seen a lot of fish, bird and animal die-offs over the
last several years, since about New Year’s Day 2010, but this particular event was
supernatural, aside from the number of fish that washed ashore.
As residents in Kvaenes, Norway, began discussing how they would
clean up the 20 tons of fish, they returned to the beach to find that all 20
tons of dead fish had vanished!
Jens Christian Holst of Norway’s Institute of Marine Research
said the herrings likely washed back into the North Sea.
Right – 20 tons of fish “washed back to sea!” Do you not
suppose that a ton or two of the 20 tons should still be on the beach the following day?
I have a better explanation, which also explains why so many
birds, fish and beasts of the field have died near the start of every New Year
for about the last three years.
First, God is patient. The Word of God says He is
“longsuffering,”
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count
slackness, but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to repentance” 2 Peter 3:9.
The Bible says that the Lord is “not willing that any should
perish,” so He will not return without warning people to repent and get ready
for His return,
“I will show wonders in heaven above and signs in the earth
beneath, blood, fire and vapor of smoke” Acts 2:19.
Some signs will be severe and cataclysmic, but better people should
be shaken and repent, than end up in hell fire forever – the punishment for
refusing God’s offer of forgiveness, through the death of His own Son, Jesus
Christ, who suffered on a cruel cross to redeem us from our sins. He suffered a severe scourging that ripped His body to shreds even before He suffered the humiliation and excruciating pain of crucifixion for our sins.
Second, the prophet Hosea foretold thousands of years ago that the
birds, fowls and beasts would be taken away during the last days,
“Therefore shall the land mourn and everyone that dwells in it
shall languish, with the beasts of the field, with the fowls of heaven, yes,
the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away” Hosea 4:3.
The disappearance of all those fish in Norway? That is my third point.
God
is preparing a fabulous heaven for His people, fabulous! The Word of God
already tells us there are horses in heaven (Zechariah 1:8-10, 6:1-7;
Revelation 19:11-14).
When Jesus was baptized, the Spirit of God descended upon
Him in the form of a dove, so we know there are also doves in heaven.
God did not
create this beautiful world full of splendor and animals, only to have us
ascend to a base heaven, devoid of life or the creatures He made; but rather God has not
only populated heaven with the beauty of animals, but he loves the animals that
He created on this earth. I believe we will find them in heaven, if we make it there too.
Jesus said,
“Are not five sparrows sold for two
farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?” Luke 12:6.
That is correct. God does not forget one sparrow in this world full
of countless sparrows. If God doesn’t forget them, do you suppose he has
forgotten them in their earthly graves? No, I say He has not.
We love our pets in this world. The Bible says,
“And God said, Let us (He and His Son Jesus) make man in our
image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea
and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth” Genesis 1:26.
By this, we know that God created us in His own image. God gave
us love for our pets, because God Himself loves the animals He created. Why in
the world would God leave the spirit of animals dead in the earth and just
create new ones to populate heaven? He loves the animals that die, and just as our spirits live on, I believe
animals have eternal spirits which live on and I believe they too enter
heaven. Why? Because God loves them.
The Bible doesn’t tell us that
animals go to heaven, but if we have a personal relationship with the Lord, He
sometimes reveals things to us, mysteries and secrets (Psalm 91:1).
I also
know of a minister who was caught up to heaven one day for a visit and he saw
many things in heaven and he spoke to people, as well as the angel who escorted him. He
said in his testimony that he saw his pet dog and monkey in heaven during
that visit. This man is sincere and I believe his testimony.
God is a loving God and we can know just a small trace of His
magnificent love, because we also love.
I can’t go any further unless I mention the fact that the
Word of God tells us about the wrath of God too,
“He who believes on the Son has everlasting life, and he who
believes not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him”
John 3:36.
Jesus said,
“I will forewarn you whom you shall fear; fear Him, which after
He has killed has power to cast into hell; yes, I say unto you, Fear Him” Luke
12:5.
God gave us love, but God Himself is the epitome of love (Jeremiah 31:3).
God gave us anger, and sometimes wrath, but God Himself is the epitome
of wrath (Psalm 9:17).
The earthquakes, the animal die-offs, the extreme weather, the upcoming solar and lunar eclipses on Biblical feast days this year, 2014
and 2015, and more, are all signs of the Lord’s soon return.
We will all stand before God to be judged concerning whether or not we received Jesus as our Savior, and whether or not we kept His commandments.
Are you prepared to stand before God and give an account of the
life you have lived on this earth? If not, please visit the How Can I Be Saved
page of this website. Your eternal destiny depends on it. God bless you.