Hi there!

I have never written before, but have been reading a lot lately
on the Five Doves website, especially the letters.

I am Natasha, a 38 year old/young married housewife from the
Netherlands, mother of 3 sons.

In the last couple of weeks it keeps coming up in my mind
to share the signs the Lord gave me in 2005, to confirm
He really will be coming very suddenly.
So here goes:

Some years ago I understood from the Scriptures there was at least
a lot more to know than 'knowing nothing', because Jesus Himself
said 'you may KNOW OF A SURETY that He is near'.
Well, I read it in Dutch and that is translated a little differently,
but at least it was very obvious there was definitely something to
KNOW when near, even at the doors.

Never been taught about knowing about times for sure, I find it very
hard to have faith in a certain date.

Although I remember I DO have experienced it personally: the Lord
promised me years ago when He would restore my marriage.
The promises were given when NOTHING indicated there would EVER
be restoration.
And guess what?..... Restoration came right when He said it would. :-)

Moreover, less than 3 years ago the Lord showed me something else:
I was praying about Jesus' return, and talking to God about how I found
it hard to believe He would return suddenly, because it was just so hard
to imagine how it would be. So I asked Him are you really just going
to break into every day life like BOOM-THIS-IS-IT??
His answer to me came within very soon. I am not quite sure when I first
asked this, but I know it was in the end of Octobre 2005 when a friend
told me about the book 'Heaven is so real'. That was not part of the
answer, I think it was more like making more urgent the question.

Then the answer came in threefold:
1. (on a Friday in November 2005) a 'gift from heaven':
my father got a perfect-match donor kidney. totally unexpected, he was
to be on the waiting list for at least two more years! the match was so
perfect they bumped him to first place.
2. (the next Tuesday) a testimony from heaven:
a friend from church visiting with us told us about an old lady she had
cared for in her last days before she died. This old lady had died one
night and gone to heaven, then came back and told my visiting friend
all about it.
They had talked about heaven before, and the old lady had actually said
she did not have an idea what heaven would be like, 'she would see it
when it was her time'. After having died and coming back, she told my
friend of scenery 'right out of Revelation'.
3.(the next Friday, so one week after the kidneytransplant): LOTS and
LOTS
and LOTS of UNEXPECTED snow from the sky.
It was really nice weather on Thursday, and on Friday there was snow,
snow and more snow and more traffic jams in the Netherlands than I can
remember, and there has not been that much snow since.
I think there will have been a forecast of this weather, but even so it
was unexpected because it was hard to imagine (sound familiar?...) and
because it was SOOO much.

Every time I think back on it, I think the Lord must really think it
important for me to believe He is actually coming back SUDDENLY,
to give three such CLEAR and UNEXPECTED and SUDDEN signs, all
'from heaven' within the course of 8 days.

I have wondered lately if there may be even more
prophetic meaning to the actual signs, but no insight has occurred yet.

That's it.

Hope to see you all soon. :-)

Natasha
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Thanks for sharing, Natasha.
Welcome to the Doves!
John