....last Saturday, October 15,....

as “waiting” for “The Sound....” (Psalm 89, 15)

I heard... it sounding... from time to time.... in the afternoon...

and evening... and also in the night and also on Sunday....

(today (Monday) it is over....)

It was a “sound” we here at our place we can hear sometimes every few years:

we are living close to a railroad...

every few years some railroad construction workers are coming and do repair the rails...

when now a train is passing, they have to sound a loud siren...

and so I could hear several times some very loud siren (...like “a short loud blast of trumpets..”)

(....it was really something that they did just this weekend this job....)

I was also remembered to something like a song “....train coming”

when I searched at google I found a site: “Slow Train coming” about an album by Bob Dylan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Train_Coming

I knew something about Bob Dylan... however what I did read there was very astonishing to me:

In the chapter about Bob Dylan’s Conversion to Christianity it says (here are some quotes):

“.....Dylan believed he had experienced a vision of Christ in his Tucson hotel room. "Jesus did appear to me as King of Kings, and Lord of Lords," he'd later say. "There was a presence in the room that couldn't have been anybody but Jesus...Jesus put his hand on me. It was a physical thing. I felt it. I felt it all over me. I felt my whole body tremble. The glory of the Lord knocked me down and picked me up."

Through his Bible classes, Dylan became acquainted with "the works of Hal Lindsey, the man to whom God in his infinite wisdom had revealed the true code of Revelation," writes Heylin. "Though no saint himself, Lindsey was closely associated with the Vineyard Church. His book, The Late Great Planet Earth (1970), became Dylan's second Bible and added an apocalyptic edge to his worldview...

"According to Lindsey, current world events had been foretold in the apocalyptic tracts of the Bible," Heylin continued. "His basic premise, in The Late Great Planet Earth, was that the events revealed to St. John in Revelation corresponded with 20th century history, starting with the re-establishment of the Jews' homeland, Israel. By identifying Russia as Magog and Iran as Gog - the confederation responsible for instigating the final conflict, the Battle of Armageddon - Lindsey prophesied an imminent End."

In later shows, Dylan would reflect these beliefs on stage. At one show in the fall of 1979, Dylan said, "You know we're living in the end times...The scriptures say, 'In the last days, perilous times shall be at hand. Men shall become lovers of their own selves. Blasphemous, heavy and highminded.'...Take a look at the Middle East. We're heading for a war...I told you 'The Times They Are A-Changin' ' and they did. I said the answer was 'Blowin' in the Wind' and it was. I'm telling you now Jesus is coming back, and He is! And there is no other way of salvation...Jesus is coming back to set up His kingdom in Jerusalem for a thousand years."........”

After reading this... (evening Saturday Oct. 15....) I decided to go to the railway to take a photo

Here is my photo....

well, which looks almost like .....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SlowTrain.jpg

Yes: There is a restoration coming....

The “Restoration of All Things” is at hand....

... all at once I looked to the Western sky... the sun was long below the horizon...

look what a beautiful evening sky there was...!!!

Yes: There is Hope: He is coming soon and very soon...

Maranatha

Come Lord Jesus

Bob Dylan 1979:

The iron hand it ain't no match for the iron rod,
The strongest wall will crumble and fall to a mighty God.
For all those who have eyes and all those who have ears
It is only He who can reduce me to tears.
Don't you cry and don't you die and don't you burn
For like a thief in the night, He'll replace wrong with right
When He returns.

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through,
He unleashed His power at an unknown hour that no one knew.
How long can I listen to the lies of prejudice?
How long can I stay drunk on fear out in the wilderness?
Can I cast it aside, all this loyalty and this pride?
Will I ever learn that there'll be no peace, that the war won't cease
Until He returns?

Surrender your crown on this blood-stained ground, take off your mask,
He sees your deeds, He knows your needs even before you ask.
How long can you falsify and deny what is real?
How long can you hate yourself for the weakness you conceal?
Of every earthly plan that be known to man, He is unconcerned,
He's got plans of His own to set up His throne
When He returns.

P.S.

Sunday evening in our neighbour village I could be at a performance

of (Georg Friedrich Händel): “The Messiah”

again there we could hear it ....several times loud and clear:

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her,....

Behold, I tell you a mystery; We shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be chang'd, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,
at the last trumpet:

The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raisèd incorruptible,
and we shall be changèd.

http://www.fairfieldcountychorale.org/FCChorale/Libretti/MESSIAH.HTML

Amen

Come Lord Jesus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Train_Coming